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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.

p>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." br> -- Michael Tomlinson /p> p> 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. br> -- Leroy Hurt br> Olympia, Washington /p>

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.

p>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.

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