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Purplehood wrote:

VMI77 wrote:Man are you guys ever serious. Where is your sense of humor?

I was not issued one.

Dadtodabone wrote:In my youth I was misguided and poked fun at the sensitive/artistic young men who strummed cheap acoustic guitars and sat with the rock breaking young women who wear comfortable shoes, at the coffee shop and adult watering holes. Now that we've all grown and matured for 4 decades after leaving academia behind, I've taken the opportunity to revisit the young man I was and my actions then.
As stated I was misguided, not in my assessment of those young men as objects of ridicule, I still find the opportunity to ridicule them now that they are Congressmen, Senators, University Presidents, Tenured Professors, etc. But in the fact that I didn't consciously recognize that they were and are enemies of the Nation and traditions that I hold dear. I knew on some level that they were the "Other" hence my attitude. Yet I was unable to grasp then that their devotion to self was all encompassing and allowed no place for care or devotion to a greater purpose, our nation, or God.
This study does in a small way validate my personal conclusions. They were then and remain narcissistic grasshoppers, willing to eat the seed, set aside for the next planting, to insure their own well being.

Redneck_Buddha wrote:I am amazed by the number of men I encounter here in the liberal bastion heck-hole of Austin who would ordinarily be pretty macho man's men, but they have managed to glom on to certain femenistas in their lives who have made them ashamed to be manly. It's a tragedy how things are regressing in the demarcation of gender roles.

Men who are physically strong are more likely to take a right wing political stance, while weaker men are inclined to support the welfare state, according to a new study.

Researchers discovered political motivations may have evolutionary links to physical strength.

Men's upper-body strength predicts their political opinions on economic redistribution, according to the research.