By Pamela Yates on 10.20.04 @ 12:04AM
This election is about whether America still wants to be led by an Alpha male.
George W. Bush is a throwback to the strong male that, until 30
years ago, was the accepted norm. It is only because America's
sexual culture has become genderless that Bush's normal masculine
qualities are treated with suspicion. The election this November
will determine whether the nation still wants to be led by an Alpha
male.
The only place to showcase one's gender these days are in the
fields of entertainment, fashion, and pornography. Men and woman
are confused, with men acting like women -- "girlie men" -- and
women acting like men.
Parity and equality between the sexes is a moral imperative, but
denying Mother Nature is a formula for disaster. As a member of the
boomer generation, I spend more than my share of time with children
of the '60s. Their romanticizing of those days sets my blood to
boiling. The advent of the Age of Aquarius set our country on a
path of moral, ethical and sexual destructiveness.
As a society we have decided it is of the utmost importance to
embrace our feminine side. Consequently, we deny the most obvious
and elemental differences between male and female. But after 9/11
this delusion is impossible to sustain. The feminists' social
engineering project only complicates our ability to think clearly
and retain our uniquely American approach to life.
When it comes to making strategic decisions, soft men are
useless. More preoccupied with emotion than reason, they seek to
please everyone rather than solve the problem. And what do they do
when they need to show they're real men? They don't show it; they
talk about it. Can one imagine Winston Churchill or Dwight
Eisenhower flaunting their war experiences in the Boer War or World
War II in order to prove that they were real men?
We are in a chaotic time of social and cultural confusion in
which women want to be dominant and men are expected to be
nurturing and empathetic. It has gotten so absurd that there is now
even an action figure called "The Geek." In my day, a geek or nerd
was someone who was weak and introverted. Now the geek is cool, the
male desirable to dominant women.
Strong woman, soft men, "Geekman" sex symbols -- it is a
dizzying time in this new millennium. George W. Bush's "bring it
on," in your face, real guy approach vs. the more feminine model of
international consensus-building and "sensitivity" in John Kerry
raises the question: Could the latter instill the leadership and
inspiration necessary to lead our troops into battle? And why would
a "sensitive" coalition builder like John Kerry sprint outside to
make cowardly, defamatory statements to the press after the
courageous and hopeful speech that the new Iraqi Prime Minister
Allawi recently made before the U.S. Congress?
The laws of Alpha behavior are the backbone not only in the
world of animals but also of men. Alpha types come in all forms,
good and evil, male and female. They are born, not created. They
have common traits such as focus, egocentricity, high energy, and
strong wills. Great success, in high stake games, is usually the
result of Alpha types. Leaders, not followers, shape this world. As
in nature, a predator -- the Alpha type -- instinctively smells out
weakness and vulnerability. No nation that expects to be respected
and feared can be led by anyone other than a true Alpha-type
personality.
To quote Arnold Schwarzenegger, "Girlie men make bad choices."
But the self-anointed, wealthy, liberal intelligentsia in this
country have convinced themselves and a percentage of the American
population that excessive hand-wringing, debating, and agonizing
over a situation makes one somehow more caring, intelligent, and
insightful. Will squishy consensus-building capture our country's
imagination and confidence?
I, for one, will not find it refreshing or comforting to have a
president fecklessly taking the pulse of the Third World and our
enemies in the United Nations while a "Thorny Rose" of a First Lady
tells reporters to "Shove it." Perhaps the wrong Kerry ran for the
Presidency.
topics:
Law, Iraq, United Nations, Energy, Oil
