Posted on 03/30/2016 11:42:51 AM PDT by C19fan
Ladies -- sick of posturing hipsters still living in mom's basement while they role-play their lives away, in between trying to pick up chicks with somebody else's money? You're not alone:
Last week, Tomi Lahren, a 23-year-old political commentator for The Blaze, ended her show by raising the following question: “Is it just me, or have men gotten really soft these days?”
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You are correct, HS. Most college STEM majors are men, and the colleges that focus on STEM tend to have many more male students than female students.
The young boys and men I have recently seen at the beach and at water parks had bigger breasts than most women I know. They also had multiple rolls of fat and in most cases they had back-boobs too.
When I started elementary school in the 1960s, it was a rough and tumble world for boys. Unless it was pouring rain, we spent an hour outdoors for "recess". Schoolyard fights were common and unless it got out of hand, teachers looked the other way. It was generally accepted that boys needed to burn off energy and so had that hour in the playground to do so. Nobody ever heard of "Attention Deficit Disorder" and would have laughed at you if you tried to make a disease out of boys behaving normally.
Corporal punishment was also still done at school as recently as the late 1960s. Boys sent to the principals office would often get "paddled" and made to stand in the corner for a while. You didn't dare go home to complain to your parents or you would get the same there. In fact, you prayed that your parents would not find out you got paddled at school!
Starting in the early 1970s, all of this started going away rapidly. Zero tolerance policies for fighting went into effect. Corporal punishment was banished. Schools started hiring psychologists to help students "get in touch with their feelings." Hyperactive boys started getting put on medicine.
This gravitated into the home also, as parents became afraid that the schools might call social services on them if their sons reported that they were "spanked" at home or otherwise mistreated. The inmates started running the asylum. Students started "talking back" to teachers, with no repercussions. They got to dress however they wanted, which was usually torn jeans, ratty sneakers and a black T-shirt with the name of their favorite rock band.
Also, parents stopped giving their children demanding chores at home. I remember my father expecting me to maintain the entire yard including brush clearing, weed-pulling, lawn mowing, etc. Then for extra money, I'd see if my neighbors wanted me to do the same for them. These days that is considered "back breaking" work for children and landscapers were hired instead. When I was growing up, I didn't even know what a landscaper was. Everybody in my neighborhood were out raking their own leaves in the fall or shoveling their own snow in the winter.
So I can see what young men of today are skinny with no muscle tone. They likely never had to do any manual work in their lives. Also in the schoolyard, they never had to worry about defending themselves in a physical confrontation.
Whether all of this is a good or a bad thing is up for discussion. But boys are raised today not much different than the girls. The only difference is the wardrobe and even that is starting to blend together.
So you’re saying they’re not much to look at, but fun to dance with? /s
(Sorry, the line just came to me)!
Dayyyyyuuuum!
ROTFLMAO! Me too. Yeah, only...those aren't men.
I dunno. I see threads like this and the Boomer Bashing threads and I think - how does anyone make this broad of a statement in the face of contraindicative evidence? A need to generalize, I suppose, to a fault.
So let me play Devil's Advocate here - there is not so very much wrong with the entire generation that a few extant exceptions can make up for, and I don't think the exceptions are all that few. Got a campus full of young men to cite as evidence. Yeah, some of them are pretty sad. Sometimes it's those who end up performing astonishing feats of heroism in wartime. You never know.
That said, there are some who are awfully wimpy. Some of them are on this forum. And guys, if you have to ask me to name names...it's you. :-)
Yep. I think a lot of the damage done by these is permanent.
People complain about the absence of fathers, but I keep wondering about the mothers. As the daughter of someone mentally ill, I witnessed — and suffered — her effects on the family.
Many of the modern women I see — especially among the liberals — are extremely neurotic. They seem either overbearing or controlling; many are plain bad-tempered. Some are very immature — locked in their adolescence. Others are plain weird — either hippie-dippy or off (as in spectrum disorder). It’s as if the flakes, sluts, dykes, and geeks crowded out the normal. These kind of women really should not be mothers (let alone wives).
I’m not saying that I am the most together female on the planet. However, I absolutely cannot stand being around these women. I doubt a man can either as I am sort of a barometer.
Tomi if I were forty years younger...
Some men of all ages are chivalrous, and some are not. Most of us women would just appreciate politeness, such as holding the door for the person just behind you. Around here I haven’t noticed a difference based on age. There are too many men who seem content to sit back and let the women do all the manual labor, but then again, there are the others - the ones who refuse to walk through a door before you do.
I taught my own sons to always stand back and hold the door, and so far, not once has any woman complained. In fact, the women always smile and say thank you.
This reminds me of a very short but very poignant scene that came at the tail end of a documentary I saw many years ago.
A local Denver station's News dept aired an extended (20 min?) "human interest story" produced for a weekend feature show, that was obviously months in the making.
