(cache) War on Women? The Real War is on our Boys [Warden]

War on Women? The Real War is on our Boys [Warden]

It may not be a surprise to many of you that after decades of a leftist controlled public education system that regularly denigrates and shames boys for their masculinity, that boys are now lagging behind girls in school.

Women now comprise 60% of college graduates and are trouncing boys across all measures of academic performance, save one--SAT scores where the boys beat the girls by a significant margin in math and slightly in reading.

The response to this disparity, of course, is to label boy's superior SAT scores to, you guessed it, gender biased testing that favors boys.

It cannot be the case that boys are better at something. Boys are never better at anything.

Our schools are stuffed full of left-wing, female educators who largely despise boys and see their very nature as a problem to be corrected. They've beaten them down, broken their spirits and stuffed them full of Ritalin to shut them up. Is it news to you that 20% of 14 year old boys have been diagnosed with ADHD? It shouldn't be because it's a goddamned outrage. They've literally pathologized masculinity.

I have two boys, aged 5 and 10 and I'm mad as hell about how this garbage culture treats them. But here's the thing--I can't change how others act toward me and my family. I can only control what we do.

We need solutions--all of us who wish to raise our boys into strong, confident, masculine men rather than the limp and effete pajama-boys we're beginning to see dominate our culture.

So what do we do? I have a few recommendations below the fold. Please add yours to the comments.

First, grab yourself a copy of Wild at Heart. It's not a book about raising boys, per se, but all of it is dedicated to examining the true nature of masculinity from a Christian perspective. If that turns you off, then just think "nature" and "evolution" instead of God and you'll still find quite a bit of valuable reading here.

Secondly, I think we need to actively and purposefully encourage masculinity in our boys. Men, particularly, should be aware that every single day they are modeling what it means to be a man to their sons--how you interact with your wife, your reaction to problems, your physical and mental toughness, your ability to problem solve, and your strength and courage in navigating life.

I am, quite frankly, a radical reactionary when it comes to this feminized culture. I seek to neutralize its effects in my boys by emphasizing and encouraging masculinity in all walks of life. I think that exposing your boys to all of the things that the left hates is a good start--contact sports, martial arts, guns, working with your hands, fishing, woodworking, etc... I can't fill all these roles myself--for example, I'm not the most handy fix-it guy in the world, but I am able to fill in these gaps with other strong male role models like the boys' uncles, grandparents and in-laws.

I also take the boys to stereotypically masculine events--car racing, monster trucks, regional pro wrestling, rodeos, football games, etc... If it's loud, dirty or dangerous to the participants, we're there.

More importantly, though, I believe that men--fathers particularly--need to push back against the kind of helicopter parenting that so many mothers engage in. This means giving your boys, or even someone else's, the space to adventure, roughhouse, explore, and challenge themselves. It also means accepting a relatively higher level risk of injury.

My wife is generally good with letting our boys be boys, but I do have to fight against her protective instincts at times. And this is okay. Parenting used to be a push-pull between husband and wife, finding the right balance between protectiveness and the freedom to explore, learn, test limits and sometimes get injured in doing so. Somewhere in the last 30 years or so, this balance shifted radically to the feminine side. We must shift back to a more healthy state of affairs. I'm not afraid to tell her to back off and let the boys go. It sometimes upsets her, but she also respects it and realizes that I understand them in ways that she doesn't.

One of the ways I push back is by giving my kids a lot of room to roam. When we go to the supermarket, I let my 5 year old wander from site when I'm in a fixed location like waiting at the deli. He knows where everything is and where I'll be. He'll wander off, chat with the sample lady, check out the lobster tank and investigate any sales specials in the fruit bargain bin and return with what he discovered. I think it's good for him to explore and gain a sense of independence.

It's always interesting to see how startled adults are when they see a kid this age walking alone. It's a mixture of concern and judgment. I don't care about what they think. This was normal when I was a child and things aren't anymore dangerous now than they used to be. The odds of a stranger snatching your kids are next to nil.

I've weighed that tiny risk and found it to be acceptable for the simple reason that boys have an innate need to explore and conquer. Whether climbing trees, flailing at each other with stick swords, or tromping through an unknown creek, boys need to feel like adventuring heroes. They cannot do this while someone is constantly shielding them from risk. The risk is the point.

Does all of this mean that I spend all my time yelling macho rah-rah slogans at my boys? Of course not. My older one is both thoughtful and sensitive and loves to do artwork. I recognize who God made him to be and also--and this is important--that these things do not negate his masculinity. He can paint a beautiful picture one day and go tearing around the neighborhood on his bike the next. That's who he is, that's what he does, and I'll be damned if I'll let anyone make him feel badly about it.

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1 So, no gender-ambiguous dolls for the boys?

