What is Man?
Curbing Co-dependency and Eradicating Irresponsibility

by Doug Giles

I hate to get your panties in a wad, you pomosexual gender-line-blurrers, you, but the vast, vast majority of American men want to be more like William Wallace and less like Will and Grace.

From the thousands of positive emails I receive week after week from men and women regarding my polemic attempts in print, radio and TV to re-inject, guard and perpetuate the testosterone attitude. it seems that the general populace isn't queuing up for a radical dose of 21st century misandry.

Yes, much to my delight, we "non-progressives" are not cool with the metrosexual healing the cultural quacks are attempting to administer to the male collective, and we are going back towards the traditional definitions of the role of men in society.

So . what are the traditional elements of the masculine spirit?  Well, from Homer to Gomer, from Abraham to the Apostle Paul, there are three primary traits that men, if properly raised and allowed to express their biology, will and should naturally exhibit.

They are the following:

· Competition
· Independence
· Responsibility

Last week's column addressed the good and natural competitive streak with which men come out of momma's womb, and now I'll turn my guns to points two and three: Independence and Responsibility.

The second classic characteristic men will naturally exhibit, that is, if they escape the aggressive societal softening of the metrosexual emasculators, is . independence.

Traditionally, men have prized their autonomy more than Clay Aiken does his gale-force-wind-proof hair gel and his chartreuse neckerchief.   Men, at least those who have not been morphed into obedient stooges of contemporary
society, do not like to be confined, corralled, curbed, interfered with, or domesticated by anyone.

Y'know it is right for a man while he is a boy to be dependant upon mummy .
petted and cajoled . flattered and fattened . by mother's
you-can-do-no-wrong-honey loving touch.  But come on, America . somehow we
have developed today a race of Nancy-boys, absolute caricatures of the
classic male imago, who have extended their mommy's breast feeding, culture'
s coddling and government's hand holding into their 30's and beyond!

At the hub of man's constituent make up is the natural and spiritual
resistance to hanging on to any mortal or institution too long for
subsistence.  By natural command, man is to be independent and is hard wired
to go and get a life apart from the nurturing and supportive arms of
anyone . and that includes the government.

In ancient cultures, the young male was made to be sovereign, separated from
the safe arms of the feminine touch usually at the ripe old age of . twelve.
Young men were expected to separate, never to return to a codependent
existence.

Traditionally, young men fled from getting in touch with their supposed
"feminine side" and instead they tapped into the gritty and grubby
competitive "real world" where you thrive or die.  (By the way . if I want
to get in touch with my feminine side . I'll grab my wife.)

Unfortunately, in the home, in the church, and with our government . thanks
to the societal deconstructionists, we have created an extended womb with an
umbilical cord of enormous proportions that can sucker and baby men all the
way up until their mid-life crises.  Historically, this co-dependent wet
womb which is presently afforded chronologically mature males past
adolescence has utterly weakened whatever society in which it has been
allowed to fester.

Lastly, the most distinctive trait of the tri-fold traditional masculine
make up is the way men are to take care of those under their watch . i.e.,
being responsible and accountable for the well being of family and society.

Naturally, men were the pillars of the public, being responsible to God, to
family, to church and to their culture as providers and protectors of family
and friends.  It was the man who steered the family unit and civilization
with firmness, directing them with rules and principles, being dependable,
loving and just.  In ancient times the father was not a mere Al Bundy-like
sperm donor who lived at Hooters, but a community elder, a moderator and a
servant leader who created edicts and ordered kingdoms.

One bigger-than-Dallas-sized sign that America could be headed down the
toilet is how today's metrosexual man avoids responsibility and
accountability and is allowed to blame low blood sugar, his inner child, the
environment or the freaky yellow wall paper on his delivery room wall as the
reason why he hasn't "gotten with it."

My ClashPoint is this: if concerned conservatives want to improve our
nation, then we have got to resist the current culture of man hatred,
wherever and whenever we find it, whether that means not going to movies
with an emasculating message, or shouting "that's bull**t" when we hear and
see this stuff on TV or in the classroom, or, more positively, developing
old school ways of creating environments conducive to raising warriors and
wild men. Whatever peaceful form this resistance takes . it is a must that
we verbally wail our disapproval of this incessant dissing of men.

Look, our times demand strong men more than Mariah Carey does Evian . and
only Evian water for her Pekinese.  It is up to us middle-aged old boys to
preserve and perpetuate the grand testosterone fog God created us to live in
for the next generation of young warriors.

One great way to do this is by buying these killer books:
· Future Men by Douglas Wilson
· The Church Impotent by Leon Podle
· Raising Modern Day Knights by Robert Lewis
· The Code of Man by Waller Newell

Then, go over their contents with the male adolescent charges under our tutelage.

Check out Doug's latest cartoon and his latest interview with professional
hunter and best selling author and film maker Mark Sullivan at www.clashradio.com .

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