Great piece in WND today! You hit it out of the ballpark on this one.

Unlike alot of confused metro “men” out there, I make no bones about me being a man! Can you ponder the thought of a man being a man in today’s ever so P.C. ever-suing society? I do not care what people think. I have been called from Knuckle dragger to a right wing Christian, to you name it. I get a kick out of all the handbag holding, mall- going, sensitive men, watching them buy all the hair gel products. For the record, I HATE MALLS!, I shop at a Wal-Mart and love Tractor Supply and dam proud of it!

Something to ponder: I live 30 miles from Ground Zero, and I will never forget that day as long as I live. Do you think metrosexual cops and fireman ran into the towers to save people? The true answer: real men and woman ran in to save people regardless of what they look like or sound like, They never got the P.C. flyer I guess, they acted on what their heart told them what HAD to be done, and not what some cheap common sense or a limp liberal would say or do.

One last thing: I own a business and when I go to a house to check things out, I almost always get in some way or another , I wish my husband / boyfriend was like you.

Keep up the great work!

Danny

When a liberal asks about ‘greater access to medical care’ I think that he basically means state funded medical care (cutting through the discriptive talk). This is unacceptable.

I have seen an increase of wimps which is an acronym (Weak Individual Managing Problems). I believe that
men still exist and are found in the military. Reasons have to do with the rise of the feminist movement, push for political correctness, downgrading of macho features on TV, and the focus on feelings instead of academics in public school.

sidney krimsky

1. Ease of life in America(and the West). The transformation of America from an agrarian to an urban/suburban society with the concommitant reduction in physical labor coupled with a less uncertain life; i.e. no famines, no death from simple infections, clean water, etc., has reduced the utility of and occurence of “hard people”.

2. The feminization of our society. Boys are no longer raised primarily by their fathers, as they once were. Instead of a boy learning from a man what it means to BE a man, they learn from women–mothers, daycare workers, teachers.

3. Risk averse society. We are raising children to be almost entirely risk averse. Healthy risk taking is an integral part of a robust, well-lived life(see “Risk Averse and Proud of It” at http://www.laconicblog.blogspot.com).

The net result is a society of women and pseudo-men.

Sgt. McClain, you speak well.

There was a Canadian media study a little ways back that determined that women were referred to as “victims” in news articles 35 times for every single time a male “victim” was mentioned. I believe there was also an accompanying study of some sort comparing the number of times men were mentioned in news articles for their roles as rescuers or protectors.

Warren Farrell, in his (sometimes wince-inducing) precise way once complained that men in the modern world were regarded as “human doings,” not as “human beings.” Speaking for myself, I chafe at my present state of forced inactivity but y’know, I always figured part of the job of being a strong, aggressive man was to watch out for folks who weren’t so strong. Carry the heavy stuff that other people can’t–that sort of thing. I like to think I’ve done my best.

But this sort of approach to life means you get banged up & bleed more often. The body wears down faster.

It’d be nice, wouldn’t it, if men had better access to the maintenance (medical care) we need to keep on doing what it is we’re built to do [but not this kind] ? And it’d be nice if we weren’t always asked to spill our blood & deplete our health in the wrong wars & wrong jobs because these are often the only option many of us (educated or otherwise) have open to us.

It’s not that we’re all that keen on becoming half-men or dismissing our natural inclination to protect the tribe. Part of the job description. It’s just that we’d like to have a little life in-between wars & the maintenance that we require as the species equivalent of the rugged-terrain, big-wheeled carryall, to keep adding to our miles when things break down. It’s the being discarded that gets to me.

Perhaps Glorida Steinem is in league with Lee Iacocca. Rugged men have been slated for replacement vis-a-vis planned obsolesence.

So it seems.

[Related: “The Weaker Sex” By Marianne J. Legato, New York Times]