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at October 25, 2016 08:55 PM (J8/9G)

2 Goddamn, my first First!

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at October 25, 2016 08:55 PM (J8/9G)

3 rd

Posted by: Weasel at October 25, 2016 08:56 PM (Sfs6o)

4 Congrats, Kodos..

Posted by: Weasel at October 25, 2016 08:57 PM (Sfs6o)

5 I give my boys time, room, and toys to be boys. I keep them outdoors as much as possible and support their sense of adventure. Of course this means my wife gets to point out that they've never needed emergency room visits when she's watching them...

Posted by: Drewbicle at October 25, 2016 08:57 PM (iGiss)

6 I'm gonna get flamed for this .... the risk aversion in rearing our children is a function of their scarcity. We need to have more kids.

Posted by: Jean at October 25, 2016 08:59 PM (ngn8T)

7 Guns lots of guns. Started with air guns and worked on up. Focus, rules.

Posted by: USNtakim at October 25, 2016 08:59 PM (hMqvx)

8 Well, the thing to remember is that Boy's enjoy deconstructing things to figure out the why. It's natural. Girls on the other hand are pleased when conformity and order rule the day. I believe the latter has take president.

Posted by: OhNo He Didn't at October 25, 2016 09:00 PM (Blp1s)

9 self control and breaking stuff whats not to love.

Posted by: USNtakim at October 25, 2016 09:00 PM (hMqvx)

10 THRIPPY: deliberately and fastidiously well-mannered and polite to the point of provoking ridicule or annoyance. Not to be confused with various autism spectrum disorders which may or may not look similar.

Posted by: doomed at October 25, 2016 09:01 PM (UW4Uc)

11 I'm 21 and my dad had me read Wild at Heart. I have since passed it along to all my friends and college basketball teamates. Their is an undercurrent going on right now. It's a movement to bring back real men who raise and protect families. Their is something exceptional about this country and the fact that men in our country are rebelling against this instead of going the way of Europe and Japan is the proof.

Posted by: connor at October 25, 2016 09:01 PM (0kVnk)

12 Not just masculinity they have pathologized; if you look carefully what they have done is declared that being an alpha male is pathological. The part of the beta male and female attack on alpha males.

Posted by: An Observation at October 25, 2016 09:02 PM (5xI6f)

13 Good post. Men have become The Enemy in The Current Year. (Well, at least heterosexual white men...who are cis-gendered...)

Posted by: WARPIG at October 25, 2016 09:03 PM (KL5Ns)

14 Are females trouncing males academically? Or are they just trouncing them at repeating what professors want to hear? If the SJW and safe space that appears to be what is being taught and tested for what male could flourish or excel at that.

Posted by: Willy J. at October 25, 2016 09:03 PM (Ha50C)

15 >>>I think we need to actively and purposefully encourage masculinity in our boys.

I'm kind of going back and forth on that one.

I treat my boys with love, give them 3 squares a day and try to make sure they get to bed on time, etc.

They are going to be the people they will be. I don't think we have as much control over that as we'd like to believe.

Posted by: Max Power at October 25, 2016 09:03 PM (q177U)

16 Join the Boy Scouts, preferably a troop run by a bunch retired military assholes who won't put up with any of this feminized bullshit.

Posted by: DrEvil007 at October 25, 2016 09:04 PM (b04/g)

17 Stanley Kubrick was killed after Eyes Wide Shut for a reason.

Public School Teachers are nothing more than agents of Family and Child Services. They despise fathers. They despise boys. They despise the nuclear family.

They honestly believe children are property of the State.

Posted by: Pepe, The Irredeemable at October 25, 2016 09:05 PM (uzJKG)

18 Excellent post. I have one son. He's 28. I babied him but thank god we did some stuff right cause he's a guys guy now

Posted by: Jaimo at October 25, 2016 09:05 PM (eDc0r)

19 The best thing you can do for a young boy is to give him a wooden sword and send him off into the woods to slay dragons.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at October 25, 2016 09:05 PM (aL3pd)

20 6 - Jean makes an excellent point.

When people had 8 kids, if one of two died in childhood, you still had a bunch to carry on your name and take care of you in your elder years.

These days, people have 1 or 2 (MAYBE 3).

Posted by: WARPIG at October 25, 2016 09:05 PM (KL5Ns)

21 I meant to type "This is part of the" but the first four words appeared only in my mind - sorry.

Posted by: An Observation at October 25, 2016 09:06 PM (5xI6f)

22
Speaking of boys...

That stupid lying douche bag Samantha Bee actually did a segment on "Partial Birth Abortions Aren't A Thing."

They're not a "thing." That's what it says in giant letters on the tv, so it must be true.

