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Occasionally I will play a card game on my computer to waste time, and to increase my time wastage, I have to endure ads before I can play another.
One of those ads that comes up rather frequently is an Adobe software ad. It portrays a dumb, incompetent white Dad who tries and miserably fails at a number of routine house maintenance items. The final scene shows a black man entrepreneur who is not only capable of performing all of those mundane maintenance tasks (plumbing, electrical, window blind installation, etc) but also can easily set up a website to advertise, bid on projects and e-sign proposals. Genius.
This made me reflect on the other ads and shows that media "experts" inundate our culture with. From Dylan (look at me I'm a gurl), to woke, deaf, indigenous, amputee, female super hero (is there a box unchecked?), to pajama boy obamacare salesman; all portraying weak, effeminate, incompetent white men, contrasted with strong, smart, capable, women, and POC.
When your children and grandchildren are creating their own self-image, their own identities, these are the role models that they have to call upon to formulate their own identity. Where is the strong male role model in today's culture? Lloyd Austin is not it...
Today, when boys dress up for Halloween, they are banned from dressing as a cowboy, police man, firefighter, GI Joe, or any other robust strong "manly" figure. Six-year-old boys are suspended from school if they point a finger at another child in kindergarten play.
What is left for the boys? Drag Queen story hours, and teachers that inculcate the virtues of transgenderism, now required by law to be part of the curriculum.
UCLA did a survey in 2017 - seven years ago - that claimed 27% of adolescents experienced some level of gender dysphoria. Based upon recent trends and observations, it seems that number today is much higher.
I have no solution, but I do feel a strong sense of despair as I watch our civilization and culture devolve into this cesspit. Our children and grands need better cultural role models in their lives, so they can have a chance at normal, healthy development and relationships.
As a grandparent and member of our local community, I feel an obligation to stand up as an example of a healthy, capable, strong male who shows respect for women, children, animals, property, who lives by codes of honor, courtesy, chivalry, integrity. It's all I can do. No, that's not true. I also pray for our country and our children.
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I've noticed the denigration of fathers in commercials for years, and you make a great point. Without good role models, boys don't have much of a promising future. I'm hopeful, though. I think there is a growing awareness among young women that men "who live by codes of honor, courtesy, chivalry, integrity" are much more attractive than the soy boys the dominant culture promotes.
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Thank you for your commitment to being an honorable male role model. We need more of you!
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Susan, you just posted about courage. One instance is simply standing for truth instead of kowtowing to the woke crowd's demands for using preferred pronouns. It is difficult.
Last weekend, Mrs Nohaaj and I attended a wedding in N Hampshire. The groom's mother's sibling was what I believe properly called a cross dresser (His pieces were reportedly still intact) He, his wife(!), and all of the family were very careful to call him a "she/her/ Carrie's sister". I did too, for the most part. I slipped once, while repeating a drink order - "he gets a Southern Comfort Manhattan" and was immediately corrected by his wife who emphasized "SHE knows her drinks". I was not brave. I then referred to him as a her/she/sister.
Mrs. Nohaaj is fully indoctrinated into the culture. She has her doctorate in Psychology, and teaches at the local college. This semester in addition to normal, child, and abnormal psych, she has a new course, "womyn's psychology". it is full of women's reproductive rights (aka abortion), man hate, and the evils of heteropatriarchy stuff. It also glorifies trans men as living their true brave selves. go figure.
Later this year we have been invited to another wedding of a fully dysfunctional family. The bride ( a 50+ yr old) had removed her breasts because she was always uncomfortable with them. Her Father divorced her Mom and is living with a another gay. Her 19 yo niece is transgender, and living "happily" with her boyfriend. (Does that make them both gay? Very confusing. These people would be belligerently aggressive if I slipped up on a pronoun. I have asked not to attend. outcome still to be determined.
I want to be courageous... I would love to attend, smile and simply call the girl who is trans a she/her, but that would unquestionably lead to a physical attack by the family. (Their hobby is fighting in the SCA). I am principled but physically not interested in getting my butt kicked by a gang.
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If they really would assault you then they sound like Antifa-level lunatics.
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