Masculinity under attack and the consequences
Tucker Carlson Doing a series of reports starting with this one on the crisis American Men are experiencing. The initial link doesn't include the
Interview w/ a professor who has studied this here is the conclusion of Tucker's segment.https://youtu.be/68EiD_LzmWY
Interview w/ a professor who has studied this here is the conclusion of Tucker's segment.https://youtu.be/68EiD_LzmWY
I am semi-retired and drive a school bus. For the most part women run the transportation department and their attitudes reflect the current accepted value of men. I struggled to comply with all of their bureaucratic rules and maintain order on the bus. It was chaos, the children were in control and they knew it. Finally in frustration I threw out all of their forms and rules. Parked the bus one day and told the kids we weren't going to follow the rules requiring tickets and permission from the bureaucracy to remove them from the bus. From now on if someone misbehaved and I told them they were off the bus that was it, they were off. In two days it went from chaos to children behaving, they knew that I meant it when I said they were going to be punished. Besides being in charge I used some of the children to help seat and monitor kids. I also spent time rewarding them when they were good and no participation trophies! Soon kids wanted to be a bus monitor and help. The problem kids simmered down and quit being disrespectful. Don't wait for permission to do what is right, just do it. Transportation administration and school administration are upset about not being in charge, I don't care, told them this is how it will be, I do not seek their permission, if they want they can fire me but they cannot make me behave in a way that permits misbehavior on the bus.
I demand and expect the boys to be polite to the girls and let them board first. The children have quickly learned what I expect of them and realize also that I will protect them. On a recent field trip as the students were boarding I overheard one teenage boy tell the other students who had not ridden my bus before; "That's Mr. Chad. When he says sit down he means it!" The teachers that chaperoned the trip were amazed at how well behaved the students were. Being a good man does not require being mean but it does require patience, firmness and reward for behavior that merits the reward.
The potential for good is in everyone. But potential requires an effort to attain success and results.
My daughter (middle school) tells me that her bus is run pretty much the way your boss's rules are - and has the same consequences. I can remember when I rode the bus and the driver (Ed Aagaard - I still remember it because of all the "a's") was like you - he didn't put up with any disrespect - and I never heard any foul language on the bus, everyone sat down and behaved, and no problems.
If anything goes wrong the driver is responsible.
Enjoy this great day! This woman is on to it all https://youtu.be/DDyDtYy2I0M
Like yourself she choose the self improvement
Vs the self-destructive life.
It is kind of interesting because she is a tremendous mom and now grandma. I attribute a lot of that to her recognizing the void in her youth.
Makes me think of an old standby saying.
It's not so much what happens to you , it's what you do about it that matters.
Bravo !!!! to that, too.
I was lucky to have a good dad, even thought he spent a lot of time working. He raised me to be strong and see life realistically. Mom was lost in some 40smovie version of what life should be, as was her sister, both dying form alcohol related illness in their 40s.Then,in 9th grade I got into Latin, for four years, which opened me to philosophy, and ultimately to Ayn Rand. It was philosophy which let me see that we are here now, and it does not matter what went before, it is what we do from that point on that matters, our choice. My husband is not a drinker, which was a choice. He modeled hard work for our daughter, responsible living, and fun in sports and cars. She now works 50 hours a week and drives a Charger, which she is the most fun car she has ever had. Ever notice how many feminist hate men, Behar said she likes being married, but not living with a husband. They never seem to move forward, always looking for someone to blame.
Re:Ayn Rand I was asking my dad what in the world these politicians are thinking. His answer was to read Atlas Shrugged. That was just a couple of years ago. I have tried to get probably a dozen people to read or listen on cd . 1 and 1/2 took me up on it. My brother loved it and a liberal friend who quit half way cause he didn't understand it.
I did read it out loud to my wife after I first finished it. She likes me to read to her. Although she did cut me off after 100 pages of John Galts speech promising that she gets it already. LOL
I have a friend who retired to Atlanta, and he and I are like minded and share conversations via e-mail. I went to school with Tom DeWeese (American Policy Center), and we have talked on the phone or e-mailed over the years, he is a huge Rand fan. My broker and one doctor have also read AS, which puts them higher on my list as thinking people. Reading is okay if it is hard, I remember my first Dostoevsky in high school, and it was hard, but you stick with it. My husband is a big reader, and varied topics interest him. When one reads, one topic leads to another, and you end up with information on a broad base of topics. I love philosophy, but also history, cars (Richard Petty's autobio.), English novels, architecture, science, Japanese writer Soseki, Argentine writer Jorge Borges. We translated from Latin, the writing of Cicero and Virgil, maybe that gave me more patience for hard reading. I wish teachers would urge kids to read, not tell them they on't like reading either, which I heard two do locally!