Crowder rebuts her:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhtphabTpIs

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 09:06 PM (qP3+D)

23 Don't know if you've already posted this, but it's a great closing debate speech by Milo and very inspiring for boys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDn-xvvhSIk

Posted by: Carrie at October 25, 2016 09:06 PM (3XZm3)

24 Trouncing males academically? What's the breakdown in STEM disciplines?

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at October 25, 2016 09:06 PM (J8/9G)

25 We're gonna hit golf balls. Alpha says - you feeling Cofident? Beta says - nah Bro. It's just for fun.

Posted by: The Real Husbands of Orange County at October 25, 2016 09:07 PM (Blp1s)

26 Are females trouncing males academically? Or are they just trouncing them at repeating what professors want to hear?

Posted by: Willy J.
*************

It's a good question and one that occurred to me as I was writing this.

My father taught at a university for most of his career. His observation was that women were better at following specific instructions and men were better problem solvers.

Posted by: Warden at October 25, 2016 09:07 PM (MZ8Zz)

27 Never heard of "Wild at Heart" till this thread. Just googled it and it sounds compelling.

Posted by: Max Power at October 25, 2016 09:07 PM (q177U)

28 Such a good post. Kudos, man. Kudos.

I've been railing against this very thing for a decade now. Not because I hate girls. I have no kids of my own but I have a niece whom I adore and would end the sun if it made her smile. But I have watched what you describe happen systematically over the past two decades. We should never lift one group up at the expense of another. Women have been empowered for generations, yet we act like we are somehow just breaking through the clouds of oppression and one day soon, girls will be free!

They act that way while Miley Cyrus grinds a panda bear half naked on stage at the VMAs.

And it's a sad world where men are taught to be women. Why, a world like that would be easy to subdue, since men who don't know how to be men are less likely to fight on the way to a cage.

Feminist teachers create emasculated boys. Men grow up pansies. Women look for men, because no one wants a pansy. Can't find one. Woman complain than men are pansies and shut ins who don't know how to do anything scary, like ask a girl out. Woman cheer for feminists because, go girl!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 25, 2016 09:08 PM (pUDQf)

29 We need solutions--all of us who wish to raise our boys into strong
---
Overthrow the Matriarchy!

Posted by: Methos at October 25, 2016 09:08 PM (3Liv/)

30
The Big Lie

-- obamacare is just great
-- partial birth abortions aren't a thing
-- obama cut the deficit in half
-- the unemployment rate 5%
-- "Syrian" "refugees" are vetted
-- Indoctrination in schools is also not a thing

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 09:09 PM (qP3+D)

31 Make sure your boys read the classics. Illiad, Odyssy, Song of Roland, Huck Finn, Lord of the Rings, etc. The more that they're exposed to the stories of masculine men, the more they'll be able to rely on those stories as guides when things get rough.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at October 25, 2016 09:11 PM (aL3pd)

32 If men step out of line in this feminist gynocentric Culture, you run the high risk of having your children taken from you via divorce and/or the State.

And other men refuse to step in and be loud advocates for boys and men because of the feminist gynocentric Culture that will punish them or the fact they are white knights and pussies.

Posted by: Pepe, The Irredeemable at October 25, 2016 09:11 PM (uzJKG)

33 My son isn't a mechanical genius or a great student but he works and plays hard. Starting at a community collage, fixes his own car, fishes and shoots and keeps aquariums. He is 19. I think hes doing well although I was 17 and in bootcamp... so he is not quite up to speed. No we are not hicks we live in the burbs outside of Denver.

Posted by: USNtakim at October 25, 2016 09:11 PM (hMqvx)

34 At Trump event:. Black absentee voting is down 37%

Posted by: Jean at October 25, 2016 09:11 PM (ngn8T)

35 I have 2 girls, when little if I went to the store and they wanted to wander I would say have it. A few minutes of peace for me. Plus I always knew if they were abducted they would be returned..........

Posted by: Molly k. at October 25, 2016 09:12 PM (B15oO)

36 1900-1980 - Boys will be boys
1990-2010 - Boys will be gender neutral
2010-2020 - Boys will be girls

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 25, 2016 09:13 PM (pUDQf)

37 Just a WAG based on life experience and observation, but I don't think whatever we call this absurdly bubble-like control and "safety" for kids these days is linked to small family size.

This trend started before family size had shrunk.

More telling, there was no significant loss rate for kids during the baby boom (economic development, medicine, and vaccines made the experience of prior eras a mere memory), yet families were large, and boys certainly were free and expected to be boys.

I think it's something that snapped in the underlying culture. I know 30-something parents of young kids - the fathers grew up like I did, very free and active, yet now they slip easily/silently into this Huxleyesque prison camp model for kids.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 25, 2016 09:14 PM (QDnY+)

38 Jean, do you have a source for that number? If so, it has to be worrying for Dems.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at October 25, 2016 09:14 PM (aL3pd)

39 *Need Solutions?*

Blow up your TV throw away your paper
Go to the country, build you a home
Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches
Try and find Jesus on your own

-John Prine

Posted by: Meremortal, Bigly Matters... at October 25, 2016 09:14 PM (3myMJ)

40 35
I have 2 girls, when little if I went to the store and they wanted to
wander I would say have it. A few minutes of peace for me. Plus I always
knew if they were abducted they would be returned..........

