Posted on 06/20/2007 2:54:58 PM PDT by 68skylark
Personally I'm a big fan of this book -- I got a copy for my 10-year old nephew and he loves it. Last weekend we built the go-cart featured in the book, and it was great fun.
Somebody call the waaaaahhmbulance for Cathy.
Doesn’t she have anything more important to worry and write about?
I wanna play cricket on the green
Ride my bike across the street
Cut myself and see my blood
I wanna come home all covered in mud...
I walked into a book store with some coworkers (guys) after lunch last week, and this book was prominently displayed at the front entrance. One of my buddies asked what it was, and I said that it was a book of fun stuff we used to do when we were boys but has gone out of style with the current trend of pussifying boys.
A younger guy, in his mid-twenties, snapped his head toward me when I said that and gave me a glaring look. I dismissed it, but when I walked around the table I saw that he wasn’t alone—he was carrying a baby bag and pushing a baby carriage.
It is profoundly irrational and utterly self-defeating to try to wish away a natural fact, which is what gender-war feminists have been doing for decades. Miss Young is generally more sensible than this; perhaps she was having a bad day.
Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
Eternity Road
Actually, men are more predisposed to taking risks, and are much more skilled at it than women. So yes, initiative and adventure, in that sense of the word, are indeed "male." It is part of our makeup -- and it is counter-balanced, in a healthy way, by other characteristics in women.
I am SO buying this for my grandson.
It will drive his mom bonkers. ;)
It's found in the book called Wild at Heart by John Elderidge. Very,very in-depth and Biblically-based.
ROTFLMAO!
I really want to get this for my boys. Plan on doing it soon.
I’m a woman. Having sons had taught me a lot about boys...and how much they’re not allowed to be who they truly are, thanks to feminism.
I’ll be damned if I let that happen to mine.
“What feminist critiques of the book have appeared—including a cogent, balanced, and largely sympathetic review on the Feministe blog—have not disparaged the “boy” activities the book promotes but argued that girls should be included in the fun as well.”
This torques me. Why can’t the boys just have something for THEM?????
Someone has to say it: Women are the weaker sex.
What you should have said is "Women are the physically weaker sex". Mentally, emotionally, verbally, etc they are not weaker at all.
At the place where I work, I have sitting on my computer a small doll and a scale model Volkswagen Beetle. The other day, a co-worker brought his four-year old son, not yet old enough to be a product of the while-male patriarchal ruling class of America, into the office and the boy made a beeline for my computer, totally ignored the doll, and grabbed the Beetle, squealing in delight. Somehow I doubt very much that his parents spent the last four years training him to like cars and dislike dolls.
There are intrinsic and God-given differences between the sexes, and one can only imagine the pathologies and problems we have created for ourselves over the past few decades that could have been avoided had the social engineers not tried to eliminate those differences.
I’m always admitting I’m not as strong as my husband...he can physically do more than I can (except the giving birth part...I rock at that!). It’s just nature and I have no problem with it. However, I’m the emotional glue that holds our family together.
If the girls are unhappy, let them buy it. Just like they can read the Hardy BOYS mysteries. Only they don’t get to change the names.
I overheard some parents lamenting that their 13 year old son wanted to spend his summer “fishing, playing golf, and hanging out with his friends”. I gave them a very confused look and said “I think I lived that life.”.
No, Cathy, it would NOT be a shame to throw out the baby with the bathwater, re Feminism. The whole thing needs to go. You (we women) got INTO the clubhouse, ok. But you still didn’t like it, did you? You wanted to change it to be YOUR way. “It’s too smokey,” “We want it painted pink,” “We FEEL oppressed,” yadayada. Toss the bath, toss the baby. Shut up and enjoy being a woman.
Lord save us from feminists, especially libertarian feminists writing for Reason.
Raised all boys to be good men. They had a great dad and role model.
They skinned knees, broke arms, slammed fingers, had concussions, fell out of trees, fell off their bikes, were hit with dodge balls, got in fights, made up and went back to playing 15 minutes later, and much more that I can’t even remember from my dotage.
The point is that I heard an overweight 13 year old tell his mother that he couldn’t climb up a rope ladder because it was dangerous and he could get hurt.
God help us. If the boys get anymore wrapped in cottonwool and swaddling and then coddled by the feminists, they will never have courage.
Jnygrl, I also have learned SO MUCH about males by having a boy, now 20, (and a husband). They are so different from us, and really quite wonderful.
I bought this book for the BOYS I tutor — the next generation. (I told them at work, “Give me all the Jr Hi boys that no one wants to tutor.”)I will add it to my collection of ‘Special Ops Military Weapons’ etc. books.
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