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Masculine Dads Raise Confident Daughters
WSJ ^ | July 20, 2018 | Abigail Shrier

Posted on 07/21/2018 11:35:16 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

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Masculinity, like femininity, is neither inherently good nor bad. Enormous damage can be inflicted by the sorts of malice we associate with girls: spreading rumors, convincing someone’s friends to turn against her, refusing to acknowledge someone purportedly beneath notice. Femininity and masculinity are manners of comportment and modi operandi; they are not codes of conduct. Men have used masculinity for acts of heroism and decency. That they have also applied it to despicable behavior says nothing of masculinity itself.

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KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; abigailshrier; election2018; election2020; feminism; homosexualagenda; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; psychology; smearmachine
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A nice love letter to dad thanking him for being a real man who taught her to be a real strong, independent young woman.
1 posted on 07/21/2018 11:35:16 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

The natural way works! A father and a mother is the normal, natural way. There is no doubt about it. Anyone who denies it is insane and is not accepting human nature as it is.


2 posted on 07/21/2018 11:36:43 AM PDT by I want the USA back (This week's liberal hysterical obsession: Putin. next week's: Whore Tape.)
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To: yesthatjallen

I guess I must be a masculine Dad, because you’ll never find two stronger women than my daughters.


3 posted on 07/21/2018 11:40:32 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: yesthatjallen

A daughter will determine the kind of man she will someday marry by observing the way her father treats her mother. And the greatest thing any father can do for all his children is to love their mother.


4 posted on 07/21/2018 11:42:16 AM PDT by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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Heard that on Paul Harvey.


5 posted on 07/21/2018 11:43:19 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Darn right we do. My grown daughters know they can call me anytime for help or advice.


6 posted on 07/21/2018 11:44:03 AM PDT by cyclotic ( WeÂ’re the first ones taxed, the last ones considered and the first ones punished)
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Men have used masculinity for acts of heroism and decency. That they have also applied it to despicable behavior says nothing of masculinity itself.

A very important lesson for all in the current world, where the media and the so called "experts" propagandize against men. Men are encouraged to be feminine, and being masculine is propagated as negative and given all kinds of smear. Women are taught to hate men who are masculine and fight it.

7 posted on 07/21/2018 11:51:03 AM PDT by Moorings
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To: jmacusa

Very well put.


8 posted on 07/21/2018 11:51:54 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: DIRTYSECRET

He was a heck of a guy.


9 posted on 07/21/2018 11:54:55 AM PDT by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: yesthatjallen

And Democrats raise Monica Lewinskys....


10 posted on 07/21/2018 11:56:24 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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To: yesthatjallen

Here’s a news photo from today of men who will never be considered masculine: https://apnews.com/a1770fd620d94bf58d0ff1035d3e0eea


11 posted on 07/21/2018 12:01:14 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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It that case, I must be the next Sean Connery.

My daughter is going to China on Monday to teach science and technology in Chinese.

When she finally got the program director to tell her how many students she would be responsible for, she was told (after several weeks of trying to get an estimate) that the number would be one thousand; 250 per week for four weeks.

She was also told she'd have ten TAs to help her.

She turns 18 two weeks from today.

12 posted on 07/21/2018 12:01:59 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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Our three daughters are VERY self-confident. Not sure how much is due to me and how much is genetic from Mrs. BN or teaching by her example.

Her competence and self-confidence were what first attracted me to her, 47 years ago.

Those qualities, and the fact that she was a real BABE!


13 posted on 07/21/2018 12:03:54 PM PDT by BwanaNdege (uires sonm)
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Here’s a news photo from today of men who will never be considered masculine

She's got some pert, little breasts.

Oh wait, that's a dude.

14 posted on 07/21/2018 12:04:14 PM PDT by Drew68
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Yeah, that’s what I thought too.


15 posted on 07/21/2018 12:14:12 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: yesthatjallen
A girl who grows up with a sane,decent,responsible,respectable father learns from him how grown men should be and,also,how men are expected to treat wives,daughters (and sons).

When they grow up such girls are very likely to be able to spot a loser and avoid him like the plague.In doing so they'll avoid being abused and having their kids be abused by a husband.

16 posted on 07/21/2018 12:16:26 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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And that is why the left hates masculinity. They don’t want strong, confident women. They want women who need protectors, and then they intend to be those protectors — so they can control the women’s lives, just as they want to control everyone else’s life.

They’re totalitarians at heart, but pragmatic enough to know that the best way to get there is gradually, like boiling a frog.


17 posted on 07/21/2018 12:20:31 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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"Those qualities, and the fact that she was Mrs. BN *is* a real BABE!

Just want to keep you out of trouble! ;)

18 posted on 07/21/2018 12:22:52 PM PDT by nickedknack
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To: Steely Tom

That’s quite amazing, and adventurous! Good luck to her.


19 posted on 07/21/2018 12:25:18 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: yesthatjallen

My Dad was my hero. He always showed me the right path. I still miss him everyday.


20 posted on 07/21/2018 12:43:29 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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