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The Alpha Male at Bay
The American Thinker ^ | December 4, 2015 | J. R. Dunn

Posted on 12/04/2015 12:15:59 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

Filmmakers sometimes hit the exact correct symbol to represent an idea.

That's true of John Ford in the final scene of his masterpiece, The Searchers. Ethan Edwards, frontiersman and Civil War veteran, has succeeded in his years-long quest to rescue a young girl kidnapped by Indians and return her home. He brings her to the cabin, the family fusses over her, and all of them rush inside... All except Edwards, who remains alone, framed by the open door. With an almost childlike gesture,one arm gripping the other at the elbow,he turns away as the door,as if by the hand of God,is firmly shut.

Edwards is portrayed as nearly crazy,almost pathological in his hatred of Indians. But he remains the hero. He is the man who counts-the one who does things,who will not back down,who takes charge,who accepts the challenge that no one else will dare. He is, quite simply, the alpha male....

Ford knew-and we can assume Wayne did too-that there is a paradox at the heart of masculinity. Alpha males are necessary and cannot be done without. At times of emergency no one is more lauded. But when the emergency is over, no one is more unwelcome than the alpha.....

...First we have to define our terms-it goes without saying that the definition of an "alpha male" has been thoroughly distorted in hopes of discrediting it. An alpha, we're told, is a bully, a thug, of low intelligence or even worse-back in the 60s it was often implied that he was homosexual. You don't hear that much today, now that gays are the exemplars of the new masculinity. (Let's note here for the record that Putin and Trump both fit this mold-they're transparent bullies. Another trait of the alpha is that they never need to try too hard, as both these characters do.)......

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: academia; femalealpha; feminism; heroes; masculinity; nationalsecurity; naturallaw
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Dunn explores problems spawned by feminism, beta males, driving men out of (or why they just walked away from) different fields, and the consequences of the unwillingness to criticize women - that ignoring natural law isn't sustainable (or a good idea).
1 posted on 12/04/2015 12:15:59 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

They had to re-shoot the ending of that movie. Originally the girl, who had been married to the Chief “Scar” and had children refused to join white society. Ethan killed her and returned to tell the family she had died.

That ending was too controversial.


2 posted on 12/04/2015 12:23:06 AM PST by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: Fai Mao; All

“....This is the meek inheriting the earth in the form of Woody Allen and his nagging girlfriend. Police chiefs who behave like ballerinas. Weird rituals in response to crimes, atrocities, and terror attacks-hugging, carrying candles, singing “Imagine.” Ritalin being prescribed to “hyperactive” children-almost all of them male, and almost all of them acting the way young males have always acted. Military forces bending over backwards to avoid the one thing that military forces are designed to do-strike a target. There’s no such thing as “Let’s roll” from this crowd. The betas currently inhabiting the seats of power in the West (Obama certainly-one look at Michelle reveals who wears the britches in that family. Hollande is a Socialist, and thus a beta by definition. Cameron is the beta who wishes he were an alpha) are very much in the position of a whipped baboon showing his rump to the pack leader. Unfortunately, while baboons are programmed to back off at that point, jihadis are not....”


3 posted on 12/04/2015 12:28:58 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
My personal opinion is that feminism was/is an "active measures" initiative of the Soviet KGB, an attack on American society along a critical cleavage, informed by Soviet experts who later became the North America Institute and implemented by an expert propaganda writer for a Communist labor-union periodical, Betty Friedan.

The object of feminism was and is to isolate white men and defeat them through combinations of vanguard-led </Red cant> outgroups against the leadership of American society.

4 posted on 12/04/2015 12:36:22 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: lentulusgracchus

I’ll give you this, subterfuge is the workable MO employed by the “weaker” to control [the Left has infiltrated education, media and politics).


5 posted on 12/04/2015 12:43:21 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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"Imagining" a Hillary presidency!

Exhibit 1001:

South Carolina town's entire police force resigns at the same time in protest of the new mayor

"...[Patty] Carson had issued a gag order on the department saying it was not able able to speak to media members and she would handle all requests.

She also requested a two-week notice on any public appearances and wanted to monitor incoming and outgoing department emails...."

North's police force quits over arguments with mayor

Disagreements with the mayor led the police chief and the officers in the town of North to quit, leaving the Orangeburg County town of 750 people with no police force.

Police Chief Mark Fallaw said he could not work with newly elected Mayor Patty Carson, who said she wanted the department to write at least three times as many tickets, required the chief to show her all of his emails and only authorized him to buy tires and gas with permission.

"I would describe her management style as dictator," Fallaw told The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg.

Carson refused to speak to reporters, telling WLTX-TV she won't discuss personnel issues in public......"

6 posted on 12/04/2015 1:20:54 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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Transgendering!

Chicago school district allows transgender student access to girls' locker room after the government threatened to withdraw funding

"A Chicago school district has voted to allow a transgender student access to the girls' locker room after federal officials threatened to withdraw funding for breaching discrimination laws.

Board members at Township High School District 211 yesterday voted 5-2 to allow the student, who was born male but identifies as female, a private area to change inside the girls' facilities.

However, Education Department assistant secretary for civil rights Catherine Lhamon has said she is still not happy - saying the school's interpretation of the motion does not go far enough....."

7 posted on 12/04/2015 1:29:30 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Gun control for entitled males!

