Today’s email delivered two troubling articles to me:
In Search of the Real Man: Who is really on top in Germany?
and
Changing Attitudes Ring Death Knell for the German Macho
So on the one hand, German men are becoming steadily emasculated. On the other hand, Germany currently harbors more terrorist cells than any other European country. You don’t suppose there could be a connection, do you? Maybe German men with a moral sense are too pussywhipped to face terrorists, and German men who still have their Nüsse have no place they can go to act like men except terrorist cells. This is something that doesn’t seem to have occurred to feminists of either sex: when you rob men of all moral, constructive ways of being men, a lot of them will resort to immoral, destructive ways rather than live like eunuchs.
The first article discusses a book which sounds like I’d very much like to read it, but unfortunately, I don’t speak German: “Entitled ‘Echte Männer – Ein Leben im verborgenen’ (Real Men – A Secret Life), the book highlights the sad lot of the free-thinking German man, driven into darkness and despair at the hands of independently-minded women. While it doesn’t pretend to be profound, the book does raise some issues about the male German psyche. Do men, for example, really harbor a desire to be captain of the domestic ship on which their first mate wives and girlfriends are to follow orders with a sweet salute?” Perish the thought!
There’s some of the usual bullshit – or perhaps it would be more appropriate to call it “oxshit” – about how men who want to be the leaders in their families are secretly horribly insecure behind their “macho facades”. Where does this theory come from? There is no supporting evidence except in fiction written by feminists and manginas. The article also claims that men who have abdicated the responsibilities of manhood are the happiest. “Rather than a crisis-inducer, both he and Lohsa see gender equality as a great opportunity for modern men to shrug off some of the responsibilities they have been carting around with them since their dawning day — the pressures of being the sole breadwinner, for example.” They actually spelled it out here – a chance to escape from responsibility is a “great opportunity”.
