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What Our Sons Are Learning From Donald Trump
New York Times ^ | 10/18/16 | Claire Cain Miller

Posted on 10/18/2016 2:23:00 PM PDT by madprof98

Throughout his campaign, Donald J. Trump has displayed a particular type of hyper masculinity — the man who is proud not to apologize and to have never changed a diaper; who views “loser” as the ultimate insult; who bonds with other men by objectifying women.

It’s especially striking because today’s schools and workplaces try to value something different: empathy, impulse control and collaboration. For three decades, jobs that require these social skills have grown much more than others, researchers have found. They say one reason that boys are more likely than girls to get in trouble in school and are less likely to graduate is that a narrow definition of masculinity can stunt their ability to develop these skills.

If there is a silver lining to Mr. Trump’s views on manliness, it’s that it has prompted a national discussion about the “boys will be boys” excuse for things like bullying, boasting or appraising women in crassly sexual terms. That has offered an opportunity for parents and teachers to make clear what behavior is unacceptable. Michelle Obama, in an emotional speech on Thursday, asked what message Mr. Trump’s words and behavior sent not just to girls, but also to men and boys.

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To: Vaquero

That Trump is seen as an anomaly to the NYT is just another example of the wussification of America.
On DDay 18 and 19 year old young men were storming the beaches of Normandy saving Western Civilization. Now 18 and 19 year olds are refusing to stand for the National Anthem and running to safe places on college campuses while studying French literature with a minor in Gender Studies.
We are done...


21 posted on 10/18/2016 2:31:38 PM PDT by SteveO87
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To: madprof98

He showed boys how to take responsibility and how to stand up for oneself against lies and half truths.


22 posted on 10/18/2016 2:32:43 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup (When the MSM wants your opinion, they will give it to you)
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To: madprof98

Billionaire, model wife, great children, I hope they learn from him.


23 posted on 10/18/2016 2:32:58 PM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: madprof98

Bhharrrffff!

Shaddap, Claire, you ignorant tw**! And no, I don’t want you to make me a sammich. You’re too bloody incompetent ... but you might, possibly, become useful if you learned how.


24 posted on 10/18/2016 2:34:31 PM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: scheming, robotic liar.)
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To: madprof98
They say one reason that boys are more likely than girls to get in trouble in school and are less likely to graduate is that a narrow definition of masculinity can stunt their ability to develop these skills.

I suppose allowing girls to get away with slapping, scratching, hitting, and even kicking boys for no reason, all violent crimes, while punishing boys for the "crime" of defending themselves against those attacks, has nothing to do with why boys get into more trouble.

25 posted on 10/18/2016 2:34:37 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Clinton's actions speak louder than Trump's words.)
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To: madprof98

never before has a major media outlet made such a complete ASS of itself as NYT in this election

my Lord! we’ve all known the serious problems at the NYT, for years and years

but this pro-HilLIARy NYT propaganda blizzard beats ALL!

no self-respecting dog should want to krap on the NYT now, its sunk that low!


26 posted on 10/18/2016 2:35:58 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero. news)
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To: Ann Archy

Cadets who are MEN are offended by this talk?? OMG.

Sadly, yep, they are called Beta Males. Don’t worry, my son will exert proper leadership over the next few years or they will drop out.


27 posted on 10/18/2016 2:36:45 PM PDT by Geoffrey
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To: madprof98

I call BS. A NYT female reporter relating what it’s like to be male?

Don’t think so.


28 posted on 10/18/2016 2:37:02 PM PDT by Fhios ( Globalism is the new Communism - Islamism is the new Fascism.)
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To: outpostinmass2
Billionaire, model wife, great children, I hope they learn from him.

Depends on what they learn. Serial polygamy is NOT "OK".

29 posted on 10/18/2016 2:37:07 PM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: scheming, robotic liar.)
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To: madprof98

He’s teaching them how to fight for what you believe in, call it like you see it, and do so without being a p***y.


30 posted on 10/18/2016 2:37:49 PM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: Political Junkie Too

What did our daughters learn from Bill Clinton?

Democrats can get away with it.


31 posted on 10/18/2016 2:38:30 PM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: madprof98

They are learning to stand up, fight back, and be men.


32 posted on 10/18/2016 2:38:33 PM PDT by bigredkitty1 (March 5, 2010. Rest in peace, sweet boy. I will miss you, Big Red.)
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To: madprof98

What have our sons learned from you all in the past 30 years. Hate America. Pffft!


33 posted on 10/18/2016 2:39:38 PM PDT by ColdOne ((poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Because you'd be in jail!)
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To: madprof98

Memo To Claire Cain Miller:

Click the Pic

34 posted on 10/18/2016 2:39:43 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: madprof98

Better to be a grabber than grabbed by Reggie Love, Barry’s “Body Man”.


35 posted on 10/18/2016 2:40:20 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: madprof98

Once the Trump family owns what’s left of the NYTimes, they can fold it into their new network.


36 posted on 10/18/2016 2:42:04 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: madprof98
The NYSlimes I am sure have heard the RAP and Hip Hop music that today's generation. BUT NO TAKE DOWN TRUMP because they must have a Marxist follow the one in the rainbow hut now if they are to totally destroy the GOPee. He$$ the GOPee is committing suicide with their folks like John Kay Such, Rob Portman, Jeff Flake (the flake), and John Thune joining the Never Trump campaign. DIE GOPee - we will have Trump and a new party, I am becoming convinced every day I listen how the LEFT IS OPERATING AND RESPONDING.

Washington has become so CORRUPT that most are going to DEMAND a change or we have CWII.
37 posted on 10/18/2016 2:42:50 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: madprof98

There is a reason my husband worked an extra job on weekends so we could send our cub-a girl-to private school-and that was because teachers don’t decide what is proper male or female behavior for my kid-her dad and I did-and any parent worth a damn should homeschool or send the kid to private school if they want their kid to grow up to be a REAL man or a REAL woman.

I’m a feminist in the old style before the bitter feminazis of the late 70’s and 80’s-I still like my men to be real guys-not metrosexuals...


38 posted on 10/18/2016 2:43:40 PM PDT by Texan5 (`"You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to drive a hard line"...)
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To: madprof98

Picking up one’s dog poop is no big deal as long as the squirrel and woodchuck carcasses are allowed to be left on the “field”.


39 posted on 10/18/2016 2:44:09 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: madprof98
Once again, the New York Times swerves into the problem, hits it head on ... and fails to realize it's the problem. The destruction of masculinity has put the country on the brink of ruin, and most of the "jobs" created over the last several decades are not jobs worth having.

Real men do apologize. But they apologize when they've wronged someone, and not when some whiny snowflake is triggered by something zhe can't handle. And they certainly don't apologize for offenses committed by people long dead, or for the imaginary resentments of losers -- yes, losers -- who want to blame their shortcomings on everyone else.

Real men do exercise self-control, and in fact it is a mark of matriarchal sub-cultures that their young men never learn self control, because they have no role models to show them when violence is useful, and when it is counterproductive. Consequently, we see the extreme propensity for crime and violence in inner-city Black neighborhoods, where men aren't really men, no matter how many sex partners they have or how much they swagger.

But real men do not apologize for being masculine. And real men do not "have a feminine side." Our girlfriends or wives take care of that side for us. Whatever happens in the election, it's time for men to stand up and teach their sons they must stop allowing themselves to be defined by females and fairies.

40 posted on 10/18/2016 2:44:14 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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