Trashy propaganda.
You drink in life when you expand your horizons.
I am a broker also. My favorite subject to read about are the ancient civilizations . mythology
All history except I don't like war books generally.
But I did read with fascination Joseph Gallaway an imbedded reporter in Vietnam's book about a battle they were thrust in.
A great book but a tough read because the names of the natives were so unfamiliar and different was "The European discovery of Tahiti"
I love to read Graham Hancock's books on the lost and forgotten civilization's.
Currently thanks to Freedomforall on this forum.
I have been reading Robert Heinlein ( he is soooo
Good). I can't even imagine not liking reading.
But I do hear it all the time.
Next stop congress? We are going to need someone like you after the swamp is drained.
Thanks for the bio.
masters in Education" - grat. When I reviewed a letter she was about to send to CEOS, it was full of grammatical errors. She argued with me, but with a call to the head of the local college English dept., she threw the letter at me, told me to send it out, and left for the day to pout. That is politics. That coupled with the James Bond annabe who hit on me daily, and I finally had my fill. Actually, the most rational job was in a corp. headquarters for an Intl. Tool and Die company, where I did some taxes, collections, A/R,cash receipts and G/L account reconciliations. There was a sense of product, common sense and reality-based dept. heads. My thinking boss, the Comptroller, did not believe in dept supervisorss, and cut the staff in half, with everyone responsible to only him. It worked well. Can you see government doing that, they would add staff. I am happily retired now, except for our small out of home business, where I am the IT person, and some accounting, with my husband doing most of that, but none of the IT.
The thought police are here now! Will the people fight back?
Recently the white hats have called it the Storm.
Either way it is on the liberal pukes " useful idiots will be self imploding when the Thousands of sealed indictments are served. The treasonous seditious enemies who have led this country are about to be held accountable.
How some men feel their masculinity does not allow for more delicate activities.
I have confidence in who I am and what I am all about. My wife has described me as a rugged
Romantic.
Your bride loves you and her concern likely will never waver.
https://youtu.be/-4S0gHlKiho
Generalizations are used to speed up the process, and although not 100% accurate, they do give a more efficient way to overcome the lying and deceit thats used today by so many people.
That said, women in general are in my experience more emotionally driven than men. Of course, thats not anywhere near 100% the case, as there are lots of ridiculously emotionally driven men too. But, its a start. I dont want to vote for women in politics, as with RARE exceptions they have liberal views and take liberal actions.
Never saw this movie but my guess is it bombed?
The last Jedi.
The Last Jedi has Kathleen Kennedy’s fingerprints all over it. She’s a Berkley educated liberal-feminist who was groomed by Hollywood men, told she had good ideas and was given powerful positions without having to do all that much… kind of like Rey.
All the men in The Last Jedi are cowards, failures, inept, or suffer from toxic masculinity. The women know better then them must save the men from their masculinity. It’s the mindset of an arrogant woman who for years has put up with the men around her (remember Hollywood is a cesspool) and believes herself to be some beacon of feminine light in the darkness. Burning the tree of the Force is setting fire the the patriarchy. The subtext of The Last Jedi is very deep and very post-modern. It’s a reflection of Queen Kennedy. It’s also why they had to destroy what Star Wars meant to us and why half the audience hates this film.
1. I figured that I was eventually going to see it -- so do it up big.
2. The theater were I saw it was new and included swell individual lounge chair seating and amazing surround sound.
In any case -- the film was deplorable. The plot itself was weak ... to laughably absurd. There was a large bit that was only in the picture as a means to decry capitalism. The way that the male characters are portrayed as incompetent was beyond cringe-worthy. The purple-haired admiral was the embodiment of a feminist bureaucratic monstrosity. Many of the supporting characters filled out the screen simply as a means to promote the far-left progressive dogma.
As you indicated, this Rey character comes from nowhere and has all of these amazing powers. It reminded me a little bit of John Galt -- leaving home at the age of 12 (John's father is mentioned in one sentence) ... and John goes on to stop the motor of the world. The fundamental difference is that John Galt has a rationale for all of his actions; he has a guiding philosophy and is implementing a very methodical step-by-step plan to achieve his goals. This Rey character is really just a zero that has been deigned to have powers without reason or direction.
Last Jedi was not much fun to watch. I compare it to Return of the Jedi from 34 years earlier . . . RTOJ had a well-stitched together plot, suspense, consistency and a truly satisfying ending. It will be interesting to see just how much worse the next Star Wars film will be in a couple years.
