Back to my rant about the lack of men, we’re suffering a lack of boys too. I figure it this way. If you don’t have boys that know how to be boys there’s no way in Hell you can have men that know how to be men. It just won’t work.
Boys are being programmed by society to be something less than boys. I’m not saying that boys are being molded into girls in some Brave New World kind of way. Because they’re not. Even those boys were taught that it was good to rough house and enjoy sex. Our guys are learning how to be something that’s not masculine, but not truly feminine either. This isn’t about homosexuality, but it might be about metrosexuality. I’m all but certain the latter is one of the symptoms of the disease and not the disease itself.
Today our guys are being programmed that it’s wrong to embrace being a boy. Look around at all the teenagers and twenty somethings that have never gotten dirty. They never tried to swing so high they went over the cross bar at the top of the swing set. Those boys have never played a pick up game of football in a vacant lot. And they damned sure never got in a fist fight. It shows. It’s part of the reason so many kids are living in Mommy’s basement until they’re thirty two years old. They don’t know the thrill of taking a risk and the satisfaction of it paying off. They don’t know the soul crushing feeling of failure either. We should be teaching them both.
We’ve failed our boys.
We need to turn the trend around. I’ve got some ideas. Stay tuned.

