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marmar

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Wed Oct 16, 2024, 09:24 AM Oct 2024

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Shed a tear for the endangered American male

Diane Roberts
October 16, 2024 3:28 am


Men are in crisis.

Or so we’re told.

Mostly by men.

Who are men supposed to be? How are they supposed to behave?

It used to be so clear: Get a job in business or manufacturing to earn the money to support the children whose care you delegate to their mother, take out the trash, lift heavy objects, watch sports on television, and never discuss your feelings.

Man stuff.

Now women are doing man-stuff: Running companies such as GM and Northrup Grumman; running Ivy League universities; running for president.

....(snip)....

Trumpist Republicans — now 99% of the party — have fully embraced this pathetic spectacle: the cruelty, the studied stupidity, the embrace of violence, the pitiable “whose is bigger” competition.

....(snip)....

Didn’t God (a man, of course, with a beard) issue women uteruses so they could pop out babies for men to subsequently ignore?

Elon Musk, J.D. Vance, the Kansas City Chiefs’ place kicker, and other leading philosophers of gender are deeply concerned about falling birthrates. ..............(more)

https://michiganadvance.com/2024/10/16/shed-a-tear-for-the-endangered-american-male/




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