Insecurity

Via Anonymous.

There is some article in Salon claiming men can't be friends these days: "American men—specifically white heterosexuals—lack the intimate bonds necessary to lead fulfilling lives."

I find that kind of gender essentialism pretty silly myself. Not Freepers, though! They throw in with Salon.com, so long as it allows them to further their increasingly common complaint about the oppression of men.

GraceG explains the problem:

All the emphasis on the homosexual agenda in the media has ruined friendships between straight males.

Two straight guys now fear friendships with other straight males lest they be branded gay and other people see them and draw the wrong conclusions.

Popman has been forced to wonder about gayness all the time now:

One thing I despise about this current pop culture is whenever I see two young guys together: mall, theater, grocery store...

My first thought is: are they gay ?

I never thought that way before we were inundated with the homosexual propaganda 24/7...

There used to be a time two guys could just be buddies and nobody would think a moment about it...

Life imitates The Onion - MaxMax wonders what's with all these gay dudes sucking his dick:

The problem with friendships these days is you never know if it's just hanging out,
or if you were tricked into a date and will be the last to know.

MinuteGal thinks all the blondes on Fox are making the station less manly:

Has anyone noticed how the Fox News channel is become more and more chickified every day?

gusty knows drunk driving is vital to manly relationships:

I would look in a different direction over the lack of male relationships in today's world. A group more culpable than homosexuals is (or was, I do not know if they still exist) Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

Think back to our fathers time. Back in the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s guys would stop in the local tavern and shoot the breeze with their friends before dinner. The pubs and bars have been the meeting place of guys for centuries. Today, anybody with any sense of responsibility doesn't want to take a chance that one beer might lead to their life being ruined. So instead we today head right home every day.

The only interaction guys have with each other outside of work is usually through their kids sports. I had one guy I know say that without his kids games he would have no social life at all, and I bet that is true for most of the other guys too.

Nobody wants to condone drunk driving, but the unintended consequences has been a complete shutting down of the traditional male’s social life. I speak from a middle age guys perspective, maybe those younger than me have made up the slack with their electronic do-dads. But I for one would have enjoyed stopping at the local tavern for a beer or two with my friends and neighbors.

3Fingas explains the three activities that are manly:

Feminists destroying masculinity.

I think some family men fall into this trap. They spend so much time being the family guy. They are so wrapped up in raising their children and being dressed and brow-beaten by their wives, they lose their own identity and have no time for male friends. To avoid this testosterone lowering entrapment, I recommend the following:

1. Get a motorcycle, join a motorcycle riding group. The MC world is male dominated. Women are allowed to attend, but they usually have to take a back seat — where they should be in the first place. LOL. Just kidding ladies.

2. Get a gun/guns, going to a shooting range with friends from work or get involved in shooting competitions. This is largely a male activity, although women have a presence. All around, this is a male dominated activity. Guys naturally like this activity and can often impress the few women that attend.

3. Car clubs — requires fixing and/or detailing cars. Mechanical skills are largely a masculine domain. Guys who like cars often talk about cars and freely talk about their women in their lives. They also do other manly sort of things.

There are many other things men can do in male groups: go fishing, go hunting, bowling, shooting pool, hiking, form a fight club (not for the feint of heart).

Talisker thinks Feminists are cartoonish villains:

Feminists are insane. They are literally psychopaths. They want their way to be the only way, and they want anyone who disagrees with them to be utterly destroyed - not only physically, but psychologically, emotionally, financially, socially and every other possible way.

Remember the Clones Wars in the Star Wars series? THESE are the REAL clone wars. These aren’t “feminists.” These are HILLARY CLONES. And as such, they are totally, murderously insane psychopaths pretending to be “women.”

But women are the one thing they are not, and will never be. If anything, they are anti-women - “anti” meaning the same thing as “anti-Christ.”

In short, they are evil, and bring only destruction.

sodpoodle knows the next generation sex will cease, and men will become caged animals:

****the solution is to track down men and destroy them ****

In just a few decades - there will be one nation of several million women and a few men for sperm donation.

A lesson from agri-business: bulls are expensive to feed and dangerous to keep among the cows - so just have one bull and share his semen around. Cheap and easy.

Unfortunately - this weakens the herd and young bulls have no idea how to mate -they are simply meat - you don’t milk ‘em...just eat’em.

Little Bill has a solution:

Be a Townie, my son is a Townie, married in to a family of Townies.

Townies all know each other through school or their trades, no metros here. They talk to each other and help each other, with in limits.

They all are very non PC and hate Obama.