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Comment on Downplaying female abuse by Talleyrand

Talleyrand — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:29:15 +0000

It is the continaul cultural lie that women are better than men, when this is not true.

Comment on The Prospects of Masculinity by wolfshowl

wolfshowl — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:09:53 +0000

This is so true. Our culture has made men afraid to be men. It’s where the *shudders* metrosexual trend comes from. Some women are happy with feminized men, but I think most instinctually want masculine men. They’re harder to find, so I think that’s where the dangerous female trend toward wanting a “bad boy” comes in. His good male counterparts are often so wimpy! Culture needs to relearn that being masculine does not equal being bad.

Comment on Downplaying female abuse by wolfshowl

wolfshowl — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:04:33 +0000

I think a large part of the cause of the cover-up of female abusers is the misogynistic idea pushed upon us that women are “natural care-givers.” That women “naturally” want children and are “naturally” better with children than men. That is just preposterous. Some people indeed are more instinctual and natural with children than others, but that’s not gender-based. Since the culture assumes that women naturally know what to do with kids, no to very little time is spent teaching parents what it means to be a good parent, how to parent, etc… They assume that it doesn’t matter if the men know, because the women will naturally take care of it.

I call it the cult of motherhood. People pretty much worship the ground mothers walk on. If you criticize your mother, you’re met with angry glares and accusations of being a bad person yourself.

Equality isn’t just about the good things; it’s also about the bad. Equality means admitting that women are just as likely to do evil things as men are.

Comment on Sexual abuse by mothers on the rise by Downplaying female abuse « Toy Soldiers

Downplaying female abuse « Toy Soldiers — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:53:59 +0000

[...] 16, 2009 by TS Last week I posted about the statistics from a UK abuse support organization. The numbers showed that ChildLine received more calls from children, predominantly boys, reporting [...]

Comment on The Prospects of Masculinity by Clarence

Clarence — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:21:52 +0000

Llyando

Check out novaseekers’s blog.

http://novaseeker.wordpress.com/

You may also want to check into Roissy in DC, though I must warn you it is very explicit, offends pretty much everyone at times, and is kinda of nihilistic in outlook. It’s a “game” blog with some political and cultural commentary added in.

Comment on The Prospects of Masculinity by Llyando

Llyando — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:21:42 +0000

Hmmmm. Very interesting. You both make excellent points. Is there a place we could discuss this further? A forum perhaps?

Comment on The Prospects of Masculinity by Talleyrand

Talleyrand — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:45:42 +0000

Any defining what is “masculine” in relations to women is a mistake and a failure.

Whether is is “We are not” x

Or we do x in relation to women.

Masculinity is something that has to be self defined in today’s society, or culture is antimale, so that can not be the source of masculinity.

Chivalry, as nova points out perpetuates the evils against men and boys and must be rooted out and destroyed. Anything that elevates the feminine over the masculine must not be accepted because it is a poison in an equalist society.

Comment on The Prospects of Masculinity by novaseeker

novaseeker — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:58:06 +0000

Chivalry is a core part of the problem. In a world of equality between the sexes, chivalry functions to elevate women at the expense of men. It’s an anachronism. Any future re-balancing of the situation between the sexes will have to do away with chivalry pretty much entirely. This is already the case in many countries outside the Anglosphere, because it was in the Anglosphere countries that chivalry reached its apogee under the Victorians. As it stands now, chivalry is an anachronism that hurts men. It needs to go.

Comment on The Prospects of Masculinity by Llyando

Llyando — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:34:57 +0000

In a way it all ready has. I’m a rather effeminate male so at least from where I sit….

Diversity is the key to this. If we can spread the base principles of masculinity thus setting the foundation, it will once again be seen as good and wholesome and smiled upon.

Does that make sense?

Comment on The Prospects of Masculinity by Llyando

Llyando — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:31:40 +0000

Wonderful post. Very well articulated.

I think their is much to be learned from old stories and new ones. I learned a lot of how I act and what ideals of honour and chivalry I uphold from reading a lot of stories. Masculinity is so ill-defined I think that the only way to define it is to fall back on basic principles that have held through out time.

It’s sad though. It seems to me that chivalry is very much dead in this day and age. Perhaps all we can do is teach what it is to be chivalrous and respectful and honourable.