This is a comment by The Blurpo on the post “Men and Mass Shootings“.
“We have a culture of power. Society expect that men to be the guardians of power (just like women are the guardians of sex) and to be violent and therefore a man is always looked upon with suspicion.
“A man cannot afford to express weakness, if he do, he is doomed beyond repair. And to be sincerely heard and be taken serious he must use force, he most show power, otherwise he is a wimp to be trampled on. A weak powerless man, is not a man, is a sub-human loser. To be held at the same moral consideration as a cockroach: annoying and disgusting (just look how society look at all the bums and homeless).
“The ultimate use of power is terrorism and or crazy shooting by the lonely guy like the one in the Aurora theater (don’t be fooled, that actually a sign of weakness from the abuse of power by the powerful; the gray mass or the governments/corporations etc). Just like the ultimate use of power from a government is war. Power = violence!
“Men are powerful, ergo, men are violent. You are not successful in life, then you are a outcast. There is nothing more pathetic than a weak man, a caricature a buffoon a clown. Beat him with a stick, write kick me on his back, spit on him, have fun on him, because he is not a real human (nobody would dare to mock a powerful person just out of amusement). If you lock a person in this box. There is little he can do than the classic outburst of sudden violence. The real perpetrators are the people who support this meme.
To fight this, is not to arrest and execute a random shooter, but to remove the reasons behind the outburst of violence (the culture of power).”
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Wow, what a sad commentary filled with so many stereotypes. Breaking down these stereotypes would help.
Not to mention all the poor grammar and spelling errors. I fully get the premise of what the writer means, but the delivery is so poor it distracts from a genuine debate topic.
The overwhelming aspect of this debate is that it’s not the culture that is the struggle, though there’s no question we are a culture of power and greed, but the very nature of men. Long before there were ever guns or media or investment bankers – males (human or not) are driven by power and dominance. To try and stamp out that drive would be a successful neutering of innate motivations that men are born with. Then we’ll truly be living in a double standard world where we are still expected to protect, but no longer have the will or means to do so.
Laywers and lawsuits are already widdling away at this fabric. There was a time when a young man knew there was a line he couldn’t cross with a girl else face a father’s wrath. Now, the idea of protecting your daughter with the ole ‘ clean the shotgun in the kitchen’ tactic is truly a joke. The boy knows he can do as he pleases…or his father will sue.
A bit of a tangent there, but just an example of watch what you wish for. You might get it.
so sad that the only reason men could be respectful to women is from fear of what the man in her life is going to do. without anyone, aka men, “protecting” women from the bad people of the world.. aka men seems like a vicious cycle to me. men hate to be made to feel like criminals but turn around and feel a “need” to protect women from these criminals. Don’t they see they are puttin gon blinders and pushing thier agenda without seeing the whole picture.
why is it that men have no sense of self to the point where the only things that they chose to do or not do are based on the goals and consequences of those actions, instead of basing their actions on honor, respect, integrity..a little something people like the call CHARACTER. Men always talk about things that they do because they could get something out of it or something they would refrain from doing (a young man knowing he can’t cross that line), sadly not because of repect for that woman but for avoidance of the consequences he’d face from another man.
seems logical that God made a creator on earth (women) to try and balance the utter desturction caused by man. Our world would have exsisted in the span of a blink of an eye if men were the only ones on it. killing and stealing their way to the top in order to gain their percieved worthiness.
“Not to mention all the poor grammar and spelling errors”
I agree it sucks. But im not a native english speaker, and thats the best I can do…for now. I will be better, belive me
You know what, Blurpo–keep at it, you got your point across.
thank you Kaleb.