Posted on 05/31/2010 3:01:21 AM PDT by Scanian
The culture war begun in the sixties has, in large part, been won by the left. Nowhere is this clearer than in the feminization of men. The virtues of manhood which had been extolled and celebrated throughout the middle ages right up to the 1950s have been completely expunged from academia and pop culture. The baby boom generation was the last to be taught the values of rugged individualism, risk-taking, courage, bravery, loyalty, and reverence for tradition. John Wayne epitomized the rugged individual who was committed to fighting "the bad guy," but he was only one of a whole host of competing figures cut out of the same cloth. What happened?
Today, the Boy Scouts are fighting the last battle in a lost cause. Any man who stands up to the "women's movement" is completely marginalized as a sexist and homophobe. These names have become just as stigmatizing as "racist" used to be. It is no wonder that women now are the majority of college graduates and are increasing their role in every institution from private enterprise to public service, including the military. Is this a healthy trend? The answer is clearly "no."
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Brilliant article, short, succinct, right on.
I hold women in high esteem. Very high. I am even of the persuasion that Women’s Lib, seen in a wider perspective, brought quite a lot of good (mind: I live in Holland). I think women have a right to vote, and I think women have a right to make financial contracts with third parties (both rights weren’t there for ladies early in the 20th century). Women should also be able to enter University and become a good doctor (a right secured by the Dutch conservative Thorbecke, the greatest we had).
But: then there were the ‘60s. Things got out of hand. By and by stories disappeared. Stories that extolled male virtues, that explained why to give orders, to dare, to face challenges, to win (and to lose gracefully!) are important. These stories became suspect. Since John Wayne was mentioned: there were quite a few liberal writers in the U.S. who termed him a sociopath, e.g. on the grounds of his role in ‘The Searchers’.
The other side of the coin is equally bleak: traditional women’s strengths got devalued. I mean: good house-keeping, cooking well, rearing the very young, and also: to keep in check the not-so-wonderful characteristics of men (which do exist). Men can, under certain circumstances, fall prey to things like impulsivity, recklessness. ‘Behind every good man there is a good women’, that kind of thing. If a man gets provoked, he can become all too risky. His wife can make him think again. Easy as that.
But things got very, very confused. Roles lost their definition, it got harder and harder to circumscribe what ‘male’ and ‘female’ meant, respectively. Of course, academia gave in to the new fashions. Postmodernism became all the rage, with weirdos like Derrida, Foucault, and their likes.
What was meant to ‘liberate’ people, was imprisoning them in reality. Many, many folks got afraid as a result. Weakened. Am I fulfilling the role that I am meant to fulfill? How do I fit in in the new scheme?
In fact: asking yourself if you’re playing ‘the right role’ already betrays the fact that you lost contact with your own inborn instincts. You will probably pay tens of thousands of bucks to a psychologist (the rise of doctoring yourself with psychology is a sign of decadence).
If all of this means anything, it means: the onset of decadence, and the possible downfall of a society wholesale.
We should be wary. Very, very wary.
Last Saturday I was proud to be present when my son (see name below on tagline)returned from Afghanistan with 30 other Marines.
Have no fear everything you thought used to be great about American still is. This younger generation is everything that the Greatest Generation was.
They will be the ones to take the country back.
We now live in a color coded anti-white male feminized society that has been rubber stamped by the Supreme Disappointment. A Constitution not followed is worse than no Constitution at all. This state of affairs breeds contempt for the government in the intelligent, and a sentimental belief in the phony protections it was supposed to have in the weak minded. As such, the Constitution now provides a fig leaf for the naked aggression of the socialist statist agenda.
— Author Unknown
WOW! That’s brilliant.
We used to joke that a guy’s not a real man unless he had a pickup, a chainsaw, and something .30 caliber or above.
It also means that Islam will become the predominate “religion”... Holland will fall before the US, but if this disgusting trend of feminization contiues all will fall (or rather submit).
That pretty much describes most guys 18 and up in the deep south. Fashion = boxers and a T-shirt at home, Jeans and T-shirt outside. (unless at work)
Who ever wrote this must live in Boston or similar location.
As hard as it is to admit it: you are right. Mr. Wilders poll results are sinking (although not as dramatically as foreseen by some). Still, there is some chance that he will participate in our next government.
(I won’t trouble you with a long ‘clarification’ of the way coalitions are made over here...:))
OORAH!
Semper Fidelis!...