Posted by: Molly k. at October 25, 2016 09:12 PM (B15oO)

LOL. Please, just take them back!

Reminds me of some of the classic Saturday movies when I was a kid. Wasn't there some movie like the Apple Dumpling Gang or something where a robber kidnapped a young girl and she drove him crazy with all kinds of questions, so he fought through hell to get her home?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 25, 2016 09:14 PM (pUDQf)

41 I just finished working with my son on his 3 grade math. I have to say the way they teach subtraction math is bass ackwards. Not sure why they taught it that way.

Posted by: Picric at October 25, 2016 09:15 PM (s0VSd)

42
"War on Women?"

"First, grab...."

Hmmmm -- the rest of that did not go where I fully expected it to.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 25, 2016 09:15 PM (kdS6q)

43 Government schools.....enough said. You see the big yella bus going here and there picking up people's precious things and taking them to be warehoused in a cesspool for 8 or 9 hours a day then the big yella bus brings back the people's precious things all covered and filled up with the warehouse filth and people do it day after day like it is a good thing.

If the big yella bus did this to people's firearms they would be outraged and 2nd Amendment and all that.

Suffer the poor children.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 25, 2016 09:15 PM (ej1L0)

44 I think this is a symptom of the larger breakdown in the relationship between men and women in Western culture. The conflation of granting equal rights to women with the notion that men and women ARE equal has done real damage. Men and women are more different than the same and that's what makes our partnerships that understand that so powerful and productive. One of the major things we have in common though is our default perception of the other gender as a poor example of our own gender. In other words, men are perceived by women as not very good women, and vice versa. We really live in two overlapping realities - for men, reality is physical - for women it's more experiential. Men are their work (which is why it's important for men to have work), and women are their relationships. Of course these are generalizations but useful ones to not forget.

Posted by: Dave at October 25, 2016 09:16 PM (LNakt)

45 Women beat, shame and drug the masculinity out of boys. Then they cry that there are no real men any more. They're like the child who murdered his parents begging leniency from the court because he's now an orphan.

Posted by: Insomniac - Broken, No Refunds at October 25, 2016 09:17 PM (0mRoj)

46 Make sure your boys read the classics. Illiad, Odyssy, Song of Roland, Huck Finn, Lord of the Rings, etc.
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Robinson Crusoe

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 25, 2016 09:17 PM (9Q5BJ)

47 A HUGE part of the problem and the main one that needs to be reversed ASAP... IS THE FEMINIST LIE THAT MOTHERS CAN AND SHOULD REPLACE FATHERS.

This is the worst and most failed example of social engineering in history yet nobody speaks up.

It is all about the best interests of the women/mothers/ and the State by extension.

Posted by: Pepe, The Irredeemable at October 25, 2016 09:17 PM (uzJKG)

48 Plus I always knew if they were abducted they would be returned..........
Posted by: Molly k. at October 25, 2016 09:12 PM (B15oO)

Heh, heh. Is one of them named "Red Chief"?

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at October 25, 2016 09:17 PM (J8/9G)

49 Jean - was the absentee voting figure overall, or for a particular state, and was this stated publicly at a campaign rally?

Posted by: rhomboid at October 25, 2016 09:18 PM (QDnY+)

50 As a lurking moronette in a male dominated field (96% dudes), other than giving birth/nursing, and maybe multi-tasking, there are few areas where women out-perform men. Please discuss.

Posted by: busdrivee at October 25, 2016 09:18 PM (q6Qym)

51 43
Government schools.....enough said. You see the big yella bus going here
and there picking up people's precious things and taking them to be
warehoused in a cesspool for 8 or 9 hours a day then the big yella bus
brings back the people's precious things all covered and filled up with
the warehouse filth and people do it day after day like it is a good
thing.

If the big yella bus did this to people's firearms they would be outraged and 2nd Amendment and all that.

Suffer the poor children.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 25, 2016 09:15 PM (ej1L0)

Truth. For some folks, school is necessity to be able to work and put food on the table. But, I know plenty who have said no to public schools and gone home schooling or christian church schools. I imagine that will end soon when Queen Fly gets elected.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 25, 2016 09:18 PM (pUDQf)

52 Posted by: Jean at October 25, 2016 09:11 PM (ngn8T)

Yeah I saw it was down 23% in North Cackalackey. Awesome

Posted by: F.N.G. at October 25, 2016 09:19 PM (kiSdp)

53 On a related note, we think about what we want to teach our boys but we don't always expect what they will teach us. I never wanted boys after having daughters, but my boys have brought us such joy. They have taught us not to take ourselves so seriously. They have let us rediscover the goofy silliness of childhood.

