Men--It's in Their Nature

The American Enterprise ^ | Sept 2003 | Christina Hoff Sommers

[TheSpottedOwl]

Y'all obviously haven't hung around a juvenile detention center much. Give me the boys any day. The girls are horrible little monsters who'd just as soon viciously attack anyone as to look at them.

It's our maternal instinct...

[AFreeBird]

Dissident feminist Camille Paglia is one of the few scholars who values maleness: “Masculinity is aggressive, unstable, combustible. It is also the most creative cultural force in history. When I cross…any of America’s great bridges, I think—men have done this. Construction is a sublime male poetry.”

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Yup; Created by Men!

[TheSpottedOwl]

Mm, cool of desert night. (sniff sniff). Mm smell fragrant desert rose somewhere. Me look. Ahhh find desert rose lonely and haunted. Have candle. Light candle. Have paper and pencil...write "I want you". She read. She like. What next? What we tell sensitivity trainer now? :o)

What next? Blow out the candle so the sensitivity trainer can't see ya!!

[MD_Willington_1976]

Then they threw the pencils and paper into a pile, and used the candles and matches to start a little bonfire. The boys loved it; the sensitivity trainers were horrified as the boys selected and roasted the smallest of the sensitivity trainers on a spit...Later in the evening, the students sat in a circle while the girls read their impassioned reactions to the “haunting loneliness” of the desert; the boys could barely suppress laughter—confirming once again the worst fears of the sensitivity trainers. Roasted sensitivty trainers go great with chianti and fava beans..

[headsonpikes]

"Shopping...at the Caterpillar dealer."

LOL! In the early '70s, some hippy-dippy song called 'Our House' or something like that was getting airplay.

I was living in a northern B.C. bush town then, and when I heard the lyric 'with two Cats in the yard, life used to be so hard', I thought it was about some broke down gyppo logger with a D6 and D8, and maybe a Clark skidder.

Sounded like home to me! ;^)

[Ranxerox]

(Teacher) A+ -- I really liked this one.

LOL. Me too. I love a story with a happy ending.

[Blessed]

Bump

[TheSpottedOwl]

I thought that the "evil" kid next door in 'Toy Story' was the hero of the movie. I can't tell you how many toys I tried to blow up with firecrackers.

My friend's dad showed me how to make delayed fuses out of cigarettes. I then attempted to blow up the bathrooms at school with M-80's :) Btw, I'm a girl....

[redangus]

Once clinicians determine the physiology of the male brain be prepared for research on how to fix it. There is already a well received study on the pathology of conservative thinking, produced by two Berkeley psychologist and presented to the APA recently.

[Technocrat]

Rock fights are cooler - you get a metal trash can lid for a shield, and a tennis racket for a launcher. You have to be at least 100 feet apart. Nothing over two inches across! (The long way). The sound effects are hilarious. Clang! Clang! Thwop OWW $$@#$!!

[webstersII]

?Have you ever wondered why they are trying to resocialize the boys instead of the girls. It would seem to me that if you wanted ?sameness? you would start at both ends and get rid of the extremes.?

That?s already being done. Girls and boys wear alot of the same clothes nowadays.

[ffusco]

I still have my childhood steel Tonka dump truck. I used to skateboard on it by kneeling in ther bucket- I was 4!

[ffusco]

I used to love building palstic model ships and planes and blowing them up!

[Capt.YankeeMike]

Thank God I am raising real boys. They hunt, fish, play ball, are competitve and aggressive as all get out. But they get straight A's in their Private Christian School, have good (not perfect, esp at the dinner table) manners, are respectful to coaches & teaches, have a profound love of the outdoors, and are nice to little girls.

Real Men in the making. Ahem....
The Capt.

[Psycho_Bunny]

The absolutely stupidest, most clearly #$%!ed-up statement I ever heard in my life (outside of the political area) was on one of those "differences between men and women" shows that periodically infests TLC and the Discovery Channel.

The show high-lighted some differences between male and female behavior and then the host, reading from the script, said:

"These differences, which have served men and women well in the past are, today, a hindrance."

By and large, I've come to believe that people who enter the profession of studying the differences between male and female behavior are uncomfortable with, hostile towards, or incapable of understanding, their own gender.

Like the old saying "Parents are the last people who ought to be allowed to have children", gender scientists are the last people we should be listening to about male and female psychology.  They are maladjusted, spiteful and stupid people.  

They are very clubbable people who should be ignored.

[Capt.YankeeMike]

Or the guys with 2 boats, the SUV and the two cabins in the woods....LOL

The Wily ol Captain. Women SAY they want one thing, but really NEED something else.

[TigersEye]

ROTFLMAOPIMP

NUKE THE BLUE ZONES!!!

[RipSawyer]

"I've had to step in and stop things and get adults involved where in my day we'd have just let the kids duke it out."

Just yesterday I mentioned to a couple of thirty year olds at work that I used to carry a pocket knife in grammar school and when the teacher needed to open a box she would ask one of us boys to loan her a pocket knife. They both looked suspicious and one commented that we must not have used them for what people use them for now. I replied that they were a tool and in those days two guys would get in a fist fight and not pull their knives. One of the young guys accused me of telling fairy stories at that point. I turned to another man who is my age for backup and he looked at them and said slowly and quietly, "yeah, that is how it was".
In those days it was far more of a disgrace to pull a weapon than to lose the fight.

[TigersEye]

A daycare center in North Carolina was censured by the State Division of Child Development for letting boys play with two-inch green Army men.

You know what's really cool? If your mom will let you have matches and lighter fluid you can partially melt some of these guys for more realistic play. It's always best the first time when you have all your tanks and armymen set up and you set parts of the battlefield ablaze. But don't let them totally melt and they will add realism for years to come. It goes without saying that firecrackers add a great effect too.

[TheSpottedOwl]

I still have my childhood steel Tonka dump truck. I used to skateboard on it by kneeling in ther bucket- I was 4!

Took my kid 3 years to break his dump truck. With normal kids, Tonka trucks are supposed to be indestructable ;-D