Posted on 11/03/2015 8:17:49 AM PST by Kaslin
Last week the New York Times published an article, "Sweeping Away Gender-Specific Toys and Labels," that contained three sentences that explain one of the most important phenomena in American life.
In discussing the increasing move to do away with gender-specific toys something the New York Times approves of the article quoted Tania Missad, the "director of global consumer insights" at one of the world's largest toy manufacturers, Mattel:
"Mattel's research showed some differences in what girls and boys wanted in their action figures, Ms. Missad said. 'For boys it's very much about telling a story of the good guy killing the villain ... [Girls] would tell us: 'Why does the good girl have to kill the villain? Can't they be friends in the end?"'
Very little academic research on sex differences is likely to be as accurate as research conducted by businesses and advertising agencies. The reason is simple: Businesses and advertising agencies have no social or political agenda; their agenda is profit. Their assessments must be accurate or they lose money; and those providing wrong assessments are fired. Academics, on the other hand, have nothing on the line. When they publish studies that purport to show that boys and girls want the same types of toys, they lose nothing for asserting something so patently false. In business there is a very big price paid for believing what is untrue. Among academics, there is no price certainly not their reputations, because other academics want to believe the same nonsense.
The Mattel research reveals that male nature wants good guys to kill bad guys (of course, in bad societies the definition of “good guy†and “villain†may well be inverted, but that is a values issue, not a male-nature issue); and that female nature wants the good guy and bad guy to "be friends in the end."
This difference may be the most important of all the sex differences. Indeed, it can actually shape the future of America and of the world.
Of course, there are women who want evil destroyed the late Margaret Thatcher, for example. And there are men who oppose confronting evil the men who lead the modern Democratic Party, for example. (One such man is the president of the United States, whose has a feminized view of those who do evil talk to them, but don't confront them, label them, or fight them.)
But these exceptions happen in large numbers under two circumstances: when women get married and when men are feminized.
When women get married, they are often influenced by their husbands with regard to political and moral issues, just as married men are influenced by their wives on a whole host of micro issues. As a result, married women are more likely than single women to prefer to fight villains than to befriend them.
Unfortunately, more and more American women are single.
Meanwhile American boys are increasingly raised by single women and taught almost only by female teachers. In addition, they are often taught to be ashamed of their masculine natures and to reject traditional masculine virtues.
As a result of the above two trends, the amount spent on national defense will continue to decline (while the amount spent on welfare will continue to increase), and America will confront the world's evils less and less.
The consequences will be disastrous for millions of people around the globe. When America retreats from killing bad guys, bad guys kill more innocent people. We are witnessing this right now as a consequence of America abandoning Iraq and retreating from the world generally. Islamic State took over more and more territory as America abandoned those territories. Ironically, therefore, as American foreign policy becomes feminized, more Middle East females are raped.
Whenever I see the liberal bumper sticker, "War Is not the Answer," on a car, I look to see who is driving. In years of looking, I have seen one male driver.
Both women and men have flawed natures. They share human nature, which is deeply flawed, and the sexes have their own particular natures, which are also flawed. That is one reason men need women and women need men. Men need women to soften their intrinsic aggressive nature and to help them control their predatory sexuality; and women need men to, among other things, better understand that evil people and regimes must be fought, not nurtured.
Mattel's research has told a truth that America and the world need to pay attention to.
The Left has done many destructive things to America. It is quite possible that none will prove to be more destructive than its attempt to obliterate gender-distinctions.
We have a POYUS who is either the most emmasculated, feminine man in America, or a straight out homosexual. This doesn’t help.
Dennis has a good mind. He may not always get it right in line with Conservative values, but he comes pretty darned close.
Good guy.
My take is the latter.
Michelle not only wears the pants in that family, I don’t doubt she sports a jock strap too.
One look from here and Barack hears, “I’m gonna get you sucka!”
More importantly, he wants to see the enemies of Western Civilization triumphant.
he’s about fifty years too late with this
Prager got this one right.
Obama’s main goal is to destroy Western civilization. Anyone who read up on him a bit prior to 2008 knew this.
Send this to the McDonalds CED regarding French fries.
Dennis is spot on.
When each of my kids was ~14 months I did a gender function check. IMO this was the important age when transitioning from generic baby toys to gender-specific toys.
I put the kid in the front of a Wal-Mart cart. They were taken down the toy aisle of the opposite sex first, then their own gender toy aisle to gauge their reaction and asses their ‘gender identity’ -a big worry for dads nowadays. Both of them registered disinterest, even disgust (daughter) in the opposite gender toy aisle and overwhelming joy and attraction in their gender toy aisle. They passed with flying colors and got a toy to boot. They still get a kick out of the story.
Their mother just couldn’t understand it at the time. Her response was “How do they KNOW”?
Yeah, Dennis has it right.
Indeed.
Remember, the Hillabeast will only be our second female president.
Sincere apologies to all the truly capable women out there...and there are many..just not in the dimbulbcrat party.
When I lived in Los Angeles I would listen to Dennis occasionally. His main problem is he is too nice of a guy, and is puzzled by outright evil. This causes him to get it wrong sometimes.
America became feminized in the Oprah-era of the 1990s/2000s. What’s happening now is America has become downright faggotized.
As a people, a society, and a culture, America has decayed to puke-worthy levels.
Thank goodness it’s not smell-o-vision.
I am absolutely convinced that it was the feminization of America under the Clintons that led to the Towers falling and the Pentagon being attacked on 9/11. Think about it. What were we told prior to 9/11? Sit back, cooperate with your murderers, don’t fight back, trust the authorities (police) to take out the bad guys, blah blah blah. Look what we got for that. And look what happened when a courageous group on Flight 93 threw off that feminization and did fight back, and thereby prevented a larger tragedy.
I listen to Dennis on the drive home. He’s just the opposite. He is the only talk show host I know who spells out the evil America is facing. He calls it out and names it. He repeatedly emphasizes that our nation is in an existential fight with evil. This is the reason I listen to him.
Haven’t a clue what the acronym craze is about, but whatever you were trying to stutter out there, I agree!
None of this is news. I was around when academia started this women and girl bias-thing openly, on college campuses, and that wasn’t even the beginning. 1980.
Republicans have ceded Education, the media, Hollywood and the feel good churches for at least 50 years.
So what other outcome would we expect? You can’t find a Republican interested in Education.
Including our candidates. Mute. Crickets.
It has been a dozen years since I was in L.A.(pre-Obama) Glad to hear he is fighting the evil.
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