I’ve long contended that our society is undergoing a transformative (and unhealthy) feminization of the American male.
As an admitted and unashamed manly-man, this trend is disturbing. I don’t get the entire metrosexual thing. I don’t get men wearing makeup. I don’t get men trying to act and look more like women.
I’m sorry, but when girly-men” like Toby McGuire, Jude Law, Ryan Phillipe, and Orlando Bloom are being cast as leading men, action hero badasses….something has gone seriously astray.
This article today in the Portland Press Herald takes a stab at how this is affecting young boys in an article titled Boys suffer in a culture without challenges.
YARMOUTH — Boys need challenging and intense competition to become men.
[...]
An increasing number of boys are doing poorly in school and failing to mature in a positive way. More men are losing self-confidence and their passion for competing and achieving.
While the top-performing 10 percent to 20 percent of boys and men are doing just fine, the growing number of underachieving males forces schools, businesses, the military and others to lower their standards and expectations. What happened?
Political correctness and new age wishful thinking have all contributed to the effort in our schools, families, and communities to take away intense competition from boys. Even in sports, only a small number of top athletes ever get to experience challenging competition.
Some believe that competition turns boys into bad, mean or violent people. The opposite is true. The proving ground of competition done well creates confident boys and competent men!
Tens of thousands of years of human development cannot be swept aside to fit the “anti-competition” PC agenda. It’s a mushy, idealistic approach to child development and education that seems disconnected from reality. Today boys learn more about fairness and fun than how to compete successfully.
The wussification of men in America starts younger-and-younger all the time. The entire goal of the public school system, starting with kindergarten, is to castrate boys and make them act in complete opposition to their natural state.
Just do a Bing search on the feminization of the American male. I’m definitely not the first to write about it.
Red State has a good post from last year on the subject.
The Crunchy Chicken offered the female perspective last year, too.
And Big Hollywood had a fantastic two-part post on the wussification of our entire nation:
Of course, as expected, I received a few smuggalicious lefty responses decrying my opinion as barbaric and also as expected, questioning my manhood. As though bending over to the whims of actual barbarians is a manly way to live your life. Count me out, Sally.
Ya see, I live in a world where men take a stand. I come from a state that believes in the values of this great nation. I come from a state that believes that freedom is worth fighting for. I come from Texas, the sidearm of the nation. Undoubtedly the all knowing eyes of the left are rolling back in their head in their, “oh so better than thou” way at the knowledge that I, a redneck hick from a backwater Klan-infested swamphole could dare utter pride at such a thing. Well, to borrow a phrase from our brilliant enlightened leader, “Yes, yes I can.”
Me, too, brother.
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Once again, thank the infiltration of the Communist into our cultural and educational institutions since the 60′s.
I’m thankful for Texas, each and every day, and that our young men are still predominantly un-wussified.
My grandson was two when I gave him a big red Dodge Viper, almost as long he was tall, and he played with it for weeks…tirelessly. Then, as if on some genetic timetable, he disassembled it completely, without any tools, to see how it was made and how it worked. His Mom is all in favor of letting him be a boy, and she agreed with me when I started calling him “little man.” She has also agreed to let me be the one to instruct him on firearm safety and marksmanship, and how to bait a hook.
As for me, I have been going to the same barber for almost twenty years, not a stylist. I trim my nails with clippers when I am standing around outside, not done in a parlor. I drink coffee from dark roasted beans, a little sugar, and no steamed milk or whipped cream…it’s coffee!
Whipped cream is for my strawberries and shortcake, and for rubbing in peoples faces.
Without going into the details of his analysis, being that it was a meme that is many, many years old, Rush Limbaugh used to talk about the feminization of America.
Everyone of us has an inner Gremlin,(no not the car, well sorta, maybe)that is akin to a child with no direction. What the Progressive movement wants to do is take the driver seat of that Gremlin, especially in males, and drive that puppy into the Feminist Auto Wash.
That pretty much sums up my feelings too!
A quick follow up…
Short of the military, there is an organization out there that is still dedicated to turning out the best young men possible: the Boy Scouts of America.
