Posted on 01/08/2017 5:32:17 AM PST by Kaslin
Christina Hoff Summers, Camille Paglia, and others have made excellent points about the cultural war against boys and men, with the ensuing confusion of identity and lost young men who emerge from a youth in which there every hope and dream and even sporting pursuit has been subject to the ridicule and penalties of K-12 gatekeepers. Nothing they ever do is right. Anything they want to do is wrong. And no one in authority has any idea what they should do except be good little girls.
I hated school. Every red-blooded boy I knew did as well. So did the best girls. We knew we were in a school not for education. We were in a school for re-education, and we were the target. This wasn't the place we were told it was, instilling initiative and free inquiry. It rewarded suck-ups to petty authority and unquestioned groupthink. Initiative and free inquiry were penalized. There might be courses and teachers who were the exception, but to get out alive, you had to accept the realities of the power structure and not take it on.
If the Ivy League commissars can't find anything better to do than attack their mens' sports teams and destroy fraternities, how do you think things go for the average lower-class boy who hasn't even a prayer of going to community college?
"Pajama Boy" may seem a funny byproduct of this national culture of institutional neutering. But how amusing a byproduct is Esteban Santiago?
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Good article. I was on an admissions committee to veterinary college a dozen or more years ago when the committee was discussing why there was such a dearth in male applicants. I knew immediately, it was because they were made to feel unwelcome in higher education in general. I brought up this fact to the committee of 10. No one said a word, but several knew it was the truth.
my son, now in 10th grade, struggled mightily until 7th grade to navigate the femi-nazi culture in the school system. He finally learned to follow the party line. What keeps him sane is making varsity on 2 intensive sports teams.
The teachers and administration were simply evil in their efforts to destroy a healthy & athletic young boy. If I didn’t live through it, I wouldn’t have believed it possible that school teachers could be so evil.
In hindsight, my wife and I would have been much better off homeschooling his entire childhood instead of just 5th & 6th grade.
Great article. Thanks.
About twenty years ago,when ny daughter had her first son,I remember saying to her that there were no more “guy” jobs left,which was sad to me.
I saw the little picture then,boys couldn’t get jobs to prove themselves,but this author paints a larger picture.
I liked it when men were treated like men and women were treated like women. We ARE different.
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So now, twenty years later, how is your oldest grandson doing? Does he, e.g., have a "guy" job?
Regards,
He’s going in his sophomore year in college-——engineering.
There ARE no “guy” jobs.
By the sound of things, coaches - esp. football - may be many boys’ only connection to reality; their only counter to the wymyn educrats attempting to hijack their development.
This guts me. I see it first hand at my job.
A little back story, I’m a housewife who works in the aquatics department of a luxury health club/fitness center in Florida. I’m a swim teacher, an American Red Cross life guard and guard instructor (hence the name Mermaid Girl...)
For me, the job means a free membership for my family, and a really fun way to connect with my community.
A lot of my coworkers are twenty something college kids and in the dynamics of the department, I serve as sort of a mentor/older sibling to a lot of them (I run interference with the boss a lot.)
So... long story short — the young college girls are all focused, and imbued with what I can only describe as this “YOU GO, GIRL!” sense of purpose and confidence.
The young men, with the exception of ONE, are all passive, bored, and lost. They’re all in college, but have no passion for what they’re studying, and have no sense of direction or purpose. I’ve seen a ton of lost boys, and its tragic.
Two were fired because of drug offenses, the others just drift away to different, lateral jobs.
Only one boy, home-schooled, Christian, and raised the old-fashioned way, has moved on. 82nd Airborne, I’m proud to say — but after nine years at this job, the odds are gut-wrenching.
Great article. I am sitting here thinking about my oldest, who was homeschooled through 5th grade and then put into a private school as he and I were just butting heads too much. There were several teachers who openly favored the girls while the boys were treated like second class citizens. Us moms-of-boys were so angered by it and now I’m angry at myself for not calling it out or doing anything about it.
My son is now in 9th grade at a private high school. All of the girls he went to middle school with are in honors classes, the boys are all in regular classes. Every single one of them.
I can attest to his marked improvement ( grades and social ) when he made V and practices/games went from a couple of hours each week to 6 days.
The coaches are typical HS coaches. lHis lacrosse coach is amusing to watch. Hoarse throat from yelling, mud splattered hat ( from throwing in dirt and stomping it ). Short, tough as nails guy - was All American in his day. The boys love him. In the 14 years he’s been coaching, they’ve won the regional champs 7 times.
Great article.
Any battle against human nature is doomed to failure sooner or later.
This IS the reason there is a coordinated attack on the sport of football.
Physical activity is so important for boys. My son is a runner and plays classical piano. He is also lucky to have a group of really great boys in his class and we live in fly over country where boys and men hunt and watch football on Sundays. Even so, it is still hard, in his eighth grade class the girls bully the boys with their liberal ideas.
Interestingly, while honor society scholastically and a three sport letterman, the names of many of my teachers escape me, but the names of every coach throughout are firmly etched.
Short of the various boot camps, there's nothing quite like two-a-days in the 100° heat of August in the midwest for instilling grit, teamwork, and determination.
(not to mention a lifelong appreciation for a cooool shower ;-)
Electric Lineman
There is an organization of every sort on college campuses to promote women, to promote every imaginable minority classification, to promote the sexual deviants, but not one thing to support white males. There is a palpable sense of hatred for all things white, and especially white males. Pretty sad considering white Europeans shaped the modern world.
By the way, the valedictorian of my vet school class was home schooled, and another home schooled man finished salutatorian about 15 years ago. Vet school is now about 85% women. The young men have simply stopped applying.
And working on an offshore oil rig.
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