Posted on 01/04/2014 4:59:57 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
hear hear
Apples don’t fall far from the tree.If you bring them up RIGHT, most of them turn out alright!
Yes, yes, yes. Bring back the trade school; bring back Home Ec and Shop. Won’t happen but it needs to happen.
What master’s degrees are these women getting? Science? Mathematics? Or more likely American Studies?
“This particular form of masculinity opposes authority, promotes drinking and using drugs, and can be misogynistic, as ethnographer Jason Eastman describes.”
The male need to BE a MAN is hardwired and is a force that Judeo/Christian civilization has used to advance itself. Feminists don’t like such a definition as it NECCESSARILY excludes all others. When civilization abandons the definition males will invent their own and THAT definition can literally be anything and will serve ONLY the individual. Sound chaotic? Just wait.
My 17 yr old grandson has just announced that he doesn’t want to go to college. He wants to work in the family business. I suggested that he get a trade degree in something that would be beneficial in our business, he wants to do welding, I suggested electrician. His parents are fit to be tied, I think it is great that he knows what he wants to do.
And the breakup of the family and the rise of higher educational attainment for women directly correlates to the start of welfare without strings in the 1960s and feminist preferences for college admissions and scholarships.
The notion of at least a four year university degree being the mark of success and the ticket to upward mobility is very deep-seated, even if increasingly incorrect under modern circumstances of very high cost and very limited opportunities post-graduation. His parents probably see it as their son limiting himself and dooming himself to blue-collar work for the rest of his life, rather than wisely choosing a path that leads to reasonably decent pay now as well as a means of eventually owning his own business. Educate them. There is more unfilled need for skilled trades than there is for office professional work. You do the best you can with the hand you’re dealt, and that’s what he’s doing, in my opinion.
“Bring back ... Shop”
Hear, hear!
Other than the last two years of medical school, the most useful classes I took were basic shop(9) wood shop(10), and electrical shop(12). Metal shop(11) wasn’t bad either, but I hated welding.
An alpha male will always try to dominate his surroundings, lol.
I went for an interview 3 years ago to a top notch company in my area and the interview consisted of one female from human resources, two females in the department, their pajama boy, and one female department manager. I had a juvenile moment where I thought I was a chimp and wanted to throw some poo. It wasn’t such a top notch company after all.
I shat the door on the way out.
I just paid a plumber (I know him too) $260 for the hour it took him to come pull my toilet and look for the ring I accidentally flushed down it. He makes a really good living and his office is his truck.
I wish they had given the girls shop. I’d now know how to fix my plugged-up sink!
1. work for someone else
2. work for yourself
if you're looking for a job, the assumption is you have skills. if those skills are good enough, shouldn't you be able to attract your own customers?
+1
I love blue-collar workers. And I generally can’t stand many men and women who have advanced degrees. I have a friend who attained a doctorate in American Studies about two years ago. She is now unlistenable. She talks about the Lanape Indians all day long (oh, excuse me, Native Americans) and turns purple if I mention my favorite tv show is F Troop. She also believes Indians influenced (if not secretly wrote) the Constitution of the United States. She went from being a relatively intelligent person to a humorless zombie. Give me a plumber with a plunger anyday of the week!
He’s one of those lucky kids who knows what he wants to do at a young age. Hope he gets to follow his dream.
Freudian slip, or did you literally defecate on the portal as you departed?
Girls are more mature (and smarter) than boys, on average, growing up. But just when ya think they are so smart, they get pregnant, and hopefully, married, to a good responsible man, thereby tossing that all way (or at least on a long hold). Yes, it is a biological function, but still...
Good for you, and the rest of America!!
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