Posted on 11/03/2015 8:17:49 AM PST by Kaslin
Last week the New York Times published an article, "Sweeping Away Gender-Specific Toys and Labels," that contained three sentences that explain one of the most important phenomena in American life.
In discussing the increasing move to do away with gender-specific toys something the New York Times approves of the article quoted Tania Missad, the "director of global consumer insights" at one of the world's largest toy manufacturers, Mattel:
"Mattel's research showed some differences in what girls and boys wanted in their action figures, Ms. Missad said. 'For boys it's very much about telling a story of the good guy killing the villain ... [Girls] would tell us: 'Why does the good girl have to kill the villain? Can't they be friends in the end?"'
Very little academic research on sex differences is likely to be as accurate as research conducted by businesses and advertising agencies. The reason is simple: Businesses and advertising agencies have no social or political agenda; their agenda is profit. Their assessments must be accurate or they lose money; and those providing wrong assessments are fired. Academics, on the other hand, have nothing on the line. When they publish studies that purport to show that boys and girls want the same types of toys, they lose nothing for asserting something so patently false. In business there is a very big price paid for believing what is untrue. Among academics, there is no price certainly not their reputations, because other academics want to believe the same nonsense.
The Mattel research reveals that male nature wants good guys to kill bad guys (of course, in bad societies the definition of “good guy†and “villain†may well be inverted, but that is a values issue, not a male-nature issue); and that female nature wants the good guy and bad guy to "be friends in the end."
This difference may be the most important of all the sex differences. Indeed, it can actually shape the future of America and of the world.
Of course, there are women who want evil destroyed the late Margaret Thatcher, for example. And there are men who oppose confronting evil the men who lead the modern Democratic Party, for example. (One such man is the president of the United States, whose has a feminized view of those who do evil talk to them, but don't confront them, label them, or fight them.)
But these exceptions happen in large numbers under two circumstances: when women get married and when men are feminized.
When women get married, they are often influenced by their husbands with regard to political and moral issues, just as married men are influenced by their wives on a whole host of micro issues. As a result, married women are more likely than single women to prefer to fight villains than to befriend them.
Unfortunately, more and more American women are single.
Meanwhile American boys are increasingly raised by single women and taught almost only by female teachers. In addition, they are often taught to be ashamed of their masculine natures and to reject traditional masculine virtues.
As a result of the above two trends, the amount spent on national defense will continue to decline (while the amount spent on welfare will continue to increase), and America will confront the world's evils less and less.
The consequences will be disastrous for millions of people around the globe. When America retreats from killing bad guys, bad guys kill more innocent people. We are witnessing this right now as a consequence of America abandoning Iraq and retreating from the world generally. Islamic State took over more and more territory as America abandoned those territories. Ironically, therefore, as American foreign policy becomes feminized, more Middle East females are raped.
Whenever I see the liberal bumper sticker, "War Is not the Answer," on a car, I look to see who is driving. In years of looking, I have seen one male driver.
Both women and men have flawed natures. They share human nature, which is deeply flawed, and the sexes have their own particular natures, which are also flawed. That is one reason men need women and women need men. Men need women to soften their intrinsic aggressive nature and to help them control their predatory sexuality; and women need men to, among other things, better understand that evil people and regimes must be fought, not nurtured.
Mattel's research has told a truth that America and the world need to pay attention to.
The Left has done many destructive things to America. It is quite possible that none will prove to be more destructive than its attempt to obliterate gender-distinctions.
You are correct.
Thanks justa. I didn’t worry about that when my kids were young. Of course I didn’t have to worry about the schools indoctrinating them either.
Great story...
You think outside the box. God love your wife, she wasn’t quite there.
Yes. Dennis was right.
That’s probably true. I don’t listen to any programs on a regular basis. I used to listen to Putnam, Breem, and Dennis. I used to listen to Rush more too.
I have respect for Prager and Rush. I check them out once in a while.
You know, a day will come when Prager and Rush are gone. I don’t relish that day.
So sad and so darn true. One can spot them miles away.
Just a side note - my daughter and dozens of her peers, are rejecting the feminists siren song - thankfully!
When our enemies defeat us and the weakest in our society (women) are brutalized, raped, and enslaved, they will cry out for big, brave men to rush to their rescue. They will lament the fact that there are so few “heroes” willing to lay down their lives to protect the less able.
But for now, those brave men are uncomfortable reminders that all is not right with the world, so women are trying their best to neuter their defenders, thereby baring their necks to the fangs of the beast.
I used to listen to Putnam too years ago.
