[Jaysun]

I'll go you one better to disprove your hypothesis...try asking a responsible man raised by a single mom. You haven't even identified the problem, let alone proposed a useful solution.

I'm a responsible man raised by a single mom. What of it? The problem? Men have been shirking their responsibilities. The solution? Men should stop shirking their responsibilities. I thought that my example said that fairly clearly. Maybe it didn't.

[Woahhs]

I'm a responsible man raised by a single mom. What of it? The problem? Men have been shirking their responsibilities. The solution? Men should stop shirking their responsibilities. I thought that my example said that fairly clearly. Maybe it didn't.

I'd hardly call a prescription based entirely on the various adaptations and repackagings of a Josh McDowell sermon from the 1970s, responsible. I have great respect for Christianity and those that practice it, but not when those practitioners subordinate the manifestly obvious to quasi-Scriptural formulae on par with the "name it, and claim it" nostrums of the recent past.

It is, of course, your choice to entertain "magical thinking" fairytales that men bear responsibility for our erroding moral position. But in the face of an identifiable "feminine" mindset where men have no more political "pull" than women, and demonstrably fewer mechanisms for enforcing their wishes, I'd say you are guilty of the same myopia Ezekiel preached against when he gave a word against those who blamed their troubles on "the sins of the father's being visited on the children."

Women in this country are free moral agents, not the subordinates of past social hierarchies. As such, blamining men for our current society is like blaming horses for our current traffic problems.