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Master Don Juan
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My dad is older and some of the work he had to put in as a youngster was amazing ... growing up in a rural area, etc. Most men in the 1910's, 20's, 30's, 40's, and some of the 50's, were too busy working their butts off at work and when they're at home. Your average lawn mower didn't have a motor, for example. Just tough pushing the whole way. Chop wood, no fancy fake electric fire place ... no cell phone, you actually had to make your fingers work on a rotary phone. No remote, heck no TV.
Technology has made us lazy slobs, we can't even get up to change the channel or roll our car windows up and down. It's a cushy life.
That said, TV and the internet has really feminized men. You turn on the TV and see zero role models for men, and if someone is the least bit masculine, they'll be shouted down by the likes of some woman's show. (Reminds me of Homer Simpson flipping the channels, he happens upon some Oprah-type show and a woman in the stands stands up and yells, "Men Suck!" Homer quickly flips the channel.)
I think a lot of this new technology and feminization of men and identity crisis has a ton to do with all these shootings.
Heck, men at the turn of the 20th century were too busy working to think about their feelings. They had to build homes, buildings, roads, etc., all the things we take for granted today.
My dad is older and some of the work he had to put in as a youngster was amazing ... growing up in a rural area, etc. Most men in the 1910's, 20's, 30's, 40's, and some of the 50's, were too busy working their butts off at work and when they're at home. Your average lawn mower didn't have a motor, for example. Just tough pushing the whole way. Chop wood, no fancy fake electric fire place ... no cell phone, you actually had to make your fingers work on a rotary phone. No remote, heck no TV.
Technology has made us lazy slobs, we can't even get up to change the channel or roll our car windows up and down. It's a cushy life.
That said, TV and the internet has really feminized men. You turn on the TV and see zero role models for men, and if someone is the least bit masculine, they'll be shouted down by the likes of some woman's show. (Reminds me of Homer Simpson flipping the channels, he happens upon some Oprah-type show and a woman in the stands stands up and yells, "Men Suck!" Homer quickly flips the channel.)
I think a lot of this new technology and feminization of men and identity crisis has a ton to do with all these shootings.
Heck, men at the turn of the 20th century were too busy working to think about their feelings. They had to build homes, buildings, roads, etc., all the things we take for granted today.