...”If all of this means anything, it means: the onset of decadence, and the possible downfall of a society wholesale”...
Thank you for writing more than a “text message” comment on this serious topic, as so many seem to do on Freerepublic nowadays. Your remarks are very interesting and, in my opinion, right on the mark..This is one of the major irrational changes in this culture which will result in the decadence and the downfall you speak of. You cannot displace 50% of your population with forced changes which go against DNA and nature, herself, without widespread, dysfunctional consequences. In the case of the US, the feminization of men is taking down our country which means all of us. Eventually, physical strength will determine our fate, for another culture which has not feminized it’s boys, will prevail.
Many, many thanks for the kind words.
I tried to explain my worries as well as possible (not being a native speaker of English).
It can be so hard to go against prevailing fashions, esp. when so many people embrace these fashions, not knowing that they are making a deal with the Devil. My big worry indeed is what another poster here, like you, remarked: if islam, with its immense expansion in the West, will stick with its emphasis on male dominance, then we’re done and over with if we don’t change our own perception on what is good and true. The good and true don’t necessarily agree with what most people at any given point in time see as ‘good’.
At any rate, it’s a choice that every individual in the West has to face.
...”Last Saturday I was proud to be present when my son (see name below on tagline)returned from Afghanistan with 30 other Marines.
...”Have no fear everything you thought used to be great about American still is. This younger generation is everything that the Greatest Generation was.
They will be the ones to take the country back”...
Congratulations to you on having that wonderful, heroic son. The military is the last and greatest hope for most of us out here. We know, in any crisis, they will not turn against the American people but will do everything in their power to protect our freedoms. We just do not like our public schools and our culture telling little boys that being male is evil and that they should all be like women to succeed.
AMEN!
Just as a charge of racist has lost its ability to shock or intimidate people, so to will sexist and homophobe.
“Postmodernism became all the rage, with weirdos like Derrida, Foucault, and their likes”
Deconstructionism was one of the many philosophies perpetrated by French socialists like the above which added to the break down of traditional values. The roles of men and women, clearly defined in the Bible, and complementary ones at that, were challenged and ultimately redesigned by an establishment of communist leaning intellectuals who dominated the college campuses and the media. With that combination, it was difficult to retain the male attributes so necessary to maintain our culture. Most young men today, (not all of course) are no longer motivated to support families or even lead them. They have devolved into the handmaiden of their wives and girlfriends, accompanying them at the supermarket where the two of them discuss what kind of pasta they will cook that evening. Women, forever searching for a good man, sabotaged themselves by embracing feminism in the past and setting themselves up for the kind of relentless work schedule they nearly all must adhere to now. I recall attending a seminar once for a job I held. For some reason, the seminar leader was pointing out the differences between life now and what it was like in the ‘50s. In the 1950’s, her projected graph showed, nearly all married women were not employed outside the home, home sales were up, gas was cheap,etc. Now one would think that the seminar leader was presenting this with a longing glance at the past. On the contrary, her tone was sarcastic. She then showed the statistics for the modern society. Everyone working, home sales down, etc. and for some reason she thought this was great. I raised my hand and said given the upbeat statistics of 50 years earlier, what are we doing wrong? She then gave the usual response about how prejudice people were in those days, how little mobility women had, how the disabled were in institutions et al. The point is our culture was hijacked in the 60s by the leftist ideologues who had surfaced earlier in the century and didnt get their momentum until mid century. If I were to look back, it began in earnest with Lyndon Johnson’s “civil rights” programs. These socialistic ventures in actuality equated white males with racism, and thus began the process of demonization which has led to the impotency of males everywhere today. Unfortunately the remedy is not easy. We, as a people, have become too used to a dual salary and the things it buys us. New cars, new phones, computers are all purchases that have gone beyond luxury status and become necessities to most Americans. The status quo cannot remain so without two incomes. But even if we could reduce the desire for material goods significantly, the damage has already been done.
Superb reply! I salute you for that, esp. with your examples from your own experiences.
Please keep on posting your thoughts. Native English or not, you are doing a great job of explaining certain facets of this issue. I never come here but that I leave a more informed and educated person because of people like you who help me to put together some kind of rationality out of what is happening to our culture and our world. Political Correctness which had it’s genesis in Western Academia is responsible for much of what we suffer..And, to think, our Whitehouse is full of them at the moment! Carry on!
Don’t ask, Don’t Tell repeal will open up the floodgates for Gays in the Boy Scouts!!
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