Posted by: Max Power at October 25, 2016 09:19 PM (q177U)

54 Rhomboid, stated publicly at event. No breakdown, but they were talking about VA, OH, and PA.

Posted by: Jean at October 25, 2016 09:20 PM (ngn8T)

55 I could not believe in the 90s when they push began, whining that girls were being ignored in schools. That they were being pushed back, not being chosen to answer questions, etc.

WHich was just a ridiculous lie. I remember school. All the girls looked like Hermione, bouncing around in their chairs with a hand up as the guys tried to disappear in their desks.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2016 09:20 PM (39g3+)

56 46
Make sure your boys read the classics. Illiad, Odyssy, Song of Roland, Huck Finn, Lord of the Rings, etc.

-----------

Robinson Crusoe

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 25, 2016 09:17 PM (9Q5BJ)

Lord of the Flies. The catcher in the rye

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 25, 2016 09:20 PM (pUDQf)

57 Megain MKelly yelling at Gingrich right now. Newt yelling back.

Posted by: mallfly version 1.00205c at October 25, 2016 09:20 PM (2JQBv)

58 Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at October 25, 2016 09:14 PM (aL3pd)

GP is where I got my 23% from. One of the commenters.

Posted by: F.N.G. at October 25, 2016 09:21 PM (kiSdp)

59 "Robinson Crusoe"

Treasure Island
Moby Dick

Posted by: Meremortal, Bigly Matters... at October 25, 2016 09:21 PM (3myMJ)

60 "My son isn't a mechanical genius or a great student but he works and
plays hard. Starting at a community collage, fixes his own car, fishes
and shoots"

I have 2 daughters. It saddens me that their husbands know less about car and home repair than my daughters do. I tried as much as I could to involve my girls in day to day fixing of stuff. They loved it when the were little but put up with it as they got older. One of the few things I did really well with them growing up.

Posted by: Willy J. at October 25, 2016 09:21 PM (Ha50C)

61 g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 25, 2016 09:21 PM (SZlJt)

62 One of the hardest things about having sons is trying to prepare them to live in a culture and system that hates them just for being male.

Posted by: Insomniac - Broken, No Refunds at October 25, 2016 09:21 PM (0mRoj)

63 Fathers can not be replaced by a Mother. Mothers can not be replaced by a Father. Two "fathers" is not in a childs best interest neither is two "mothers". The best arrangement is one father and one mother. Subversive isn't it....

Posted by: USNtakim at October 25, 2016 09:22 PM (hMqvx)

64 Also, make sure that they know what it means to be a gentleman and how to act. This does not make them a pussy, or a beta male, or a white knight. But knowing how to act means that they take control of their own lives and how they treat others.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at October 25, 2016 09:22 PM (aL3pd)

65 Boys throughout history and biologically seek and need affirmation, validation, and confirmation through their fathers. Since the 1960's snowballing since it has been the mothers and the state forcing boys to seek those three things through them. Because of Feminism.

Then when boys grow up they transfer seeking those things through females partners the rest of their lives and will never get it and never mature.

Posted by: Pepe, The Irredeemable at October 25, 2016 09:22 PM (uzJKG)

66 Holy shit! Did you guys just catch Newt and Megyn Kelly going at it?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 25, 2016 09:22 PM (SEXy3)

67 M K: he's not on the ticket... and you can deal with your anger issues, Mr Speaker.

ratbag.

Posted by: mallfly version 1.00205c at October 25, 2016 09:22 PM (2JQBv)

68 We could use more radical reactionary men in the public schools. I'm lucky to be in a department where the only men other than my self are coaches, so their politics are tempered by competition. And as a coach, I see a huge need for men who don't curse like sailors and use every program they're in as a stepping stone. Young men need to know you're solid. They need to see commitment.

Posted by: Chris N at October 25, 2016 09:22 PM (jhNNo)

69 I think the lack of real men today explains a lot about Trump's support. Not in the way you think, naturally, but in the we gravitate towards someone unafraid to say FU.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 25, 2016 09:23 PM (pUDQf)

70 Megan Kelly?

Never heard of her

(Puke)

Posted by: Charles Gibson at October 25, 2016 09:23 PM (3CFdj)

71 Wild at Heart has a huge problem, to me, with the idea of masculinity. He repeatedly mocks the idea of a father being someone who has a duty to make sure that the family is taken care of in his denigration of George Bailey from the movie It's A Wonderful Life. The author spends 2/3 of the book talking about fatherhood and manliness in terms of a cut rate Indiana Jones/Sons of Anarchy member.

While having fun is part of life and a needed thing for all of us, putting one's self in harms way for a thrill, "embracing the wild" I think he called it, is stupid when you have people depending on you to make sure they are clothed, fed and kept safe. That he uses rather dubious theology in the formulation of this, is a problem.

