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The problem is that misguided feminists, intent on advancing a radically different worldview than the one on which this nation was founded, have succeeded in fomenting a revolution.

And that revolution amounts to a powerful and pervasive campaign against masculinity, maleness, boys, men and patriarchy.”

One popular viewpoint among feminists contends that boys are suffering from masculinity myths which, when enforced, work to squeeze them into a gender straightjacket.

According to this theory, outmoded notions about masculinity cause parents to push boys away from their mothers too soon, resulting in a life long sense of anxiety and permanent damage to self-esteem.

This is the viewpoint of Harvard professor William Pollack[ WHO’S FEMINIZING AMERICA] in his book Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood. [I think ole Bill must be friends with Ted Haggard, Larry Craig, and Mark Foley]

What are these masculine myths that Dr. Pollack feels are so dangerous?

The first myth is that nature wins out over nurture, in other words, that boys will be boys. The assumption here is that testosterone is more powerful in shaping behavior than relationships and training are.

The second myth is that boys should be boys. This dangerous myth supports the idea that boys should learn to be tough and never exhibit feminine traits.

Myth number three is that boys are toxic. Where girls have a civilizing effect on the environment, boys are by nature dangerous and potentially damaging to those around them.

When these myths are used as a guide to raising boys, Dr. Pollack believes that we damage our children.

In our desire to make boys into tough, competitive men, they lose touch with who they really are, their “inner boy,” and as a result they become angry, dysfunctional adult males likely to abuse their wives and neglect their children.

What a bunch of “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” made for TV, bullshit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is just another attack on men and masculinity, like some women have been perpetrating for decades.
We let this crap go by at our own peril.

Hope and change, in a free world, are the private possessions of motivated individuals.

Normal adulthood is being taken away.

Kids are going to do something. Take away all of the good things they can do and what’s left?

If you can’t get the gratification of winning for your efforts, why make the effort?

If you don’t get to learn how to deal with failing when you are young, what are you going to do when you get older?

Not keeping score during play is for the adults, not the kids. Rather than reveling in their efforts,
Adults can’t stand the thought of their child losing.

Feminists are pretty nuts. They claim to call out the fallacy that women are driven by or influenced by emotion. That’s wrong. Then they spend time arguing that more emotional means of seeing things do not entail a disadvantage or lesser ability to grasp reality. Ok. What the eff are you ladies even getting at here. Throw out logic and how do you back up your arguments? and well gezz… i dont get it cause im a man. a horrible, patriarchal, one-eff and leave em man. or so the line goes. I just don’t see that as involving intellectual merit in the least. and yet its a ‘mode of criticism’? certain theories in certain disciplines are underdetermined by the facts so we need these psuedo-disciplines to come in with their criticism and deconstruct everything until THEY begin to tell US we don’t know what we’re doing and they’d best figure it out. its like the classic leftist trajectory!!! odd.

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

Today, television virtually always portrays husbands as bumbling losers or contemptible, self-absorbed egomaniacs.

Whether in dramas, comedies or commercials, the patriarchy is dead, at least on TV where men are fools – unless of course they’re gay.

On “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” the “fab five” are supremely knowledgeable on all things hip, their life’s highest purpose being to help those less fortunate than themselves – that is, straight men – to become cool.

What happend to Father Know’s Best?

Actually, American radical feminism isn’t for all women, just leftie women(Condi Rice, etc.).  The women who were attacked and possibly raped by Bill Clinton got no support from the “feminists”.  It’s just the old commie tactic of divide and conquer: divide the men from the women, the rich from the poor, the black from the white, the young from the old.  Same old subversive crap.

Hope and change, in a free world, are the private possessions of motivated individuals.

What happend to Father Know’s Best?

Even then, the vast majority of TV family sitcoms followed the formula of “dumb, bumbling husband, smart wife”.  Check out some reruns of “Ozzie and Harriet” sometime.  Harriet always saves the day, while Ozzie just lounges around in his cardigan.  This brainwashing against men has been going on for a very long time.

Hope and change, in a free world, are the private possessions of motivated individuals.

We are witnessing the ascendance of the feminine in Western society.

And women’s emotionality, when unchecked, can wreak havoc on those closest to these women and on society as a whole — when emotions and compassion dominate in making public policy.

This is what is happening in America. The Left has been successful in supplanting masculine virtues with feminine ones.

That is why “compassion” is probably the most frequently cited value.

That is why the further left you go, the greater the antipathy to those who make war. Indeed, universities, the embodiment of feminist emotionality , ban military recruiters and oppose war-themed names for their sports teams.

IN the day to day realm, the feminine virtues are invaluable — for example, women hear infants’ cries far more readily than men do.