More troubling is the Lego Movie.
Totally ment to indoctrinate the children to the Marxist ideals.
The enemy is President Business , the hero is a non thinking common worker.
http://www.vulture.com/2014/02/lego-m...
This is the first Star Wars flick I have not first seen in a theater and I have no intention to.
When I do see it first and I will out of sheer curiosity, it will be with a Netflix DVD rental.
So far I've DVD collected every Star Wars flick that's not animated (when the price came down), including Rogue One, A Star Wars Story, which reminded me of a made during World War Two USA propaganda flick.
Will me dino add The Last Jedi to my collection?
I may just to round it out. We'll see. I'll have plenty of time to decide after seeing it.
when younger. I said "my mouth".Wrong answer.
Same as how a lot of women-targeting ads use actresses younger than the women being targeted, to appeal to the women's inner desire to feel a bit younger.
ridiculing of men through out the entertainment industry, the media and advertising. Is this a result
of more women making corporate decisions as they advance up the ladder.
Notice all the interracial families and non traditional portrayed in ads. It seems to me to be disproportionally to reality , I guess I could be wrong. But it does smell of manipulation.
Of course I am speaking generally
I figure it's all part of inculcating the "New Jim Crow" into our society. The old Jim Crow was essentially a system of legal and social constructs designed to favor a particular race or people (white) and the New Jim Crow is the exact same thing except it favors anybody but white. Any "Jim Crow" is a bad thing and we're going down that same road as before. No good came of it before and no good will come of it again.
The dangers and the consequences of Political correctness was Dr Ben Carson.
The left implies that it is bigotry to disagree with any part of its agenda.
Corporate adds representing PC is a trend similar to TV Shows .It has gotten to a point of being a ridiculous Invasion to the senses I think it started with Socially Conscious investing.
A couple of decades ago. Then the endowments
Jumped on the band wagon.
Initially it was all about the environment and the evil oil companies. Wall Street embraced the idea like they do any scheme. If a company still wanted to make their poison but dress up the pig they would add a minority to the adds and "be more
Inclusive" since it has grown like cancer.
Also a list of schools that use the most collective leftist theories in schooling our kids.
Now many of the new parents having kids are already indoctrinated and unaware.
Summary: white man cause of all problems. Every one else victim. Hate white man! No debate allowed or leftists get triggered by your “micro aggression” and can then violently lash out.
Celebrating diversity. What the hell.
How about celebrate achievement. Ha
Many things goin on here besides being blamed for something that doesn't exist anymore.
WE ARE NOT TO BLAME FOR THINGS 100/400 yeas ago!!!
Somehow, we need to encourage Males in society today, eat right for your blood type, (we were just discussing that and my own experience) or at least, stop the junk food, stop the process food and drugs, (legal and illegal). Clean you body, inside and out and CLEAN UP YOUR ACT.
A healthy society needs manly men, (not perversely aggressive but ethically competitive) and womanly women, (not bimbos but self assured and with self esteem).
Men and women cannot live without each other but the radicals have made women so uninviting and even less appealing to even the best of men.
Women today, just like always, require a Man to be their equal of better only today...the bar has been raised.
Wake up guys!
http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/ar...
The cultural historian Jacques Barzun, in his classic work From Dawn to Decadence (2000), noted that one of the predominant characteristics of modern man is his lack of self-identity. Hence, the recurring theme in art and life of a man setting out on a search to “find himself.”
“Where in the scheme of things do I belong? Who am I, anyway? Such questions made up the ‘identity crisis’ studied by psychiatrists whose patients had not ‘found themselves,” Barzun noted.
But Barzun understood something most modernists fail to grasp: Finding oneself is a misnomer; “a self is not found but made.”
x 1,000,000
To be self made is different from identifying "Self" by that which one does or has done...that is only an ego and is of no value.
To know self, one must be aware of self or conscious in the first place.
How one accomplishes his works defines one's self and his value or not or what we identify as: Content of Character.
I would love to see you as his expert guest.
My work is all about advancing the conversation...maybe someday I'll be able to articulate it in a way that brings no nonsensical push backs...it's important to me that everyone gets it and that takes getting it right not being right.
That's something I could not take credit for other than just asking the question.
https://youtu.be/68EiD_LzmWY
This SHOULD be the proper definition of Competition: Two or more entities, totally dependent upon each other to become the best that one can be.
One is never at his best until tested and could not attain his best efforts if not for competent competition.
