And our decisions. We're not hunks of flotsam drifting on the seas of life. We are vessels that can steer.
Since you believe obviously to have found your stones, then do you have the ability to enlighten us all on how you managed to avoid the fate of Cho?
I learned to communicate with and relate to other people. If I found myself in a position I didn't like, I learned how to change it. I took responsibility for my life rather than developing a seething hatred of everyone who seemed happier than me.
I don't pretend that this makes me special -- I'm just standing with the 99.999% of the population that doesn't treat his life as something beyond his control, and let his anger steep for years until he goes on a murderous rampage.
I say that men in general have been immasculated in both popular culture and in the education process, socialization.
I say that you're trying to squeeze Cho's story into the plot line you already had in mind, and the problem isn't that Cho was emasculated, but that he was never masculated. He never learned how to be a man.
The fact that he was sneaking cell-phone peeks at women's knees under their desks is a clue. That would be pretty normal for a 12-year-old. In a 20-something, it's troubling. He was stuck, stunted, in early adolescence. If Cho had a rising frustration that he couldn't get laid, it wasn't the feminists or political correctness stopping him. It was Cho.
Allowing concealed carry on the VT campus would indeed go a long way to counter the immasculation of men in society
I scarcely know where to begin with that. Somehow, our lost/stolen manhood would be restored if only we were allowed to carry guns? Sweet Jesus, dude, get help.
You see, its your own prejudice which blinds you.
Men and violence will always be connected. The qestion is when is violence or the potential of violence beneficial?
It is in the protector role in which it is beneficial.You know, protecting the sheep and being the good shepherd and all that.
Men and boys in our society are being denied the role of protector. All violence or potential for violence is negative. Therefore there is an array of socialization mechanisms which actually are powerfully dedicated to the immasculation of men, to the end that they not have any violent behaviour, little drones, or induced eunuchism. Cho is a social symptom indicating that this is so. I am making no excuses for Cho, he chose evil, but I can also predict that as the immasculation of our young men continues, and the denial of the protector role continues, we can look forward to more Columbines, more, VTs.
Its interesting that you think the weapon principle is an insignificant part of male existence. Its a distinct part of boyhood play, or perhaps you were a doll man as a boy?LOL
Yes, concealed carry at VT would go a long way to righting a very immasculating, distinct wrong against men and their roles as protectors at VT.
Get help? I have all the help I need, in 9mm x 18 caliber and a concealed carry.