These days Rush once in a while.
I see nobody capable of replacing Rush. He has a few years left I think.
As a woman, I do not agree that it is association with a husband that makes her willing to kill the enemy, but her motherly instinct to protect her children. Grrr.
This is some for you, but mostly for rambling and touching on the Trump and Rush personna. Some folks may need to hear it.
Rush and Trump are much alike in their personna.
They both project a know it all attitude. It’s purposeful. That isn’t their whole personality. At home or with friends, they tone it down. It’s a public personna.
You can’t go on the radio and act like you know nothing, or no more than anyone else. Who’d listen? You act like your the smartest guy around, and let people laugh at the thought.
I never took Rush too seriously. Those that hate the guy can’t grasp this on their own, and if you explain it, it makes them even more mad.
I just laugh at the dynamic. Life’s too short folks. Take a chill pill and listen. Rush is a good guy with a good sense of humor.
Good point.
Yeah, I agree. It saddens me too. Folks will realize how much he is needed when he leaves.
He doesn’t always get it right, with regard to Conservatism, but he does offer up very sound commentary day in and day out.
I honestly don’t know how he does it year after year. It would be very hard for me to keep it fresh.
His crew must be very efficient.
He is a homosexual. Homosexuals are narcissists-—they can’t “love” the “Other” (true diversity). They are fixated in an immature age (from child abuse and emasculation in childhood/being raped/etc.) which means that emotions will always rule Reason.
He was raised by immoral evil people, so he was incapable of maturing, into a mature, masculine male who will ALWAYS step up to protect the weaker sex and children. Mature women will nurture their own children and make their home into a sanctuary——and kill for the safety of their own children. Women (even mature women) usually can’t “think” like a man and be truly “Just” (impartial) about treatment of others if their children are involved-—they will always give bias to their own child.
Women tend to have emotions rule Reason-—women like Margaret Thatcher are rare because she was a Chemistry major in college-—She intensely practiced being “rational”-——Reason ruled her emotions most of the time.
When emotions rule Reason——we are puerile-—never capable of maturity....we will collapse culture. The Age of Reason only occurred because of Christian Ethics (selfless people) who sacrificed for others——which is true Love. Narcissists like that thing in the White House is evil and trying to collapse this country-—he is a hater—not only of God—but of Gods’ Design of the human body. He hates himself which is the most diabolical person on earth.
Very true. Feminism destroyed America.
They are brainwashing children into Marxism by trying to pretend that boys and girls are interchangeable.
It is a Marxist worldview—that “culture” completely determines sex roles, which is a total LIE and removal from REALITY. Science proves many differences between males and females-—but if the elite sodomites are successful in destroying the true Nature of boys and girls——to destroy the protective nature in boys (save the weak) or the nurturing instinct in girls (so they willingly kill their own genetic offspring—it is a RIGHT!!!!) they need to use operant conditioning in their formative years-—to embed unnatural emotions (desires and nostalgia).
We have to raise our children within the Natural Family and embed the NATURAL DESIRES-—which is to be loved and nurtured-—with loving human interactions and instructions (and role modeling).
You allow the artificial screens to create desires and ideas in your children-—and you will be making irrational adults.
Reason and Maturity only comes from living and interacting in the Christian Natural Family in a natural environment-—interacting with humans—learning to control REAL emotions which is to mature. History proves the ONLY rational, brilliant cultures (political/free systems) were the Christian ones——for a Reason.
Without Virtue, there is no possibility of Freedom (Plato/Aristotle/Founders))
A+ Great job!
Good observation.
He has a BIG problem in stating how wicked man can be—and how truly vile certain behaviors are—— without God-—which he should understand easily because of the Old Testament. Vice can NEVER be treated as “virtue” and I have noticed him giving a pass and respect to “civil unions”.
He is irrational when he veers from Truth/God which is rare.
Reminds me of this interview I had to listen to for my psych class. This Feminist psychologist attempted to give her children, a boy and a girl, toys that typically are played with by the opposite sex. She gave her boy a doll and her girl a truck. The boy proceeded to use the doll as a gun or something, and the girl “mothered” the truck and rocked it to sleep and such. It was at that point that the feminist realized that each sex has certain innate gender roles that they will fulfill.
“a mature, masculine male who will ALWAYS step up to protect the weaker sex”
I wouldn’t lift a finger to protect Hillary Clinton, among other radical feminists. Does that make me an immature, feminine male?
About 25 pounds
A flannel shirt
and occasionally, the bull will smile. d:^)
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