Posted on 05/16/2015 3:03:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
You still find such guys around, despite the “current environment”.
Didn’t manage to work in microaggressions or triggers; otherwise a perfect summary of much of our current malaise.
I know; here in NJ we still have mountain men in the northwest and old salts along the shore. In my area (northeastern NJ) we’ve become too “civilized”....
I’d be shocked if feminism lasts 20 years; human nature is making the adherents extinct. They’ve liberated themselves out of reproduction, and are being replaced by women who want families and value raising children (both in Europe and the US/Canada). Sex-selective abortions aren’t working in their favor, either.
Disagree. Most second generation Latinos are not as macho as their dads and have the same addiction to porn, video games, and weed as white Proles seem to have these days. Besides, having lived in Brazil, and spent considerable amounts of time in Argentina, not all Latin American countries are particularly “butch.”
“Where have all the Cowboys gone” Ping!
It is like anywhere else; in the most highly urbanized environments where people have to do little for themselves, men aren’t very manly. From that environment there is a manliness scale that increases with distance from such an environment (until you get to mountain men who wrestle bears).
I agree. But Conservatives do not always begat Conservatives. The Reagans were a perfect example of that.
There will always be some but they are getting harder to find every day aren’t they? I learned to work like a man by the time I was ten because my father expected it of me as it had been expected of him. Try teaching boys to do all that now and the state will take them away from their parents. We used to have sixteen year old student school bus drivers in this state and they did a damned good job. Can anyone imagine doing that now? The average sixteen year old, male or female, in those days acted more mature than most forty year olds I know now.
That’s a good point; I stand corrected.
Exactly. This all happened in the ancient world. Nothing new here. What it would take to get us back to the way things used to be, I don't believe many people would be too happy about.
I say this as someone who never served and quite honesty would have been reticent to do so, military service used to be more a common experience for young men and I think that’s a factor.
I emphatically oppose conscription but it’s to hard deny American men used to be tougher and military service was a big reason why.
Add to that the scourge of feminism polluting our culture along with liberalism in general, video games taking the place of sports for most kids, parents and teachers telling kids to tattle rather than stand up and fight bullies, and the fact that life is just plain easier nowadays, and you don’t exactly have the recipe for “tough”.
Would King George win today?
Lawyers.
Men who couldn’t win fights in a school yard, bar room, or boxing ring took to the courts to “make” other people bend to their will. They have steadily increased their power and eroded the power of non-lawyers. The US legal system is a farcical exercise in arcane rules that mostly boil down to who has the most money to buy “justice”.
I’m not advocating brawling or bullying. I’m pointing out that the bullies have moved from the schoolyard to the courtrooms and the halls of Congress. In the old days, successful sociopaths had big muscles. Today, they are wimpy men who wield power in courts and legislatures.
We should probably skip the tobacco though.
True, they are not all like that, and the ones who aren't will leave the police and join the rebellion in the first few days or be branded as one of them.
I was in the navy for 21 years (11 on active duty and 10 in the reserves). I served near Baghdad for six months. I think that only people, who want to join, should do so. If people, who don’t want to join, are required to join, some of those people won’t do their jobs well, since they don’t want to be there. That will affect their co-workers.
We don’t WIN wars anymore!
Thank you and you’re 100000000000% right.
WE don’t fight them anymore either. A small percentage do. No sacrifice on the homefront, at all. No wonder people don’t care.
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