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We're Losing the War On Poverty Because Our Schools Turn Boys Into Eunuchs
Washington Examiner ^ | January 18, 2014 | Melanie Sturm

Posted on 01/19/2014 8:05:37 AM PST by Aspenhuskerette

As a binge-TV watcher, I’ve relished devouring serial dramas in advertising-free gulps. But “Breaking Bad” — the story about a cancer-stricken chemistry teacher turned clandestine meth-cooking badass – didn’t appeal.

Then Anthony Hopkins declared it an “epic work” with “the best actors I’ve ever seen.”

Midway through season two, I understand why Walter White is heroic. As men increasingly check out of work, marriage, and fatherhood, it’s hard not to root for a man fiercely determined to secure his family’s future before dying – despite his morally abhorrent methods.

That there are dramatically fewer men willing and able to safeguard family prosperity is perhaps America’s greatest – and most unrecognized — problem.

Consider Sunday’s “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” discussion on ABC’s “This Week.” Lamenting unrealized opportunities and unsolved problems when “women aren’t fully utilized,” businesswoman Carly Fiorina and co-panelists were oblivious about two key facts.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: adulthood; arth; genderwars; leftismoncampus; malegendergap; manhood; masculinity; neuteredmen; poverty; radicalfeminists; waronboys
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1 posted on 01/19/2014 8:05:37 AM PST by Aspenhuskerette
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2 posted on 01/19/2014 8:11:13 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Aspenhuskerette

we are losing Western Civilization because an overwhelming majority of parents (liberal, progressive, conservative, traditionalist) send their children to government school...


3 posted on 01/19/2014 8:17:02 AM PST by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: latina4dubya

Exactly. Blaming the symptom, not the cause.


4 posted on 01/19/2014 8:19:17 AM PST by Bob Mc
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To: Aspenhuskerette

we are losing the war because a black student who is told to take out his earphones during class and who tells the teacher fo “f— off” and who then punches the teacher is suspended for 3 days but the teacher is FIRED for defending himself


5 posted on 01/19/2014 8:35:09 AM PST by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)
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To: Aspenhuskerette

Good column. Congrats on getting published in the Washington Examiner.


6 posted on 01/19/2014 8:36:34 AM PST by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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To: ETL

PERFECT!


7 posted on 01/19/2014 8:44:02 AM PST by DungeonMaster
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To: Aspenhuskerette

The other side of the problem is that what passes for a masculine role model, like Walter White, is often a gang banger or a steroid swollen warrior that commits wholesale mayhem in a video game. The Duke said “A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do”, and manhood should embrace other manly behavior like grinding away in a tedious job or descending miles down into a coal mine for a 14 hour workday 6 times a week. And enduring and persevering without whining or self-pity. That’s what a man’s gotta do.


8 posted on 01/19/2014 8:50:23 AM PST by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: Aspenhuskerette
I their perceived attempt to gain respect for women, they're instead fomenting disrespect for men as well as complete disrespect for the individual right to self selection.

9 posted on 01/19/2014 8:58:50 AM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: Aspenhuskerette

We are losing the war on poverty, because, poverty pays better than hard work.


10 posted on 01/19/2014 9:20:37 AM PST by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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Lamenting unrealized opportunities and unsolved problems when “women aren’t fully utilized,”

What the? I… What is this supposed to even mean?
How does it tie in with Our Schools Turn[ing] Boys Into Eunuchs?

11 posted on 01/19/2014 9:21:18 AM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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“we are losing Western Civilization because an overwhelming majority of parents (liberal, progressive, conservative, traditionalist) send their children to government school...”

It is even simpler than that; products of Western Civilization are no longer breeding, while the descendants of Aztec, Inca, Arabian, and the Moghul civilations are.


12 posted on 01/19/2014 9:40:32 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Aspenhuskerette

The elites have been lying to these kids for years. Whenever the people started noticing middle class jobs being shipped over seas they came up with the “Information Ecomony” lie to keep from being strung up.

Simple truth, not everyone is cut out for higher education. We need plumbers, electricians, machinists. These kids need a place to go. Gay and Lesbians studies isn’t getting the job done.


13 posted on 01/19/2014 9:44:52 AM PST by The Toll
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The purpose of feminism is not to close the gender gap.

The purpose of feminism is to enable communism, and thereby destroy the country.

And the link between feminism and communism is the exploitation of natural female codependency into full-blown female collectivist paranoia, irrationality and hatred for all things male, by sociopathic Leftist females running a psychologically abusive, mandatory, crypto-nazistic sisterhood dedicated to educational, government, and corporate policy control.

In other words, the murderous bitches got a stranglehold on the mechanisms of our society, and they are determined to choke our culture to death ad then deliver the dead body over to globalists to consume.

And in the end, it will be seen as the most destructive force ever unleashed against women that the world has ever seen - because it was empowered by the very women it destroyed, by teaching them to exult in their own suicides.

That’s feminism.


14 posted on 01/19/2014 9:48:21 AM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: OneWingedShark

She is saying that the education system, in lamenting unrealized opportunities etc etc., over reacted and ended up destroying boys.


15 posted on 01/19/2014 9:52:10 AM PST by McGavin999
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She is saying that the education system, in lamenting unrealized opportunities etc etc., over reacted and ended up destroying boys.

I got that from the rest of the article; but the copied part just doesn't fit.

16 posted on 01/19/2014 9:57:38 AM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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Teachers and Pedophilia - In YOUR Backyard

Washington Post -- D.C. school officials reported 220 abuse allegations against teachers

Sex Abuse by Teachers Said Worse Than Catholic Church

WHEN BOYS ARE MOLESTED BY TEACHERS AND OTHERS IN POSITIONS OF AUTHORITY

Former Manassas teacher to get 25-year term in child-porn case

Forgotten Study: Abuse in School 100 Times Worse than by Priests

 


17 posted on 01/19/2014 10:10:53 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Aspenhuskerette

Didn’t make it past “As a binge-TV watcher”.


18 posted on 01/19/2014 10:18:42 AM PST by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: Aspenhuskerette

Late to the game, been preaching this F’n fact for years.

School, public and most likely private, is anti male.


19 posted on 01/19/2014 10:21:15 AM PST by 12th_Monkey (One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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To: Aspenhuskerette; zot; Interesting Times; NYer

Yep, the radical feminists said that they didn’t need men, and began their goal of achieving a ‘male-less’ society with turning grade-school into neutering school by putting boys on drugs instead of letting them play outside at recess and admitting that little boys are not little girls in different clothing.


20 posted on 01/19/2014 11:02:00 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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