JonfromNC
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Interesting topic and can be taken many ways, all depending on what you mean by "pussification."
If you want to blame popular media and so forth, then take a look at what it has done to all people who watch it. By it representing "popular" societies views and therefore the correct ones, then none of us here would be having this conversation. The constant babble of, you should act this way, look this way, believe this way, works on all who have no desire to find other ways or his or her own ways. Men, women, black, white, green, gay or straight, all have been directly or indirectly influenced by these constant bits of brain washing, just some refuse to accept it and others do not want to think for themselves and with all brainwashing or programming, it takes time and repetition. This isn't something new that has been going on, this has been going on for decades and a slow process but a process that hits everyone, not just completely one specific group. Could blame the weakening of men on that but then again, you have to go back to point that the person has to be willing to accept what a box, piece of paper, or radio waves is telling them to be absolute truth.
So that all leads to the conclusion that all who blindly accept those things are effected no matter what or who they are. Women have to be sickly thin and starve. Men should look at everyone exactly the same and treat everyone exactly the same. Different races or sexual preferences should be pitied and coddled, and if not, they should sue "The man." <shrugs> You make the ultimate decision on what path you walk and you are ultimately accountable for that path, just whether or not you let someone block that path, or find a way through it.
If you want to say the "feminists" neutered men, then you have to believe that someone else held you down while they did it. If anything, women were hurt more then men with the feminist poison that is spewed by the most vocal. Meaning, that any woman who doesn't give up all sense of femininity and behave like a man, lays down with men and/or uses phallic shaped devices, has betrayed their movement. So if a woman does what she feels is right for her and doesn't fall into the role prescribed by the most vocal, and therefore correct, feminists, they are hurting woman kind and the movement, betraying their sisters. When the real woman movement is a woman making an informed choice and accepting the rewards and consequences of that choice, not being forced to do so by societies rule. Which goes same for anyone, no matter what race, gender, religion, or financial/social level. {Obviously women should make same money as a man for doing same job and so forth, since that is a given right and logical. I am talking outside the common sense boundaries.)
What all boils down to, is a person allowing someone else to rule them and decide path for them and not willing to take responsibility, which is not just a United States problem but a world wide problem. Just with the U.S. we do not have as many centuries of standards most do. U.S. is still a young country and therefore our society is not as well founded as others and therefore more easily changed. Meaning our country is young and our traditions and society is not 1000 years old and so forth, which means our little melting pot is has its foundations still settling and other still being built. Combination of the "young" age and how ours is a country of immigrants from all over, with all their own traditions and ways, makes things more easily changed for good and bad.
Which leads to the real problem I see is not really a pussification problem but a loss of pride, not only in who you are, but in your heritage and where you come from. The days of my grandfather and father are dying, where you took pride in your families history and what they did for a living. Myself, for example, very proud to be a blue collar man from a long line of blue collar men and women. I take pride in every thing I do, work or not, because it reflects not only on me but my family. I would rather do something right then do something half arsed just to satisfy the,"GIVE ME NOW!" or "At any cost" mentalities. Not everyone can be the high dollar earning folks in the world in the high rises and big fancy offices and our nation looks down now at the very folks who keep this country going. <shrugs> In U.S. being blue collar or not the power players, wealthy, or famous, is now bad thing to be ashamed of, and with shame comes loss of pride and therefore lack of caring for anything, especially who you are and where you come from.
To use book terms, not everyone can be "high" cast, there have to be peasants who form the foundations of the society. Which is why I am proud to be a "Peasant" or in modern terms, blue collar worker because that is what my father is and my fathers father was, it is my blood and I am proud of that. You want folks to "go back to the old days" and grow a pair, then teach them to be proud of where they come from, who they are, and that pride is worth more then power or money. Do that and the pussification you speak of ends, because they wouldn't give a damn about sacrificing everything, to meet some stupid preconceived status to be worth anything to themselves and others.
That is how I see things really and rather then blame society or some unseen force for all my problems, I will look at the real cause, myself and take consequences of MY failures and keep my pride intact, not falling into the Woe is me problem most seem to have. Doesn't mean I don't sometimes slip but means comes down to it, I won't point my finger at anyone or anything else for my misfortunes. Man, woman, whatever walk of life, Gor or not, you want to save the world from itself or find blame for whats wrong, then start by looking hard in the mirror and take responsibility for your own life and actions, good or bad. Enough rambling, just an interesting thread and thought I would add my own point of view to the mix.
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