What’s Happening to Boys? Young Women These Days Are Driven - but Guys Lack Direction
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roger said,
In Ayn Rand’s humorless apocalyptic novel “Atlas Shrugged,” the central characters ask: What would happen if someone turned off the motor that drives the world? We may be living in such a time, a time when the motor that drives the world is running down or stuck in neutral — but only for boys.
March 31, 2006 at 10:07 am
jaustin9698 said,
March 31, 2006 at 11:46 am
Denis said,
In a recent article in USA Today Kim Gandy claims that single sex schools are bad for women. That “studies show” that boys and mens education continues to receive more funding than for girls and women and this then hurts them. As is usually the case, she uses over and over “studies show” but never refernces the study for third party verification. Schools everywhere cater to girls. Universities are hostile to males. Title IX has killed 300 male sports programs.
It may very well be the case that the female-centered teaching styles that are widespread are the cause for boys and mens lack of interests educations.
Perhaps Kim Gandy wishes to see the current situation continue as it will further adbvantage girls and women and further disadvantage boys and men. Afterall, the single sex school controversy has been going on, and so far womens groups have opted, at the time, for whatever position they thought would help girls/women and hurt boys/men. 35 years ago they wanted single-sex schools for girls. Now they don’t because this may benefit boys.
It all comes down to hating everything male by womens groups and by women like Kim Gandy
March 31, 2006 at 12:07 pm
drjrg said,
When I was in high school it wasn’t untill 10th grade that school became so boring and inconsequential that it was only tolerable by self-medicating before and during school. Unfortunately, I noticed this same thing in my children starting in about 7th grade. At least they have not chosen the stoner path even though they must put up with way more superfluous nonsence than I did.
If kids spend 12 years in a system that attempts to give self esteem rather than expecting it be earned, teaches that results don’t really matter, and that competition is bad so there is no need to keep score, then why should we expect them to try and earn anything once they graduate from school?
March 31, 2006 at 2:56 pm
DcFather said,
April 1, 2006 at 6:13 am
Denis said,
Raising boys that feminists will hate: Part five
By Doug Giles
Apr 1, 2006
Can you imagine the African American uproar that would rightfully ensue if Hollywood produced a movie that painted black people as idiots that white people had to help or they just couldn’t make it life?
Or what if Tinsel Town got their best and brightest together to spit out a flick that framed Muslims as violent, religiously illegitimate zealots with glazed over eyes that must be quickly kicked to the global curb? Whaddya think the Islamic reaction would be? Huh?
Or, what if TV writers and producers took a turn and started cranking out sitcoms and commercials that pitched women as dense, manipulative, unfeeling and vicious whores? I’m talkin’ about one show after the other where women are depicted as insipid bottom feeders who follow only the dictates of their lower cortex monkey brains and whose only hope for escape from their innate ignobleness is through totally yielding to the Zen of men. How do you think the ladies would respond to such an egregious assault upon their fair sex? I can tell you how: with claws out.
The above mentioned bigoted and unthinkable cinematic scenarios are exactly what men who wish to be men—and not women—get assaulted with day after day in the entertainment industry, on the university campus and in a lot of churches. The clear message that comes from popular culture is that masculinity sucks, and femininity is fabulous—even for men. Men who would be men are getting pounded in pop culture more than Scott Phillips’ drum skins during a gig, and everyone is expected to be cool with it.
Look, I know guys aren’t perfect . . . that we’re a scratchin’, fartin’, beer, sex and gadget driven gender. I can laugh at our stupidity and knuckle dragging tendencies, but it has officially gone over the top from poking fun at male foibles to a nasty, systematic, organized bigotry cranked out by feminists towards men that would not be tolerated if it were even mildly volleyed at women, at a particular race or a specific religion. And you know I’m spot on.
This leaves two options for parents of boys who want them to become men: 1) capitulate to the current cultural castration in raising their male kid or 2) rebel against the emasculating metrosexual machine.
I suggest rebellion—unless you’re cool with your son acting like JLo.
In order to rebel you need a vision of what is preferred and a blueprint regarding how to proceed. That’s where the most hated book by the female chauvinist pigs comes in, i.e., the Bible. You don’t have to unpack the scripture too much until you start getting the message that God created men to be wild, to lead, to make life better for everyone, to slay serpents, to be wise and to reflect His majesty (Gen.1-3). Having tackled the first four topics in my last few columns, here’s my run at numero cinco (as they say in California).
Born to be Wise
One way to foment the female chauvinist pigs is to make sure, mom and dad, that your son is incredibly smart. You must make certain that he not only has a well-fed wild streak, a willingness and ability to lead in life, that whatever he gets his hands on prospers, and that he will tackle evil wherever and whenever it raises its ugly head, but that he is also the most well read boy on the block.
Parent, if your son stays dumb (and I’m not referring to children with learning disabilities) then he boosts the malicious stereotype that the fem’s are shoving up our society’s tailpipe, and he unwittingly sets the stage for a worse mañana, at least as far as masculinity goes. Mom and dad (and especially dad), don’t give the female chauvinist pigs any ground by pitting one form of masculinity (leading) against another form (reading).
Parents, teach your rough and ready boy that:
1. Serious studying is not just for Poindexters and geeks.
2. Studying, learning and holding intellectual discussion are all part of being masculine.
3. The intellectual target you’re aiming for him to strike doesn’t look like Tommy Boy or Homer Simpson; but rather more like King David, William Wallace and Sir Winston Churchill.
4. It takes guts and nuts to tackle the various sciences and no matter what his Beavis and Butthead friends think, serious study is not for “wusses.” As a matter of fact, it is just the opposite. Reading, meditating, gaining understanding and knowledge and staying abreast of what has happened and what is happening on this world’s stage is so hard that the effeminate, the little Sally’s, the prancing, petite male poodles won’t do it; they actually avoid it like Rosie O’Donnell does Jenny Craig.
5. God intends for him to be sharp and to not be a bastardization of his great gender. Then, Daddy-O, go to work to get your kid a killer library. Spend the cash!
6. The rowdy realm of ideas and debate can be just as fun as any sport. It fact, one of my greatest joys is when I get to go toe-to-toe on the radio, TV or over dinner with a flaming liberal or raging atheist. Yeah, it is right up there with hunting Africa’s green hills . . . nearly.
Finally, parent, can you imagine the angst when Hollywood and the multitudinous, hijacked-by-feminists universities can no longer play the stooge card when it comes to men because the sons you have raised have engaged their brains and have not opted for anti-intellectualism? Can you picture, mom and dad, how the faces of the female chauvinist pigs will contort and how their stomachs will gurgle with acid as the stereotype they’ve worked so long and hard to prop up no longer works because you, the parent, have raised your son to be intellectually astute?
I have a dream!
April 1, 2006 at 11:22 am