What really represents a man? An opinion that Big Al completely agrees with.
Leonard Pitts: What does it mean to be a man today?
Genuine manhood, authentic manhood, requires no apologies or excuses 20 or 30 years down the line.
“So I guess you can take men off the endangered species list.
It wasn’t that long ago we were hearing that men were in trouble. It was said that our manly maleness was under siege from a culture of runaway political correctness hellbent on snipping off our masculine accoutrements and turning us into sissified wimps who ate kale, clipped coupons and talked about our feelings. Fox “News” sounded the alarm about what it dubbed the “feminization” of the American man.
From commentator Todd Starnes warning about colleges that were turning men into women, to anchor Brit Hume explaining that people only think Chris Christie is a bully because they’ve been “feminized,” to morning show co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck asking if all those unmanly men might pose a threat to national security, Fox was on this “story” like hyenas on a gazelle. Beyond Fox, people were writing books with titles like “The War Against Boys” and “Save the Males.”
The recent spate of sexual harassment and assault headlines suggests, not shockingly, that this concern was a tad overblown. Since last month, when film producer Harvey Weinstein was revealed as a porcine abuser of women, we’ve seen dozens of men unmasked as alleged predators against hundreds, maybe thousands, of victims, their reported crimes ranging from sexual harassment to sexual assault to child molestation, and stretching back for decades.
It’s a dishonor roll that includes the gay (Kevin Spacey), the straight (Ben Affleck), the reporter (Glenn Thrush), the comic (Louis C.K.) the hypocrite (Roy Moore), the guy you never would have expected (Al Franken) and the guy you really never would have expected (George H.W. Bush). This column is too short for a complete list and besides, it’d probably be easier at this point to name the men who have not been accused.
Suffice it to say, it seems obvious the problem with men isn’t that they’ve become feminine. Rather, the problem is what it has always been — that, as men, we too often define manhood by the use of our (usually) superior strength and/or position to take what we want. Which makes this an opportune moment to reconsider manhood, to ask anew what being a man means — and should mean.
With that in mind, a brief story. A few years ago, I chanced to call one of my sons on the phone. He was huffing and grunting, obviously doing something that required great exertion. It turned out he was walking through a blizzard in knee-high snow on a day when every store was closed, trying to find diapers for his daughter.
I’ve never been more proud of any of my kids than I was of him right then. It was, I felt, a moment that deftly illustrated a truth about manhood that has gotten lost along the way. Namely, that our (usually) superior strength and position are not an end unto themselves. Nor are they a license to prey upon those who are less strong or in subordinate positions.
Rather, they are a gift that allows a man more ways to be of service to those around him. By itself it means little that you are bigger or more exalted. The measure of a man is what you do with those things.
It speaks to their massive failures of imagination and character that so many men can apparently think of nothing better to do with them than cop a feel. Our boys — and girls — deserve better examples. They deserve to be taught that genuine manhood, authentic manhood, requires no apologies or excuses 20 or 30 years down the line.
You see, Fox “News” has it exactly wrong. Men are not an endangered species.
Real men are another matter.”
Leonard Pitts | The Miami Herald
Thanks Pardu,
Pitts’s point exactly and also mine. Best to you
please stop being so surprised. The Zionist protocol video on YouTube ( which is about 3,4 hour long) All you need to know. Sincerely. Man up. Be informed
Trust me Poppie, I am informed.
Clearly the Jewish Zionist mass media is a key factor in the attack on men, the family, and the very concept of gender.
How many programs on television portray healthy, stable families? How many portray balanced, masculine men or fathers? How many portray fathers as doofuses? How many portray broken homes, non-traditional living arrangements, etc.?
The education system is also a key factor. E.g. small towns that you would think maintain traditional values, but in kindergarten they’re reading them books like ‘Michael Has Two Daddies’. And of course, US higher education institutions are also waging a war on traditional gender roles.
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The US is pumping this crap out to the rest of the world. It was pretty much un-felt where I am in South America 10+ years ago, but it is making rapid inroads.
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As far as I can tell, modern feminism is anti-female, anti-male, anti-gender.
If feminism is good for women, why are 1 in 4 American women age 40-60 taking pharmaceutical anti-depressants after 2 or 3 generations of feminist advances?
What’s that video link, Poppie?
Thanks for asking Chris, I think that I am fully aware of this situation and I don’t have a spare 3 or 4 hours.
Protocol of the elder zion. Also Benjamin Freedman. The new world order exposed. Utube
Real men treat women as equals and believe in gender equality. DT
I mostly agree Dick, but would phrase it differently:
Real men treat women with respect, but there are most definitely differences between genders that we would be far better off recognizing and respecting as well.
Seems like common sense to me, but then, we just saw Google fire an engineer for making this very point in a very balanced and articulate fashion.
Well-stated GH.
The answer doesn’t really matter, but, Dick, are you a man or a woman?
Biblical manhood and masculinity: The mature masculine man gladly assumes sacrificial responsibility. Authority flows to those who take responsibility and flees from those who avoid responsibility.
complete mental meltdown by Trumpet . after tax bill is signed Repubs wont need him he could be impeached in 48 hours if need be. Andrew Johnson trial only took 6 weeks and the had no leagl presidents . constition has no rules about how Impeachment is handled Pray S
Rush Limbaugh brought this up years ago and I agree. Masculinity or “real manliness” has been under siege for a long time.
In the movie, “The Magnificent Seven” from 1960, Charles Bronson corrected some Mexican youth, in the village the seven came to help, who thought their fathers lacked courage because they had not risen up to fight the banditos. He told them that real courage was that their fathers were willing to work hard and take on the responsibility to care for their children and the mother in the family.
This burden, Bronson stated, was like a huge weight on their backs that drove them to the dust, as they cared for the family. They did so willingly, and Bronson said that he lacked that kind of courage the fathers had displayed.
Real men accept their responsibilities to provide the necessities of life, protect, and nurture their families, they also lead by example, an example that shows their children, especially their sons, what true manhood and fatherhood is.
This kind of father and husband has been on the decline for a long time, due to societal changes and it would help our society if more men rose to the occasion and became the examples they were meant to be.