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Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo
Castout - I can't speak to where you are from, but men in the US have been under attack for being men for decades. The end result is "sissyfication" - men who are not recognizable as such, but hold more in common with women than they do with their counterparts of the recent past.
Let me give you a few examples of what I mean....
Less than a half century ago, the stars in Hollywood were men like Kirk Douglas and John Wayne. Nowadays its guys that walk with a swish - like Johnny Depp and Leo DiCaprio..... Can you seriously say you don't see a difference in the amount of T guys like The Duke had vs "Romeo"?
Its fashionable for "men" to wear makeup. I am talking straight men, not homosexuals. "guyliner"... "guyliner"?!?!? Are you kidding me? Had someone ever suggested that John Wayne wear eyeliner and they would have been nursing a sore jaw as they picked themselves up off the floor.
Today's modern "man" is supposed to be "in touch with his feminine side". Bull chips! Men aren't supposed to hunt - oh the barbarity! If your accosted and mugged, your supposed to meekly surrender and then call the cops, not belt your attacker in his teeth and let him wake up with your foot on his neck while you wait on the cops. Violence, after all, never solves anything - so we are told. If that were true, then the first war between men would never have ended..... but I digress.
Purses for men. Yes - its a purse. The guy is supposed to wear it on his shoulder just like a chick does with her handbag. But because its a "man" bag its supposed to be cool. Good luck with that....
A good number of "men" today couldn't change a flat tire on their car, much less the brakes.
Go to a US walmart and look at how many hair styling products there are for men. Then again - I guess they need something to carry around in their "man bags".... Probably has enough room in there to get a hair dryer in too....
Many salons are advertising mani/pedi's for men.
Sissyfication - trying to turn men into quasi-women.
Socially - its happening in the US. Guess they have to take out the real men somehow - couldn't do it with physical war - so its the war of gender now.
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Ah I see your point. Many men have become a bit more feminine nowadays. That's true. But no one is making them such.
In my honest opinion men could need a little more sensitivity and being less ego centric. Not saying having to do away with ego altogether but basically stop doing foolish things for the sake of ego. By foolish I mean justifying wrongdoing simply because it brought pleasure and [false] pride.
Men need to be smarter and wisen up and to actually start behaving like a mature person instead a 16 year old brat at the age of 30-50.
On the other hand some women nowadays do need to learn how to be a women imo.
Each has a distinct role in society and each gender could learn from the other to improve. Men could use more empathy for one while women could use stronger character.
A female Martin Luther King Jr anyone? Or a male mother Teresa?
I'm willing to bet some money that currently, generally speaking, comparable women make better low to medium level boss(leaders/managers).