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Today's emasculated male!
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Fantastic article that hits the point precisely!
Author Lament’s today’s emasculated male
By David Yount
Scripps Howard News Service
According to Genesis, God made woman by borrowing Adam’s rib. A new book contends that women, in an attempt to gain equality between the sexes, have stolen men’s spines.
In “Save The Males: Why Men Matter, Why Women Should Care,” conservative commentator Kathleen Parker complains that over the past 30 years we have created “a culture that is hostile toward males, contemptuous of masculinity and cynical about the delightful differences that make men irresistible.
In film and music, men are variously portrayed as dolts, bullies, brutes, deadbeats, rapists, sexual predators and wife-beaters.” In sitcoms, family men “are invariably cast, at best, as bubbling, dim-witted fools.”
Parker, who raised three boys and was a Cub Scout den mother, acknowledges herself to be “an unlikely champion of males.”
She warns that ridiculing men leads to shrinking the importance of fatherhood. At the same time, “by elevating single motherhood from an unfortunate consequence of poor planning to a sophisticated act of self-fulfillment, we have helped fashion a world in which fathers are not just scarce but in which men are superfluous.”
“When masculinity is not valued”, Parker warns, “there is little incentive for boys to grow up.”
“By indulging every appetite instead of recognizing the importance of self-control and commitment, …young men encounter little resistance against continuing to celebrate juvenile pursuits, losing themselves in video games and mindless, “guy-oriented’ TV fare – and casual sex.”
“As long as men feel marginalized by the women whose favors and approval they seek, as long as they are alienated from their children and treated as criminals by family courts, as long as they are disrespected by a culture that no longer values masculinity tied to honor, and as long as boys are bereft of strong fathers and our young men and women wage sexual war, then we risk cultural suicide.” Parker concludes.
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