Leaderboard

Men and women will typically disagree along the lines we see here. I tended to agree with Prof and Pioneer for most of my adult life, but we were reared in America and are from the same generation. As a kid, if I cried while getting whipped my mother would whip me longer and tell me that she'd give me something to cry about. My mother also told me if someone hit you you better hit them back, harder -- I don't care how much bigger they are than you. She was old school, and she raised me in a way people raised boys back then -- Don't let anyone one punk you, and you better not let me see you cry. Buy today's standards that might be considered child abuse 🙂. But it is how men were raised. My own children (girls) have never been in a fight. I don't think anyone my age (especially men) escaped childhood without being in several fights or even catching a real beatdown. This is why Will Smith's slapping of Chris Rock actually angered me -- and I usually could care less about the shit celebrities do. What Will did to Chris was a profoundly offensive -- bitching slapping a man in public. My gut instinct would have been kick Will's ass or die trying. Today I the best reaction was exactly what Chris did. I imagine if Chris started weeping that would have been acceptable, by today's standards, too. Chris is from my generation so I know his reaction and composure took a lot of heart. I know some men considered Chris weak, but I disagree. Today we live in a different world; we have little need for "real" men. Todays "warriors" drop bombs from drones they control with a joy stick from some trailer out west. What few real gladiators we have now can play football or box, but these sports are being frowned upon because too many men are getting hurt. Men are indeed different from women. I do feel that the culture is trying make men and women that same. I think this is wrong. We should use our resources to understand those differences rather than making believe none exist. One simple and easily observable difference is that men are stronger than women. Of course there are some women who are stronger than some men, but on average men are physically stronger. This fact makes a difference in how men and women behave and the roles they might place in a culture. In 2022 technology has rendered the need for physical strength obsolete, but this change is brand new compared to he 100's of thousands or years humans have been on earth. Our genetics and attitudes will not change over night. Maybe it is technology that has "pussified" men. Maybe some men see women exerting equal rights as a treat. Maybe some men do not like effeminate, gay, or any aspect of manhood that does not conform to the traditional standard of manhood elevated in any way. Men are different than women and those difference should be explored and understood in the context of a modern society rather trying to make men the same a women. Men will always reject that -- even if they can not articulate, or understand, exactly why. Women, on the other hand, don't seem to mind making men the same as women. This may be another manifestation of our differences. More likely women see these changes as getting the same benefits, rights, opportunities men get, something they deserve.

.....and fear is more powerful than money.

@ProfDI hear black men making this arguments all the time. And i question them as I will question you. Could you be turned into an effeminate male if an attempt was made to do so to you? Nobody or thing can turn someone into something they do not already have tendencies to be. Gender does not automatically coincide with genitals at this stage in human development. it's about how the brain is wired. Clothing and other superficial trappings are neutral. They are just inanimate material and do not affect an individual's core personality. Tradition dictates what males and females wear. Trends dictate style. Not all males are athletic or macho, If anything is forced upon them it's the idea that this should be the case. The flamboyance of black men is in their DNA and doesn't have to be a part of a conspiracy. The collective consciousness to make life easier for children than it was for their parents wields a lot of influence. This accounts for endowing children with an inflated sense of self esteem and the need to reward mediocrity. Men are separated from the boys when they enter the real world and, as has always been the case, the strong survive. Meanwhile, the agenda of Liberal Democrats advocates for the inclusion and acceptance of those who are "different". Conservatives want to exclude those who do not conform to their "norm". And so it goes.

@ProfDThen there are the "idiot-savants" who, though intellectually retarded, do have one extraordinary talent such as hearing a song once and being able to immediately play it on the piano, an instrument they have mastered without lessons. These types also do things like being able to reproduce something they have seen only once before applying their extraordinary artistic skills to draw it perfectly. Others have phenomenal memories for trivial facts and figures. These "one-hit-wonders" are examples of what the human mind is capable of via of aberrations. Many handicapped people are able to cope and maneuver because their other organs take over and compensate for the disabled ones as in the 6th sense blind people develop, and the people born without arms whose feet and toes and legs take up the slack. We can agree that the brain in conjunction with the mind is a miraculous thing with untold possibilities! If Homo Sapiens continues to evolve, who knows what might be the result. @DelI think there might be a psychic connection between mothers and their babies. I also find it interesting that many nursing mothers say that if they are out alone somewhere and hear any baby cry, they start to lactate. Their mammary glands are apparently conditioned to respond to a crying baby, instinctively if not psychically.

The pussification of men in American society is very real and happening before our very eyes. Discipline has been stripped away from men. They've been convinced that it's wrong to spank their children. Everybody deserves a trophy or a participation certificate no matter how weak or sorry they are when it comes to being competitive. Men who cannot compete against other men in sports are now getting sex changes and competing against women. Of course *s/he's* going to win. Still physically a man. Males with too few strong male role models are especially susceptible to becoming soft emotionally. It's by design under this system that black men will be the most compromised no matter how strong they look. Buck breaking. 😎

@Pioneer1, well bro...Money is a mean motherf8cker. AfroAmericans have access to just enough money to keep their mouths shut and go along with the program on all sides. Gross consumerism is the opiate that keeps AfroAmericans from fighting for more than crumbs. Being able to afford trinkets..clothes, shoes, house, vehicles, vacations, liquor, drugs etc., is enough to keep our people stuck in neutral. The system of white supremacy has mastered the art of giving people just enough to anesthetize them into obedience and subservience. 😎

Unfortunately, those high emotions are being transferred to black male offspring. As a result, there's a bunch of sensitive azz dudes running around incapable of solving problems using logic and reason. They're making irrational decisions based on how they feel. Now, we've got black men running around snotting and crying when they're upset. Some of these dudes are physical specimens...athletes. Reduced to tears. Will Smith just made an apology video for the slap seen and heard around the world. N8gglets please stop it with the tears and other gross displays of emotion. 😎

"Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. META 6.55%▲ posted its first decline in revenue and issued a muted outlook as the company struggles to adjust to macroeconomic forces and growing competition from rival TikTok. The company reported quarterly revenue of $28.8 billion, down almost 1% from a year earlier and slightly below the $28.9 billion Wall Street was expecting. It marks the first time that the company has posted a quarterly drop in revenue from the year earlier." (The full article)

I believe human beings have moments of heightened awareness but it's not something we can control in such a way to produce constructive results or significant outcomes. I think the world would be a lot different if people could harness and/or access ESP, telepathy, telekinesis, etc. The Supreme Being knew better than to give humans that much power. Gave us just enough mental capacity to *think* about it. 😎

@Troy and @Pioneer1, unanswerable questions require more thought and usually result in confusion. 🤣😎

I am done, check please. @Troy

Well when people stop reacting to Greg's nonsense, he will stop serving his purpose and I will have to ban him. I can't have the forum dominated, unchecked, by the white racist rhetoric.