Posted on 05/31/2009 12:03:15 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I have written a great deal about the feminization of America's boys. While Feminists have become more masculine with every passing year, men and boys have become wimpy, feminized and afraid of their own shadows.
About five years ago at a Boy Scout meeting for my son who had been recently promoted to Boy Scout from Weeblos, I looked around the room and shivered. I leaned over to my husband and whispered, "There's not a single male role model in this room." Shortly after that meeting, my son changed Boy Scout troops to another where men ran the troop - although many pushy mothers tried.
Between the teachers, pushy feminist mothers, lawyers and Hollywood depicting men as idiots, men have been relegated to the dufus category and boys are cry babies. On the playground, boys can't play chase - someone might get hurt. Boys can't fight - someone might get hurt. They can't play on the monkey bars or jungle gyms, or play King of the Hill, or tackle soccer, or anything that might involve getting roughed up. Even in dodge ball, boys get in trouble for throwing the ball too hard at girls.
In 1st grade, my son was asked not to return to the snooty school he attended. I wondered what egregious act he might have committed to elicit such a strong, negative response from the school. The only answer I got from his teacher is that he got in trouble for being squirrly in the PE line. This was a female-dominated school, where natural boyish behavior was supressed and they were made to learn French. Obviously, it was a blessing that my son did not continue attending such a female dominated, effeminizing, snob school. And today, he's at a Midshipman at the Naval Academy - manly stuff.
Feminists are miserable women - they want to dominate men, and then when they succeed at that, they hate the men they dominate. Feminists have become so masculine over the years, it's often difficult to differentiate between a "feminist" and a gender-bending woman. It used to be attractive to be feminine. Manly men liked us, and we where happy being pretty, wearing dresses and makeup, being good mommies and wives, and often managing work.
I heard a recent interview with columnist Kathleen Parker. Her new book, "Save The Males" is an accurate depiction of our anti-male culture and the ramifications. We are living the evidence.
In September 2006, I wrote The Selfish Pursuit of Feminism, and later turned it into a newspaper column here. And in 2005, I wrote my first post on the Feminizing of Boys here. It's a problem, and a big one. A boy with a feminist mother does not have a chance; he's been terrorized for years. When he realizes who he is, he's already married to a demanding, pushy wife.
Parents must take charge of their boys and refuse to allow schools and female teachers to dictate medications and treatments that render them docile.
I'd like your thoughts and experiences. And if you wear socks with your sandals, don't bother.
Made to learn French, is girly? What language would be considered manly?
The whole thing sounded gay to me.
I’m not listening to any talk of male pussification from a man named Kim.
But for some reason, nobody ever calls me effeminate.
(Posting from an undisclosed location in Wisconsin where I have led my family on a 55-mile bike ride.)
As far as your article goes, click here.
Cheers!
Russian?
And therein lies one of the keys to the pussification of American boys -- the cultural references of manliness have been corrupted and/or misappropriated.
King of the Hill. The reply references a TV show (and I take it as a deliberately posed irony that murdoog is completely aware of and is using to make the same point I am expanding on). I've seen it about half of one time -- it fell into the forumlaic animated "comedy" that pokes fun at some aspect of middle class America.
But the "King of the Hill" to which the article referred is a rough-and-tumble game where one kid tries to maintain his position at the top of a slope (the steeper the better, and if some trees or thorny brambles were at the bottom, that was GREAT!), while all the others try to knock him off, by whatever means possible (short of weapons -- resorting to using a weapon was admitting you were a loser.
The cultural reference of Dad -- the hardworking, family-focused, fix-the-toaster/car/bike, play catch with the boys, paint the house man of the house has given way to the TV Dad -- the bumbling, butt-of-all-jokes, needs-to-be-rescued (usually by patient wise wife or precocious smart-ass kids) buffoon.
And the erosion of the traditional American hero image is a whole 'nuther thread . . . .
Kim du Toit is a manly man. I suggest you read some of the essays on his web site.
http://www.theothersideofkim.com/index.php/essays/
I see kids today riding bikes with so much padding on they look like Darth Vader. Helmets, knee pads, elbow pads, etc. I was talking with a friend I have known since the third grade and we carried golf clubs, baseball gloves, bats, balls, hockey sticks, school books and a myriad of other things on our bikes.
We never once wore a helmet. If we fell, we got back up on the bike and kept going. Kids today are pansies.
What language would be considered manly?
German of course.
“Russian?”
(a supposedly `masculine’ language as opposed to French)
Don’t know ‘bout that. I was deployed to Uzbekistan (former USSR) where I heard beautiful Central Asian women speaking Russian and Russian-accented English in a way that was feminine and seductive beyond belief.
what’s “tackle soccer”? Sounds fun.
This gave me a laugh though:
“I looked around the room and shivered. I leaned over to my husband and whispered, “There’s not a single male role model in this room.””
Wonder how that made her husband feel.
Sprockets?
Quote: Manly men liked us, and we where happy being pretty, wearing dresses and makeup, being good mommies and wives, and often managing work.
I completely agree that masculinity needs to be salvaged from the wrekage brought on by liberal “me first, but recognise my feelings” attitude. However, as a woman I take offence to the statement I quoted above. We do not exist to satisfy men. I am a TRUE CONSERVATIVE, and I don’t appreciate ANYONE telling me what I should or should not be doing. Be it 0 or anyone else, nobody tells me what to do. My life is great because I choose to make it that way, not because someone tells me what’s appropriate or acceptable. If you like being given the definition of “woman” by someone, go ahead and join the dems, they love to tell people what’s acceptable. I’ll continue to celebrate my FREEDOM as a citizen of The USA!!!
As a single mom I say this: stay away, you’re holding 50% of the country from being taken seriously about everything that’s wrong right now!!!!!
Just one time... Just one time I forgot to take my socks off before my sandals on the beach.
Roar!
>>As a single mom
Nuff said! Ann Coulter already covered this.
And the whole “Nobody Loses EVER” is so bad. To me this total lack of courage is sickining. We have truly raised a bunch of gutless uneducated cowards.
That is why we have an Obozo.
Deutsch...
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