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If you wonder why we are being overrun with illegal immigrants, why America is hated by Muslim fundamentalists, why we are losing wars with much smaller and weaker adversaries, look no further. It's all because of the feminization of the men of America that has been promoted by the NWO for decades now. The gender the politicians, Hollywood, and the media use as the ideal person has changed from someone who is a strong moral male to a weak and submissive female personality. They portray strong men as ignorant brutish bullies, . .

This is part of their agenda in the takeover of America. A 'mature' adult nowadays is seen as someone who is comfortable talking about their inner conflicts, someone who values personal relationships above goals and morality, someone who isn't afraid to cry. In other words: a mature adult is seen as a woman. This feminization process manifests itself in myriad ways. Consider child discipline. Seventy years ago, doctors agreed that the best way to discipline your child was to punish the little criminal. ("Spare the rod, spoil the child.")

Today, spanking is considered child abuse. You're supposed to talk with your kid. Spanking sends all the wrong messages, we are told, and these attitudes have brought about stupendously horrible consequences. The soaring drug use, crime , and welfare dependency are the result.

This process of femininization manifests itself, though somewhat differently, when you turn on the TV or watch a movie. Throughout the mid-twentieth century, leading men were, as a rule, infallible: think of John Wayne or Ward Cleaver. But no longer. In family comedy, the father figure has metamorphosed from the all-knowing, all-wise Ward Cleaver of Leave it to Beaver to the consistent stupidity of Homer Simpson.

Commercially successful movies now often feature women who are physically aggressive, who dominate or at least upstage the men. In today's cinema, most of the leading women are strong, and most of the leading men are pretty boys.

A transformation of comparable magnitude seems to be under way in the political arena. The feminine way of seeing the world and its problems has becoming the mainstream way. Keeping women voters happy seems to be a high priority for politicians these days, and for good reason, America is now a thoroughly feminized country. In 1992, Bill Clinton won the presidency. Clinton was a communist leaning weak female centered man, and an acknowledged draft evader. George W. Bush has caved in on virtually anything a true conservative cares about to appease the left, and was alleged to have used family influence to obtain a position in the Texas National Guard, in order to avoid service in Vietnam.

Being a feminine man and a draft dodger isn't as bad as it used to be in this new America. To find a masculine president, one has to go back to Ronald Reagan. There was a time that, no matter how flawed the individual was, the vast majority of U.S. presidents, Republican and Democrat, exuded masculinity and manliness. Those days are over. There have been fundamental changes in American culture over the past fifty years, changes that indicate a shift from a male-dominated culture to a feminine and androgynous society. The question is, what's causing this shift?

God's prophet warned that one of the marks of a nation under divine judgment is when "women rule over them." (Isa. 3:12) Today, women must be appeased and catered to. They are the heads of businesses, the heads of churches, and the heads of their homes. In politics, the women's vote is usually the one that turns the election. Women serve on military ships and in military operations. They dictate their children's upbringing (which explains why most of them grow up undisciplined and spoiled, by the way) and have the final word on virtually all family decisions. Such a phenomenon is the sign of a nation in trouble.

Men have abandoned their responsibilities of leadership, and our nation is going down the tubes because of it. In the black community, the vast majority of children are being raised without a father. The white community is not far behind. Furthermore, in those homes where fathers do exist, they are largely detached and provide no real influence. Mom is in charge, and everybody in the household knows it. It was not always this way, however.

There was a time in this nation when rugged men taught their sons the qualities of manhood. Boys grew up learning how to box, how to wrestle, how to play football, etc. Today, America's boys only know how to play girls' games. They have never had their noses bloodied or their butts bruised. "Soccer Moms" have replaced disciplinarian dads. Then again, there was a time when a man's primary interest was not in guzzling a pack of Budweiser and sitting all evening in front of the "boob tube" while ignoring virtually everyone in the house. There was a time when men took their families to church and taught their children the fundamental values of honesty and integrity. Believe it or not, there was a time in America when men took pride in being the spiritual heads of their homes. They actually knew how to balance a checkbook and how to read the Good Book. They were the kind of men that women loved and children respected.

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Different planet GG. Different planet

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Why Johnny can't read, write, jump, or run
INTERVIEW BY ALICE CARY
Do you have a son? Is there an important boy in your life?
If so, Christina Hoff Sommers has an important warning. Oddly enough, it's a lousy time to be a boy in America, she explains during a telephone interview from her home in Maryland. While girls are generally applauded and admired, she says, boys are often feared like the plague.
As she writes in the opening of The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men: "As the new millennium begins, the triumphant victory of our women's soccer team has come to symbolize the spirit of American girls. The defining event for boys is the shooting at Columbine High."
During our talk, Sommers notes the myriad programs that try to boost girls' academic and self-esteem skills, the result of feminists decrying the injustices girls have suffered in classrooms over the years. But Sommers argues that it is actually boys who now lag behind girls, not vice versa.
"In fact," she says, "the average 11th-grade boy writes like an eighth-grade girl. He's three years behind in writing and a year-and-a-half behind in reading."
Yes, she knows that boys are slightly ahead in math and science, as a rule. However, there are lots of programs to help girls (and Sommers makes a point to say she's not criticizing those programs). What angers her, though, is that similar programs to help boys are practically non-existent.
"If anything," she explains, "boys are viewed as the privileged beneficiaries of the patriarchal system, but nothing could be farther from the truth, especially with a low-achieving boy."
Many of today's educational strategies deny the types of experiences that help boys learn. "They love competition, hierarchy, and striving for excellence," Sommers says. "If we take that away, you take away all that's important for boys."
For years, feminists have pointed out the plight of under-achieving, low self-esteem girls, such as those depicted in Carol Gilligan's popular book, In a Different Voice. What's more, Sommers argues that a handful of organizations, including the American Association of University Women and the Wellesley Center for Research on Women, have added to the problem by shaping gender policy in our nation's schools. Sommers, who took academic feminists to task in her 1994 book Who Stole Feminism?, says these groups have promoted misleading and incorrect data, an assertion she probes in her book.
The War Against Boys discusses the problem in detail and offers some solutions. For starters, suggests Sommers, boys need their own watchdog group. Nothing ideological, Sommers warns, but simply people "who like boys and understand them." Members might include the YMCA, the Boy Scouts, Boys' Town, Harvard's Alvin F. Poussaint, and Michael Gurian, author of the insightful book, The Wonder of Boys.


