Posted on 03/01/2007 7:00:19 AM PST by shortstop
The feminization of America...we're seeing the results everywhere...in academia, in the business world, in government, and most unfortunately, in the military.
So if you're counting on social security to retire on, these are the folks who'll be supplying it.
Our enemies are licking their chops, just waiting for Generation Emo to take over...
And when institutions like education become dysfunctional, people find other paths to success.
"The feminization of America..."
I could not agree with you more!
There has to be a balance, feminine sensiblilities temper masculine drives. Go to either extreme and you have a mess. We've chosen the feminine route. I saw this coming for a long time.
I can't tell you how stupid I thought it was when coaching in Y baseball leagues, (early ages), and they didn't keep score. "We are all winners". Bull! Sure, it made some of the kids happy, the kids that will ultimately end up working for the ones who knew the score and played to win.
On the bright side, a trend that was going on when I was in my late 20s was to fire older workers and replace them with eager kids. Now that I'm nearing 50, that's not an issue. Any business knows it's a mistake to fire a worker with a good skillset and work ethic, to take a chance on what you get with kids today.
I know so many families where the kid (usually there's only one, at the most two, siblings,) is a spoiled and pampered brat. They don't know what the word "chore" is. The parents think it would be child abuse to make their little darlings do anything resembling a "chore." Oftentimes the parents even do the kids' homework for them. Moms will call each other on the phone asking, "Do you know the answer to question 17 on the history homework?" Then the parents whine about how mean and unfair it is that their little darlings have to carry so many books in their backpacks and those horrible teachers give TWO HOURS of homework a night! Why, the poor, overworked little dears.
What's more, the kids rule the roost. No family decision is made without first getting the approval of the little prince or princess. I know 14-year-olds who literally have never made a sandwich or heated up something in a microwave. They are chauffeured everywhere, have never been on a bus, then they get new cars for their 16th birthdays. They are surly and rude to adults, and they always have earphones in their ears.
But their self-esteem is really, really high.
Exactly right.
And this will be the undoing of America. A feminized nation doesn't have the strength to stand against patriarchial societies like China, Russia, Islam, etc.
In short, unless this is reversed... we're destined to speak 'french'.
narcissism bump for later.........
Orthodox Christians know that self-esteem is a vice. Indeed it is one of the eight grevious vices catalogued by St. John Cassian (the other seven are familar to Western Christians as 'the seven deadly sins'). Some Greek Fathers, like the Latin, don't separate it out from pride, as the following apothegem from the Desert Father shows:
One of the Fathers said, "only perfect humility or perfect pride will allow one to ignore the opinions of men."
The 'self-esteem' movement tries (alas it still continues) to prevent children from yielding to peer pressure by inculcating perfect pride, rather than perfect humility. Not the demonic pride of setting oneself against God, but self-esteem, regarding oneself as better than others, not subject to criticism or correction.
In connection with that saying, the Father told of a monk who bore insults with complete equanimity, but when asked how, replied, "it is the barking of dogs."
Self-esteem creates disobedient monks, uneducable students, and bad citizens.
Pizza party and trophys for all! Most improved, cleanest uniform, best after game snacks, shortest throw, etc. etc.
1. Randon sample
2. Statistically significant representative population
3. Causality shown
Go figure... the Me Generation has raised the MeMeMe Generations. It just immanentizes the eschaton so what the heck.
But here's the worst thing about that kind of feel good education in young children. They experience that in school, but then when viewing what goes on in the real world, it has to be so confusing. Everything from sporting events to American Idol...only one wins and they are celebrated like Gods. I can't even imagine what young kids have to go through these days. We're seeing it in teenagers. The craziness, the depression. They're not self-assured...they're depressed and confused. And we did it to them.
It's kinda like having a car that is really a pile of junk, but you paint it up to look really nice and expect a good ride.
School Honors programs... husband leaned over and asked me if it just wouldn't be simpler to call out the names of anyone who DIDN'T get an award ;}
tatt
Hence the lawsuit explosion. I couldn't possibly have done something wrong, it's somebody else's fault.
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