Manliness: The next generation

[fgoodwin]

Manliness: The next generation

http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/06/20/dangerous_book_for_boys/index.html
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A British books teaches boys how to do fun bad stuff. So what are we
girls, chopped liver?
Rebecca Traister

Jun. 20, 2006 | We all surely remember that little boys are made of
snips and snails and puppy dog tails and that girls are made of sugar
and spice, right? Apparently, U.K. publishers are still buying this
line, and have published what sounds like a super-fun celebration of
bad and often frowned-upon stuff to do if you'd rather not play XBox
all day -- but it's just for boys!

The book, evocatively titled "The Dangerous Book for Boys" -- come on,
it already sounds like the kind of fun that's destined to make American
parents quake in their campers -- has become a surprise summer
sensation, and as of Monday was sitting pretty at No. 1 on
Amazon.co.uk. Published by HarperCollins in the U.K. and sadly not out
in the U.S. yet, "The Dangerous Book" is an olde-fashioned-y manual on
how to do things like make and shoot bows and arrows, decipher enemy
code, build a pinhole camera, juggle, train your dog to do tricks, skip
stones and create catapults from sticks and old bicycle tires. Awesome.
It also includes some light sports and military history, along with
chapters called "Dinosaurs," "Spies," "Astronomy," "The Golden Age of
Piracy," "Secret Inks," "Making a Periscope" and "Artillery."

Another chapter heading is "Girls," and according to the multitudinous
British media reports about the book, the word on the female species
goes like this: "Treat girls with respect ... Remember that they are as
nervous around you as you are around them ... They think and act rather
differently to you, but without them, life would be one long rugby
locker room." Whoa, little men. That respect stuff is fine advice, but
unless things have radically changed since my own dangerous backyard
days, I wouldn't recommend swallowing that whole chapter as gospel.
"They're as scared of you as you are of them" is wisdom best applied to
backyard amphibians, and while, yes, girls may in fact act rather
differently than boys in some regards, boys should not be taken by
surprise when those differences fail to kick in during the manufacture
and deployment of bows and arrows.

I can just about guarantee that I am not the only female member of the
Broadsheet community who could tell you how to whittle an arrow with a
penknife and stretch string between the notches in a bendy piece of
wood to make what is perhaps not the deadliest piece of weaponry on the
block, but that works just fine, thank you very much. Most every girl I
knew played cops and robbers or cowboys and Indians, soccer and
kickball, and knew her way around a compass. And let's just do away
with the "tomboy" classification. None of my childhood friends engaged
in full-time Scout Finch-y boycotts of traditional femininity, at least
not until the Seventeen-bots came to outfit us with small useless
purses to carry around the junior high. No, many girls were active
combatants in acorn wars while also fitting in some ballet classes. Me,
I kept a pristine dollhouse and read a lot of Madeline L'Engle. But I
was also a champion stone skipper, had perpetually skinned elbows and
knees, and pored over the story of John F. Kennedy's adventures after
the 1943 sinking of his PT-109 boat. (Thank you, Landmark books.)

So all this is to suggest simply that when and if HarperCollins gets
around to publishing "The Dangerous Book for Boys" here in the U.S. --
and I hope it does -- maybe it'll consider stamping a new name on it. I
don't need "The Dangerous Book for Girls," or "for Young Women" or even
the neutered "for Kids." But boy oh boy (so to speak), I would love to
get my mitts on "The Dangerous Book for Boys and Girls."

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[Topaz]

It is common for lesbians to say they want feminine women. They
often say they don't want females with too many manly characteristics.
They say they want real women.

If men say that is what we want it too, it is considered improper
and not politically correct. Hollywood is constantly pushing manly
females on us and they want us to like them. In "The Brothers Grim" as
one example but it is just about all the movies, the brothers fall in
love with an manly female.

Hollywood sometimes confuses us by having the females good looking
and with huge breasts. We like that part. But like in a Pavolivian
experiment they want us to link large breasts with manly females and
then like manly females.

And why does Hollywood do this? It is because it is Jewish.

There was a book in ordinary bookstores called "An Empire of
Their Own". It was a pro-Jewish book but it showed that the Jews ran
Hollywood.

Here are some quotes from a magazine for Jews called "Moment".
It is subtitled "The Jewish magazine for the 90's" These quotes are
from the Aug 1996 edition after the Headline "Jews Run Hollywood - So
What?":

"It makes no sense at all to try to deny the reality of Jewish
power and prominence in popular culture. Any list of the most
influential pruduction executives at each of the major movie studios
will produce a heavy majority of recognizably Jewish names."


http://www.nationalvanguard.org http://www.natvan.com
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[R. Steve Walz]

Topaz wrote:
>
> It is common for lesbians to say they want feminine women.
-----------------
Duh, NO! Where in the world do you GET this ****? Oh that's right,
you're neo-nazi's and will SAY ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING to propose some
jewish conspiracy against you.


> They
> often say they don't want females with too many manly characteristics.
> They say they want real women.
-----------------
NO! They DON'T!


> If men say that is what we want it too, it is considered improper
> and not politically correct.
----------------------
NO!!


> Hollywood is constantly pushing manly
> females on us and they want us to like them.
---------------------
Duh, like WHO, you ****ing nutcake???


> In "The Brothers Grim" as
> one example but it is just about all the movies, the brothers fall in
> love with an manly female.
-----------------------
Your delusion.


> Hollywood sometimes confuses us by having the females good looking
> and with huge breasts. We like that part. But like in a Pavolivian
> experiment they want us to link large breasts with manly females and
> then like manly females.
------------------------------
What? That doesn't even make sense!


> And why does Hollywood do this? It is because it is Jewish.
---------------------------
You're a demented nutcake. That's a total non-sequitur.
Steve

[Day Brown]

Topaz wrote:
> It is common for lesbians to say they want feminine women. They
> often say they don't want females with too many manly characteristics.
> They say they want real women.
>
> If men say that is what we want it too, it is considered improper
> and not politically correct. Hollywood is constantly pushing manly
> females on us and they want us to like them. In "The Brothers Grim" as
> one example but it is just about all the movies, the brothers fall in
> love with an manly female.
>
> Hollywood sometimes confuses us by having the females good looking
> and with huge breasts. We like that part. But like in a Pavolivian
> experiment they want us to link large breasts with manly females and
> then like manly females.
>
> And why does Hollywood do this? It is because it is Jewish.
No, they do this because there is so much profit in it. The Almighty
Dollar dont care whether someone is Jewish or not.

You got the tail wagging the dog Topaz. Look at the mtDNA for crysake.
Intelligence is handed down mostly on the *female* line, and smart women
are selecting smart guys as sperm donors, many of whom are "Jewish".

In the war between brains and brawn, bet on brawn. You are trying to
warn the muscle bound about the threat and exploitation of the smart,
but as you see, you aint gettin anywhere. The guys you wanna talk to
aint here, they are watching sports on TV. Bread & circuses.

Besides, get rid of the Jews, and they will be replaced by the *Han*;
and if you think you are hard done by now... just wait.