I have seen the changes in my own son. Over the last year I have seen him gain confidence and pride in his achievements as he has advanced in Scouting. As he has advanced, he has been giving more responsibility within the Troop by the older boys and by the adult leaders. Because he has shown he can handle more responsibility in Scouts, I am able to give him more responsibilities at home. Because of Scouting, he knows he can handle whatever responsibilities I give him.
Boy Scouts still lets boys be boys and not wussies
Good point about Scouting.
It is an outstanding organization for young men.
How about dads? Cant they make boys into men?
A fact conservatives or “the right” love to shout is that more than 50% of our population identifies themselves as “conservative.”
Yet, based on baseless claims like these (COMMIES AND SOCIALISTS ARE TURNING OUR BOYS INTO GIRLS!) people sure paint “the left” as the group with the influence.
We should probably ask this conservative majority of America why our boys are turning into “wusses.”
I played soccer as a kid. And I recall the crazy liberals wanting everyone to be a winner. So instead of handing out awards to the top players, everyone got an award. Nobody was left out, but then the award really didn’t mean anything anymore, cause you didn’t have to work harder for it.
The lazy kid with the bad attitude received the same award as the kid who worked his behind off and scored all the goals. So there is no incentive to excel.
My how unbelievably socially conscious you were as a “kid” (which I assume means younger than 13).
Why do you say that?
bar,
I’m glad I grew up in a different time, and state.
BTW, if you think of replying to the troll Steven, just remember one thing.
Never feed the trolls.
NO2,
Ignoring me doesnt make me wrong, and certainly doesnt make you right.
You havent posted anything false in quite some time.
Good work.
*scroll*
LOL! Nice reply.
I figured it was a troll.
Strangely enough, it wasn’t hard for me as a kid to see the difference in thoughts between conservatives and liberals. You would have to be freaking brain dead not to.
Still a pretty wild claim that you saw the difference younger than 13. I was too busy being a kid to care.
bar, not just a troll but one starved for attention.
Keep feeding me that attention, NO2
I lack self control.
I fed it on the other thread.
bar, I saw that, which is why I posted a reminder.
Steel yourself, and realize he isn’t even a nodrog.
feed it
I noticed the blogger you plagiarized back in November is still as bat shit crazy as you.
Jesus. That’s the type of shit you read all day?
No wonder you have no idea which way is up.
Those were the two STUPIDEST articles I have read in quite some time.
Johnson and the Transsylvania Phoenix are complete crackups.
Even in the face of your fraud, you want to obfuscate.
And yet, dingus, on the thread where you were steven/ryan/mike/tol, as ryan you plagiarized Johnson here, and when I exposed you as a plagiarist here, you still wouldn’t admit you were a plagiarist, instead your explanation for being a fraud/liar/plagiarist/nut job, was this:
Anytime you wish to change the subject, I will be glad to direct you and anyone to the truth about your lack of credibility on this site.
I didnt plagiarize Johnson.
I simply copied and pasted because it was hilarious.
I posted under fake names to get a rise out of you.
Didnt know it would make you mess your Depends.
Yes you did, you not only didn’t give attribution, you didn’t even put it in blockquote form.
Then you lied about it as you are doing now.
However, by continuing to hammer on you about it, you finally admitted it was you using one of your sock puppets, ryan.
You were never that good a fraud/liar/plagiarist, but you are a Grade A nut job.
Plagiarism is claiming it as your own. I never did that, Gramps.
So, you never let us know – since you are so anti-liberal, have you said no to Social Security and Medicare?
We know the answer is no, hypocrite.
Ill be waiting for fake article #3 from you.
Keep on lying and obfuscating, at least consistency is one characteristic you can claim as a quality.
Keep taking $.44 of each American tax dollar with liberal social programs you rail against, Grandpa Depends.
Keep on lying and demonstrating your nuttiness.
I haven’t actually lied once.
You posted two false and misleading articles.
I think your age is getting to you.
Have you had your jello today? Is it nap time?
By saying you haven’t lied, you are lying.
Well, sort of, Grandpa.
