The Boys Are Not All Right, The Culture of Manhood and How It’s Failed

[Misfit]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/opinion/boys-violence-shootings-guns.html

Last week, 17 people, most of them teenagers, were shot dead at a Florida school. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School now joins the ranks of Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, Columbine and too many other sites of American carnage. What do these shootings have in common? Guns, yes. But also, boys. Girls aren’t pulling the triggers. It’s boys. It’s almost always boys.

America’s boys are broken. And it’s killing us.

The brokenness of the country’s boys stands in contrast to its girls, who still face an abundance of obstacles but go into the world increasingly well equipped to take them on.

The past 50 years have redefined what it means to be female in America. Girls today are told that they can do anything, be anyone. They’ve absorbed the message: They’re outperforming boys in school at every level. But it isn’t just about performance. To be a girl today is to be the beneficiary of decades of conversation about the complexities of womanhood, its many forms and expressions.

Boys, though, have been left behind. No commensurate movement has emerged to help them navigate toward a full expression of their gender. It’s no longer enough to “be a man” — we no longer even know what that means.

 

[vraiblonde]

Hilarious coming from the NYT, which has spent the last generation insisting we must turn boys into girls and men into women.

 

[stgislander]

You mean this guy?

 

[littlelady]

You mean this guy?

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Why do so many have selective memories? You don’t have to answer because I know the answer.

 

[Bird Dog]

Hilarious coming from the NYT, which has spent the last generation insisting we must turn boys into girls and men into women.

Fortunately there are enough real men raising young men to become the leaders and protectors of the free world. Thats not going to change anytime soon.

 

[vraiblonde]

Fortunately there are enough real men raising young men to become the leaders and protectors of the free world. Thats not going to change anytime soon.

Mmmm...we'll see. Currently our pop culture is trying to literally turn men into women - look what the Kardashian women did to Bruce Jenner. You all mens better take back your gender.

 

[Bird Dog]

Mmmm...we'll see. Currently our pop culture is trying to literally turn men into women - look what the Kardashian women did to Bruce Jenner. You all mens better take back your gender.

We own it......and we are not going to let a bunch Snowflakes take it from us.

 

[black dog]

Mmmm...we'll see. Currently our pop culture is trying to literally turn men into women - look what the Kardashian women did to Bruce Jenner. You all mens better take back your gender.

Not all parents raise girlymen, here is a room full of responsible young men that within a few months will be men...

 

[Bird Dog]

Not all parents raise girlymen, here is a room full of responsible young men that within a few months will be men...

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I know what kind of young men most of us on here are raising or have raised.........the snow flakes......who the “F” knows.

I’m glad you’re one of them......

 

[kwillia]

Not all parents raise girlymen, here is a room full of responsible young men that within a few months will be men...

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My daughter attended VCU which is approx. 33,000 students. She was disappointed that 99.5% of males she encountered were all sissified moochy boys.

 

[black dog]

I know what kind of young men most of us on here are raising or have raised.........the snow flakes......who the “F” knows.

I’m glad you’re one of them......

My daughter attended VCU which is approx. 33,000 students. She was disappointed that 99.5% of males she encountered were all sissified moochy boys.

Thank you, My son was pretty easy to raise. He went to work at Leonardtown Hardware at 14 until just before graduation, When he graduated last summer he went to work at Leonardtown Ford as a apprentice mechanic and his last day was yesterday. He picks me up tomorrow morning at National and we will spend the week in FL. I'll drop him off at MEPS the afternoon of March 4th he will arrive at MCRD Parris Island early morning the 5th.. I'll see him 13 weeks later at Graduation.. Hopefully as a Marine.

 

[Gilligan]

Thank you, My son was pretty easy to raise. He went to work at Leonardtown Hardware at 14 until just before graduation, When he graduated last summer he went to work at Leonardtown Ford as a apprentice mechanic and his last day was yesterday. He picks me up tomorrow morning at National and we will spend the week in FL. I'll drop him off at MEPS the afternoon of March 4th he will arrive at MCRD Parris Island early morning the 5th.. I'll see him 13 weeks later at Graduation.. Hopefully as a Marine.