“Also, this assault on men and maleness has really undermined the sense of self that boys have. Over the course of my teaching career, I saw an entirely different type of boy emerge, a boy greatly diminished by the constant “Girls can do anything” garbage.”
I’m 52 and have worked for a number of younger couples in my plumbing work.
I simply cannot believe how utterly emasculated many younger guys are and utterly useless with mechanical things. It’s almost as though they have been bred this way. I’ve met my share of guys that were simply not mechanically inclined in my generation. However, it didn’t take away from their masculinity. This is something entirely different now.
I do better dealing with the wives and girlfriends. They listen and are willing to understand what you are trying to tell them.
I guess I’m just old. LOL
Yes, it is very sad, isn’t it?
In a sense you're right; but instead of bred it's an all-pervasive taught.
It's a sort of learned-helplessness — society has for years been undermining the masculine traits
, just look at the low regard for logic in the legal system, there's a great emphasis on the emotional instead of building a logical argument from first-principles [Constitutions and the actual laws] — in short, everything that a male (boy, young man, man) does is either wrong or useless according to what society teaches.