Posted on 05/21/2025 7:28:56 PM PDT by bitt
I am a huge John Wayne fan. I grew up watching his movies, soaking in the grit, strength, and unspoken code he brought to every role. He didn’t just play heroes; he defined what it meant to be a man in a world that respected strength paired with decency.
There was a time in America when the question didn’t need asking.
Masculinity was a virtue, not a liability. It meant something. Not an identity crisis waiting to happen, but a foundation for society: men who worked hard, stood up straight, took care of their families, and didn’t ask for applause.
You could find it in a handshake, a father’s lecture, or in the quiet resolve of a farmer up before dawn. You could see it on screen, too. John Wayne didn’t have to spell it out. He just stood there, firm and unshaken, and the audience knew. He was the kind of man who said little, meant everything he said, and would stand before a bullet if it meant protecting the innocent.
Today, we sometimes ask sheepishly and defiantly: Is it okay to be masculine again?
That we even have to ask is a warning sign.
The Vanishing Point In the past few decades, there has been a cultural shift that has treated traditional masculinity with suspicion, not a specific type of man but the very notion of manhood. Young boys are told their instincts to compete, protect, and achieve might be problematic. Men who show stoicism are told to emote more. Men who lead are accused of overshadowing others. Men who defend are asked to check their privilege.
What began as a well-intentioned critique of brutishness evolved into a blanket of suspicion of strength itself. Suddenly, masculinity was no longer something to aspire to; it was something to be
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I suppose I’ll catch a bit of flack here. But that’s okay. There’s nothing wrong with John Wayne. He was a patriot, and a superb actor.
But the real heroes of his era were the WW2 combat vets. Jimmy Stewart. Clark Gable. Eddie Albert. David Niven. The list goes on and on.
Only if you’re A biological female, apparently.
David Manney has the right surname to write this article.
Would a Man ask such a question?
White men are walking away. Let the globalists draft women and illegal alien invaders.
https://thefederalist.com/2024/01/12/white-men-dont-want-to-join-an-army-that-tells-them-they-arent-wanted/
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/army-recruitment-ad-all-white-twitter-racism/
https://floridajolt.com/you-need-straight-white-guys-to-die-for-you-again-u-s-army-scraps-woke-ads-fails-to-meet-recruiting-goals/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/18/us-military-uk-recruiting-crisis-white-male/
Zackly.
I think the masculine revival might have gone overboard a bit when it comes to facial hair. You don’t need a ZZ Top or Duck Dynasty beard, or Gimli beard to show that you are a real man. Clean shaven or a carefully groomed facial hair look will do. That’s this lady’s point of view.
I’ve got a dip of snuff and watching the Stars whoop the Oilers. A man’s game.
It was never not ok
To be accepted by fellow Democrats, you have to be a gender-confused hater of everything traditional, especially white people.
Young men today (I know...I am old) can’t fix things.
I think one contributing factor is not teaching “Shop” in school.
> I think one contributing factor is not teaching “Shop” in school. <
Blame it on that clown, George W. Bush. His idiotic “No Child Left Behind” program tested for math and English, but not for the trades. And woe to the principal whose school scored poorly on the NCLB exam.
So as a matter of survival, principals dropped their shop classes and shoved those students into advanced math and English classes.
Crazy. But I’m told that the trades are now making a comeback in the high schools. If so, that’s very good news.
Speak for yourself, Percy.
John “Duke” Wayne was the best to represent masculinity. Another includes Audie Murphy (short in stature but he had presence.
Men who can fix things can think for themselves. The State doesn't want men to think for themselves. They want ignorant compliance.
That'll be the day.
After she viewed Kris Kristopherson's performance in the 1976 film, A Star is Born, Mrs. Chandler asked me to grow a beard. 30 years later I shaved it off and she refused to kiss me until I grew it back.
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