[bassmaner]

Most young boys are forced to live sheltered, soft lives incompatible with their hormonal warrior urges. 150 years ago boys this age would've been required to know how to use a firearm (as opposed to hiding the darn things from them) and would often have to stay outside working for long periods of time. Many would be required to hunt and chop large amounts of wood (today we tell them "Don't play with knives!")...

You should be ashamed of yourself -- how terribly un-PC you are /sarcasm

But seriously, you're right on the money as far as today's feminized society denying "rites of passage" to young males. A nanny state is as a nanny state does -- and we'll pay the price if we continue to "protect children" to such a degree that we'll not want to let them leave the house until they turn 21.

[kjam22]

I agree that young men aren't being raised to be "men" in many homes these days. But.. hey.... I'm not sure teaching the kid to hunt at a young age would raise his IQ enough to keep him from setting himself on fire.

[Conservative til I die]

But seriously, you're right on the money as far as today's feminized society denying "rites of passage" to young males. A nanny state is as a nanny state does -- and we'll pay the price if we continue to "protect children" to such a degree that we'll not want to let them leave the house until they turn 21.

So if this feminization is so endemic, why have we read of maybe a half-dozen morons that have pulled stunts like this? Shouldn't it be closer to 30 or 40% of kids easy?