Virtue

WARREN FARRELL: Mass Shootings The Result of Abandoning, Abusing Boys

For boys, the road to successful manhood has crumbled. In many boys’ journey from a fatherless family to an almost all-female staff elementary school such as Sandy Hook, there is no constructive male role model. . . . There are few things a culture does as important as raising children. We can’t continue to fail half of them.

It sometimes goes beyond the mere denial and devaluation of traditional male virtues to the outright demonizing of them.

This will not be a cost-free exercise.  One predictable result is something we can already observe:  The cultivation and  encouragement of violent, crude caricatures of manhood among gang-bangers and other male misfits and losers.  This is the male not as the traditional protector and guardian of community life, but as its predatory destroyer.

Collateral damage:  If good men make women better, too (and vice versa), what can we reasonably expect women to be like where men are demoralized, devalued, and degraded?  I'm not certain of the answer, but the probabilities are depressing.

Byron