Men are made not born.
Throughout history, across religions and cultures, men have initiated boys into manhood.
In the last 100 years the chain from generation to generation has been broken.
Who is working to repair that breech?
From a full length documentary film by Frederick Marx on the initiation of boys to men.
The one thing that struck me from the start was the mom saying that this was the last resort and if it didn’t work, she’d have to send him to his dad? That tells you a lot about things these days. Dad is the LAST resort????
I think the Young Offenders Act or juvenile act have a lot to do with it too. Boys and young adults believe they are immune and protected by these laws regardless of their behaviors. Take the case of Ravi videotaping his gay roommate in a sexual act — his lawyer was attributing this behavior to boys will be boys and that Ravi was just 18, slightly above 17 where he’d be protected by law. If you were to ask an 8 year old, they’d be able to tell you that what he did was wrong. This Ravi guy was a… Read more »
Soullite says it very well.
Yes – boys struggle to grow up but I think this is more about gender condtioning
Sounds like romantic claptrap to me. Men aren’t born, but boys are. They become men at the age of 18, or maybe 21, or maybe 25. But they don’t take ‘mentoring’ – they aren’t trained the way you train a guard god. If you’ve got a penis, and you’re an adult, then you’re a man. Women don’t debate this stuff. They call an 18 year-old girl a ‘Woman’, no matter what her accomplishments or attitudes. They scream and yell ‘Sexist!’ at anyone who says differently. And you know what? They’re right. So let’s take a page out of their book… Read more »
I think you have a good point. I think there is some sort of belief that if a man doesn’t follow some specific path then he is not a man and I think that may be a problem. Maybe its not about being a man its about being a good man. The point of mentoring should be to create good men. Technically speaking a boy will eventually become a man if lives long enough, the difference is going to be what kind of a man is he going to grow to be. In this video I’m not sure that it… Read more »