Posted on 01/15/2019 8:40:21 AM PST by rickmichaels
It’s been a very bad week for men.
Yesterday, the American Psychological Association released a set of guidelines that condemned traditional masculinity as ‘harmful.’
Specifically, it stated that male traits like ‘stoicism’, ‘competitiveness’, ‘achievement’, ‘eschewal of the appearance of weakness’, ‘adventure’, and ‘risk’ are bad and should be expunged.
I literally choked on my bacon-and-sausage sandwich (my contribution to Veganuary) when I read this absurd load of PC-crazed bilge.
It’s basically saying that it’s wrong, and harmful, to be masculine, to be a man.
As David French, a writer for the National Review, put it in his withering response to the report: ‘The assault on traditional masculinity – while liberating to men who don’t fit traditional norms – is itself harmful to the millions of young men who seek to be physically and mentally tough, to rise to challenges, and demonstrate leadership under pressure. The assault on traditional masculinity is an assault on their very natures. Are boys disproportionately adventurous? Are they risk-takers? Do they feel a need to be strong? Do they often by default reject stereotypically ‘feminine’ characteristics? Yes, yes, yes and yes.’
Exactly.
I’ve got three sons and a daughter.
My siblings have eight girls and a boy between them.
So I’ve had plenty of experience watching all 13 of these children (their ages range from two to 25) grow up.
And here’s a cast-iron fact for you: girls are very different to boys.
They think differently, behave differently, dress differently, emote differently, and have markedly different characteristics.
Anyone who’s actually had kids knows this.
Yet somehow, it’s become offensive to say it out loud.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The guy is a lunatic when it comes to guns and surprisingly sane on everything else. It's weird.
Lefties avoid contact with non-lefties. So the men they are familiar with and worship are the likes of
* Bill Clinton
* Harvey Weinstein
* NFL kneelers (and other NFLers who beat up women)
* Carlos Danger
* The males of South Chicago, Philly, Ferguson, MS-13, etc. who work hard to protect and excuse
When that’s what they know about men, it’s easy to understand why they think “masculinity” is toxic and why they prefer all men be more like pajama boy.
I think Gillette just wanted to be known as the gay blade. Straight men and most women want men to be men. But a toxic group of gays from both sexes want to squash straight men. And clearly they work in the advertising account for P&G.
You know it’s bad when — of all people — Piers Morgan feels his “masculinity” has been insulted.
Piers Morgan has suddenly become a conservative. Welcome aboard.
APA trying to drum up business. Whatever happened to “first, do no harm?”
I don’t see this as a bad thing, really...
This will only further emasculate groupthink beta-males. When the fighting begins, the less “toxic masculinity” we face on the opposing side, the better.
Conservative families raise conservative males who derive their values and worldview from strong, paternal role models and empowered, independent maternal ones.
A razor commercial influences the conservative worldview about as much as Pop Tart chewed into the rough shape of a handgun.
Thanks for posting the contact info.
Let’s all give them a dose of toxic masculinity!!
“The guy is a lunatic when it comes to guns and surprisingly sane on everything else. It’s weird.”
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Meh, he’s British is all. I figure it’s something in the Thames.
“Let’s all give them a dose of toxic masculinity!!”
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Tell them their ad was sexist and offensive & they should apologize for it. I wanna see a head roll.
It was a radical feminazi named Kim Gehrig that produced the ad which is bad enough, but Gilette approved it.
All indications are that she is a Lesbian.
Thx ... just sent them a “nasty-gram.”
I think the main drivers of this male bashing are the Feminazis. They want effeminate men and masculine women.
It is becoming clear that major corporations see the future 10 to 20 years from now. Christians, patriots, red-blooded American males will be strangely absent. That is why they don’t care about these demographic losses to their sales
So who are Gillette’s competitors?
Don’t blame Gehrig. She just gave the client what they wanted, which is her job. Blame Gillette management.
Eventually, testosterone will be ruled as a birth defect in men, and that male reproductive parts be cut down to size equal to what women possess.
Women will not be allowed to talk about how manly someone is, except if it’s a woman they’re referring to. Men will not be allowed to look at women as potential mates, except if it’s a man pretending to be female.
Common sense and logic not allowed. Natural instincts not allowed. God-given differences not allowed.
Zorro the gay blade was sort of funny from what I remember but that was decades ago.
David Hogg uses Gillette products...
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