Good grief. We’ve spent the last 30 years emasculating our men, then wonder why they don’t act like cowboys.
You mean they’re not supposed to be sensitive and abhor violence? They’re supposed to be tough? Next thing you know, we’ll accuse them of not being providers as well as protectors.
There’s a pretty good book about a movement (if something spontaneous can be so categorised) of “Men On Strike”-men who are dropping out of dating and marriage. It makes the case that the men who choose to make their lives around their jobs and playing video games, aren’t being “Peter Pan”, they’ve just opted out of the usual expected trajectory of dating then marrying, because marriage these days, for a man, is like playing Russian Roulette with only one bullet missing. Even living with a woman can get you bankrupted and lose your children. Just a one-night-stand can land a man in prison if the woman has “drunken remorse”, which is a defense that men are never allowed to consider.
I don’t know if the men are 100% right, but they’re certainly not completely wrong.
Maybe they should ask help from the women in all the Nike and military commercials. We’re all the same now, right?