They should be men once they’re grown. Not someone who is emotional, in touch with their feelings, or who isn’t afraid to cry, etc. That’s what women are for.
No problems at our house. The Boy and I go one-on-one with HALO, Star Wars: Battlefront, Mario Karts, Axis & Allies, Age of Empires, Guitar Hero - as long as we’re playing WITH each other, or AGAINST each other, we’re playing together.
He went back to the school gamers and toasted the older kids - they asked how he got so good, and he threw out his chest and said, “My dad’s a soldier from Iraq!” And the older boys shut up, and don’t mess with him.
I agree with Jaysun - “only Spartan men can raise real sons.”
I have one questions: is it “outlandishly inappropriate to suggest that you’re wrong?”
IMHO, men are men by the way they move, walk, talk and generally present themselves. This was the way it was before video games came into being, before movies, before there were cameras, or anything like all these to depict what manhood is.
In a time like this when men are being emasculated and overshadowed, I say let the real men take back their rightful place—not chopping heads off but slaying dragons and beating off the wolf at the door and building fences and taming the wild horses and rescuing damsels in distress and all that great stuff.
Like when:
David meets Goliath
Gideon builds his army of 300 men who don’t stop to lap up the water and go to defeat 10,000 Philistines
Sgt. York herds in 150 German soldiers all by himself
Firefighters go into the WTC to save lives
Dad comes home from work and takes off his good clothes and goes out and throws footballs with his sons
And a little brother stands in front of his lttle sister when a menacing dog approaches
Your post #4 :”responsibility, authority, leadership and courage”-—now about those words describng real men,(without chopping heads off in video games), I will not “inappropriately say that you are wrong”. :-)
Thank you. Well stated.