I never responded to your harassment about posting under different names. I never actually said, “I did not do that.” I did post under different names. It was simply to get a rise out of you. It CLEARLY worked. I apologize.
I would have admitted earlier, but you refused to identify those posting as me, so all is fair there.
Typical, average American, “do as I say, not as I do.”
Now, what do to about these fake and deceitful articles you are so fond of posting…
Like I said, you are consistent with your lies and obfuscation.
OK, please, stop. You have used “obfuscate” incorrectly countless times on this site.
What have I made unclear to you? How have I confused you?
Haha – the last question made me laugh, Gramps.
I never stop, not when a fraud/liar/plagiarist/nut job is in our midst.
So this Steve person is a bit unhinged to put it nicely.
Yep.
His biscuits aren’t quite golden brown.
LOL.
Coming from the Grandpa who has now posted TWO false articles.
Your only hope for credibility is that when you are retired (if you arent already) you refuse Medicare and Social Security.
That would be the ONLY way to convince me your ideals are actually Conservative in nature.
Liberal policies and how they helped Detroit.
Please ban the asshole. He’s posting multiple crap comments. He uses sockpuppets. When confronted he lies about it. And yes, posting with out attribution is a form of plagiarizing.
I agree.
His nuttiness knows no bounds.
I emailed Robbie last week asking him to block me.
Your hypocritical ways disgust me.
I bet a majority on this site work all year so you can collect your Medicare and Social Security.
PS – Good job ignoring me when I called you out on misusing a word too big for your retired brain.
Liar.
All you have to do is ban yourself.
Cool. I’m done. I have a life to live. I’m not retired and living off of others hard work like you.
I’ll leave you with one thing – if you claim to be Conservative and anti-liberal, your whole life is a lie if you cash one more Social Security check.
That is the truth. There is no one around to verify it. But you are the one that will be living the lie.
Enjoy DFW. Drive safe, weather is horrid this time of year.
Adios…fuck off…don’t let the door hit you in your flat ass on the way out.
Also, drive fast while texting.
And try to top this:
http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news/article_9d4a1d0e-f4d1-11de-8edf-001cc4c002e0.html
Nice lipstick, Sam. I bet you suck off guys behind the laundromat after hours.
With a lucid and witty rejoinder such as that, I am utterly speechless.
Sam, he replied to me the same way, only with me he lied again.
He claimed he had “manhood.”
Then he called you a fossil. Is that a watch, or the shit in the museums?
Sam, it was his feeble attempt to annoy me.
After all I have done, the places I’ve been, and the many times I firmly gripped my toes on the edge of the abyss and peered down, I’m happy to still be here and a proud Pappaw.
Oh, and I still ride my Zook GSXR-750.
If he thinks I’m a fossil, then he must not be very good at what he does in the energy business.
Ya know, the entire reason for Steven, SAM and I now having pictures on our posts was because Steven was so adamant that he was NOT the one posting with different names. Also, show me the logic in posting in different names ONLY to get a rise out of ONE person…NO2. Makes no sense and I can think of things easier to have fun with. No, Steven was backed against the wall and had to cop to it.
Further, I pay into SSI every check and have since the day I started working at age 16 so, you’re fucking A right I’m going to get back what “I” paid into. Nobody asked me if I “WANTED” these deductions, they just did it.
So I myself, a relatively new person to this site, have grown exceptionally tired of Stevens non sense WHICH I might add, NO2 pointed out to me when I inquired about this continued banter between the two of you, only to find NO2 was in fact right all along.
So to fall along the lines of 2 people I have grown fond of, I say this to you Steven…..
Bad Nutjob!
(Nice pic Sam! I would think you’d have used Boba Fett or there’bouts)
It was just another in a long list of lies. I never encountered him before he showed up with his sock puppets, and it wasn’t until I exposed him and refused to let the matter drop is when he started with his attempts to get a rise out of me.
His attempts at that were useless, as were his attempts to discover what he could about me personally by stalking me through search engines and another blog. So in the end, he could only come up with the fact that I am a proud grandfather, which in his deranged mind means an aged, decrepit retiree living on SocSec, which is as far from the truth as anything else he ever posted.
