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Life doesn’t end when guys marry and have kids–that’s when life begins, say Jim Geraghty, co-author with Cam Edwards of Heavy Lifting: Grow Up, Get a Job, Start a Family, and Other Manly Advice.
In a 10-minute conversation with The Bookmonger, Geraghty explains what’s so great about marriage and fatherhood, why millennials need to hear his message, and why he’s obsessed with Ward Cleaver.
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Well, I would have bought it.
And… come on. June was a fox.
Doesn’t this get the same message across?
Neither Jim Geraghty nor Mona Charen talk about the prime problems facing boys today. As previously stated on the Mona OP:
As Cat III adds later:
What job do you want these men to get? Since the recession options are slim. It is hard to grow up, get a job and raise a family when Chucky Cheeses is about the only decent job available. You want men to step up? Then get them something to step up on.
People are getting married later because it is normal today to get as much cream as you want without buying any cows, that wasn’t always so.
Growing up in the city in the 50s without a normal nuclear family, those TV suburban families were my North Star, I wanted that life , I aimed for it and got it. I never understood the ‘I’m never settling down’ crowd.
“What does the bloodthirsty passage of time not leech away?
Our parents’ generation, worse than their parents’,
Has given birth to us, worse yet–and soon
We will have children still more depraved.”
–Horace
“Grow up, get a job, get married and have a family.”
Let’s break that down in the light of how men actually live today – and the incentives they have:
Grow up and get a job – and then get treated like a dog, work far to many hours, give the best part of your life to the bosses…then get laid off as that job is shipped overseas where corporations can pay people starvation wages, never mind how the American working man gets screwed.
Get married – to some western harpy who was raised in a culture marinated in feminist grievance, who spends the better part of her youth running around acting in ways that would have given her grandmothers generation a heart attack to a neverending chorus of “you go girl!” and who has a 60% chance of divorcing any poor dumb schlub she does somehow talks into walking down the aisle, taking most of his assets while spouting off about some mythical creature known as “male privilege.”
Have children – see divorce above. Besides, given the way society is running down the path of degeneracy, what sane man would want to bring children into this world?
Seriously, what’s the incentive for any modern man?
LIKE!!!!
Ned, John
I feel for you guys , I lived as the book prescribes , married a girl who felt the same as me about these things, raised three kids who are all responsible married adults now and fIve grandchildren so far, I couldn’t be happier. Everything I hoped for as a kid with nothing has come to pass.