Boys are The Problem
The week's coming to an end and I'm not in the mood for finance talk or any more banker bull. There is, however, a topic that has always interested me which gets little attention in the press. Today, I was surprised to find an article that addresses said issue, so I would like to hear what the monkeys have to say about itt.
I am sure a lot of you guys will have strong opinions and I can't wait to hear them. We are all attached to this issue which the mainstream loves to keep under wraps. This is a topic which may wind up costing America an infinite price in both human and labor capital over the next century...yet few care to discuss it aloud.
I don't know if it is fear or ignorance, but today it's time to bring it up.
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In the Valentine's Day edition of The Weekly Standard, P.J. O'Rourke brings up the issue of young man control. Or as I like to call it:
The Systematic Cultural Castration of American Heterosexuality
Though the article makes Liberals the focus of the issue, I am a lot more concerned with the core of the subject. One which is not explored with nearly enough depth...in this article or anywhere else in polite society.
So tell me... are young men the cause of America's social ills?
Better asked, is the non-medicated, non-castrated, non-pacified, non-emasculated, normal/ natural, aggressive and action seeking nature of the adolescent/teenage/college-age boy/man something America should fear?
From everything I read and everything I see in the media. I would say the answer is yes.
Back in the day...
When I was young I got beat up all the time. That having been said, I won a lot more fights than I lost. I broke windows of homes. I shoplifted. I pinched girls' booties. I called shy, quiet boys frooties. I set garbage cans on fire.
Had I learned that it made a proper villain out of you, I probably would have drop kicked a house cat or two, while spit roasting a field mouse.
In spite of this animal behavior, reeking of aggression and oozing of intolerance, I turned out to be a functional member of society. Never have I killed or robbed or raped or done any of the things, my boyhood behavior would have forecasted ...according to today's logic.
Today, a kid like I was gets zapped with Ritalin, Prozac or whatever's in style by the time he's 9. He is spayed and neutered with such zeal that even getting something as normal as morning wood is not easy by the time he hits puberty.
He is constantly badgered and put down and made to feel guilty. He constantly gets shamed and is taught to feel ashamed not for who he is, but for what he is.
His main concern in life is how to conform to American society's feminized image of masculinity.
A chick with a dick.
His main concern is to just fit in and be like everyone else.
Or...am I imagining things?







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Michael Savage talks about
Michael Savage talks about this issue constantly. It's one of the three or four big things that's really at the heart of bringing down America.
If a little boy pinched my
If a little boy pinched my little daughter's booty, little fucker would have gotten the shit kicked out of him like a man he thought he was when he was doing it.
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@rebelcross I'm hard pressed
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@ Argonaut
That's fine, but then you'd be doing a dime for assaulting a minor, while that minor does a juvie stretch...both ridiculous outcomes, yet deemed just.
You really think a kid acting out is an attempt to be a man?
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Be careful Midas. You are
Be careful Midas. You are directly confronting 98% of Patrick's unique visitors (college kids looking to break in). The lust after a wall street job is more about social acceptance than the money (hell even making money is about social acceptance).
I find myself in the above cohort. Then again, can you blame me?
Ironic, as you post this I am watching Gangland.
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My coach in college used to
My coach in college used to call it the pussification of America's youth....LIBOR, I too am watching Gangland, SPIKE TV?
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Today, a kid like I was gets zapped with Ritalin, Prozac or whatever's in style by the time he's 9. He is spayed and neutered with such zeal that even getting something as normal as morning wood is not easy by the time he hits puberty.
He is constantly badgered and put down and made to feel guilty. He constantly gets shamed and is taught to feel ashamed not for who he is, but for what he is.
His main concern in life is how to conform to American society's feminized image of masculinity.
This is wrong on so many levels but it's so sad that it seems to be accepted in many parenting circles. You speak of the "The Systematic Cultural Castration of American Heterosexuality," I would also highlight that the inverse of your example is also a large problem in some social settings; pushing extreme masculinity/heterosexuality on young boys/adolescents who don't fit the mold of a "tough man."
Both cases are sickening and pathetic, I just wanted to point out the other side.
In 1976, James Hunt broke the sound barrier through Eau Rouge only to retire before the event finished... following the race he had sex with three Belgian nurses at the clubhouse near La Source.
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I'm hard pressed to find anything bigger
Affirmative Action perhaps? Welfare State? It's a worthwhile debate, this is definitely among the cream of the crap.
My kid is going to start a
My kid is going to start a strict steroid regimen at age 6 and go to the NFL at 11. If Ryan Fitzpatrick can do it, anyone can.
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Being a young man who was
Being a young man who was medicated because he was "ADD,"I have VERY strong feelings about this subject. I could probably rant for the next few days, but I feel someone else has already said it better than I ever could:
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/279126743...
It's part of the best of craigslist and it's written by a former marine. Called "advice to young men from an old man."
+1 for the excellent and
+1 for the excellent and funny Craigslist link.
thanks for the article
thanks for the article surferdude, gave me a much needed boost
Hahah Midas. you and I would
Hahah Midas. you and I would probably never have gotten along, for one thing I was a quiet and shy kid (one of the frooties!) and I used to hate other kids that behaved similar to what you used to. But I guess a percentage of boys definitely goes through this phase and I don't think its right to control this behaviour with an iron fist. I remember that the other 'destructive' kids who used to bully me for being shy and quiet were barely ever punished if caught. Heck, once the principal even remarked that 'boys will be boys, what can you do?'
I kind of agree and disagree
I kind of agree and disagree with some of this stuff. Being rowdy and tearing shit up is cool, but being a prick to other people or giving them beatings isn't. Also, ADD is a scam and drugging kids is the worst. They did this study where they took a group of ADD kids off of processed food for a week and gave them fruits and vegetables, and, lo and behold, no one had ADD any more.
We are pussifying this
We are pussifying this nation. Drugging kids because they are active. Everything has to be PC because everyone has tissue paper skin. Expecting the government and police to be our parents when we are grown.
Home run Midas.
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@rebelcross
I'm hard pressed to find anything bigger
@ Argonaut
That's fine, but then you'd be doing a dime for assaulting a minor, while that minor does a juvie stretch...both ridiculous outcomes, yet deemed just.
You really think a kid acting out is an attempt to be a man?
Not if I pick a good jury and a good lawyer.
I honestly wouldn't give a shit why someone else's kid is acting out - maybe his momma didn't love him enough, maybe his daddy raped him - not really my problem; the only thing I would care about is that MY child feels safe and protected.
I def would push for juvie for little brat and sue his parents. Maybe if they get a clear insentive to raise their son as a respectable gentleman because it costs a lot of money if they don't, maybe then they'll pull a dick out of their ass and start paying attention to their children instead of unleashing them on everyone else
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