Who is “they” you might ask.
Great question.
At times it is difficult to say what entity, what power-behind-the-throne, what organization, is promoting an agenda.
Some question whether or not there is any “agenda” at all. Perhaps things happen in societal evolution that are causal, there is no particular “movement”, we all collectively take step A together, which leads to step B, and before we know it we are all standing on step F without a clue as to how we ended up there, and we find ourselves in a new and completely different world.
Perhaps the greatest law of all dictating to mankind is the “law of unintended consequences”. The original intent of a law, movement, organization, or society may have had good intent, but absent a full understanding of the unintended consequences of the original action, we find ourselves in greater danger, or with larger problems, than where we all were before the original intent.
We are all keenly aware of how these things can happen, or we would not have time honored phrases such as “the road to Hell is paved with good intentions”.
But it should be noted that yes, there is a George Soros, and yes he funds some quite far Left activist causes, and yes it has had an outsized affect on the election of “Woke” DA’s in our major cities as he has poured millions into campaign funds of the most radical activist DA’s. And yes this has had an outsized impact on our justice system, and current revolving door of justice. And yes one man, George Soros, is indeed singularly responsible for what is happening on the streets of LA, New York, San Francisco, and Philadelphia and the current “no bail” movement, and revolving door that allows perpetrators to walk out of jail before even the paperwork on their crimes is completed, and ignores victims completely.
So yes, in some cases it isn’t a form of inertia, or societal movement in a direction unchecked and unknown, at times the change is all purposeful.
The “They” can readily be identified as George Soros, his hand in funding Left Wing activism leading to cause and effect.
Today I would tell you that masculinity has been under attack for generations, that there has been a concerted effort to emasculate men, and what it means to be a traditional “man”, that systematically we have destroyed men in this country, shamed them for their “type A” or “Alpha” personality traits, elevated the more feminine and softer male in all media, softened them in schooling and in particular in colleges, and that there has been a movement for my entire lifetime to emasculate the American male.
Now the “they” who is responsible?
Well, that is much more difficult to identify than a “George Soros”, where you can follow the money much more easily, much more readily.
Make no doubt that men have over the last fifty years been emasculated. It is a fact.
This isn’t a theory, conjecture, speculation.
Men today are much more Alan Alda than John Wayne. Fact.
Movies, television, commercials today, all depict a “man” much more in the guise of “Dan Levy” today as the prototypical “male” than an Arnold Schwarzenegger. They aren’t making Terminator fare, or Rambo these days, they are placing females in every lead role of a comic book movie.
This is real, it is identifiable, you can see it, just watch television at night. It is quantifiable.
It is as if the glee club has become the football team of yore, the star quarterback no longer the envy of all, but the slightly comical, effeminate, nerd now has center stage. Every episode of “American Idol” has the effeminate male in make-up, a boy prettier than half the girls on stage, who can sing a Christina Aguilera song and belt it out better than any female.
But I digress. These are symptoms. How did we get this disease?
And Testosterone in males is down, doctors are seeing sperm production rates drop to levels never before seen, our future ability to reproduce a population greater than the death rate is in serious question, and someone, somewhere should be researching whether or not the emasculation of males in our country over the last sixty years is having a causal effect.
So I ask, has this all been some coordinated effort, or have some things happened such as the “Feminist Movement”, that has had as a side effect and unintended consequence the downgrading of the alpha male?
Is this all really a zero sum game? As feminists rise the male must decrease, there can be only one? Why wouldn’t it be a rising tide lifts all boats?
Frankly in creating my own “theories” about our current predicament I lay the blame at the feet of the Teachers Union.
I know, I know, didn’t I just go on a screed against them a few days ago?
Yes I did. However hear me out. Anyone who has ever spent time in a classroom knows that boys and girls are very different. And when I say very different I mean night and day. The girls in first grade will sit quietly doing their assignments. They will color within the lines. They will finish and sit quietly waiting for the teacher to get to them.
