It is easy to laugh off male bashing and negative stereotypes of men as unimportant or something to ignore but young boys are listening and picking up on what is being said. I wonder how this negativity will play out in subsequent generations.
Helen – I think you hit the nail on the head – It’s already playing itself out through our younger generations – we can see the impacts today in the campus hookup culture and young men’s refusal to become sufficiently mature for marriage. We can see it in their refusal to marry and instead cohabitate. Male bashing is all about those subsequent generations.
I believe the whole hosility issue can be traced to a man’s sexual identity/procreative power and how those are currently defined by US law – in particular through Roe vs Wade, Doe, Casey etc.
As a nation, we’re bipolar when it comes to men’s responsibilities towards future generations, and this confusion clouds men’s thinking and triggers humiliation and disrepect across the board, even from men.
Women want us to be “men”, but also want to reserve the right to abort, effectively “emasculating” men and the greatest extent of our sexual manhood – children. Should the woman choose to carry the child, the man has already had his say with regard to parentage of the child. During the first nine months, the woman gets to individually decide if their sex was recreational or procreational, and in this manner the man is reduced considerably to being little more than a stud service. Even in a marriage, she gets to decide 100%. That’s 100% wrong.
Men are severely conflicted when it comes to this situation – most men deep down are pro-choice for numerous reasons, but don’t really understand the source of feminine hostility. I believe that if that were not so, we would have seen Roe rejected by the people a long time ago.
The very reason Roe is where it is, and why we’ve experienced more than 45 million abortions in our culture is because some portion of men have been procreatively irresponsible. After 35 year that describes a majority of men in the US.
Is male bashing curable? Only if the men of the United States are willing to make a stand for future generations and put an end to the madness by identifying social responsbility when it comes to procreative power and reign in the porn, promiscuity and adultery. Until then, there’s no reason for women and children to feel loved and in turn give respect to deserving men.
