The chickification of America is complete.
Women by choice, men by meek acquiescence.
Not today. Not in this environment where you could be accused of a sex crime for simply touching a kid, or adult for that matter.
Sorry, this article is mostly a load of crap. What father does not talk in an excited tone to his children such as "Would you like a cookie?" or "Do you see that bunny?". Yes, there has been a lot of feminization of men, but just because I stoop down and raise the pitch of my voice a little to get their attention does not mean I'm a second mom.
Too bad the author was apparently raised by East German police.
Schools have gone a long way in neutering males. The intent is to make them cowardly and compliant. That’s about all that schools enforce and “teach” these days—compliance to the “authorities”.
There are some where these “lessons” didn’t take, however.
Real men are in a bible believing churches. Want to find out? Go there!
Many years later I was seriously dating a girl. She told me that when she first watched me go by she "liked how I walk".
When my grandson was still in high school he had ROTC after classes. I would go to pick him up, park, and watch them drill.
He walks like a man.
This wasn’t the absolutely most misguided article that I’ve ever read, but it came close. Especially the comments on the voices when talking to children and kneeling to speak to children.
One of my fondest memories is being 10 years old and winning a local science fair. Afterwards many of my father’s friends came by to congratulate me. They were predominately Air Force officers at the Academy with a few civil service (like my father), and to a man, they knelt to speak to me.
Uh, this trend toward pansification has not impacted my house, and I have three sons.
Mrs WBill has a number of gay friends. I forget how we got on the topic, but she mentioned that they all were "As much of a man" as me.
Insulted, I replied that gender isn't what makes you a man. And, that if she didn't understand that, then she never would.
That particular conversation has never arisen again. :-)
Weird article. I agree with it in principle ... but those were some weird examples to make the point.
I’ve never been accused of being feminine, excessively gentile, or pandering to my kids. But, I’ve knealt to speak to my son ... particularly when I’m scolding him. Its about being eye-to-eye with the boy, not symbolically getting on his level. I don’t pick him up to talk to him ... he can stand on his own.
As for whispering, I’ve found a lower voice typically gets more attention than shouting. You want to put the fear of God in a kid ... learn to growl while whispering. Hell, sometimes I don’t even need to say anything. A look will suffice.
I would agree in principle that people don’t toughen their kids up enough. I don’t think the kneeling and whispered-tones are a very good example, though.
SnakeDoc
Actual manhood is so rare, that exhibiting it is extremely attractive to women.
They don’t know quite why, but the innate nature of mankind teaches women to look for real men, and men to look for real women.
Wussification is death.
From my limited perspective. My oldest step-daughter married a man and divorced him in less than a year to marry a metrosexual. My niece married a man and divorced him in six months and married a metrosexual. Young women demand to be worshipped. If they aren’t, they’ll trade for someone who will worship them. Too many Daddy’s Little Princesses out there now.
Women want control, and sissified men satisfy that need.
A woman who is insecure about giving herself to a man often finds submission and malleability increases their sense of security. Why worry about a man not suiting you if he makes himself clay to fit your mould. And having got what they wanted, women rail against men as a whole when they no longer want what they got. Where are the men who are strong, where are men with a spine? Well, you rejected all those men because the one who changed to fit your will was preferable, remember?
Men who are masculine are not preferred by women overall. By their choice to remain masculine they are often beyond caring about what women in general want or need them to be...they are who they are because of their own standards, pride, self image, whatever. Putting themselves and their lives apart from manipulation necessarily gives them a mindset that while ideally the company of women is preferable, living life that makes them unnecessary is practical.
And so it begins. And then, years later you end up with women who have total control over their own lives, with sissified males for companionship or no man at all. And on the other side, masculine men, among whom some find an emotionally secure companion who lets a man be a man, but then a large number that spend a great deal of time going from one controlling female to another looking for “Miss Right” but resting nowhere...or, flying solo more often than not.
One recurring theme that really gets tiresome is that articles of this kind come out with a feminine finger pointed at the terrible deficient men who simply aren’t satisfying their image of what men in relationships should be. Well, despite what the NOW may tell you, women are the ones who choose what men they associate with and it is men who have been told it is their place to change their psyche and behavior to fit the needs of women. Those who do not, are too much of a challenge to for women to get to know even on a casual basis. The metrosexual or gay man may have coffee with or talk about their day with a score of female friends. Real men would love to have a woman take them to coffee, but for the woman it’s too frightening. Too challenging. No control. They might think it “means something”. So if they share their hearts with men, excuse me, but the more faggotty the better. That’s much more secure, now isn’t it?
The frosting on the cake is, men learn to live witbout a manipulative female influence, and that lack doesn’t make them feel like half a man. A woman who never finds a strong man is only half of herself. Call me chauvinistic, if that’s French for being right.
This article is sort of b.s., but I’ll tell you one thing that I find amazing about the “chickification” of America — boys are being potty-trained to pee sitting down now. Maybe I’m missing something, but that seems awfully wrong to me.
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