I think about Shawn White and the half-pipe snowboard Gold medal he won in S Korea.
the first time in his life, White landed back-to-back 1440s — a maneuver that requires four full aerial revolutions — to help secure the win. White had never even practiced this combo. Too dangerous. But Hirano had pulled it off in his second run, impressing the judges. White knew he needed it in order to win.
https://www.nbcolympics.com/video/sha...
Have you ever noticed how self-destructive the Left is? Every policy they want to support isn't feasible in the long term - most not even in the short term.
Insofar as suicide is concerned, if it were due to cultural emasculation, then suicide would be expected to be highest in the coastal states and lower in more traditional states. The opposite is true: NY, Hawaii, CA are all low on the chart and Alaska, Wyoming, and New Mex are all high.
I have noticed and discussed the need for masculine liberation with male friends. I try to support them in their reveling in their size and strength and competitiveness. I think that this is a problem that actually transcends gender, however, and that the social attack is on strength and competence and independence per se; since the traditional embodiment of these characteristics is 'men', then they become the target.
While I enjoy seeing movies (at last) that have strong female heroes, and reading books with active female protagonists, it is obvious to me that one does not have to make others weak in order to be strong.
Jan
As with many discussions not all aspects of a discussion are valid. Interesting also is the dramatic drop in testosterone in men over the last few decades. No medical studies on that , but their are studies on grooming of pubic hair.
You just can't make this stuff up.
For example, as of 1900, the number of people in the US employed in farming dropped below 50%; this has decreased to 2% today. How do we know that this increasingly sedentary lifestyle is not responsible for the drop in sperm counts? In that period of time, life expectancies have approximately doubled. How does that affect us?
Jan
For wor needful PC instruction, here-wee is a comparative study twixt impeccable dudette kinda dudes and that now-~ugh!-~ way gone out-of-fashion macho cowboy mystique~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMK6l...
After the 1991 beating, King continued to lead a troubled life, struggling with alcoholism and having brushes with the law. In 2004, he pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of the drug PCP, after he lost control of his SUV and slammed into a power pole in Rialto, California. In 2005, he was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence, and in 2007, police found him drunk with non-life threatening gunshot wounds also believed to be the result of a domestic dispute.
Me dino forgot how old exactly as dinos are prone to do. Heck, I'd like to forget my age altogether but too many relatives send cards.
defended students bad behavior saying things like
He or she wouldn't do that or something else must have caused it , when the teachers had to call a students home for discipline reasons.
Then I experienced the same thing one Sunday afternoon. We have a large open space in our yard. The neighborhood kids would play baseball and football or kickball there. I looked out and two brothers had another boy on the ground and they were hitting and kicking him. I stormed out and interceded. Screaming for them to stop ,they did and I told them to go home. 5 mins later the two boys dad called me. He was yelling at me saying that it was none of my business and the that I was a so and so. I was shocked and taken back , so much so that I hardly could respond before he hung up. I was ready to go over to his house and read him the riot act but was fortunately halted by my wise bride. She said it was not worth it and that nothing good would come of it. She was right of course but it still gets my Irish up to think about it. When I was younger if a neighbor or teacher ever called my parents about me it was a grounding after I was sent to apologize in person.
I raised my kids the same way.
To the point, my kids were very rarely a discipline problem. Firm consequences resulted in well behaved children. My kids never had meltdowns or tantrums.
I have a similar example to yours when the two young daughters of my friends living nearby started using my driveway as their playground, making a lot of noise. I went out and told them to please, stop it. Their mother came at me with fury, how did I dare to instruct "her kids". It occurred to me at the time that when a case like this took place during my childhood, my Mother would have explained to me why it was improper to make noise at our neighbor's place. She would never have attacked the friend for warning us. Luckily, the husband who was also a friend had more sense and he quieted the woman down. But the kids saw by this time that they can get their mother stand by them regardless of their improper behavior.
I think his claim that the gender wage gap is non-existent is correct. I suspect it can all be accounted for by women choosing to work fewer hours, choosing to take time off, etc.
I suspect the behavioral problems in boys is caused by not letting kids running around a play. Play gets their sillies out and is where they learn very basic communication and conflict resolution. Our society is trying to take that way. They grow up and require emotional support fluffiness (that's really a thing!) or get antsy and misbehave. The misbehavior takes a more overt form in males.
So I think he's right about wage-gap and behavioral issues, but I completely reject the claim that it's due to discrimination. He sort of implies a battle of the sexes in a tone aimed at the 7-y/o level as if to get attention from viewers of that mental level.