Posted by: MrScience_ at October 25, 2016 09:25 PM (u4Vgg)

72 I hope Newt told that casting couch cum dumpster to eat shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 25, 2016 09:26 PM (89T5c)

73 64
Also, make sure that they know what it means to be a gentleman and how
to act. This does not make them a pussy, or a beta male, or a white
knight. But knowing how to act means that they take control of their
own lives and how they treat others.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at October 25, 2016 09:22 PM (aL3pd)

+1
I've always said it's like that song, Daddy's Hands. Velvet and stone. Yin and Yang.
Knowing your a man allows you to be a gentleman. Wishing you were a man makes you act an asshole.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 25, 2016 09:26 PM (pUDQf)

74 Lol I'm sure the most accurate place to get absentee numbers is at a Trump rally!

That's about as accurate as Rush saying Carter led Reagan by 9 pts in the final 1980 poll before Election Day! In reality, Reagan had the lead in the final polling by 3-4 pts, due to his Oct 28 debate showing. That was the one and only debate that year.

Rush out and out lied.

Posted by: Poll man at October 25, 2016 09:27 PM (iakNF)

75 Treasure Island
Moby Dick
Posted by: Meremortal
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30 Seconds Over Tokyo
Johnny Tremain

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 25, 2016 09:27 PM (9Q5BJ)

76 Need more males teaching in Preschool and Elementary school and Middle School and High school. Men should be encouraged to join teachers and not just a joke class to fill the role of a football/basketball/baseball coach.

Boys begin to imprint off of males at age 3 to age 6.

The stigma that men that are good with children are pedophiles propagated by hysterical women needs to stop.

Posted by: Pepe, The Irredeemable at October 25, 2016 09:27 PM (uzJKG)

77 Don't let 'em pick guitars,
Or drive them old trucks.
Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such.

Posted by: Willie Waylon at October 25, 2016 09:28 PM (ce4zT)

78 Meagain has some douche general on

Posted by: Burnt Toast at October 25, 2016 09:28 PM (P/kVC)

79 It's the POLE man.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 25, 2016 09:28 PM (89T5c)

80 After Megyn said of Trump "If he's a sexual predator" Newt lost his shit.

Told her she's obsessed with sex.

Dared her to say the words "Bill Clinton sexual predator"

Her defense for not doing so is that BC isn't running for office.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 25, 2016 09:28 PM (SEXy3)

81 Amen!! My sons bike to school.

Posted by: Scoob at October 25, 2016 09:28 PM (eqMu6)

82 74
Lol I'm sure the most accurate place to get absentee numbers is at a Trump rally!

That's about as accurate as Rush saying Carter led Reagan by 9 pts
in the final 1980 poll before Election Day! In reality, Reagan had the
lead in the final polling by 3-4 pts, due to his Oct 28 debate showing.
That was the one and only debate that year.

Rush out and out lied.

Posted by: Poll man at October 25, 2016 09:27 PM (iakNF)

Oh, look. Baghdad Bob!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 25, 2016 09:28 PM (pUDQf)

83 smokem POLE.

Posted by: USNtakim at October 25, 2016 09:28 PM (hMqvx)

84 41 I just finished working with my son on his 3 grade math. I have to say the way they teach subtraction math is bass ackwards. Not sure why they taught it that way.
Posted by: Picric at October 25, 2016 09:15 PM (s0VSd)

I have a theory: I think the purpose is to discourage parents from participating in the education of their children. You can't help your kids with schoolwork if you don't understand what the heck they are doing.

When I was growing up, it was set theory. With kids in our local school system, it's lattice multiplication and some weird division algorithm.

All these things are inscrutable to parents, so the school becomes the expert and parents are sidelined.

Posted by: Emmie at October 25, 2016 09:28 PM (xVuS6)

85 Robinson Crusoe
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 25, 2016 09:17 PM (9Q5BJ)

Yup...when I was a little shaver I would climb on the roof of our house and read "Robinson Crusoe" and loved it. Made me think and plan and execute when faced with a problem. Made me want to find adventures wherever they were....

Friday.....what a name.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 25, 2016 09:29 PM (ej1L0)

86 So, to sum up this post:

We need a Zardoz-ization of society.

Posted by: zombie at October 25, 2016 09:29 PM (jBuUi)

87 Wild at Heart has a huge problem, to me, with the idea of masculinity. He repeatedly mocks the idea of a father being someone who has a duty to make sure that the family is taken care of in his denigration of George Bailey from the movie It's A Wonderful Life.

++++

never read it, but that is a problem. sounds like flipside first wave feminism actually

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at October 25, 2016 09:29 PM (U0lQa)

88 Her defense for not doing so is that BC isn't running for office.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 25, 2016 09:28 PM (SEXy3)

The proper response to that is, "No, the woman who enabled and protected his abhorrent behavior is."

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at October 25, 2016 09:29 PM (aL3pd)

89 Posted by: Poll man at October 25, 2016 09:27 PM (iakNF)

who's bitch is this?

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 25, 2016 09:29 PM (SZlJt)

90 Heads up, people: I saw this in a sociology textbook I was editing for a major academic publisher, just last year:

"HYPERMASCULINITY is the root cause of RAMPANT INDIVIDUALISM."

