Making Manhood Matter Again

The Stream ^ | May 12, 2025 | Michael Giere

[Heartlander]

We need to teach our sons that a woman is not the same as a man -- and women are to be honored and respected because of that, not dishonored by expecting them to fulfill their role and ours, too.

Decades ago, I first saw the reports and subsequent studies in National Geographic concerning juvenile male elephants rampaging through unfortunate villages, crushing huts, destroying crops, and intimidating terrified villagers.

The researchers finally realized that the juvenile male elephants lived in a herd where the mature, dominant bulls had either been poached or removed.

It seems the juveniles didn’t know how to act when it was mating season, and their testosterone levels went into overdrive. They needed mature bull elephants to show them how to act and control their behavior—with severe “trunk trouncing” when required. But they didn’t have those mature bulls when they needed them, and the villagers paid the price.

Similar phenomena have been reported more recently. In South Africa, park rangers moved a herd of elephants from the overpopulated Kruger National Park and resettled them in the Pilanesburg National Park. However, the large mature bulls were left behind due to transportation issues.

Sometime later, park rangers in Pilanesburg started discovering dead white rhinoceros (an endangered species) that had been violently killed, suffering torso trauma and deep puncture wounds. Suspecting poachers, even though the Rhino horns were not taken, hidden cameras were installed, and soon enough, the bad guys showed up and were caught red-handed.

They weren’t poachers at all, but a marauding gang of aggressive juvenile male elephants that were chasing down rhinos (as well as other animals) and goring and stomping them to death – a previously unknown behavior in elephants.

When the rangers identified the juveniles as part of the Kruger herd, they imported some mature bulls from “home” as an experiment. Within...

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[9YearLurker]

And men should be honored as the protectors they are intended to be.

[Noumenon]

Three cheers for the patriarchy and “toxic masculinity. “

[ClearCase_guy]

The idea here seems to be: young males behave badly (shame on them!) because the older males are not present and acting as a good role model (shame on them!).

It’s true enough.

But maybe — just maybe — our social problems are at least partially rooted in feminism and it’s corrosive effects in young women and in society’s current warfare against anything male (it’s all toxic, you know).

I refuse to accept a news article that says males are screwing things up if it doesn’t also say that females are screwing things up. As far as I’m concerned, the overwhelming source of these problems is from women.

[Resolute Conservative]

Feminism and beta males raised by women are the problem. It all started with evil pos LBJ the “civil rights hero” /s.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[metmom]

It starts by teaching our sons and boys how to clean up yards, pull weeds, paint, chop firewood, swing a hammer and drive a nail, use a saw, a drill, and a tape measure, turn a wrench, and fix things. We need to teach our boys that peace isn’t the absence of violence and that character is built one right decision at a time, usually when it isn’t convenient. We need to show them that brains outweigh emotions. We must teach them that nothing is more important than God, family, and country – and show them that by how we live our lives. We need to teach them how to fish, how to use a firearm, and how to clean both so that they would come to value and respect life — every life.

Likewise, for women, although a slightly different skill set could be encouraged. But still, nothing wrong with a woman learning to hunt and fish and garden and weed. Hard physical activity is cathartic for BOTH men and women.

And knowing you can do pretty much anything you need to gives you a far better sense of self-esteem than any amount of participation trophies.

[metmom]

Indeed.

And both men and women need to fill those roles properly for things to work.

[9YearLurker]

Absolutely. Appreciation from one to the other is paramount.

[SisterK]

no doubt
feminism is more of that controlled demolition
sent to destroy our culture