It featured a local man and a "Ukranian Bride".
He was into his 30s yet getting no closer to his lifelong dream - to start a family that mirrored what he had in childhood, namely a father who worked weekdays to support children and a wife who was a fulltime mother, at least until all the kids were in (or through) school.
He was an engineer who made way more than enough to support a family on his own salary.
He had an active social life including many young women friends, and had dated a number of them, but had still yet to find a woman who shared his dream.
Every one of them had bought into the feminist ideal of a career woman married to a career man, both with fulltime jobs and a double income to be enjoyed to the fullest, only a small fraction being needed to hire fulltime child-care.
Finally he gave up looking locally, and turned to a dating service that advertised brides from Ukraine, Russia and other former East Bloc countries. Many young women from regions experiencing threadbare economies, rampant alcoholism and tolerance of spousal abuse, yet who were raised believing in this same "old-fashioned," allegedly "obsolete" and pre-feminist-era dream of raising children in a one-income family, were willing to uproot themselves from their homelands to take a chance on a better marriage and better life in a foreign land full of strangers whose language they didn't speak.
The reporter & cameraman picked up the story sometime in the middle of the process of the engineer viewing videotaped interviews done with interpreters, sending his own tapes back, having phone conversations and letter exchanges, and finally settling on a woman who was tentatively designated as (hopefully) the right woman.
The TV people flew out with the local man to Ukraine, to film the two meeting for the first time to make a final decision on each other.
Then they showed the arrival in Denver of the bride-to-be. To help her adjust, the dating service introduced her to another "Ukranian Bride" who had married a local man, and they seemed to really hit it off .... obviously someone who could be of major support down the road.
Finally there was the wedding and the reception, ending with a scene I found very sad, very poignant. The photographer was sitting at a table with wedding guests including single female friends of the groom, in what was obviously a bittersweet day for them. One turned to talk to a friend, and I didn't write down her exact words, but they were along the lines of, "So, what is so wrong about us? .... Why couldn't he have married me, or you?"
It dawned on me that many TV viewers that day would also find themselves asking the same question, confused as to why the young man flew overseas to find a bride when there were these eligible young women around him?
But other viewers like myself didn't ask that question, because we knew the answer.
Preach it, sister.
“More likely too much soy in our diet, soybeans are full of estrogen.”
Really??!!! Are you kidding? Geez. Maybe that’s why I tossed out that case of bacon-flavored TVP. It just tasted like crap to me.
All the soy and tofu.
“Women have changed, and male teachers used to be more common.”
Good point. My algebra teacher in HS was a Normandy vet, and my swim teacher was a Marine who fought on Guadalcanal.
I don't know if it's still true, but back in the 70s & 80s I had to wonder about this same thing after reading the blurbs on the backs of many dozens of cheap Romance paperbacks. So very many of them described the male love interest as being both handsome but dangerous. One line you saw frequently with only slight variations was, "Should she love him, or fear for her life?"
And yes, in times of boredom I read through a number of these. The love interest was often someone who had a violent side, eg killing other men in duels at the drop of a hat. But on the other hand he was always tenderly passionate with his woman.
Good grief! Couldn't the intended consumers of these paperbacks understand that in real life, a violent streak in one area of his life is going to eventually show up in others?
I had to wonder whether these plots reflected the way young women truly saw men? I mean, why buy the books otherwise? Yeah, sure, dismiss it as merely "escapist fantasy," but is there really such a thing as Escapist Fantasy that readers fully realize does not reflect real life, and have no wish to emulate?
In the fantasy world, the knight slays the bad guys in a blood-soaked orgy of swordplay to rescue the damsel imprisoned in the tower. Yet the moment he reaches her, his mood swiftly changes to infinite tenderness.
In the real world, this violent man of action in the midst of the heat of battle would probably have slapped her across the face and said, "Damn it woman!! How many times have I told you to be careful going out? I'm sick and tired of risking my life to rescue your sorry butt once again!"
At the time I was perusing these, a close friend and his wife had taken into their homes for short periods of time at least two 20ish women as part of a program to hide them in places where violent ex-boyfriends would not think of looking. These were intelligent, good-looking women, and the choices they made seemed to tie in with what I read on the back covers of the paperbacks.
In a nutshell, because we haven’t been in a major war since the 70s. Wars have a funny way of making folks grow up.
We conservatives as a whole made a huge mistake from the late 60s onwards, in believing that the best place to fight liberalism was in the field of politics, or in politics plus education.
We were wrong. The real battle of significance was in Hollywood, and we surrendered that to the liberals without a fight. That loss has made all the gains in the world of politics into moot points. Any battles we win against liberals in politics or education are at best "rear guard actions" - ie victories that temporarily stem our never-ending retreat for only a short time, but don't affect society's long-term slide downwards.
“They were either in stable, traditional marriages, “
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Not in Boston during the 20s and 30s———teachers HAD to be single.
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