Cultural War On Men And Masculinity

[Nesty]

The other night I was watching a tv show called Bones. A direct quote from the show was "all men are stupid". The quote was not directed as a joke and was acknowledged by the many women characters on the show.

After watching this, initially it didn't bother me. After all it's just a Tv show right? And it's not like I haven't heard that quote a million times.

Then I got thinking what if the same was said about women? Pretty sure the show would be scrutinized so badly it would go off the air, yet it is acceptable to make these kind of comments about men.

Why is this? Why has this drivel been filtered down to our Tv shows? Why are we as men just shrugging these comments off like they have no meaning or importance?

I would argue that this stems from a much bigger problem. A problem that has been brewing for decades.

Feminism

The word sounds normal right? It has become engrained in our culture. An acceptable term for an acceptable group of women.

Where did it come from? How did it start? Truth is both sexes have had their part to play in this problem.

1960s.The dawn of feminism. The golden age for men. Men did as they pleased. Women were ass grabbed in offices, relegated to the kitchen at home, and we're expected to do what men told them to.

Thus, Feminism became an acceptable term. It was like the wrongdoing of men needed to be punished, needed to be met by the polar opposite of masculinity. Masculinity needed to be destroyed.

And so it has been.

Men now have dwindling maternity rights, have a hard time making a domestic abuse claim against females, and are discriminated against in court cases across America.

Masculinity is scoffed and seen as barbaric and unnecessary.


So what is there to be done about this? Not only would the term Masculinism get you laughed out of the room, but it has the same problem as Feminism. It promotes inequality.

What's needed is balance. Celebration of what is masculine and feminine.

Society needs both, a balance of the two. This concept was very important to many great cultures including the ancient Egyptians, and I think our society would do well to learn from them.

Signed Nesty








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[CAG Archangel]

A gripe very eloquently written my man.

This is indeed an issue but as you say, one we tend to ignore. It's the same with a lot of things these days...things we can't say or things that are said that we can't be seen to oppose.

It's all utter BS and I really do think that society (dare I say the human race) as a whole is simply not intelligent enough to sustain itself in a coherent and responsible manner.

Anyhoot...I'm not gonna harp on. I agree with your thoughts and it frustrates me also.




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[CAG CheechDogg]

As much as you are right about a tv show allowing this to be said about women and being scrutinized and being taken off the air, we as "people" have gotten more and more intolerant instead of becoming more tolerant to these types of issues.

Everyone now a days wants everyone to be politically correct with what they say. It has gotten to so bad that it has spilled over into sports with probably the most talked about issue being the Washington Redskins being bitched about their team name.

Everyone is so easily offended these days over the smallest things said especially on tv and the media overall. I personally do not care what people say about men or women and especially not Me personally. I have such a high tolerance towards this type of behavior that I just laugh at the people who actually have a problem with it.

The less we worry about and let bother us the more we can enjoy life is how I see it.

[PestiferousJoe]

I agree Nesty it's a double standard but there still a lot of inequality in much of the world and all Men a lumped into that category. If your really bothered by this act I would suggest you email the network the show was playing on. Sometimes they won't show that episode again if it has offended a viewer.

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