If this is true, it’s the result of decades of indoctrination and it points to the decline of Western Civilization.
Lib parents teaching sensitivity and peace.
I have 2 New England lib brothers in law. One has a 25 year old son who graduated from college with a degree in French. He works as an “on call” bus boy in a restaurant and lives with his girl friend. Mostly he skateboards.
The other NE nephew is 26 and majored in “Shakespeare Theatre”. He’s worked at Starbucks for the past 3 years and lives with his parents.
My conservative brother in law has a 27 year old son who just served 4 years in the Army and went to Iraq with his Army wife. He now works for the Department of Defense, owns a 4,000sf home and has a 1 year old daughter.
Pre-WWII, French boys were taught to dance. German boys were taught to shoot. It took Germany less than two months to defeat France.
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire are in no danger of being surpassed by the 2013 versions of Vanilla Ice.
I am a professional square dance caller and dance teacher. I have led a damage control/fire team shipboard.
If you don't think you can measure up, then yeah, go study ballet and be a phantom pumper.
Modern boys must be the new word for queer.
Well, I’m in Connecticut and when I took my granddaughter to the park on Thursday, there was a pack of six 8-10 year old boys actually being boys - you know - chasing each other, shooting at each other with finger guns, the stuff boys normally like to do. And, more surprisingly, no one was complaining!
I can hear the conversation now.
Private to General-General, sir, the enemy are breaking through the western defense.
General to private-Ok, enough with the tap dancing, time to break out the ballet slippers.
An invading country’s dream.
Because on Disney shows, dancers get chicks.
Firemen are just bumbling dumbbells.
I wanted to put our extremely active son in tumbling classes, and the only classes around here are at dance and cheering studios. All I wanted was for him to burn off energy during organized play and work on his coordination. Plus he’s very strong, double jointed, and ambidextrous. Yes, my husband already has stars in his eyes about the next great Major League pitcher lol! Anyway, all of the programs around here require their students to perform in programs a couple of times a year, with which costuming and photography fees are required! Not only is the pageant requirement unsuitable for our daughter, but I’m not jamming my son into a dance costume and letting him prance all over a stage. Not happening!
He just wants to dance!
What of ours? Or Japan's, Germany's, Russia's and the rest of the world's?
How does such traumatic war and such loss change the direction of a nation or of the world? That was a lot young male energy suddenly removed from our humanity equation and replaced with damage, loss and emotional pain.
Moreover, what if there is no real peace afterwards, but instead a steady, near perpetual condition of being on alert and fighting a cold war and many small hot wars?
I think of how people recover or don't recover from major trauma and loss and believe that nations, being made of people, likely have similar paths and patterns to recovery or recovery interrupted.
The road is still less traveled.
And hairdressers.
In the end, art always wins!
This is every reason to be THE FIREMAN!!! Phil Phister, South Charleston Fire Department.