From the hollywood re-education dept. of puppet Obama's..."fundamentally transforming America".
Posted on 12/18/2012 10:50:49 AM PST by blam
I think a big problem is the extremely low percentage of male teachers in our schools, especially the lower grades, and the fact that teachers just are not held in very high esteem.
Maybe it’s because American males are supposed to kick everyone’s ass?
Where have all the good men gone And where are all the gods
You killed them.
Where's the street-wise Hercules To fight the rising odds
You all decided you wanted Alan Alda instead.
Isn't there a white knight upon a fiery steed
I'm sorry your daddy didn't buy you a pony, but you are not a princess and life is not a Barbara Cartland novel.
Late at night I toss and I turn and I dream of what I need
A malleable male with disposable income? Envy of your friends? Satisfaction of your relatives? Someone to boost your esteem, take the blame?
I need a hero
We left a message for George Clooney, but he's out getting his nails done. /s
From the hollywood re-education dept. of puppet Obama's..."fundamentally transforming America".
Yourself excepted, obviously.
I feel that these two comments contain a heavy amount of truth. I too was raised in the 50's and 60's and see my formative years replete with things unavailable today.
A short list:
Boy Scouts - once noble, now reviled and chased from many venues.
Sports, both intramural and inter school - such opportunities to burn off male energy and aggressiveness, even in target shooting (rifle club,) are drastically diminished today.
...as a subset, Title IX. - removing so many sport opportunities for young men, for the benefit of a few, mostly lesbian women, is weird.
Multiculturalism
Elevation of Black Culture to the point of emulation.
Ritilin for ADD/ADHD males.
These are a few of my least favorite social changes, but there are many more. Most of these are with us until the bitter end, not to be changed, and held sacred until the barbarians are storming the walls after having razed the fields and pillaged the villages.
“Boys are the subject of open discrimination in ... college admissions.”
I think that just the opposite is true. Colleges are desperate to bring into closer equality the numbers of males and females who enroll. There is an unsettling group pathology that emerges when the sex ratio in any “community” becomes too unbalanced. At most US colleges, the sex ratio now is approximately 40/60 (males to females).
The greatest harm to the public in both is when the simulation isn't enough anymore and they move to act it out. Hence the epidemic of grade school kids engaging in shocking sexual acts, 'sexting' and other problems that have engulfed our youth.
Through these media, our kids are taught and stimualted to kill. They seek to rack up the highest scores and receive enough simulator training to effectively point and shoot with devastating results. Years ago I attended a seminar from LTC Dave Grossman (On Killing). I was sceptical of many of his claims, and certainly the media aren't the only factor involved, but over the years and after much study and reflection on the problem, the link is undeniable. These attacks become increasingly costly and the death tolls higher and higher in direct proportion to the increasing sophistication and realism of violent visual media.
Sorry, Mr. Tarantino, but you and your ilk have MUCH blood on your hands, and it isn't colored corn syrup.
In my opinion the loss of a sense of purpose is behind the abysmal situation, that you chronicle. It was also, in my opinion, a major factor in some of the massacres in public schools. (For instance, see "Something of Value".)
Certainly if young boys were still raised with the chivalric ideal, we would have a much healthier society. Youth steeped in the idea that the real measure of a man, is to protect the women & children of a society--even the harridans who denounced such ethos--are less disposed to shoot children of any age. Those denied the self-respect that traditional sex roles evoked, may well vent a rage that they do not really even understand, in sociopathic ways. (In the recent instance, there were probably other factors involved also. But the question is, had the individual involved been raised to chivalric purpose, would whatever other anger he had, have been vented in so terrible a form?)
William Flax
“At one time we put the badly behaved into reform schools. We put crazy people into insane asylums. Now we put them all into the same schools as healthy people in the name of justice and immersion.”
This misguided “mainstreaming” is certainly one of society’s major, but little discussed, problems.
There are some freepers who ignorantly hate Baby Boomers. On another thread today, someone wrote that we are all a bunch of welfare queens (!!). They don’t understand that most of us grew up in very ordinary circumstances, went to work early and have paid into entitlements for over 40 years. And many men served honorably in the armed forces and many died.
These ignoramuses think everybody is Bill Clinton.
Thank you for your service!
Nothing wrong with kicking ass when it’s needed, but it shouldn’t be a cultural norm.
No one wants to pay for reform schools and insane asylums, or even have them in their neighborhood.
No offense, but, really? For 40 years, colleges have diligently pushed white males out of higher education. You say the ratio is something like 40/60 men to women. How many of that diminishing set of males are even white?
If what you proffer is true, then in 5 years the ratio should be closer to 42/58. Since I see no change in admission selection from our communist bastions of higher learning, I will herein wager you a nickel that the ratio will be closer to 38/62 than 42/58, provided that the ratio of white men to victim class men remains unchanged.
As a passing thought, I've kept that nickel for quite a long time..
Turn off tv and xBox, for you too.
Make sure they respect their mother. AT ALL TIMES.
Get your boys into at least one sport and play with them when possible. Don’t let them quit if it gets hard.
Take them hunting and/or fishing often and teach them difference between needless killing and killing for a reason.
Starting at early age have them help you fix things around house and on cars.
Attend every one of their sporting/school events you can and praise them but also teach them competitiveness and give positive, instructive criticism when they perform poorly. I told all my sons, “second place is the first loser”, but also taught them the reality of you win some you lose some.
Teach them how to handle criticism, they will need it in the work place.
Teach them to be respectful of women and look out for them and the weak.
Do not be afraid to administer hand to behind. If you do it when they are young you don’t have to when they are old. All mine got spankings and after about 6-7 years old never had to again.
Again turn off the tv. Probably the best advise.
I have raised 3 boys, two 3 Afghan tour Marines (one officer and one Sgt, both highly decorated grunts) and one polite, competitive teenager on his way to manhood. My methods work and are proven through time as my parents raised 4 the same way with similar results.
Young men in other countries play the same video games and watch the same movies and do not commit as many mass killings as American young men.
They probably just don’t want to.
Forgot main one, teach them to love and respect God, but if for some weak, mumbo jumbo reason you do no, thet other steps will be successful.
At every level of schooling, girls are now out-performing boys in the classroom despite having no advantage in ability or aptitude. This performance gap ultimately carries over to the college application process, where girls’ high-school GPAs are, on average, higher than boys’ (even though the very top applicants at most colleges are still disproportionately boys). We also have experienced dramatic changes in the sex ratio in numerous well-paying professions such as pharmacy and vet medicine. Do you believe there is some conspiracy against males in those professions, as well?
And until young boys have someone who fulfills the role of a father in their lives then the problems will continue and grow.
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