[Chancellor Palpatine]

They scattered into the desert, quickly became bored, and sought out each other’s company. 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.

I love that. Its a great imaage of boys being boys.

[Savage Beast]

There was as much nobility and goodness in the boys in Lord of the Flies as there was darkness. As many boys were saintly as were evil; most were in between.

Golding was smarter than those in this article who did the evaluating.

If these people want to know the truth, they'd better get somebody with a lot more intelligence to evaluate the information.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

It is easier to fight sensitive girls than guys filled with toxic masulinity. The left wants no more armies to defend the freedom loving countries. Make 'em all sissies.

[George W. Bush]

Can't we just outlaw masculinity once and for all?

[tnlibertarian]

The goal is to resocialize boys, freeing them from male stereotypes

No, the goal is to feminize them. Thus creating metrosexuals, bi-sexuals, homosexuals and Democrats. But I repeat myself.

[Hatteras]

One of my wife's best friends is married to one of those "sensitive" guys. He didn't know the difference between a linebacker and a strong safety...

What a pansy!

[judicial meanz]

"Social theorist Hannah Arendt is believed to have said that every year civilization is invaded by millions of tiny barbarians—they are called children"


Classic!!! I need to remember that!

[Modernman]

Societies have historically been very good at channeling male agression and female sensitivity in the right directions. It's the difference between a good Marine and a good teacher. Each onw is equally valuable to society. Now, these new age quacks want to take tens of thousands of years of human socialization and try to change it. They're bound to fail.

[Arkie2]

This just tells me the next step will be to change boys behavior by altering their body chemistry since they can't be taught sensitivity. Oh wait, we're already doing that!

[Exeter]

Ladies, it's not our fault. It's the fault of that broken chromosone. We don't want to do the terrible things we do. We don't want to tell off-color jokes and make sexist comments and hit on women in bars and think about sex all the time. We hate it, really! It's that damn "y" chromosone. Pity us. We men are actually genetic victims. It's a living hell...

[r9etb]

We have a friend who was adamant about not letting her two boys play with toy guns. One day they were eating sandwiches for lunch, and one of the boys ate his, starting from the corner....

And, of course, the sandwich became a gun -- and soon both boys were shooting at each other across the table with their bologna 9mm pistols....

LOL!!! That's boys for ya.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Save America.

Give a toy gun to a child near you.

[Bigg Red]

Then they threw the pencils and paper into a pile, and used the candles and matches to start a little bonfire.
**

Boys! I love them!

&&

Sommers is truly a brilliant voice in this struggle.

[FreedomPoster]

>>All societies confront the problem of civilizing their children, particularly the male ones. History teaches that masculinity constrained by morality is powerful and constructive; it also teaches that masculinity without ethics is dangerous and destructive.

Worth saying again.

There are subsets of American society that do a particularly poor job at this, and their economic well-being is much worse than average because of it.

[Arkie2]

This was posted yesterday so I apologize if you've already read it but it fits this post perfectly

Remember the book "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus"? Well, here's a prime example offered by an English professor at an American university. "Today we will experiment with a new form called the tandem story. The process is simple. Each person will pair off with the person sitting to his or her immediate right. One of you will then write the first paragraph of a short story. The partner will read the first paragraph and then add another paragraph to the story. The first person will then add a third paragraph, and so on back and forth. Remember to re-read what has been written each time in order to keep the story coherent. There is to be absolutely NO talking and anything you wish to say must be written on the paper. The story is over when both agree a conclusion has been reached."

The following was actually turned in by two of my English students: Rebecca-last name deleted, and Gary - last name deleted.

STORY:

(First paragraph by Rebecca) At first, Laurie couldn't decide which kind of tea she wanted. The chamomile, which used to be her favorite for lazy evenings at home, now reminded her too much of Carl, who once said, in happier times, that he liked chamomile. But she felt she must now, at all costs, keep her mind off Carl. His possessiveness was suffocating, and if she thought about him too much her asthma started acting up again. So chamomile was out of the question.

(Second paragraph by Gary) Meanwhile, Advance Sergeant Carl Harris, leader of the attack squadron now in orbit over Skylon 4, had more important things to think about than the neuroses of an air-headed asthmatic bimbo named Laurie with whom he had spent one sweaty night over a year ago. "A.S. Harris to Geostation 17," he said into his transgalactic communicator. "Polar orbit established. No sign of resistance so far..." But before he could sign off, a bluish particle beam flashed out of nowhere and blasted a hole through his ship's cargo bay. The jolt from the direct hit sent him flying out of his seat and across the cockpit.

(Rebecca) He bumped his head and died almost immediately but not before he felt one last pang of regret for psychically brutalizing the one woman who had ever had feelings for him. Soon afterwards, Earth stopped its pointless hostilities towards the peaceful farmers of Skylon 4. "Congress Passes Law Permanently Abolishing War and Space Travel," Laurie read in her newspaper one morning. The news simultaneously excited her and bored her. She stared out the window, dreaming of her youth, when the days had passed unhurriedly and carefree, with no newspapers to read, no television to distract her from her sense of innocent wonder at all the beautiful things around her. "Why must one lose one's innocence to become a woman?" she pondered wistfully.

(Gary) Little did she know, but she had less than 10 seconds to live. Thousands of miles above the city, the Anu'udrian mothership launched the first of its lithium fusion missiles. The dim-witted wimpy peaceniks who pushed the Unilateral Aerospace Disarmament Treaty through the congress had left Earth a defenseless target for the hostile alien empires who were determined to destroy the human race. Within two hours after the passage of the treaty the Anu'udrian ships were on course for Earth, carrying enough firepower to pulverize the entire planet. With no one to stop them, they swiftly initiated their diabolical plan. The lithium fusion missile entered the atmosphere unimpeded. The President, in his top-secret Mobile submarine headquarters on the ocean floor off the coast of Guam, felt the inconceivably massive explosion, which vaporized poor, stupid, Laurie and 85 million other Americans. The President slammed his fist on the conference table. "We can't allow this! I'm going to veto that treaty! Let's blow 'em out of the sky!"

(Rebecca) This is absurd. I refuse to continue this mockery of literature. My writing partner is a violent, chauvinistic semi-literate adolescent.

(Gary) Yeah? Well, you're a self-centered tedious neurotic whose attempts at writing are the literary equivalent of Valium. "Oh shall I have chamomile tea? Or shall I have some other sort of FU**ING TEA??? Oh no, I'm such an air headed bimbo who reads too many Danielle Steele novels."

(Rebecca) A**hole.

(Gary) Bit**.

(Rebecca) Wanker.

(Gary) Slut.

(Rebecca) Get fu**ed.

(Gary) Eat sh**.

(Rebecca) FU** YOU - YOU NEANDERTHAL!!!

(Gary) Go drink some tea - wh*re.

---

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

[Bahbah]

"Try as they may, parents, teachers, and gender facilitators have not been successful in rooting out male behavior they regard as harmful."

Good news, indeed.

[BubbaBasher]

That was so touching it almost made me cry. (sniff)

Then I got over it and wanted to kick some idiot's butt!

[Fiddlstix]

[Between the Lines]

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.

[cardinal4]

the sensitivity trainers were horrified.

Thats the part I like..