And you're saying feminism had nothing whatsoever to do with this swing ?
quote from video ... says feminism inadvertently ruined the structure for dating and family life
You can hurt people without willful intent .. can you not ?
With "friendly fire" the bullets are just as deadly !!
I've never really sat down and given it extreme thought, but on the surface I don't think excessive blame should be laid at the feet of feminism. I'm under the impression that as this country moved beyond the industrial age, something changed about the definition or perception of what a man is supposed to be. This all happened with some good and some bad. Amongst the bad, I'd say the feminization of men. I don't believe there's a true definition as to what exactly is a real man. I would never think any guy is less of man than the next guy because of his income, employment,or schooling. However certain aspects of masculinity that were embraced and encouraged in times past have been lost as we move beyond a traditional blue collar society and into a more white collar and service based society. I mean, can you imagine the term, "meterosexual", during the 1800s, or even the mid to late 1900s?
I'll tell you something from my perspective as a black male, and I say that not to necessarily get into race, but just to make a point. Traditionally black males go to barber shops for haircuts. Me personally I cut my own, since I usually keep my hair completely bald, or a light fade and it saves me some dough. Why pay a barber $15 to shave my head, when I can do it for free? However, what I've noticed in recent years is the decline and I fear the extinction of the white barber as younger white males are going to salons. I find that to be repugnant. The barber shop is a staple of masculinity in my opinion. Its the one place that I know I can socialize around other men and discuss matters of concern to us as men. My father actually went to a salon one time to get a haircut because his barber shop was closed and he just happened to walk by a major chain salon. Some woman cut his hair, and I told him that as a result his "Man Card" is going to get revoked. I said that playfully, but you know he's never been back to that salon since, and has absolutely no intention of ever going again? To me thats the way its supposed to be.
Now thats just one side of the demasculinization that I cringe watching. There's others that disgust me, such as men getting manicures, tight jeans, tanning salons, amongst other things. Even though I stated I would never view a man as less than a man for his employment, I do feel that as a society the more we import blue collar manufacturing jobs overseas, we're going to pay in the long run because of a lack of skilled blue collar workers home grown. There will always be a need for men who are skilled in trades, and industries that need skilled machinists, or tool and die makers, are bleeding because young men aren't gravitating towards those jobs anymore. Its going to come back and bite us in the booty, if it hasn't already considering all the men that are out of work because the jobs that used to be available to them are in Taiwan. As a society at least in this country, we've been thumbing our nose at blue collar workers for far too long. Not everybody is capable of finding a desk job, just like not all desk job workers are built for blue collar work. I don't if the economy is picking up or not, but there's an awful lot of masculine guys out there who are out of work, and have families to provide for.
Now, thats the economic impact we're talking about, what about the domestic impact? We're raising entire generations of young men who lack a DIY attitude when it comes to things in their home or their automobile, myself included as I get lazy periodically and just say f#$# it, I'll pay somebody else. If that attitude continues though, I can see the day when basic tools like a hammer, or a table saw become relics in our father's and grandfather's garage. Like, what's that slender rectangular object with a glass vial in the middle with a bubble that moves up and down every time I turn it?