Of course, they're only referring to American masculinity.

Unpack this: The sociologists know we're the Land of the Free Because of the Brave. They want to rule over us all. Therefore, they want to cut your nuts off.

And furthermore: their excuses for hating on boys and men aren't the real reason they hate you. Look at what they actually denigrate:
--Physical courage.
--Individualism.
--Logic.
--Concrete achievement.
--Technology.

[Quite often, people hate you for what's good about you; not for what's bad about you -- see, e.g., the moslems' hatred of Christendom.]

Posted by: Beverly at October 25, 2016 09:29 PM (6xK61)

91 80
After Megyn said of Trump "If he's a sexual predator" Newt lost his shit.

Told her she's obsessed with sex.

Dared her to say the words "Bill Clinton sexual predator"

Her defense for not doing so is that BC isn't running for office.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 25, 2016 09:28 PM (SEXy3)
was that tonight? i just got home and have the game on......

Posted by: phoenixgirl, gird up your loins, this is not the time to go wobbly at October 25, 2016 09:30 PM (0O7c5)

92 Boys are seen as defective girls in our schools. The American Psychiatric Association says that ADHD affects 5% of the population, but 15% to 20% of the kids are diagnosed as such. But nobody admits the obvious--a lot of misdiagnoses. We see each day the affects of leftist ideology every day. I'm raising a couple of nephews and a niece, so I've been thrust back into the morass. So much of our lives are now controlled by ideas that have been disproven for decades. But those failed concepts become policies and bureaucrats come and go and never question the status quo.

Posted by: IanDeal at October 25, 2016 09:30 PM (teGBX)

93
I have a theory: I think the purpose is to discourage parents from participating in the education of their children. You can't help your kids with schoolwork if you don't understand what the heck they are doing.

When I was growing up, it was set theory. With kids in our local school system, it's lattice multiplication and some weird division algorithm.

All these things are inscrutable to parents, so the school becomes the expert and parents are sidelined.

Posted by: Emmie at October 25, 2016 09:28 PM (xVuS6)

I blame the urge to send everyone to college. Everything is geared towards it and teachers and bureaucrats got this fantasy that they were teaching young geniuses so they changed up the curriculum.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at October 25, 2016 09:31 PM (aL3pd)

94 who's bitch is this?

***

Ahem.

It is properly asked, "Who bitch this is?"

More Shakespearean, no?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 25, 2016 09:31 PM (SEXy3)

95 Constitutional admendment that children are the property of both parents as a natural right.

The idea that children do not belong to the parents as a natural right is absolutely insane

Contiutional admendment to shared parenting.

RICO the Family Courts.

Posted by: Pepe, The Irredeemable at October 25, 2016 09:31 PM (uzJKG)

96 I have two teenage sons, 15 & 17, and we live in the middle of town. My husband and I taught them how to navigate the streets and they both had grand adventures riding bikes. Though finding friends whose parents would allow this when they came over proved a challenge. My kids had school friends who they never invited over as parents would demand that their child not ride bikes. Seriously.

And now to kick all of you guys' parenting butts, we're all headed to the Angola Prison Rodeo this weekend.

Posted by: KinLa at October 25, 2016 09:31 PM (hLsQ6)

97
I hope Newt told that casting couch cum dumpster to eat shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 25, 2016 09:26 PM (89T5c)

HEY! That's my job.

Posted by: GEN John Allen at October 25, 2016 09:31 PM (P/kVC)

98 was that tonight? i just got home and have the game on......

***

Yeah. Not ten minutes ago.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 25, 2016 09:31 PM (SEXy3)

99 Also, make sure that they know what it means to be a gentleman and how to act. This does not make them a pussy, or a beta male, or a white knight. But knowing how to act means that they take control of their own lives and how they treat others.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at October 25, 2016 09:22 PM (aL3pd)

"A gentleman's manners are an integral part of him and are the same whether in his dressing-room or in a ballroom, whether in talking to Mrs. Worldly or to the laundress bringing in his clothes. He whose manners are only put on in company is a veneered gentleman, not a real one."

Emily Post, "Etiquette" Chapter 29 (1922). A book that can still be usefully read.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at October 25, 2016 09:32 PM (J8/9G)

100 Thanks, Beverly, very interesting.

Not surprising, but very interesting.

There's such a sickening, dreary, blood-drenched European connotation to "rampant individualism".

