'There's no room for anything manly now': Feminist speaks out AGAINST the loss of masculine virtues

The London Daily Mail ^ | December 29, 2013 | Staff

[ilovesarah2012]

Something I have noticed and it is completely anecdotal, but there don’t seem to be as many young white guys in construction/heavy machinery jobs now. I see older men and Hispanics. And a lot of men no longer even know how to change the oil on their cars. Of course, cars are so computerized now but still, just the basics that all men used to be able to do.

[originalbuckeye]

I have lamented the emasculation of men for years. Used to be a Feminist. Woke up. Now I fight everything they want, at every turn. They are integral in the destruction of our once great country.

[Tax-chick]

... but don’t forget that men don’t actually require permission to be men.

I mention that occasionally. The responses usually have to do with superpowers wielded by "feminists," causing everything bad on earth.

I wish I was a feminist. Then maybe I could make my teenagers get out of bed and get some work done.

[Theophilus]

I’d throw my coat across a puddle to help Miss Paglia cross the street. It’s a pity that no gentleman ever won her heart and hand and that they didn’t raise many children. May God bless her.

[Atlas Sneezed]

How do you think the wussy word “Man Cave” entered the vernacular?

When I grew up, it was simply known as “the den”.

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Yes, but that was a shorthand term for a wild animal’s retreat (lion’s den).

So the step up from den to cave is one from the beasts to primitive man!

[Cheerio]

Putting the word “Man” in front of it surrenders all of the rest of the territory.

I was on Jury Duty yesterday and they have now renamed the Jury Foreman to Jury Foreperson.

[GraceG]

How do you think the wussy word “Man Cave” entered the vernacular?

vernacular

[MikeyB806]

SIngle motherhood and public schools; that’s a lot of pressure against instinct.

[peeps36]

I see it in the 8 and 9 year old boys who play on the basketball team I coach. The town league makes us stop putting points on the scoreboard when our team is winning by 15 points. They don't want to hurt the other teams feelings. I have a few tough kids on my team but most of them will start crying if I raise my voice a little bit. It's nothing like when I played 36 years ago. My coaches use to physically rough us up and scream at us. They would be in jail if they tried that today.

[CatherineofAragon]

"Used to be a Feminist. Woke up. Now I fight everything they want, at every turn."

Originalbuckeye, I tried to respond to your post but I kept getting kicked back to the top of the thread. Sorry, 2ndDV.

I have a friend who is a lifelong conservative and an evangelical Christian, married with 3 kids. Recently she went on a rant against sexism and men who treat women "like possessions". Said she has a problem with the Bible's language concerning women, and that she has decided she is a "conservative feminist."

I don't know where any of that stuff came from. But it started to get personal when she said that it's fine for me to think my husband is head of the house, but she and her husband love & respect each other too much for that.

We're still sort of tiptoeing around each other, like cats about to fight.

[Still Thinking]

No doubt! You could probably levitate them out of bed and they’d go about the house robotically cleaning and doing chores with this unknowing zombie look on their faces! Oh, to be a feminist!

[a fool in paradise]

The author, who along with her ex-partner Alison Maddex, is raising an 11-year-old son Lucian, believes that the way many schools have cut recess is ‘making a toxic environment for boys.’

‘Primary education does everything in its power to turn boys into neuters,’ she said.

The decline of America's industrial base is another factor that the author believes is leaving many men with ‘no models of manhood.'

[originalbuckeye]

Something happened to her recently that has changed her thinking. Democrats spout Feminist rhetoric but frequently don't live it. Good luck to you......I have walked away from a few good friends who used Alinsky’s tactics (ridicule, bullying) on me. We are longer friends. I don't miss them.

[GeronL]

One way to help a boy grow up manly, lady, is to have a father in the house!

[DMZFrank]

Paglia is dead on with her assertions, but what she highlights is but one more manifestation of the baleful effects of Cultural Marxism upon nearly EVERY institution of our society and culture.

[CatherineofAragon]

Thank you.