Travis, Where do you find nut-jobs like this? Oh yeah, "Americanthinker", there's an oxy-MORON for you. Any actual THINKING connected with this article?
On Jul 24, 7:43 am, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > July 22, 2009 > Are Men Obsolete? > > *By* *Robin of Berkeley* <http://www.americanthinker.com/robin_of_berkeley/> > > When I snapped out of my left wing > trance<http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/letter_of_amends_from_a_recove...>last > year, I was lost in space. I had no conservative friends and was > clueless about web sites and books. > > I had heard something vaguely about Talk Radio. So I scanned my AM dial and > found Michael Savage. (It took several months, and a chat with a rather > bemused new friend, before I even realized there were other hosts as well.) > > Being a lifelong liberal, I'd never heard anybody like Savage in my life. > He yelled; he called people "vermin." He was unbridled masculinity, not > the touchy feeling kind I was used to. And he totally accepted himself: > his moods, passion, temper. > > But what shocked me the most was his saying that men have become > "feminized." I'd never been so offended. "Well, what's wrong with men > being more feminine?" I shouted back at my radio. "Is there something > wrong with femininity?" Men being way more in touch with their yin and > less with their yang sounded good to me. > > I hadn't exactly been a big fan of masculinity. Like any good feminist, > ranting and raving about men were two of my favorite pastimes. Men > frightened me. Testosterone fueled types like Michael Savage scared the > bejeezus out of me. I had good reasons, of course, given episodes of > harassment and abuse. > > I couldn't tune Savage out because he was the only game in town (or so I > thought). Also, he was spot on about Obama, and his show was a rich > tapestry of politics, philosophy, history, and religion. So I stayed glued. > > What a difference a year makes. Now I see Savage as a seer warning us of > the dangers we were in for if men went the way of the dinosaur. I had > thought taming men's animal nature was a win-win for everybody. Now I > realize it was tampering with Mother Nature. > > And I have to wonder whether the feminization of men has been an unforeseen > result of liberalism or some twisted scheme hatched by the left. In some > ways, it feels paranoid to even go there, like I've watched too many sci fi > flicks. But at the same time if Professor Bill Ayers and his ilk could plot > infiltrating the schools with all things Marxist, why stop there? Why not > engineer a designer man who would go along with the liberal flow? > > Step one: loosen men up through psychotherapy where they can get in touch > with their inner child. Have them exchange their arms for drums that they > can pound in the woods with groups of brothers. Teach them to reject logic > and lead with their emotions. > > Idolize gayness, because after all, aren't gay men just XY versions of the > superior women? Degrade anything masculine. Marginalize and vilify the > macho types like Savage, by banning him from the U.K. > > Hike up the costs of SUV's and trucks, and squeeze men into deracinated cars > like the Prius (notice how prissy even the name sounds?) Even better, herd > them to work in buses and trains to save the planet (and control them). > > Ask the question, as Maureen Dowd did in her bestselling book, "Are Men > Necessary?" Answer in the negative by glorifying single mothers and > supporting sperm donors. Why bother with a bossy husband when the > government can put moms on the dole? And anyway, with gayness being the > next big craze, there may be fewer straight men out there. > > On the horizon: making the notion of gender arbitrary anyway. Allow people > free and easy access to sex change operations (I'll bet good money they will > be readily available under ObamaCare.) > > *Allow children to choose their own sex. (By the way, the fad is already in > vogue and called "gender neutrality." Parents don't inform their child of > his or her or its gender and let the little mutant choose one.)* > > * * > > *Even better, have your child be Bob one day and Becky the next, another hot > trend called "gender fluid." It's already happening at a few San Francisco > Bay Area schools, where bathrooms are unisex and children get to alter their > gender as the mood strikes them.* > > *The piece de resistance of feminization: wreck the economy. If you want > to cripple men, rob them of their life spring: their ability to provide for > their family. No worries: the government will step in as a worthy > substitute. * > > * * > > *And the final stroke of genius: disempower the true symbols of > masculinity: the military, police, and intelligence officers. Investigate > them, sue them, protest them with riots in the street. Make them feel > intimidated about doing their jobs. Require them to attend plenty of > sensitivity workshops. * > > So, after decades of my going along like an automaton with the liberal > program, I finally got it. As people like Savage have warned us about for > years, tampering with gender is a disaster. And not just for men. > > Because society shrinks when we are forced to give up who we are, and we > become shells of ourselves when we're robbed of our birthright: dignity, > freedom, individuality. We become cloned people, with this part and that > part, never discovering who we are. > > We become what the Tibetans call "hungry ghosts:" tormented beings looking > all over for happiness but never finding it because we've forgotten the only > place it lives -- in our spirit, which is connected to forces Beyond. We > lose forever the knowledge of our true nature that we first glimpsed when we > were knee high. > > Because the fact is that humans cannot, should not, fool with Mo Nature, > shouldn't take nature in our hands and play God. To do so can unleash > madness and danger as we know from every horror movie. > > Because while we've been engineering a kinder, gentler man, much of the > world has been doing the opposite. Countries like Iran and North Korea have > been building nuclear weapons and poisoning their young men with hatred of > the U.S. They have been making their men stronger, meaner, and better > armed. > > Liberals: be honest with yourselves. In the end, if the worst case > scenario happens (God forbid) and we are attacked, who will you run to? > Will you scream out for the Green Czar? > > No; all of us, liberals and leftists, conservatives and feminists, we will > go where we have always gone from the beginning of time; we will search > desperately for the big, strong men to protect us, the ones who have always > had the guts, the courage, and yes the *cojones*, to put their lives and > limbs on the line. > > The question is: by then, how many will be left? > > *A frequent AT contributor, Robin is a recovering liberal and > psychotherapist in Berkeley.* > > *Page Printed > from:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/are_men_obsolete.html* > > __,_._,___ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. 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