Posted by: rhomboid at October 25, 2016 09:32 PM (QDnY+)

101

The Dangerous Book for Boys

amzn.com/0062208977

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 25, 2016 09:32 PM (IqV8l)

102 Kodos, exactly.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at October 25, 2016 09:32 PM (aL3pd)

103
The stigma that men that are good with children are pedophiles propagated by hysterical women needs to stop.

Posted by: Pepe, The Irredeemable at October 25, 2016 09:27 PM (uzJKG)

Something else that infuriates me. Especially being a child-less male. I hate even being around other people's kids because of it. I hate this shit with a passion. The idea that only men with kids are not pedophiles. I remember reading some article on this where the author described how he would hesitate to help a lost child in a mall for fear of someone accusing him of being a monster. What a sick world we've created.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 25, 2016 09:32 PM (pUDQf)

104 I'd love to teach Elementary School Science.

But my observations of school hiring is that males with merit and gravitas are not wanted. Young, loyal females with SJW pedigrees are.

You should have seen the Superintendent of one of the largest schools in the state learn I was Chairman and quizmaster of a Constitution Bee effort. It was like I was a pedophile with his own children.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 25, 2016 09:33 PM (u82oZ)

105 NDH thanks for the correction on that phrase. I've been itching to do that but was too lazy. Even though I never watched the original video clip from which it sprang.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 25, 2016 09:34 PM (QDnY+)

106 Normal is normal.

Complicated is likely a lie.

Posted by: 80's music fan at October 25, 2016 09:35 PM (PHcLa)

107

Posted by: Infidel at October 25, 2016 09:35 PM (sOAz7)

108 The response to this disparity, of course, is to label boy's superior SAT scores to, you guessed it, gender biased testing that favors boys.
It cannot be the case that boys are better at something. Boys are never better at anything.

To zeroth order, the prime directive for women is to bear and raise children.

That for men is to protect and provide for same.

I denounce myself.*

*But in my defense note that something like 50% (IIRC) of female MDs stand down from practicing medicine within 10 years of being certified, primarily because they prefer to spend time with their children. A rational observer would consider their education to have been a waste of resources.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 25, 2016 09:36 PM (SRKgf)

109 Emmie You are exactly right. We suffered through "everyday math" with our youngest child. They called it that here in Massachusetts so people wouldn't realize it was common core math This was years before common core was adopted here.

Had to tell the teachers that she was not allowed to do the bullshit "lattice" long division and all the other stupid tricks they were using. 3 years later she when they had basically abandoned the program she was the onlly student who could "do math the old fashioned way"

She struggles with math and this program was a disaster. No need to do basic math tables. Don't worry parents it's a "spiral " program. If your kid didn't catch it first time around we spiral back to that skill and maybe they will understand it then.

Posted by: Charles Gibson at October 25, 2016 09:36 PM (3CFdj)

110 AlaBAMA, that's a good point. Has never happened to me (the outrageous, implied presumption that I could not be trusted around kids), but it did, I'm pretty sure I would set aside my 24/7 facade I keep to be civil with so many idiots. And nuke them with 50 megatons of fury.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 25, 2016 09:36 PM (QDnY+)

111 I've raised my sons and now try to play the role my Grandfathers did for me...I'm the one to let them shoot the big guns, use a pocket knife and such madness that would create issues if Dad did it - my daughter and daughter-in-law already know I'm crazy and that I would die before I let the kiddos get seriously hurt. So they get to ride in the back of the truck on a buddy's ranch and as much as possible do the things I did growing up. Bonus is how much it pisses off my tree hugging neighbors...

Posted by: jestersix at October 25, 2016 09:36 PM (0NdPS)

112 Gen Allen proves the Peter Principle and that truly shit can be stacked 6 ft high.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 25, 2016 09:37 PM (89T5c)

113 I am so thankful my grandson is living in a home and has male relatives and friends that are not afraid to exhibit testosterone to counteract all this bs.

Posted by: Infidel at October 25, 2016 09:37 PM (sOAz7)

114
*But in my defense note that something like 50% (IIRC) of female MDs stand down from practicing medicine within 10 years of being certified, primarily because they prefer to spend time with their children. A rational observer would consider their education to have been a waste of resources.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Did they not provide a service during the 10 years?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 25, 2016 09:37 PM (IqV8l)

115 90 Heads up, people: I saw this in a sociology textbook I was editing for a major academic publisher, just last year:

"HYPERMASCULINITY is the root cause of RAMPANT INDIVIDUALISM."

Of course, they're only referring to American masculinity.

Unpack this: The sociologists know we're the Land of the Free Because of the Brave. They want to rule over us all. Therefore, they want to cut your nuts off.

And furthermore: their excuses for hating on boys and men aren't the real reason they hate you. Look at what they actually denigrate:
--Physical courage.
--Individualism.
--Logic.
--Concrete achievement.
--Technology.

[Quite often, people hate you for what's good about you; not for what's bad about you -- see, e.g., the moslems' hatred of Christendom.]
Posted by: Beverly

This is important, because what begins in academia leaks into the mainstream. The leakage process used to take decades -- now it takes just years -- and soon it will take just months.

Expect the mainstream/SJW axis to start overtly criticizing "individualism" soon.

Next up: Ayn Rand's Anthem finally becomes true.

Posted by: zombie at October 25, 2016 09:37 PM (jBuUi)

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