Real heroes have more going for them than testosterone (absolutely clueless)

Salt Lake Tribune ^ | 08/20/2006 | Robyn Blumner

[Balding_Eagle]

Rush covered most every angle of it this morning.

Best summary line "Useful idiot".

[NEMDF]

I must have missed the BARF ALERT...

Semper Fi

[GunnyHartman]

[Balding_Eagle]

Robyn, this column is for you: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687547/posts

[Winston Smith]

This is REALLY scary. You take a made up Hollywood script that doesn't even state is is close to reality of that area and then treat it as a reality to investigate as REAL history. This is a MOVIE a made up for TV script with all the bias and feelings the cabal of small screen writers can shove through a focus group. This article is a runaway FROM reality with fanciful musings of a "femanist."

[Question_Assumptions]

There is some truth to the division of societies based on men in boy-gangs (living for the day and obsessed with themselves and respect) and men in families (living for the future and focussed on others). The reason why we see more boy-gang men is (A) the decay of the family due to divorce and single motherhood, (B) a society that no longer judges boy-gang men as the stunted man-boys that they are, and (C) women who have abandoned their role as paragons of viture with high expectations that men had to live up to, replaced by women acting like "one of the guys" and women willing to hook up without getting anything from the man in return. Give men low expectations and easy sex and they'll happily stay little boys until they are old and gray.

[Question_Assumptions]

Of course to make it absolutely clear, I'm not suggesting that men take a feminine approach to law enforcement or military defense. There is a reason why women historically left those things to men. Not man-boys but men. And real men understand that you don't answer violence with a "proportional response" unless you want the violence to never end. And no real man who cares about his wife and family would let those who threaten to kill them live to try again another day.

[Hazcat]

This far left idiot writes (I use that word loosely) for the St Petersburg Times, AKA Pavada West.

[AmericanChef]

-There is something more aggressively mano a mano about fighting Islamic extremists.-

What an idiot - there's something more URGENT about the current fight. The Ruskies weren't fanatical enough to blow themselves up in busy markets or risk getting blown up in a nuke war. They weren't hijacking planes or sending them into buildings in fear of retaliation. The current enemy has no such qualms. They're freakin' nuts. Sheesh.

[raybbr]

Robyn Blumner (the author).

Well, she doesn't do anything for my testosterone levels.

[raybbr]

More:

Originally from New York, Blumner is a graduate of Cornell University and New York University School of Law. She worked as a labor lawyer and negotiator for the New York City Transit Authority before joining the ACLU.

[TexanToTheCore]

The approach that Robyn is suggesting died several years ago as the second building at the WTC collapsed. It is old hat, a relic of the cold war and is not a significant approach to today's issues in the foreign arena.

I would suggest that Robyn avail herself of the extensive coverage of the fruits of the Oslo Accords, the detailed studies of the results of the early nineties agreements with North Korea. It would leave her less likely to be regarded as "functionally ignorant" in this realm.

[TexanToTheCore]

And may I add, when is the left going to stop referring to movies and tv shows for thier "winning points"?

Deal with reality, please.

[letsgonova19087]

That's the only way their message has any kind of substance to it. It's not grounded in any kind of reality, and they can't point to any actual instances of it working, so they have to resort to made-up lands and faraway places in order to rationalize their beliefs.

[neverdem]

I must have missed the BARF ALERT...

No, you didn't. I gave you, "absolutely clueless," instead. "BARF ALERT" has such a negative connotation that many avoid the article entirely because there's too much other hard information to read. I never heard of Robyn Blumner before. I hoped that anyone reading this thread will in the future know that Robyn Blumner is absolutely clueless and save their time. Sorry about that.

[neverdem]

This far left idiot writes (I use that word loosely) for the St Petersburg Times, AKA Pavada West.

Thank you. That explains her email addy.

[Vote 4 Nixon]

Deadwood kicks ass.

[NurdlyPeon]

These women don't seem to understand that talking will only take you so far. There comes a time when you have to stop talking and just start kicking ass. That's why the current situation requires a man (not just male) in charge.

[driftless2]

Yes, I think Miss Blumner has a point. When the Islamo-Fascist invasion ships are arriving on our shores getting ready to slaughter, we should send scores of folk musicians to greet them and to sing songs and offer our love and understanding to those who desire to slit our throats. I'm sure the I-Fs will most certainly be seduced by songs of love and friendship. For about one minute. Then they will kill the musicians and everyone else who's not a Muslim in earnest.