Disclaimer: This is written out of acceptance and respect for all those macho males (the Rambo type) who fight our wars, build out buildings, repairs our bridges, build our roads, ride bulls in rodeos, enforce our laws, put out our fires, and clean our sewers because they have become a forgotten group of people and, for the most part, have become forgotten and overlooked, as the rest of society moves towards equality and enlightenment. To all of them, we owe a debt of gratitude and the acknowledgment that without them our society would be NOWHERE at all... just like what The Beatles were singing about in their song.
My father was one of these Macho Manly Men who got a Tennis Scholarship to College but was a walk-on with football and was All American for 3 years and who played Professional Football and who trained Olympic swimmers while in the military. He was a tree trunk of a man who could have lifted up the front of our station wagon if he needed to.
I walked in his footsteps and became like him, lifting weights and bulking up my macho manliness and snickered at those who were not like the rest of us macho manly men.
It was this same macho manly father who told me,
“that the best part of me ran down his leg,” and, “that I was useless as teats on a bore hog and I wasn't worth the powder and shells that it would cost him to blow my ass to hell.”
This macho manly man who called himself my father, took us to Church every Sunday and was a Deacon in the United Methodist Church for several years.
This was the same macho manly man who called himself my father that got caught in a closet in a sexually compromising position with the “Maid-of-Honor,” after my sister's wedding.
This was the same macho manly man who was accountable to no one and who had complete contempt for women and African Americans; although, in public, he would act the opposite way.
SURE... this macho manly man image has clouded my judgment as it would most people's judgment, but that is not the point... the point is that macho manly man images are WRONG and serve no purpose at all except to be self-serving.
I recall a phrase my macho manly man father told me several times which was, “the bigger they are the harder they fall.”
And, believe me or believe me not, all these macho manly men will eventually fall and some will fall harder than others... but, the fall is biological and obviously real... and, for many of them will be profound.
When my macho manly man father lost his strength, he just sat in a chair all day, looking out the window and we never saw him smile and never heard him make an ugly, disrespectful comment ever again about anyone.
Life has a way of humbling us all...
So, the last bastion of manliness where the female side of the population has entered or infiltrated is the United States of America.
And, to tell you the truth, I doubt very seriously if there will ever be females playing along with males in Professional Football, Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, and the amateur sport of Rugby, but females are building houses, building brick wall, heavy duty equipment mechanics, and helping to build our highways and interstates.
Women are teachers, lawyers, dentists, cardiologists, oncologists, and veterinarians. Women are becoming politicians and holding Commissioned Officer ranks in the military, participating on combat teams, flying helicopters in war zones, and becoming rather competent in hand-to-hand combat.
In Israel, there have been female Mossad agents for years operating beside their male counterparts and have done quite well... and, believe it or not, the males over there (in Israel) do not make fun of or look down upon these females... they accept them as equals.
Will females every win arm wrestling contests with males?
Probably not... but, why would they want to?
What merit badge does one acquire when winning an arm wrestling contest?
There are double standards however in America and they go something like this: If and when a male wants to dominate a female for whatever reason, it is as acceptable as breathing air to survive; but, if and when the opposite were to take place or even be considered as if it were going to take place, then the person wanting to do this must have been raised by lesbians or gays.
And shortly thereafter, someone will no doubt write that this kind of crap should not be allowed to be published on this forum... it should be banned...
It is also interesting to note that these same people who make comments like that, also were in the military, some of which fought overseas to protect American Freedoms... one of which was our First Amendment to the US Constitution or FREEDOM OF SPEECH... so, if they want me and others to stop saying what we are saying then they must not really believe in our right to free speech; otherwise, why would they say what they said....
And, free speech covers it all, not just only that which you don't mind hearing.
At 67 years of age and after not being raised by lesbians or gays, but by a macho manly man, I can tell you now that all that “stuff” really makes no difference at all, even when one's way of life is threatened because in a Democracy the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
In other words, the majority wins...
And, in this case, the majority is currently phrasing out these macho manly men and no doubt, at least I would suspect no doubt, whatever these macho manly men did for a living, will still get done... just like it always has been.
And, my last comment is simply an observation of sorts: If it was meant to be that these macho manly men would always be around, then why is the world changing into something different and why is that change happening so quickly? And, why aren't these macho manly men joining forces to stop it from happening?
I had a conversation with a gentleman a few years ago who spent his entire 50 year working career in the construction industry, mainly hanging drywall. During the last few years of his career, he saw American after American after American being replaced by immigrant workers who were willing to work for half or a third of the wage that Americans were paid. These American bosses replaced these American workers with these low wage immigrants... and, life went on.
Instead of wearing stilts which were expensive for the immigrant workers, they would strap on coffee cans stacked on top of each other to get the height they needed to do the job. And, no doubt their feet hurt but they did this job anyway because they were glad just to have a job.
How many Rambo movies have you seen recently?
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