Sommers explains that she would also like to see a "major correction in the schools of education in their offerings on gender education." She recommends a new study be required reading: "Trends in Educational Equity of Girls & Women" by the U.S. Department of Education.
"While it's very honest about the areas in which girls need help," she says, "it's the best account of how boys need help too."
Sommers hopes that when teachers across the country hear the phrase "gender equity," they will stop thinking of Carol Gilligan's ideas, and instead think of The War Against Boys, the Department of Education study, or research by Judith Kleinfeld.
Meanwhile, what can parents of boys do to help? Sommers -- a former professor of philosophy and the mother of a teenage son and an older stepson -- offers several recommendations during our chat:
"Be aware that there are many who do not like boys, who view the natural tendencies of boys to be pathological, a defect to be overcome. I don't think there are many teachers like this, but there are going to be some who have taken seriously what they have read. . . . Be prepared to be an advocate for your son and for all the little boys in the class."
"Be aware that you're going to have to make special efforts in teaching boys reading, writing, handwriting, and organization." These skills do not come to most boys as naturally as they come to most girls, Sommers explains. She adds that it's helpful to make sure teachers include stories and books that feature adventure, heroes, and action, all of which are likely to appeal to boys.
"All parents need to realize that boys can behave in all sorts of ways without being mentally unstable. There's a whole repertoire of wild, normal, little boy behavior. The standard play of little boys is rough and tumble, and women -- mothers and teachers -- have never fully understood it and liked it."
In her book she describes a stunned California mother whose son was punished for running during recess, and nearly suspended for jumping over a bench. "Sad to say," Sommers says, "normal youthful male exuberance is becoming unacceptable in more and more schools."
Sommers has had to go to bat for her own son, who once got in "big" trouble during a school field trip for jumping up and swatting a restaurant awning that the class passed on the street. The author stresses the need for gentlemanly, moral behavior, yet she believes the natural tendencies of little boys must be better understood.
Sommers ends The War Against Boys with a stirring call for action: "We have created a lot of problems, both for ourselves and for our children. Now we must resolutely set about solving them. I am confident we can do that."
"American boys, whose very masculinity turns out to be politically incorrect, badly need our support. If you are an optimist, as I am, you believe that good sense and fair play will prevail. If you are a mother of sons, as I am, you know that one of the more agreeable facts of life is that boys will be boys."
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My feet are placed squarely on the ground. I've the courage (by grace only) to speak of the need for men to take their rightful place.
Be all that you were meant to be.

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Not sure what men were meant to be GG. But I am 100% certain you will tell us all

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These people are dyed in the wool, conspiracy loving black helicopter believers...

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Should I keep trying? Are men really interested?

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I don't think that 'preaching' at people works at all. Just my thoughts though.

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How and why are my postings considered 'preaching'?

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Nice one Trisha.

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. . Young women in college in the US and Canada suffer from an epidemic of depression, eating disorders and even self-mutilation and suicidal thoughts and behavior. Campus health professionals, steeped in the politically correct doctrines of sexual “freedom” and feminist theory, fail even to acknowledge the existence of the real cause.

Dr. Anonymous, who chose to keep her identity secret out of fear of professional reprisal, identifies the damage done to women by the feminist ideology that proposes women are psychologically identical to men and encourages sexual promiscuity – as long as it is made “safe” with a condom.

....“I'm discussing a taboo topic here: the dangers of radical social agendas in my profession… Campus counselling centers are whitewashing the painful consequences of casual sex, STDs and abortion. They are promoting the notion that men and women are the same.”

..Dr. Anonymous writes that the psychological field is still dominated by an irrational prejudice against religious faith that she calls “Theophobia,” that thwarts efforts to relieve women’s suffering.

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Tsunami Aid Money Used for Shari'a
Money sent to the Indonesian province of Aceh to help tsunami survivors is now being used to enforce shari’a law. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)

WHEN people around the world sent millions of pounds to help the stricken Indonesian province of Aceh after the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004, few could have imagined that their money would end up subsidising the lashing of women in public.

But militant Islamists have since imposed sharia law in Aceh and have cornered Indonesian government funds to organise a moral vigilante force that harasses women and stages frequent displays of humiliation and state-sanctioned violence.

International aid workers and Indonesian women’s organisations are now expressing dismay that the flow of foreign cash for reconstruction has allowed the government to spend scarce money on a new bureaucracy and religious police to enforce puritan laws, such as the compulsory wearing of headscarves.

Some say there are more “sharia police” than regular police on the local government payroll and that many of them are aggressive young men.

“Who are these sharia police?” demanded Nurjannah Ismail, a lecturer at Aceh’s Ar-Raniri University. “They are men who, most of the time, are trying to send the message that their position is higher than women.”

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We have war between the sexes because many have not come into the full awareness of God who made them, male and female, and the honor and grave responsibility given.

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If you wish to then fine but count me out. I'll be over here being imperfect but me