Nov 9
To be a man row update
The debate continues apace over at Mike’s. Needless to say, the Kim and Co have resorted to name calling and ridiculous assertions to miss our/my points. The knuckle dragging “manly” brigade has gotten so nasty that Michele had to shut down her comments on her post on the subject.
Andrea expresses her concern that at least three bloggers have failed to spot the sarcasm in Glenn’s post on the row.
Ben has cast his critical eye on Kim’s bleat on his own blog. As per normal for Mr Kepple, it is a well thought out and interesting critique on Kim’s points. Ben makes a point I have been wondering about in the last few days. How is it manly to whinge about the state of affairs for men in the US? Surely men are being pussified because they let themselves have this happen to them. Surely it’s men who are to blame for this process? Isn’t Kim’s bleat a classic example of the abdication of responsibility and a part of the victim culture we libertarians so deride?
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Exactly. That’s why I think the essay went off into a tangent; if Kim focused more on how the forces of P were going after boys (such as the increased use of drugs like Ritalin on kids who really don’t need it, the anti-violence fools who go into frenzies because some kid draws pictures of his soldier dad carrying a gun, and so on)—he would have made a better case. I think the main problem is he used sweeping generalities—“it’s all the wimmin’s fault”—or isolated symptoms of the problem—Cheerios commercials—and his idea of what the root causes of this problem are got lost in the muck.
It’s one thing to complain, but one runs the risk of becoming repetitive, and becoming suspect of preferring the act of complaining to any solution to the problem.