his essay "Let Africa Sink" is truth to power of the first magnitude...
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.
his essay "Let Africa Sink" is truth to power of the first magnitude...
men and boys have become wimpy, feminized and afraid of their own shadows,sounds like obama 100%.
>>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 —
It is deliberate.
I wouldn't either, but I have to ask, what is with the socks with sandals? I hope the socks are at least white!
” Manly men liked us, and we where happy being pretty, wearing dresses and makeup, being good mommies and wives, and often managing work.”
What I resent by the above statement is its trivialization of what it means to be a woman. The women who helped their men plow through the wilderness of America to make the greatest nation in the world were not concerned with being some later relic of Victorian boredom, they were true helpmeets to their husbands. What the author is describing sounds more like some insipid portrayal taken from a ‘50s sitcom than from real life. Somehow, from her language in the article, she doesn’t seem to fit her ideal.
I was thinking Gaelic or Korean.
Ironically, this is pretty much the description of Hank Hill.
Agree 100%. And it seems this forcing little boys to be girlish in their behavior is certainly concentrated in the liberal world because it is HARD to find a manly liberal. Period.
“We never once wore a helmet. If we fell, we got back up on the bike and kept going. Kids today are pansies.”
I never wore a helmet either, and neither did one of my classmates who fractured his skull in a bike accident. Never the same, sadly. I tend to be Darwinian in most matters, but things like oh.....brain injuries and even death are generally to be avoided.
This is a rather weird thread that is beginning to glorify high risk behavior. Understand that I’ve spent most of my life driving airliners around, so perhaps the reader will understand why I followed the checklists and used my safety belt/shoulder harness when I was supposed to. I hear there are folks that think it’s cool to forget about the safety belt and drive like knucklheads (seen ‘em, dodged ‘em, can’t tell if they’re straight though (don’t care actually)).
Every one of you is gonna’ die soon enough. It is perpelexing as to why some seem to want to rush things along. Don’t ever confuse risk taking behavior with male responsibility. They are not the same. One is a virtue, and the other is a psychiatric disorder. I’ll leave it to you to decide which is which.
Some men are simply born more effeminate than others. I see no reason why such boys should be forced into manly activities when their God-given talents might be in other areas. On the other hand, it’s quite true that most boys don’t fit this category naturally, and we’re not allowing them to be boys.
I don’t have a problem with boys playing rough or even fighting as long as it’s mutual. Real men don’t bully or pick on the weak. We must be better than the common animal.
Many real men don’t spell well.
I agree 100%. Wearing seatbelts and helmets doesn’t make one a sissy. It’s just good common sense.
My grandson just won the 4-H bow shoot but a few months ago some men got together and had a shoot, he won 2nd, he lost to his father but he beat all the other adults.
My kids got BB guns when they were 4 and progressed right along until they were on their own and had to buy their own so they have a lot more now.
We took them camping, fishing, hunting and mountain climbing. And most of all, we took them to work and made them work right alongside of us.
We're rapidly turning into France!
When I was in Scouts, there was not a SINGLE woman in the room at our meetings - it was "man hour", no girls allowed. Cub Scouts is where women should still largely involved, Webelos to a lesser extent still. But Boy Scouts ought to be an exclusively man thing, as far as meetings and events go. I don't blame this lady for changing troops with her son.
Back in the early 60’s I finally reached the age where I could attend 2 weeks of summer Boy Scout camp with my older brothers. We billeted in wall tents that had a wooden platform floor and cots. My mother started to make up my bed with sheets etc.
The Scout Master saw what she was up to and politely threw her out before she could get started...
The only time my mother went to ANY meeting was when my 2 brothers got their Eagle Scout badge.
We had weekly Patrol Meetings as well as Troop Meetings. The Patrol Meetings were held at the home of the patrol leader after school. The leader's mother would provide an after school snack (contributed to by patrol dues) but would then retire to the background for the rest of the meeting. At the weekly Troop Meetings, there were no women.
Each year we would have a Scout Dinner in Feb. (Scout Week) to celebrate the founding of the Scouts. Mothers would provide the food, and whole families were invited to attend. It was at these dinners that individual achievements of the Scouts were formally recognized. Mothers were included in the ceremonies for Life as well as Eagle. When a Scout was awarded Life, a small Life pin was presented to the Mother...the same with Eagle.
Roccus, Eagle Scout class of '62.
Good advice. My son at 9 is a fair shot. In fact today is “Shootin’ Iron Sunday” at my place. He’ll get to recycle some glass and aluminum in our backyard with his BB gun. On the other hand, he doesn’t own a bike. But he can ride a horse pretty damn well...
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