Big Sis ... treated male staffers like lapdogs
Sad but true: men today care less about the future of their family and more about drinking, video games, and getting laid.
My mother tells the story very fondly of my birth and how my grandfather, a very traditional Sicilian Catholic man, absolutely fawned over her like she’d laid a golden egg. To him, it meant the family name would carry on for another generation, and since he’d only had one son, my father, having a progenitor was as important to him as just having a grandchild.
Today, as a newlywed, I too hope to bring a boy into the world to carry on my name and my cultural and spiritual upbringing, but I married a woman 6 years my senior and very much hear her biological clock ticking louder than she. Will I have a child at all? Only time and the Lord will surely know, but it speaks to a larger cultural issue, as I see it.
Women have been pushed out of traditionally-held positions of homemaker and into the cutthroat world of business wherein many do very well but others find themselves in a sort of malaise forced upon them by a culture they were born into (feminism). My wife was born in the early 70s and was raised by a very strong woman as breadwinner. She was also an only child, so her predilections have always been toward a more self-serving role than, say, me, who had a younger brother growing up.
I very much pine for the days of a more traditional family being the norm again. Not specifically women being “barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen,” but more traditional as in actually having a mother and a father.
The militant feminists, the militant homosexuals, and a culture of masculine exclusion are destroying what it means to be a man, what it means to have a family, and what it means to promote generational foundations and exigency. It’s now more popular to sort of wade through young life, find someone you like having sex with, marry, have a kid, find out the fairy tale is over, throw up your hands in frustration that the Hollywood idea of marriage is actually a farce, divorce, and go back to living a life of sloth and debauchery.
Marriage is hard. I’m married just over a month and can already say that it’s going to be a tough row to hoe, but that challenge is enough for me to face life and tackle it together, with my partner, my wife.
There is not much in the modern young woman to recommend her as a prospective wife and mother. Many want to “marry up,” and the sad fact is that the number of wealthy young men is rapidly decreasing in this horrible economy. Young men are living with their parents, rather than with girl friends.
“The new heterosexual male”
Maybe it’s just me, but younger men seem to actually LOOK less masculine these days. Many of them look so feminine they could almost pass for girls. I commented on this to my husband, and he agreed.
I don’t know if it’s hormones in the food, or what....but if you look at old photos of young men, they didn’t have this androgynous, nearly feminine appearance.
Big Sis ... treated male staffers like lapdogs
Of course, it’s all men’s fault that women are single and childless. Couldn’t have anything to do with the choices women made and the ideology that they adopted. The article’s a load of misandrist tripe.
Chick-fil-A Introduces the Next Hot New Trend in Marketing
http://www.forbes.com/sites/philjohnson/2012/08/10/chick-fil-a-introduces-the-next-new-trend/
I'd advise any young woman to read it if she can keep from laughing and crying. It's written by a well-meaning, I suppose, young man who is so comically in the throes of his own narcissism that he can't see the heartless immorality of what he's actually up to. Please, bring me back some Dobie Gillis.
At least he writes one article that recommends giving up porn. I think that's at the heart of most of this narcissism and emotional emptiness--and is probably what "Ruby Sparks" is REALLY about...the images that men fetishize at the expense of a real sexuality.
Except every now and then they remembered that their lives were sort of empty without a man.
I remember at one departmental meeting when one of the women asked (in front of the men in the department of course), "where have all the good men gone?"
I smiled sweetly back at the speaker and replied, "Why Amy, that's an easy one - The good men are already married to the good women."
Bosh.