Personally, I think there are a lot that do...
...probably more so than the opposite. At any rate, the young lady makes good points.
Personally, I think there are a lot that do...
...probably more so than the opposite. At any rate, the young lady makes good points.
Good stuff, thank you.
Super great. Love it. I'm going to show this to my son.
Instead of focusing on masculinity (or rather the thought that a person is born to do wrong things because of their gender), we should focus on individuality, respect and above all else, honor. Doesn't matter if what gender you are, if you have honor and respect you'll do good things. If you lack honor and respect, you'll do nothing at best, at worst become a dredge to society.
Yes it is. Thanks, Terry!
All are welcome, but all I did was post it. Much of what she spoke of relates back to my youth when I was influenced in a small town by a goodly number of WWII vets that had also lived through the depression and the Dust Bowl. (Too bad I didn't take ALL of their advice.)
I remember being in the blacksmith's shop when my dad had something from a farm implement that needed to be welded. The blacksmith caught me staring at his wooden leg. He stopped what he was doing and sat down with me to explain that he lost it in WWII and that even though he hated fighting, it was something that had to be done. He also said that he never regretted losing the leg.
Lots of good men from that time. And now, may God rest their souls as they have all passed on.
I remember being in the blacksmith's shop when my dad had something from a farm implement that needed to be welded. The blacksmith caught me staring at his wooden leg. He stopped what he was doing and sat down with me to explain that he lost it in WWII and that even though he hated fighting, it was something that had to be done. He also said that he never regretted losing the leg.
Lots of good men from that time. And now, may God rest their souls as they have all passed on.
This is true, regardless of a person's sex. I hate to tell you guys this because I know you are a proud bunch but there are plenty of capable women out there who are no less women because they can stand toe-to-toe with the evils of the world just like y'all can. I know more than a few of you guys are married to women I'm more afraid of that any 12 of you yahoos.
Pretty damned good shots, too -- just saying. 
I agree that honor is important, not as important, I would argue, as morality because without morality honor can become quite deformed, but important. Likewise, respect is the baseline for treating others. However, there is good reason to include masculinity as a virtue of its own. We are designed by nature (God, if you like) first and foremost to protect our wives, children, friends, and family - it comes very naturally to most men in one degree or another and we ignore or subvert it at our peril - the peril being that we risk rendering ourselves as useless as teats on a boar. Healthy masculinity is not the overbearing nonsense that Hollywood likes to portray nowadays but the best of what we see in our fathers, grandfathers, and brothers. Not exclusively tied to maleness but predominant and quite natural to that state.
So, I don't want to discount what you've said but I also don't see it as an "alternative" to honoring masculinity but rather an addition in a well rounded person.
