Posted on 03/13/2009 2:49:49 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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Good ping. The old cult and code of the American male has been under assault for 40 years, by some women, women’s groups, universities, etc. We are getting as generation of males who are men only anatomically; they have no idea what it means to be a man. The culture doesn’t tell them, their girlfriends or significant others don’t tell them, and their parents don’t tell them. Sad, really. They’re unmoored, adrift, and unhappy for reasons they don’t understand.
Who cares if your hot young act cools off? Something even younger and hotter will be along in a moment.Elvis and the Beatles were declared passing fads, too. Yes, most popular culture is stupid and fades away, but there's just so much of it that a steady trickle of classics emerges. Another swing and a miss for Steyn.
Good ping. The old cult and code of the American male has been under assault for 40 years, by some women, women’s groups, universities, etc. We are getting as generation of males who are men only anatomically; they have no idea what it means to be a man. The culture doesn’t tell them, their girlfriends or significant others don’t tell them, and their parents don’t tell them. Sad, really. They’re unmoored, adrift, and unhappy for reasons they don’t understand.
"Men?" Oh, why didn't you say so! You mean males! </sarcasm>
Rob Dougan wasn’t the composer for THE MATRIX, that was Don Davis. Dougan contributed a song to THE MATRIX and one or two to RELOADED, and maybe something to the third.
Just FYI.
Clint Eastwood...no metrosexual he...
Gran Torino in 10 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtk7U-9bUJQ&feature=related
My son is 25 years old and he wears a hat everyday. Today he is undoubtedly wearing Kevlar like he does everyday in Iraq. There are some real men left, and they will be needed more and more.
I think about this a lot now that I'm in my 40's. I look at the current movies and the "men" all seem like boys to me. Leonardo DiCaprio has to be in his 30's now, and he seems like a teenager. The rest are all buffed and have nice hair, but they seem like pre-adolescent girl's ideas of what a man is like, not real men.
If my sarcasm meter was running, I’d say, Ah, case in point....
G-d bless your son! and all the members of the US Military!
Black culture is celebrated 24/7. Relentlessly. And since most of it is what it is, and since whites are denigrated at every turn, we’re becoming a nation of black adolescent wannabes. If that doesn’t scare everyone, including blacks, it should.
I've never come up with a satisfactory candidate.
Another swing and a miss for Steyn
“I write a lot about the demographic decline of the Western world, and readers often respond”, “So what?
“Whatever happened to real men?”
“the missing folks will be the children who were never born,”
“Diana West has written a whole book on this theme: The Death of the Grown-Up”
In some of Steyn, one has to look a little deeper for the recurring themes on why America is on a steep slide into the historically charted territory of cultural disaster, destruction, and extinction.
It’s true, middle aged and accomplished and competent has been jettisoned for simple vulgarity and cookie cutter style.
The suits are all silk now and the drinks are all coffees..
Kurt Russell? Harrison Ford?
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