[AnalogReigns]

...worse, the emasculation of men in the United States...

EXACTLY.

The masculinization of women has accompanied the emasculation of men.

This is about the whole society, not the fraction of 1% who are super-athletes.

Our great grandparents sent their daughters to finishing schools, where they would learn the finer points of hospitality and motherhood....and we send ours to soccer camps, where they can learn how to compete, curse, run, sweat, spit and scratch.

I find the wholesale denigration of femininity--with the concomitant emasculation of men--in our culture very sad.

[trailhkr1]

Our great grandparents sent their daughters to finishing schools, where they would learn the finer points of hospitality and motherhood....and we send ours to soccer camps, where they can learn how to compete, curse, run, sweat, spit and scratch.

You can't be serious...soccer in not womanly??

[momtothree]

“Our great grandparents sent their daughters to finishing schools.... we send ours to soccer camps”

So, what you are saying is that females that are athletic and competitive aren’t “real” women? FYI: girls that get involved in a sport usually do better in school. Uh... real school not learning to serve tea or arrange flowers correctly in a vase. “... they can learn how to compete, run, sweat, spit and scratch”. Gosh, women actually exercising and SWEATING! Imagine how stupid these girls are to want to keep their bodies healthy by competing in a sport. How in the world will they ever arrange the perfect flower arrangement when they are tired from a sport?!!

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

Today, it's all about girls, girls, girls. I would HATE to be a boy today. Even the Disney movies are obsessed with 'girl power'; Tangled, Brave, etc.. It's pretty obvious that on a national level females are being 'put in charge' of everything because it's easier for the government to manipulate them.

The formula is simple. You EMPOWER THEM THEN TELL THEM HOW TO VOTE:

[coop71]

“Our great grandparents sent their daughters to finishing schools, where they would learn the finer points of hospitality and motherhood.”

Yours may have. Both my grandmas worked on their parent’s farms. My husband’s grandmas had a similar fate, too. The SOP was “Drop out of school in 8th grade so you can work and help in the fields. Then get married and get the hell out.”

Finishing school? Ha!