...... Our horrific gun problem boils down to entitlement and rage

"...................This will to dominate is what the more personal mass shootings have in common with the more impersonal ones that tend to get national news coverage. The goals are just smaller. Whereas a more typical shooter might shoot up his ex-wife and her co-workers to punish her for not wanting to be with him, more ambitious shooters like Elliot Rodger will rampage among strangers to punish women, collectively, for the same thing. Or perhaps an average shooter will unleash at a party because he thinks someone disrespected him, but your more grandiose types, modeling themselves on the Columbine killers, want to kill the world for not giving them the deference they feel due.

Whether personal or impersonal, mass shootings share two common features in nearly all cases: An overblown sense of entitlement and way too easy access to guns. Easy access to guns is a critical reason for some of the more famous, planned out rampages, of course, but it may be an even more relevant factor with the everyday mass shooting. After all, your typical mass shooting is a hothead who just went off. The reason said hothead had a gun is because we live in a culture that's swimming in them.

More than that, the gun industry directly markets to men who are insecure and have a will to dominate that finds expression in gun ownership. Unfortunately, those are exactly the same two traits that you find in hotheads who react to perceived slights by blowing their tops. In a country where guns are heavily marketed to the people who are most likely to mishandle them, we really shouldn't be surprised that we have the mass shooting problem that we do.

8 posted on 12/04/2015 2:08:56 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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With an almost childlike gesture,one arm gripping the other at the elbow ...

The gesture was homage to Harry Carey, whose widow and son were in The Searchers.

9 posted on 12/04/2015 2:31:16 AM PST by Tax-chick (Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.)
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Ethan killed her and returned to tell the family she had died.

I looked for that "fact" everywhere I could think to look. Since it was based on a true story, which did not end that way, I would like to know your citation for that remark.
10 posted on 12/04/2015 2:32:50 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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“I would like to know your citation for that remark.”

Oh good question. It was in a book on the history of film I read years ago. It listed that film and a Hitchcock film where Cary Grant killed his wife but the studio forced them to change the ending to something happier.

I’ll see if I can find it. But right off hand I don’t remember


11 posted on 12/04/2015 2:40:27 AM PST by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: Fai Mao

Those might have been in the original scripts but I cannot imagine for one minute that Wayne or Grant would have ever accepted films with that kind of ending.

The last time I saw an ending with that kind of ending was “The Fog” and it still gives me nightmares. Haven’t seen a horror movie since then.


12 posted on 12/04/2015 2:46:51 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Mass Shooters Are Men With Limited Sexual Market Options
13 posted on 12/04/2015 3:00:18 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Beware of the grievance-industrial complex)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
(Let's note here for the record that Putin and Trump both fit this mold-they're transparent bullies.

Yeah; we've noted the linking of Trump to all kinds of nefarious comparisons.

14 posted on 12/04/2015 3:12:51 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: wbarmy

In the novel from which the movie was taken, Marty shoots Ethan who is attempting to kill Debbie (different names in the book).


15 posted on 12/04/2015 3:12:58 AM PST by Tax-chick (Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.)
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To: wbarmy
Haven’t seen a horror movie since then.


16 posted on 12/04/2015 3:15:55 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

DANG!!

This pretty well sums up MY situation!!

17 posted on 12/04/2015 3:17:41 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Pa; ye best not even be THINKIN' 'bout no other sitch-ee-achun!!!

18 posted on 12/04/2015 3:20:06 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: wbarmy

The Hitchcock movie was called “Suspicion”

You can see it on Amazon for $2.95

Notice the ending and how it is oddly edited at the end. In this case the film had been completed and the studio ha the ending re-done.

I do not know if the Searchers ending had to be shot over but yes the original script had an ending where the girl - now a woman was murdered by Ethan. You can kind of see that coming in the movie if you watch it carefully. BTW The Searchers is one of my favorite Wayne movies and should have won an academy award. It is one of the best Westerns ever done but the original script was much darker.

The story the movie is based on is also quite dark. Cynthia Anne Parker was not able to reintegrate into Caucasian society after she was recaptured and died 10 years after being taken from the Comanches. The question could legitimately be asked if it was cruel to have recaptured her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Ann_Parker


19 posted on 12/04/2015 3:26:24 AM PST by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: Tax-chick

The screenplay did share similarities with a real-life incident that took place at Fort Parker in East Texas on May 19th 1836. At 10 o’clock in the morning, a tribe of Comanches killed and scalped five men, including Ranger captain Silas Parker, tortured and raped several women, and kidnapped 17 year-old Rachel Parker Plummer, and her toddler son, her 9 year-old sister Cynthia Ann Parker, her 7 year-old brother John Richard, and a girl called Elizabeth Kellogg. Rachel Plummer wrote down the events of the raid and her capture and told the story of her 13 month ordeal in detail.

On the 6th day of their capture, the hostages were divided up. Elizabeth Kellogg was traded with a band of Kichai Indians, Cynthia Ann and James went to a band of middle Comanches, and Rachel and her son to another tribe. Rachel was eventually purchased by a group of Comancheros (who wouldn’t acquire that actual name for another five years) in August 1837. They were working for a wealthy Sante Fe couple, William and Mary Donohoe who told them to pay any price for white women. The couple took Rachel in, took care of her and promised to return her home. She eventually returned and gave birth to another son before her premature death.

Cynthia Ann was rescued by the Texas Rangers over two decades later in the Battle of Pease River in late 1860, after living as the Comanche wife of warrior Peta Nocona ,and the mother of three Native American children (two sons, one of whom was the famous blue eyed Comanche chief Quanah Parker, and a daughter).She had great difficulty adjusting to white society upon her return and died in 1870.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049730/


20 posted on 12/04/2015 3:27:30 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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