The boys?
The boys are buzz bombs. Kneeling in their desk, then standing at the desk, then not at their desks any longer. They are making a flying airplane from the assignment sheet, they are causing and wreaking havoc. They are incapable of self control.
So somewhere about 1980 teachers began recommending drugging the children. We created a new disease, ADHD. And who had this new disease? Some ninety percent males. Ritalin, Adderal, all kinds of new drugs were introduced. To “calm” the children.
Quo bono? Who benefits. Who benefits from a more docile child?
The teachers.
Of course you can make an argument that this newly drugged child can focus now, and perhaps learn more, but you’ve also made a zombie out of a previously excitable and creative little boy. You’ve removed from him his personality, his verve, his zest for life. You’ve emasculated him. You’ve eviscerated his spirit.
And for what?
To make it easier for the teacher to control the class, to make her day easier, to make her life easier.
During all of this drugging of our make offspring the media began not only to promote the feminine, to showcase women in their own shows, to place a “Charlie’s Angels” in Prime Time, but to also begin to depict the thoughtful, caring, more sensitive male. Suddenly John Wayne was old school, and Alan Alda was the male prototype that every female wanted. Women just swooned over Phil Donahue, that caring gray fox with a microphone, and sensitive nature. Wasn’t Danny Thomas’ daughter the luckiest of all?
In all of television from the Disney and Nickelodeon cable channels to the formerly dominant network channels, the father was an idiot, the children smarter, and the mother supreme. The few real men left idolized “Al Bundy” who the rest of the world saw as a cave man dolt, a throw back, an anachronism, a species best left behind in time. He was a caricature of all the worst of male traits. And of course suffered for those sins as a lowly shoe salesman.
Somehow, and yes this could all be called anecdotal, the teachers union, media, higher education, and even government in all it’s policies, began to elevate not only the woman to the pinnacle of the most protected and celebrated group, but added in the alphabet soup, the effeminate males, the LGBTQIA+ rose above all. “Dan Levy” as a new role model for men everywhere. They tried to elevate Dylan Mulvaney to the face of the American ideal, but there was still enough testosterone left, not much mind you, but enough, that America revulsed at the notion of Dylan as our American ideal.
I’m still in the middle of working on this timeline, this theory, this idea.
But stepping back and looking back, I would trace the problem all the way back to the mid-1970’s. Clint Eastwood parodied this all in one of his movies, where the new San Francisco police brass and mayor’s office elevated women, and treated his character, the staunchly Alpha Male, as a dinosaur. He saw the writing on the wall way, back, when.
Teachers and Teachers Unions then decided to drug the Alpha out of males with Ritalin, Adderal, and all kinds of mind-altering drugs even including Lithium, to remove the Alpha Male characteristics from men at the earliest of ages. To create an entire generation of Beta Men.
And of course we did see an entire new generation of pony tails, gender bending clothing, androgyny, and the promotion of all things gay, think of an 80’s Madonna video as breaking out into the actual streets, the school hallways, the college campuses. Strike a pose indeed. “Ducky” from a teen movie as the “new normal”.
The more fastidious, polished, and effeminate of the “Odd Couple” the new “star”, the slob of a sports writer alpha male an anachronism.
A review or thoughtful look at things reveals what we are dealing with today is nothing new. We have just arrived at some point where we are behind the curve. We now worry whether or not there are enough Alpha Males to stem the tide of the eventual demise of manhood itself. Sperm counts are plummeting.
Andrew Tate became a very vocal voice fighting the good fight of the Alpha Male, and found himself jailed. Opposition to anyone fighting our current trend leads to danger. Tucker Carlson has fought a good fight, and tries to highlight the attack on Alpha Males, and it all cost him his career. But he is too big to fail, we will have to see what other ways they go after him. Perhaps he is heading down Andrew Tate lane.
