Posted on 08/06/2008 12:31:58 PM PDT by Publius804
From The Sunday Times
August 3, 2008
Where have all the real men gone?
Top American columnist Kathleen Parker is causing a furore with her new book Save the Males, in which she argues that feminism has neutered men and deprived them of their noble, protective role in society
I know. Saving the males is an unlikely vocation for a 21st-century woman. Most men don’t know they need saving; most women consider the idea absurd. When I tell my women friends that I want to save the males, they look at me as if noticing for the first time that I am insane. Then they say something like: “Are you out of your mind? This is still a male-dominated world. It’s women who need saving. Screw the men!”
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I ain’t got the strength to type on another “wussification of men” thread.
I’ll just say it makes me sick and leave it at that.
As WD already knows, I am more concerned with the emasculation of the American male (or western male in general) than I am in any "decline in religious influence." Political correctness and the legal system (to say nothing of single mothers) have succeeded where biology has not: neutering the male, leading to a confused gender that knows neither his traditional responsibilities, nor any other option than making the best of a challenging situation by taking the easy way out.
Take your mind back - I dont know when
Sometime when it always seemed
To be just us and them
Girls that wore pink
And boys that wore blue
Boys that always grew up better men
Than me and you
Whats a man now - whats a man mean
Is he rough or is he rugged
Is he cultural and clean
Now its all change - its got to change more
cause we think its getting better
But nobodys really sure
And so it goes - go round again
But now and then we wonder who the real men are
See the nice boys - dancing in pairs
Golden earring golden tan
Blow-wave in the hair
Sure theyre all straight - straight as a line
All the gays are macho
Cant you see their leather shine
You dont want to sound dumb - dont want to offend
So dont call me a faggot
Not unless you are a friend
Then if youre tall and handsome and strong
You can wear the uniform and I could play along
And so it goes - go round again
But now and then we wonder who the real men are
Time to get scared - time to change plan
Dont know how to treat a lady
Dont know how to be a man
Time to admit - what you call defeat
cause theres women running past you now
And you just drag your feet
Man makes a gun - man goes to war
Man can kill and man can drink
And man can take a whore
Kill all the blacks - kill all the reds
And if theres war between the sexes
Then therell be no people left
And so it goes - go round again
But now and then we wonder who the real men are
Where have all the real men gone?
After real women.
“Screw the men!”
OK, if that’s what they REALLY want...
Dear, DEAR senior men. Your premium just went up as husbands. MEN...it’s all a matter of supply and demand.
darn. you put out the best posts on these threads too :)
Where have all the thin ladies gone?
Real men raise real women who will only settle for the genuine article.
To some of the Girly Men.
Real men don’t judge women on looks alone. Looks fade, character stays.
Amen to that. Real men are real fathers.
It's a very simple, traditionally male activity, that 50 years ago would have been nearly 100%. I'll bet today it's a lot lower than most would think.
I look around at my guy friends and see them mostly married with kids, with good jobs, all involved members of their community. Just the type of men society needs.
And, the thing is, these guys run the gamut from uber-liberal to Attila the Hun conservative (and the most liberal and most conservative two guys are both ex-military).
So, I don’t really see the crisis, to tell you the truth. Hollywood can take its lame little pot-shots at men, but who really cares?
My late grandfather used to say, "Kissin' don't last. Cookin' do."
They are the same problem. Our traditional society is based on the roles of men and women as laid out in our religious traditions.
Feminists have been the tools of evil in the destruction of the family by denigrating traditional roles and the authority of ("patriarchal") scripture.
How is one ex-military and uber liberal? I suppose it happens, but I’m sure it’s rare.
“Save the Males”? Give me a break. Mrs. Parker has written some good stuff, but this ain’t it.
The simple fact is that when we men have had enough of this mess, it’ll change. Yes, of course it’s still a male-dominated world. That’s the way God designed it, and to struggle against it is an exercise in futility.
Like every other point of dispute, the final recourse of the disputants is force. But most men (allah-cultists excluded) are inclined to endure a great deal of ridicule and abuse and never resort to force.
When we’ve had enough, we have many other means of addressing the problem. For us men, it hasn’t reached that point yet. But apparently it has for Mrs. Parker.
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