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The manly common denominator

This is an interesting NPR story about efforts to identify and deal with violently aggressive boys before they go postal.  A little tidbit buried in the story, and quickly passed over, is a denominator...

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Manly men, Girly men and Peter Pan

I’m seeing pieces of a puzzle, but I’m having a problem discerning a larger pattern (maybe there isn’t one). Here are the pieces, and I’d like it if you’d chime in with what I’m missing. It starts with...

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Men! Help out at home — for your kids’ sake

To toot my own horn, I am a very competent person.  I’m not overwhelmingly good at any one thing, but I can do most things fairly well.  My kids get to see this competence in action.  I do a lot of my...

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Ward and June Cleaver revisited

Back in December 2004, I wrote a post over at my old blog site about how difficult life is in the 21st Century for June Cleaver. Since Blogger posts, after a certain period of time, lose all...

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Boys in the movies

Almost exactly a year ago, I did a post I entitled Manly men, Girly men and Peter Pan. In it, I tried, ineffectively, I admit, to figure out America’s cultural trends regarding men. There’s the manly...

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Real men — and the babyish guys in Hollywood movies

As you all know, over the years I’ve been fascinated by male and female roles in America.  As the mother of a very manly little 10 year old, I take male role models in this culture very seriously....

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Yeah, I’m not thrilled about that J. Crew advertisement either

The big “conservatives are evil” exhibit of the moment is conservative protests over at Fox about a J. Crew advertisement in which a mom happily paints her five year old son’s toenails pink.  I think...

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Men’s auto-emasculation — or, is feminism really entirely to blame?

Several people, knowing my fondness for the Navy (think Navy League), sent me links to a Wall Street Journal article that Lt. Cmdr. Greitens, a Navy SEAL, wrote about what goes into making a Navy SEAL....

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Heels are NOT a power thing

Apparently the newest metrosexual statement is for men to wear high heels.  The claim is that it’s a “power statement” because you tower over others. I beg to differ.  Heels mess with your balance and...

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Pro-active men, willing to help out

I promised not to blog about Mike McQueary any more, and I won’t.  But that doesn’t mean that I can’t point you to someone else’s post on the subject.  I’m pointing….

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A useful companion to my post about raising boys

Kay Hymowitz writes about something that’s been a concern at this blog for years — namely the marginalization of boys in American society due, in significant part to single motherhood.

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Bleeding heart liberal misses football’s important lessons for our boys

Peter Beinart is in agony, because he’s a terrible father.  Why is he such a terrible father?  Because he allows his son to watch pro football with him.  By doing so, says Beinart, he lends his...

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The anti-bossy campaign is just the latest example of the Left’s obsession...

In America, it used to be that boys were boys and girls were girls, except for a handful of boys and girls who didn’t conform to the norm.  Boys were at the top of the heap; girls had a carefully...

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Andrew Klavan says men need a day too

Andrew Klavan has a video up suggesting that we celebrate International Men’s Day, because men, like women, have also been responsible for a few things that make the world a better place:

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Does Progressivism — and its claim that there’s a “rape culture”— unduly...

Yesterday, I read (out loud) the worst “rebuttal to a speech” ever. Today, I read something less amusing, but also important:  It’s a disturbing parenting article that places a serious emotional burden...

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A “few” words about men interrupting women

Since I left for my trip, there’s been a big to-do about the fact that David Bonderman, at an Uber board meeting, made a slightly stale, 1950s-esque joke about women: “There’s a lot of data,” Ms....

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Toxic masculinity, Progressive hypocrites and victims, and real men *UPDATED”

The past two months have proven that toxic masculinity is the Progressives’ purview, while real American men still get the job done no matter the risk. In the late 1960s, the appropriate term of art...

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Dear Men, I truly love you, but I don’t necessarily trust you

There’s nothing wrong with acknowledging that even the best raised men have a natural predatory streak — and that women’s intentional conduct affects it. I did not do the whole “me, too” thing. Aside...

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[VIDEO] The Left uses sex scandals to wage war against all men

The Left is using Hollywood sex scandals to paint all men as complicit, with the hope that guilt-ridden men remorsefully embrace Progressive ideology. Fifty years ago, at least one woman was flattered...

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[VIDEO] Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin on the Second Amendment and kids

Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin succinctly diagnoses the ills other than guns that lie behind school shootings — and I add two more problems bedeviling boys. My thanks to lyn5 for making me aware of the...

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