Men—It’s in Their Nature (In Defense of the Masculine)

...in the last days men shall be lovers of self

Uhhh...it has also been written that "in the days of puberty, or doing times when the company of women is unavailable...men shall be lovers of self."

"There is going to be hell to pay if someone tries to mess with my kids minds."

How old are your kids? There is usually no trouble with kids, until they learn to read, then they are out there and the world can impart its weird ideas to them.

I figure there are 2 choices with kids, either home school them, or be prepared to bang on the table and yell about whatever nonsense the world is producing, long enough and loud enough so that by the time you are finished, the kids have forgotten the nonsense.

I used the second method (recommended to my by my mother, based on the child educating tactics of her father), and it has worked quite well. My daughter is an annoying teenager, to be sure, but she is no liberal. She's to my own right, in fact and that is saying something. The adolescent rebellion never went that way, thank heavens.

Here are some highlights from that most noteworthy article.

"...But decades of research in neuroscience, endocrinology, genetics, and developmental psychology, strongly suggest that masculine traits are hard-wired..."

"...Males have better spatial reasoning skills, females better verbal skills. Males are greater risk-takers, females are more nurturing. Boys like action, competitive rough-housing, and inanimate objects, and they are the one group of Americans who do not spend a lot of time talking about their feelings..."

"...Try as they may, parents, teachers, and gender facilitators have not been successful in rooting out male behavior they regard as harmful..."

"...scientists are beginning to pinpoint the precise biological correlates to many typical gender differences..."

"...children?s play preferences are, in large part, hormonally determined..."

"...Even with counter-conditioning, boys and girls gravitate toward very different toys..."

"...The entire anthropological record offers not a single example of a society where females have better spatial reasoning skills and males better verbal skills, where females are fixated on objects and men on feelings, or where males are physically docile and females aggressive..."

"...In the face of what we know, it is altogether unreasonable to deny the biological basis for distinctive male and female preferences and abilities..."

?..biology is not destiny, but it is good statistical probability...?

"...There is still room for equity. A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness..."

"...The natural differences between men and women suggest there will never be mathematical parity in all fields..."

"...Boys will prefer bonfires to diaries and any teacher who requires them to contribute squares to a quilt should brace herself for insensitive images of monsters, dangerous animals, and weaponry..."

"...The male tendency to be competitive, risk-loving, more narrowly focused, and less concerned with feelings has consequences in the real world. It could explain why there are more males at the extremes of success and failure: more male CEOs, more males in maximum security prisons..."

"...Of course, boys? natural masculinity must be tempered. ... ...All societies confront the problem of civilizing their children, particularly the male ones...."

"... History teaches that masculinity constrained by morality is powerful and constructive; it also teaches that masculinity without ethics is dangerous and destructive..."

"...We have a set of proven social practices for raising young men..."

"...The traditional approach is through character education to develop a young man?s sense of honor and help him become a considerate, conscientious human being. Sociologists make an important distinction between pathological and healthy masculinity..."

"...Boys who exhibit aberrational masculinity define their manhood through anti-social and destructive acts; instead of protecting the vulnerable, they exploit them..."

"... Healthy masculinity is the opposite. Males who possess it?the vast majority of American boys and men?strive to be helpful and to achieve. They sublimate their natural aggression into sports, hobbies, and work. They build rather than destroy. And they do not exploit women and children, they protect them..."

"...Efforts to civilize boys with honor codes, character education, manners, and rules of good sportsmanship are necessary and effective, and fully consistent with their masculine natures..."

"...Efforts to feminize them with dolls, quilts, non-competitive games, girl-centered books, and feelings exercises will fail; though they will succeed in making millions of boys quite unhappy..."

"...Dissident feminist Camille Paglia is one of the few scholars who values maleness: ?Masculinity is aggressive, unstable, combustible. It is also the most creative cultural force in history. When I cross?any of America?s great bridges, I think?men have done this. Construction is a sublime male poetry...?

"...This sublime poetry has been unappreciated in American society for more than a quarter of a century...."

"...The awesome display of masculine courage shown by the firefighters and policemen at Ground Zero, the heroic soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, the focused determination and exemplary leadership of President Bush,Vice President Cheney, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and General Tommy Franks, have rekindled in Americans an appreciation for masculine virtues. Many courageous and even heroic women took part in all these endeavors. But fighting enemies and protecting the nation are overwhelmingly male projects..."

"...The gender activists who fill our schools and government agencies will continue with their efforts to make boys more docile and emotional. But fewer and fewer Americans will support them...."

"...Maleness is back in fashion. And one reason is that Americans are increasingly aware that traditional male traits such as aggression, competitiveness, risk-taking and stoicism?constrained by virtues of valor, honor and self-sacrifice?are essential to the well-being and safety of our society..."

-Bob

His name is Robert Paulsen.

Sensitivity trainer: "You should find youself"

Guy: "I'm in a desert" (Males have better spatial reasoning skills)

Sensitivity trainer: "would you record your feelings?"

Guy: "naw. That's a chick thing" (females have better verbal skills.)

One is 4 and the other is 2. I know, I have a lot to learn, but I am prepared for the worst.

A woman once described to me what she considered to be the perfect man.

What she described was an average woman.

"...I am prepared for the worst."

Be prepared for the best, too. Kids are great, we should definately have more of them.

And they will love, love, love you until they are about 13-15 (think this differs between boys & girls) and then they will bust your buns for a while, but everyone tells me they come back!

LOL, no, my kid is pretty good. She gets her little evil thing on once in a while, but on the whole, she's ok, a little spoiled but she's an only child, no worse than usual with that.

Two and four are really sweet ages, they are just soooo mushable, you gotta love 'em.

"The counselors (mostly American-born)..."

...Exporting the psychological "benefit" of neutering males the world-over.

Alas -- if ONLY the Rosie O'Donnells of the world were in charge of planet earth...