A Father Must Have a Code

American Thinker ^ | 15 Jun, 2025 | J.B. Shurk

[MtnClimber]

Men must win the culture war.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, we had a little “Golden Age” of television when manly shows with manly characters briefly flourished. Sopranos, Band of Brothers, The Wire, The Shield, Deadwood, Rome, Generation Kill, Justified, Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, and the first season of True Detective broke the network mold and told dark, gritty stories in ways that had never been shown on a television screen.

I found myself in a gathering with a Sopranos writer once, and someone asked him why the show was so successful. Without hesitating, he answered that HBO had given the writers wide latitude in creating something new. Like a brass section playing jazz, those guys just let their creative talents flow. That’s why a lot of these shows have more in common with great literature than with the primetime hits of previous decades. As cable television experimented with original programming for the first time, many of the companies just let the writers write. The result was that some of the most memorable male characters in television appeared.

Some very manly movies came out in theaters during this period, too. As audiences applauded the new “Golden Age” of television, studios looked to emulate that success on the big screen. There Will Be Blood, The Departed, and No Country for Old Men are three that come to mind, but there were many manly films at the turn of the century. There was a fleeting push in Hollywood to green-light projects that read as if they had come from the typewriters of novelists such as Elmore Leonard and Cormac McCarthy. The content that came out in the aughts included some meaty masterpieces that are far better than anything out today.

When Obama entered the White House, the era of masculine

[stanne]

“he was a broken kid, grew up to be an angry man.”

So? That’s who was chosen for the White House. What? He was royalty and inherited it? No He was chosen and elected close enough to ouch, cheat, bury him in

Broken and angry. Hating this country. I saw that in 2008. It was plain for everyone to see

[Sequoyah101]

He has the right idea eventually but the wrong heroes at the beginning. Real men are not thugs. They know that being a good man is about more than being rough and tough. Real good men do not Lie, Cheat or Steal or tolerate anyone who does. There is more, but men of the examples the author gives are not good people or good examples of real and good men.

Many of the movies and show he cites are gross and irresponsible examples of gratuitous violence. Real men know there are enough bad things in the world without going out of your way to go looking for them.

[ronniesgal]

uh huh.

[Justa]

Why bother staying around when the Bs and their brats ran the household debt up to $40T? I ain’t staying around for that. She can pay it back her ownself.

You go girl!