That you have avatars now is a good thing. Waiting until a certified nut job started spinning yarns need not have been the motivation.
I appreciate the vote of confidence and bearing with this ugly episode caused by a nut job with a company computer.
I have a suggestion for you, you fossil:
Pull out your dentures and gum my manhood.
I thought you were leaving Steven. Thought you had such a busy life that you couldn’t hang around any more. You really do continually make yourself look like a liar.
And a suggestion for you, LA Guy with the Raider logo from the city by Sodomite Bay:
Catch AIDS.
Thanks. I’d put the Chewy up there as the avatar, but then every time I post, I’d think of MO(ron) and have the urge to stab myself in the testicles. Not a good plan, considering this is one of my favorite sites.
BLAH-HAAH-HA-HA-HA-HA!
The unhinged sock puppet herder is even more unhinged than ever.
Looks like he broke into the New Year’s Eve party supplies early.
And now his ip address is in Montreal, yet he is still using his full name and email address as before.
Total dumbass.
So much for sticking to your promise. Not that I thought you would. You’re an unmitigated liar. Please seek psych help.
And can we ban this guy already?
I knew he would be back, he is a pathological liar.
He should be banned. When he isn’t posting racist crap under various names, he posts homophobic crap.
I’m wit’chu.
He’s nuttier than squirrel shit.
Wow Steven. I have to say that I have never had my feelings hurt as much as that insult hurt me. I am truly a mess now and I am now in fear of catching AIDS. My life will never be the same.
Pffft!!! What are you…7?!?!?!
You live in Montreal and you’re flipping shit on a Texas Blog. You pal have no life.
Now here is MY suggestion to YOU…Please exit as you have said you would. The attention you seek has run it’s course. Move on and go fuck yourself (or whatever household pet your sticking it to.)
The trollish temper tantrums are all to common from these liberal types.
The liberal mind-set never grows up, its stuck on stupid.
I dont want to get into this, but I just wonder why NO2 wouldn’t play by the same rules and post the IPs of those who were posing as him.
Other than the fake names, his posts were just as stupid as the rest of ours.
Then why get into it?
If you have reviewed all that has been said about this, on multiple threads, I never once posted anyone’s IP address, only commented on it and where it originated.
This isn’t my blog, it’s Robbie’s, and I wasn’t going to post any personal info that might prove problematic for him.
You can take my word for it, or you can ask Robbie to verify it, but in each and every instance it was the same dingus posting. Whether it was one of three sock puppets, to which he inadvertently admitted it was he, to those from IP’s in Rowlett, Texas, Holland and last night from Montreal. Each of those different IP’s included his full name, domain name and email address, irrespective of which country/city it came from.
It isn’t possible for someone in those places to know that info, and activate his avatar. All he was doing was lying in a vain attempt to cast doubt on my exposing him as a liar, which he epically failed in doing.
As for saying “our” posts were “just as stupid” as his, I strongly disagree. I don’t recall anyone other than him and his sock puppets saying such stupid shit as:
Ad infinitum.
Trust me.
Your responses to me alone were far stupider than anything he posted.
Trust…something you know nothing of.
???
Sticking up for him…I can’t wait to find out where your IP is coming from. What’s this “Ours” shit?
Bad Anonymous.
LMFAO!!!!!!
Hee-Hee!!!
Sam was right, I just had to be certain so I set another ambush.
Dang, but that bad nutjob is ambush prone.
L.A. Guy, who knows.
We have several anonymous posters with different ip’s, though this one is from Scranton, Pa., and not one I found commenting in a quick scan of posts in Dec.
Why anyone would want to take the side of the unhinged dingus from Houston, I will never know.
I dont know, his posts, whether I agree with them or not, only had things about your age and where you live.
There are quite a few on this page after he said he was leaving that are nothing like his previous.
Wordpress allows you to check IPs and email addresses (if they leave it) of the poster.
You seem to have access to this information.
He doesn’t know my age, though he stalked my nic through search engines and another blog.
I do have admin privileges, and could see his name and domain fully entered.
It was him.
Just interesting that his seemingly real posts (not the ones under different handles) are all quite similar.