Joe Rogan is a voice of real men everywhere, an Alpha Man himself. And perhaps some of his huge success is that real Alpha men everywhere see a need and have a hunger for one of their own to emerge triumphant. He is the benefactor of being the only one on the national scene to embrace manly qualities as a virtue, and therefore has the attention of real men everywhere. As the antithesis of the rest of the movement against the Alpha Male.
One wonders how he will be dealt with. Somehow those in control of destroying our manhood lost control of Joe Rogan and MMA. Visceral culture touchstones of Alpha Males everywhere.
It is quite possible that when Helen Reddy belted out “I am Woman Hear me Roar” there began a concurrent parallel war on the Alpha male.
I’m trying to write a column on something requiring a book. Research. Documentation. I didn’t start out wanting to write a book in the defense of the Alpha Male.
All I wanted was to ask how and when men started being required to attend baby showers. Because that is a sign. That is the canary-in-the-coal-mine of the demise of the actual man.
I can’t quite identify the “they”, I suspect the Teachers Union and mainstream media are at fault, whether or not the movement to emasculate men was intentional or not, I don’t know. I know that the whole “it takes a village” movement is bullshit, it doesn’t take a village it takes a strong father figure, and mother who knows what is best for her own children. Left to the village your kid is going to end up drugged, effeminate, and possible transgendered.
If you are stupid enough to leave it to the village to raise your child you will end up in a bad place I can assure you. One hundred percent. No good can come from allowing a Hillary Clinton type to get hold of your own child. I am adamant about that.
In my own family I drew lines.
We did not allow our children to be drugged. No fucking way. Not a chance. Ever.
And I say that as that child in your grade school who was bouncing off the walls, causing the biggest problems, and who was punished in the hallway constantly and beaten by the nuns regularly. I get it, boys can be wild. But all those traits led to my eventual success. Drugging them out of me I have no idea where I’d be. Lost is my best guess. If those nuns could have drugged the “me” out of me, they’d have had me pushing an IV drip bag and apparatus around from class to class.
It is a slippery slope that begins with drugging a boy, to making him more docile, to making him more feminine, to spawning an entire alphabet soup movement.
My gut tells me it is all connected. My gut is never wrong.
Bring back the Alpha Male. Long live Joe Rogan.
And if you can do your part, your small part, tell your thirty-something son that he doesn’t need to go to a baby shower, or a wedding shower for that matter.
There is nothing attractive about a woman smoking a cigar, it is vulgar, and there is nothing attractive about a man at a baby shower. This probably sounds silly to some of you, but we need a return to places where men are men, and women are women, and that should be celebrated, not condemned.
Trump got in a great deal of trouble when they recorded his “locker room conversation” as it just appalled women. But any man who ever played golf, or was in a sports locker room has heard the same and possibly worse. As bad as that locker room talk is you have to allow an outlet for men to blow off all that “cock of the walk” steam, in the end it is a healthy outlet for the testosterone overburdened.
The same holds. true for women, it does them well to congregate absent the male species, the free flow of discussion and emotions a bit easier when a male ear is not around.
This feminization of men ends here.
No wonder the T levels have dropped to alarming rates.
We must stand up to the movement to drug our male offspring. We must stand up to the movement by women to force men to do unmanly activities.
You have to start somewhere.
Michael, as I listened to this piece while working out in the gym I was wondering If you would be able to loop in HRC. And yes, you did. The succubus. Thank you.
Skip the book. Go straight for video. Rogan, Brand, Tucker, those are your next colleagues. You have an amazing productive capacity.
The ideal is when male and female are counterweights. These days, the pendulum has swung so far wide, it is out of control and everything is out of balance.
The feminine energy that makes girls sit in their seats at school is what makes them obedient listeners to the health podcasts. You want a woman for a wife, correct?
Where woman-think of today goes wrong is they are unaware that their best partner has all the male qualities, not someone with a copy of their own best feminine virtues. They have forgotten that they want a man for a husband, and they act as if there is no negative flip side of female nature.