Monday, November 29, 2004

Feminization

Western culture currently frowns on defining any virtues as masculine or feminine. A European economist friend of mine is in full ridicule mode (in a private email to me) regarding my post on Europe, Masculinity, and Guns. But there is such a thing as a masculine virtue and the elite culture is trying to erase it from our collective minds. Here’s my proof.

Suppose you know a couple, Bill and Mary, and their infant son.

There is a fire and someone needs to go save the infant son in a fire. Bill’s wife yells "Bill, go get him!.” Bill responds, "Mary, it seems to me that it's only fair that we flip a coin and the loser goes and gets him." In both cases, one spouse wants the other to go and save the baby. Would any real person, in their gut, respond symmetrically to this? Bill is a coward, period, and anyone who claims he thinks equally ill of both of them is simply kidding himself.

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