As AFKAN points out, manhood is under attack.
In the same way, as I discussed below, maturity is under attack. Since the group that calls itself The Greatest Generation took over, all the emphasis has been on staying eternally immature, a.k.a., YOUTHFUL.
I discussed this in a piece below proudly titled The Old Man. I hail back to my exemplar being the old man on the porch who does not talk about what he did as a young man on the battlefield, but how he lived his LIFE.
The reason for this is that the old man LIVED his life, whereas the Greatest Generation stopped maturing at the end of WWII. Then they became Organization Men through and through. When I titled that piece The Old Man, I was claiming that, despite all my years with two generations who claimed to be YOUTH all the way to their walker stage, in MY later years I made it to being that old man on the porch.
I am proud, very proud, of that.
SysOps listed the women who, through me, she knows about in my life. She says they’re GREAT! Then, when I mentioned the only thing I know about lithium, which had to do with manic-depressives, she proceeded to tell us all about it.
What I want to get across is Mantra Thinking. The points SysOps talks about, if you step back and take this point of view, are related. Her first comment showed that I have time only for highly competent women, and her second shows what a competent woman is like.
My mentor, the old man on the porch, would stop his philosophical discussion and go into the house when his wife said, “Pa, come in her a minute.” He would be humorous about how The Old Woman (GEORGE WASHINGTON called his WIFE that!) dominated him. But there was PRIDE in it! He married a woman who, in her areas, was just plain BETTER than he was, and he would be a fool if he hadn’t.
When I brag on SysOps, I brag on ME.
There is lot of truth in the story about the man who said, “I handle the big stuff and my wife deals with the details. I decide what our political position is on the National Debt and she tells me how to spend my money.”
Back in the 50s, it was a good laugh for all when the Secretary of the Treasury went on Meet the Press and was forced to admit that his wife handled the family finances. But nobody was surprised. That was the way his generation, pre-WWII, lived their lives. The public would have been a bit worried if the Secretary of the Treasury had NOT married someone who could take care of family finances.
So I mention lithium and SysOps tells us all about it, including how it can be of use TO YOU AND ME.
That is one thing WOMEN do. And a MAN is proud that he USES that difference.
SysOps has met the women I have relied on, and she is impressed. That is part of being a MAN. Women’s lib abhors every difference between men and women. A MAN LIVES with and handles those differences. The Old Man on the Porch is PROUD that his wife is in command where she needs to be.
I keep repeating this: God or evolution, there is a REASON we have two eyes and two sexes. Women’s libbers and male chauvinists are basically just alike. They sit around worrying about whether the left eye or the right eye is SUPERIOR. It will be a long cold day in Hell before a sane man puts a patch over a perfectly good eye, left or right.
#1 by shari on 12/09/2007 - 12:05 pm
Compentency is something I have struggled all my life to gain a measure of, and it’s been wickedly hard as I had no immediate background. I couldn’t go two directions at once, both succeeding at something, and, finding something true. My daughter once complained of my “hunkering down” but I felt I had to.
The war against masculinity was something that I recognized and opposed early on. I wasn’t a tall blonde beauty, but I could be described as pretty, and very much liked the whole notion of manhood. I think that I have been a help to my two sons this way, as I’ve always said a man who accepts the idea that women are “EQUAL” in all circumstances does not treat women well. Of course they have seen a lot of examples of this.
#2 by Prometheus on 12/09/2007 - 7:16 pm
Womens libbers are so worried that women MIGHT be inferior to men, they do everything within their power to try and prove equality. The left fears that ‘minority’ groups may be inferior. That is their fear, not ours.
There are certain things right now, that I can see with my left eye, but not the right, and vice versa.
But if I had the belief that my right eye was inferior, i would obsess about what my LEFT eye can see, that the right eye cant. What the right eye can see, that the left cant, become irrelevant.
#3 by Sys Op on 12/09/2007 - 11:55 pm
Here, here! Shari, AFKAN and Prometheus.
Riiiiight, “prove equality”? Inferior under what circumstances? I was naive to a lot, and plain. I always squinted my eyes and asked, what equal to what? There’s no fire department in the nation that doesn’t have to “fake” physical ability tests or flat lower the standards below the safe levels to allow 99% of the women to get in (and police departments before that). The guys absolutely hate it! Then the other 1% cause problems with sleeping arrangements, wives, lesbian girlfriends or just female “unbalance” stuff.
Are there really any jobs that men can’t wait to get that have to have their standards lowered to allow them? Except maybe a fashion model or other “biology-related” work? Queers do that now whenever they want anyway.
When the right men and women are together and in usually balanced harmony – the two will be able to perform a tremendous amount more together than they each could have alone.
When all these things are considered with the mantra viewpoint and with some obvious truth and reality, tempers flare and witches fly!
God doesn’t get ANY better reponse. He already stated in several places and ways and demonstrations that women are the “weaker” which also means “inferior” sex (vessel/body) and that was one reason men were commanded and wired to dominate. You cannot have two equals in one chain of command. That splits authority (rightly observed) and is confusion. There just is no such thing as equal. In case after case, one must defer and one must lead to get anything accomplished. (The comparison of what were death penalty (or severe punishment) crimes for men vs. women is interesting. Women are held to a much lower standard for most things).
#4 by Prometheus on 12/13/2007 - 9:17 pm
Equality is compared to white middle class males.
Liberals believe, that inside every black woman, inside every non-white, is a white liberal male who is itching to escape. That is at least, what they WANT to believe. If they can actually force it to be true, it makes it easier to believe.
It is the liberal left, which has defined the white, western male as the superior specimen.