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Sissy Slapped

3.3.08 @ 12:01AM

MAN UP!
Re: David Weigel's Sissy Vulture Culture:

I'm not sure if the Sopranos analogy is yours or the book's author, but any half-wit can see that AJ's problem is that his father is evil. The fact that he fails to emulate his evil father is AJ's only redeeming quality. The treacherous Tony Soprano was not only a backstabbing thug, but a consummate whiner. The series begins with him whining to a therapist. During the entire course of the series he never gets over his need to whine about everything, including his son's failure. Why is the obvious and heavy handed morality tale that is the Sopranos such a cipher to the older generation? You must be joking in some ironic and cynical way that only Sopranos aficionados can. "How did a country and a culture that produced Michael Corleone produce...this?" Okay, I get it. Nevermind. I apologize. Unfortunately, I guess I've met too many people that really do see The Godfather, and its offshoots on down to The Sopranos, as the height of American popular culture.
-- Craig Roberts

I haven't seen or read John Strasbaugh's book. I'll probably never read it, but his thesis that the U.S. is becoming a nation of crybabies and sissies rings true -- at least for Democrats and self-absorbed Americans. The sissy nation is epitomized by Barrack Hussein Obama. A "man" PBS reporter Bonnie Erbe accurately depicts as more female than male. In fact, if Hillary loses the nomination and feeble and frail Obama wins the Presidency, then like Bill Clinton was the first "black" President Obama will easily rank as America's first "female" President.

If anyone doubts we're becoming a nation of weak kneed sissies then look at the way gutless Americans cynically and callously use military deaths in Iraq (a rate of military death lower than peace time Democrats Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton) as an excuse to cower from fighting Islamic terrorists and justify running away in Iraq. It may even explain why they "fear" George W. Bush and his testosterone loaded administration -- they can't handle it.

Whether we like it or not the Northeast is fast morphing into flaccid and effeminate Europe, the Midwest is plowing its pioneer heritage under for Oprah Winfrey's "group hug" and the West Coast is lost in a hazy shade of Hollywood delusion that Bill Clinton and Al Gore are masculinity personified and tree hugging and male bonding aren't "gay."
-- Michael Tomlinson

Regarding David Weigel's interesting review of John Strausbaugh's Sissy Nation, I suspect the reason Strausbaugh sees few, if any, American non-sissies may be because they're a bit preoccupied in Iraq, Afghanistan, and similar places around the world.
-- Leroy Hurt
Olympia, Washington

Agreed -- America is being sissified. We are sissified (feminized) in our schools, universities, corporate culture, churches, political process, film, and even the military. As a population, we are cowed by the thought police who keep us in line with their informal laws of political correctness.

As for the root cause of this, much of it is due to our affluence, as affluence like nothing else enables foolishness not only to survive but also to spread.

But at some point, there will be enough money or wealth to pay for all the absurdities that have been injected into American society in the past forty years. Then, things will get interesting, folks. And it will not the sissies who will get us out of this mess. It will be men with backbone and -- well, you know what else. And women, too -- women who live their lives based on realities and not the just-so fairy tales of life that have lead so many people astray.
-- Peter Skurkiss
Stow, Ohio

Our ancestors were tougher because they had to be. They used it or they lost it. They also lived much shorter and brutal lives. For those and other reasons, they were determined to make easier the lives of their offspring. How could they have known the consequences?

Our descendants certainly will look upon us as uncouth louts continually at each other's throats. (I feel tougher already.)

As a perceptive writer once observed, "Civilizations ascend to greatness in hobnailed boots and descend to oblivion in silk slippers."
-- David Govett
Davis, California

Terribly ironic, David Weigel's piece on the increasing sissi-fication of American youth. Weigel himself pushes this agenda over at Reason.com. He's a Ron Paul non-interventionist, who hates War, even if it is to fight against Al Qaeda Terrorists in Iraq.

No doubt, he's a non-Veteran who never served a day of his life in the Military. But if you read Reason regularly you'll see his condescension of those of us who have served. Ideals like duty and honor and loving one's country are not in the Lexicon of the far left on foreign policy Reason editors.
-- Eric Dondero, Publisher
MainstreamLibertarian.com

One of the most satisfying scenes in The Godfather(1972) was this famous exchange between Don Corleone and his godson:

Johnny Fontane: Oh, Godfather, I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do.

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