But as a basis for governance of society, the feminization of public policy is suicidal.

That is one reason our schools are in trouble. They are increasingly run by women — women with female thinking moreover.

Such thinking leads to papers no longer being graded with a red pencil lest students’ feelings be hurt; to self-esteem supplanting self-discipline as a value; to banning games such as mentioned above in which participants’ feelings may get hurt; to discouraging male competition; to banning peanut butter because two out of a thousand students are highly allergic to peanuts.

In a masculine society governed men, feminine virtues are adored and honored. In a feminized society, male virtues are discarded.

That is why “compassion” is probably the most frequently cited value.

Compassion is a masculine virtue; the feminists use it when they really mean “sympathy"(having the same feeling).

Hope and change, in a free world, are the private possessions of motivated individuals.

We palyed a game called “war ball” in high school gym. The class was divided into two teams. Each team got two of the red kick balls and the object was to clobber a member of the other team as hard as you could. It was dodge ball on steroids.

Our new, enlightened educators would curl up into fetal balls id they could see that. It was GREAT!!!!

Election ‘08 - We Are So Screwed

A major component in this banning tag or dodge ball is an effort by the Left to increase Self Esteem among our children and thus, they think, producing healthier adult human beings. For anyone having experience with criminals in or out of jail, most of them have great self esteem, a sense of entitlement, a sense of being right in the ways they harm others.

No matter the age or state of health, for a military man it is always glorious to tilt at windmills, rescue a fair Dulcinea and be a gallant knight in armor in a glorious cause.

I could imagine the gasps of shock and horror that would follow if they found out about the game “Smear the Queer” which me and my classmates played in elementary school. Game involved a football and whomever had the football (the queer) had to run and avoid being tackled for as long as possible and in that event have the ball passed along to the new “queer”. No winners, no losers, just good potential for pain. And this was the early to mid-90s when I was in elementary school.

I played that game in school too, Mr. Novowels, and it goes back several generations from ours.  “Queer” was used not as a slur but simply to denote the one person on the field different from everyone else: The one with the ball.

It was harmless kid fun, but I’m sure it wouldn’t be allowed on any playground today.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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boys are toxic

that’s true ... and girls have cooties but we still seem to fall in love with each other.

Society is becoming ridiculously silly. To me, this all comes from people who, themselves were perhaps, on the losing side of many childhood games and not taught how to deal with it. Their parents most likely made the winners out as the bad person for winning.
Parents or so called advocates are once again thinking, (yeah, thinking is probably the optimal problem right there), but they are thinking they are protecting children and making them better for society. In reality they are making children grow up blind to what the real world can be like.
Preparing our children for the future is our job and others are trying to prevent the way we wish our children to grow up. I want my child to lose at soccer or other sports. Not always of course, but a child has to experience many situations before we can teach them how to deal with it. I would really hate to see all the children growing up without knowing what it’s like to deal with the disappointment of not winning.
Sheesh… and people wonder why so many adults who need therapy? It’s because they are being raised overprotected from the real world. They reach adulthood and all of a sudden discover they don’t always get their ways and say, “OMG, I can’t deal with this”. That’s because they were never taught how.

Myth number three is that boys are toxic.

Not content with trying to destroy men and masculinity in their lust for power, the toxic feminists are now attacking boys.  Shame on them!

Hope and change, in a free world, are the private possessions of motivated individuals.

Anna - I want my child to lose at soccer...

If he’s playing soccer, he’s already losing.

Seriously. You might as well just put him in a dress and call it a day at that point.

You might as well just put him in a dress and call it a day at that point.

Trolls. It’s what’s for breakfast!
And then I eat their lunch.

You might as well just put him in a dress and call it a day at that point.

LOL, I do have to laugh at that because it was just last night he mentioned hating soccer when he was little. (he was 4 when he played it and so I’m sure it’s just that he hates the thought of ever playing it or having to admit he ever played it)
My son is a 6’5” and 240 lbs University football scholarship possessing kid who, on his own, opted to give up his starting position during his second year in order to help his friend keep his wheat ranch. The friend and wife were hospitalized for 5 months due to an accident and my son moved into the household of four young children and full time ranch. He was 19 and pulled it off, so to me, my son is more of a man than anyone on earth.
ANYWAY ... likwidshoe, I know my son is going to love laughing at your quote and telling me “I told you soccer is for girls”

Let’s stop the pusssification of American Society!

Oh the beauty that is the natural male form—shaved smooth, sprayed brown and pumped beyond all recognition into an emasculating neon-blue mankini!

Pusssification?

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Trolls. It’s what’s for breakfast!
And then I eat their lunch.