Friday, October 06, 2006

Is this what "Bringing Sexy Back" means?

What's the meaning of "I do"?
Personally, I think that the role of the man has been totally destroyed.
I'm not bashing the "We are women, hear us roar" movement that our mothers and grandmothers founded decades ago, but what has that cost our male generation in the process?
You can see it on television commercials, and in movies.
(The romantic comedy genre- obviously.)
Why is it that the media portrays a successful female with a not only emotional moron but a senseless idiot perfectly happy just being a bum? Let me clarify before you get annoyed...
In the 1998 flick "Hush" with Jessica Lange and Gwyneth Paltrow, the husband is clueless of his mother's insanity and disregards his wife when she tells him she's uneasy.
In "High Fidelity", John Cusack is emotionally defunct and relationship challenged even when Laura spells it out for him.
In "Just Married" Ashton is a total jerk towards Brittany in Europe when things don't go his way.
I could go on, but you get my drift.
Or even the commercials where a female walks in on her man "freshing up" and asks him why he's putting on a dirty sock- or when he's changing his shirt he just turns it inside out and backwards?
How about the Ford commercial with the girl at the dry cleaners drive thru who pays for the cute-guy-in-the-Mustang-behind-her's shirts? Seriously. He drives a brand new Mustang- he can pay for his own shirts to be cleaned.
This is NOT sexy. Men are supposed to be bold, charming, and strong. Women are too, but what has happened to this culture's perspective of manly men?
What happened to our Cary Grants? To our successful manly man who sweeps a girl off her feet? Why aren't those the type of men the media portrays as "good"? These days, you get "Shop Girl" and the audience cringes at the idea of Steve Martin and Claire Danes. Even in "Lost in Translation" you don't want Scarlett Johansson with Bill Murray.
Where's our manly men?
The provider, the protector, the giver, the man who makes you feel like a woman down to your very core with just one glance? Even if he is older- he's more experienced.
They don't exist anymore. Our generations manly man is one who lacks manners, has grooming issues, and is selfish down to the very center of his being.
Maybe this is the reason that many twenty-something women want to have families instead of careers. This should not be looked down upon!
Women can have younger men on their arm and aren't looked down upon. Flip the table and all of a sudden you hear the whispers of "He's old enough to be her father!"
What has happened in the past two decades?!

It upsets me. It envokes such discontent in me.

Maybe it's because I'm with one of our generations manly men, yet long for the type of decades past? Don't get me wrong, I love my husband, but there isn't the commitment, trust, provider, protector in him. Yes, he's military. Yes, he fights for our country. That doesn't mean he isn't one of the most selfish people I've ever met; because he is.
Then again, how much of that is him, and how much is what he's been taught?
I've seen it in base housing the most. Sons growing up being tattle-tales. What happened to letting your little boy stand up for himself- even if he gets beat up or made fun of? Doesn't that teach him life lessons?

I've always thought it's easier to stand up and fight for your principles than it is to live each day by them. Maybe this is the case here?

12 comments:

Baba Ganoush said...

I never knew my father. The father-figure in my life was my grandpa. He instilled a lot of the values that you talk about in me.

I would say that the problem is two-fold. First, you are correct, a lot of the values you talk about are not being taught anymore.

Secondly, I think a lot of women aid in the extinction of the manly man. A lot of women (including my wife) will not let a man provide, protect, etc... for her like was done in the past. I don't know if it's their need to establish themselves as an "independent woman," or what.

I've learned that embracing it is the best way. My wife and I are on equal footing. Sometimes it makes things difficult, but when I think of what it will mean for our children, it is worth it.

Igirit said...

How painfully sexist... :-/

Anonymous said...

It is the words of scarlett:

"How painfully sexist... :-/"

that add to this idea that men are not up to the core that they should or could be. Men are degraded, and they are told that anything they think about women and their "dominance" is sexist. So what do men do?

They have lost their value. They lose the "equal footing" baba_ganoush mentioned. This is the idea that men and women should be on equal footing. Women do like to be independent. They have the nature to nuture. And men like to protect and provide for their families. But the issue here, is that men are being taught that women also want to protect and provide. And when a woman does everything, it leaves not much room for a man. Yes, men can be nurturers, but not so like that of a mother. And mothers can be providers, but they also love wanting to be led.

The main issue here is not that women are the aid to the extinction of the "manly man", but that men are giving in, dropping the ball, not taking the lead, and not standing for what they know is right.

(P.S. Btw scarlett, try thinking about something better to say than just "how painfully sexist... :-/". It doesn't help anything.)

Anonymous said...

Pathetic...and painfully sexist.

Asif said...

it is not sexist...its the truth...its the way of nature...its how God has made the two genders and has divided the different areas of life....yes, Men and Women can assist each other in all the fields...but one has the primary role in all the fields...like Woman is to Love, and give motherly affection to the family and her husband and husband has to love her back...similarly man's primary responsibility is of protecting and taking care of the economic means of the family, here woman can assist by advising him, assisting him in efficiently utilizing the available resources and plan for the better future....and you can derive examples from all the areas of life...

Asif Ali

Anonymous said...

I think the whole idea of independent women is just absolutely rubbish. Women can't live without men. They need us men for almost everything in their life. Only a man can make a woman feel wanted. Even a single mother feels the desire of a man either for herself or for her kids. A woman needs a man to even make her feel independent.Women are generally irrational beings and it is the man that makes her rational at times. The whole femminist movement was a waste of irrational women trying to feel rational motivated by the capitalists. why do women love to shop, I doubt it is ever for themselves but to attract and achieve some sense of acceptance with the opposite sex. You may then ask what about lesbians...well, they obviously have been let down in some way by the male species to want to tread the path of being with another woman but even there they lack alot of things that only a man can give - I am sure even a lesbian from time to time desires of a man and/or his company.

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