Then, there are about 15 throughout this site that are hate filled. They have his name, logo, etc, yet you say they all come from different cities.
It just doesnt add up is all I am saying.
You are not following what I have told you.
I am.
His liberal posts came from Houston.
The ones that looked like him but were hate filled and homophobic came from random cities.
It doesnt add up.
Y’all have fun, OU is kicking some Stanford butt.
Well, I guess I backed you into a corner.
At least now, everyone can question you.
HA!
More attempted obfuscation.
I just think you gave him the raw end of the deal by announcing that he was posting under different names (based on his IP), yet you refused to announce who was obviously posting under his name.
I am a high school English teacher. The one thing I agree with that guy about is your misuse of the word “obfuscate.”
ob?fus?cate
1. to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
2. to make obscure or unclear
As it has been said before…bad nutjob!
High School English teacher?! No wonder you are sticking up for that liberal deuchebag! Go mold some of our young minds with your slanted opinions! You most likely educated Steven…in many ways. Aarrr. me likes butts.
It’s the same unhinged dingus from Houston. He is posting as anonymous with numerous IP’s now, most likely proxy services.
I think he made a lie about mr steven and not want to tell truth
Remote access either from clients computers or his family or friends. That would give you the ability to log in with all your info but yet give you the different locale IP’s. It is possible and quite easy but who is so out there to even WANT to go through so much trouble? Unless of course you’re spewing racist hate on blogs and don’t want someone to hunt you down and end you…that and have absolutely NO life whatsoever.
We know who, we’ve grown accustomed to his nuttiness.
And I thought of that right after I wrote it really. I mean, I guess there really hasn’t been any demonstrated mental stability.
None discernible.
BTW, Happy New Year to you and your young’uns.
Almost finished baking and other fixins in anticipation of spending time with two of my grandkids this weekend.
I’ll be watching bowl games on one screen, while watching the girls play Wii on another.
Thank you! Happy New Year to you as well. The youngest is at her little friends and the 17 year old is at a party with a good group of friends. I will just watch a bit of TV perhaps and call it a night at 10 like always. As long as the girls are well and happy, I don’t mind the quiet night alone.
Enjoy your Grand kids. I bet that’s fun.
I wish you a great year ahead!
This argument sounds a lot like one the other day when trying to fend off blame. I swear this sounds like Steven and since Steven hasn’t been back on and yet this “New” guy shows up suddenly to stick up for him….It’s only obvious who it really is.
A story I wanted to relay -
I live in a rather “young” neighborhood – mostly 20 – 40 year olds, zero to two kids, most children under high school age.
The neighborhood Y recently sent out an email asking for members to volunteer to coach because no parents signed up to coach baseball this season.
WTF?!
I was hoping to have a real conversation with you.
Do your kids enjoy public education?
So no one here likes real discussion.
It is quite sad that you think you are solving problems by ranting to a few like minded individuals on a website all day long.
Don’t you know by now?
I don’t take fraud/liar/plagiarist/nutjobs seriously.
Saying you were leaving was just one of your many lies.
I simply wanted a real conversation with you about why you would not announce who was posting under his name.
You do not feel you have to give anyone real responses.
I like the “poor me” personality you are using now, less than the weaponized bat shit crazy personality you normally use.
As for my “feelings,” they are personal and private. What I think of you is what is important.
I think you are a fraud/liar/plagiarist/nut job, which means I want nothing to do with you.
Get the help you need elsewhere.
Isnt this site about being racist?
Flushing a Quran?
Immigrants are terrible people?
Now that you have borrowed my mirror to look at yourself, can I have it back?
You’re an idiot.
I posted a picture of a Quran with a pile of shit on it because I can. And because I won’t be intimidated by Muslims who want to behead me for doing so.
I shall not submit.
It there were Christians running around blowing shit up and cutting the heads off of non-believers all in the name of Christ, I’d show a similar picture of the Bible.
Please show me where I’ve ever said Immigrants are terrible people. You can’t, because I haven’t.
My rant is against ILLEGAL immigration. There’s a difference. You should try to see if you can figure it out.