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i work with these kind of young people. capri pants, slippers, man buns and zero common sense. i am the ONLY one in an office of about 125 people who knows that it is bad to plug 4 space heaters into a 20 amp circuit and what to do about the subsequent affect.

i blame mcdonalds chicken mcnuggets for the rise of the effiminate male.

i thank god every day for my construction working, fire fighting, chick loving sons.

You've seen what I've seen.


I blame Friends and Seinfeld




Likewise!!

I have no idea why guys are more feminine these days. I'm 29 and can fix or at least patch up most anything non electrical and kill, gut, skin, cut, and wrap most any creature on land or sea. I grew up in a rural area in a tight knit family or hard working men and women. I was expected to work from a young age and have been hunting and fishing since before I could walk.

I will tell you this though. After 5 years as foreman in a shop I had a much harder time with the 19-27 year olds not knowing how to read and do simple math than I did with them dressing like chicks or having a hairdo that bothered me.

Pretty interesting thread.

I grew up in a very provincial, agricultural locale in NW Iowa. My father, a decorated WWII vet, grew up through the Depression, the last of eight kids on a farm and I don't think my Dutch immigrant grandparents-his parents- had the time or energy to pay attention.

He was a quiet farm kid who became a book worm then a taciturn father and professor. He could paint houses, change the oil, and mow the lawn but his aptitude and interest in those things went no further than that. My siblings and I are very similar in that respect though I differ completely in having been a gun nut and hunter since I could lug my hand-me-down Daisy Red Rider around the neighborhood with neither instruction nor a mentor. Somehow I survived partially due to the forgiving Mayberryesque environment I grew up in.

Part of what I think we are observing now in the culture and among the young is the result of modernism followed by postmodernism that is being driven by the cultural elites. When you say there is no truth, wrong or right, jettison Judeau-Christian values, and that reality is determined by your feelings, there is a great leveling of what is good and evil ("they" cannot even say Muslim terrorist let alone that it is from the Pit of Hell), a denial of American exceptionalism and an the embracing of multiculturalism when we know that while we believe in personal equality, all cultures are not equal or add positively to that of another. We have certainly observed that. The elites determining what the culture should embrace in beliefs and world view, Marxists used to call cultural hegemony. Probably still do.

The result of this denial of our traditional values has been stunted public education and turned it into a social engineering process. The constant and instant communication of our technology age enables the cultural centers to impose on us what we call political correctness which is really has a dampening effect on the First Amendment right without being seen as overtly doing it. It's a step toward fascism and our youth in the 20's and 30's know no better and generally are ignorant of our history and have not been taught in our schools to think. Social engineering is indoctrination.

It's a generalization to be sure and there are exceptions but the trajectory we are on is not an uplifting one.

'Course I just had a birthday and probably qualify for curmudgeon status.

My first bet would be the stupid kgunt has 15 paint brushes at home but the guy didn't want to stir drama in front of strangers so just shrugged it off while the dumb kgunt went and found a paintbrush.




Dave

I blame the Boomers.




Clark

Two daughters, 9 and 13, they love to change oil, saw boards, do plumbing work. It is funny as hell to see little girl hands covered with dirty oil, up to the elbows.

I use a version of moms line when she was showing me how to do "women's" work. "You need to know how to do this in case you marry a woman who can't." I follow with a threat to shoot any pussified guy they bring around.

Those generations you're bitching about...what generations raised them and educated them? Apples don't fall far from trees, and the American forest is pretty damned rotten, IMHO.

Ditto. My daughter is a lot more comfortable in camo or oil stained jeans than any pink frilly schit that her mother wants her to wear. Her mother hates it, but that's a reflection on her and not the kid.

It's what the boomers let into their homes
Tee Vee

That won't go over well, but it's Gospel. The Boomers were/are, without peer, the worst generation in American history and if the Republic finally falls it be their legacy.

Yep, I am one of that group and I agree. "Our generation" left the road.

As I said, "we" left the road but the subterfuge that resulted in that began long before.

Tickling his vagina...


The pussy type guys make me flippin sick. Metro sexual are stupid but lumbersexuals carry around tools they can't even use! Idiots! I can't stand any of them f'ers.

The worst thing about being a badass is that as soon as you aren't doing something(badass) you either get really bored or the mind starts thinking too much.


Thank God for beer.





Seriously though most decent knowledge is passed down. Or learned the hard way through trial and error.

Or googled...

Funny,
I am starting to see it go the other way. I am the milleniAL who has to do all his elderly neighbors handyman work. I much prefer taking a young guy hunting instead of an old stubborn pain in the neck. You know the ones in too poor shape to get off a quad and walk 100 yards then complain they don't see deer, or shoot a deer with a sks and drag it 500 yards in the wrong direction from the road, then when I drag it and bring it home and butcher they throw it in their trunk, clean hands and all while not even saying thank you or offering to dispoke of the carcass. Yep, noticed a lot of free loading, complaining, old lions lately. Probably spend the next 20 years supporting them when they poss away every penny and go on the dole. Ahh, 60 year Olds the next social welfare crisis:)

Probably leave a bunch of useless 270s to their kids too

[bleep] Clark beat me to it. B@$+ard, some of us gotta work.

"That same situation has raised boys without hunting, without fishing, without guns. They have been led by the Matriarchal school system and we have on our hands a bunch of neutered young males that are used to taking orders from women. Some women will like that just fine, but none will ever really respect the neutered male."

Truer words were never spoken.
I am 65 years old. I have dealt with the modern Feminist gals since college in 1970, the beginnings of the modern Feminist movement. I met and was dating many of these modern Feminist gals, hell, they were the only girls around!
These gals say they want a "sensitive" male, a guy who will reveal his inner feelings, a guy who they can talk to.

That is what they say, but they don't really mean it. They will pal around with such a guy, even screw him and marry him, but they don't respect him. In fact they despise the soft, feminized male.

The modern Feminists cannot escape their dna.
15,000 years ago our ancestors lived in Ice Age Europe. It was a brutal life.
The female who chose a soft man, a man who could not stalk and kill the cave bear, the man who could not start a fire, was a female whose children died. And she died, too. Her dna was eliminated.

Back then, for many hundreds of generations, the female who survived was the one who chose a rugged man, the man who could hunt and kill, and eat the cave bear. Who could light the fire, to keep the family warm on the minus 40 degree nights. The man who could fight and kill other men who wanted to take their family over.

For many hundreds of generations, the only females who survived were the ones who chose tough, rugged, fighting men.

So, in accord with Feminist philosophy they say that they want a soft, gentle man. It is a lie.
Their dna demands a tough rugged man who can fight, who can light a fire, who can kill if necessary.

yup i get bored pretty easy.