| Wednesday, June 21, 2006 |
| Wussification |
Does this image of English soccer player Wayne Rooney provoke you to anger or a sense of guilt? If you said yes, then you're a wuss. You can pick up your Hello Kitty toaster here.
When I first saw this image, a few things passed through my head: Braveheart, World Cup soccer, England futbol, intensity, determination.
However, some see this ad and think: Crusades, crucifixion, offensive, shameful.
I can go on and on about the wussification of the white male. You've seen my blog referencing Shelby Steele's white-guilt article. And you've seen plenty of ads selling hair care products to metrosexuals.
This isn't just happening in America. The whole point was driven home during my visit to England.
On the first day in London, our tour director pointed out someone flying a flag with a red cross on a white background -- St. George's Cross, or the national flag of England. She told us that there is a dilemma in England about flying the flag: The flag is popular partly because football-inspired nationalism, but it also viewed as a shameful symbol of military expeditions by European powers to recapture the Holy Land from Muslims (the Crusades of the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries).
The English flag has been banned in some schools and prisons -- similar to the US flag -- because of its apparent implied racism. It's been wussified.
It's time we got back our God-given masculinity. We should start by eating a full rack of ribs and then carpet bombing Fallujah. Somewhere in there insert a Tim "The Toolman" Taylor man-grunt. You know you wanna. |
posted by Joe Napalm @ 4:59 PM   |
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Awesome! I love ribs and I can't get enough of carpet bombing. How did this turn of events happen so quickly? Did the revolution silently take place while we men were glued to the TV? Was that the plan all along...to lull the men into a silent submission, to quietly steal our masulinity, to soften our bodies, destroy our minds, and sterilize us?
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Masculinity not masulinity
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We just ordered "No more Christian Nice Guy" by Coughlin which is around the same kind of thinking. Also, there are some others, "Why Men Hate going to Church" by Murrow and the "The Church Impotent: Feminization of the Christianity" by Podles. I appreciated the post. Men have been made to be too nice, too confined and too small for too long. Go Napalm...start a revolution!
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OHHH, Ohh, oh! I wonder what happened sometimes to the little boy we all were. Climbing trees, playing with dirt, throwing rocks at people. Ramping your bike off something made of wood and concrete. Getting scrapes, bruses, sprained ankles, mild concussions and simply rubbing some dirt on it and then getting back out there, ya know?
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Joe might be interested in the following blogger:
http://markarose.com/
He has some neat pictures too!
:o)}
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Who the heck would ban the US flag? I am confused.
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Recently, a school in Arizona banned the wearing of the American flag because the principal deemed it divisive. Mexican-Americans were wearing and flying the flag of Mexico. And native Americans (not American Indians) were wearing Old Glory. Patriotism is sometimes viewed as too masculine.
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Yet another school principal completely out to lunch. I've seen those before. That's on the list of "things that annoy me" for sure.
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Awesome! I love ribs and I can't get enough of carpet bombing. How did this turn of events happen so quickly? Did the revolution silently take place while we men were glued to the TV? Was that the plan all along...to lull the men into a silent submission, to quietly steal our masulinity, to soften our bodies, destroy our minds, and sterilize us?