The Monarchist 1.0
Defending the British Crown Commonwealth and the English-Speaking Peoples
[+] HONOURING OUR PATRON, SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, VICTOR OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
[+] HONOURING OUR QUEEN, ELIZABETH THE SECOND, ON THE 80TH YEAR OF HER BIRTH (1926 - 2006)
[+] HONOURING OUR KING, SAINT EDWARD THE CONFESSOR, ON THE 1000TH YEAR OF HIS BIRTH (1005 - 2005)
[+] HONOURING OUR HERO, LORD NELSON, ON THE BICENTENNIAL OF THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR (1805 - 2005)
[+] HONOURING OUR SONS, THE QUEEN'S COMMONWEALTH SOLDIERS KILLED IN THE 'WAR ON TERROR'
Chief Warrant Officer Robert Girouard, 46, Royal Canadian Regiment, Nov 27, 2006 (Afstan)
Staff Sergeant Sharron Elliott, 34, Intelligence Corps, Nov 12, 2006 (Iraq)
Private Jacob B. Kovco, 25, Royal Australian Regiment, April 21, 2006
[+] HONOURING OUR VETS ON THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTORIA CROSS (1856 - 2006)
Sunday, July 03, 2005
In Defence of Manliness
History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.
Walter Bagehot
In an atmosphere permeating with general disgust over at The Journal of N=1 the other day, the SSM militants not satisfied with their convincing win on the passing of same-sex marriage, were busy debating their own tipping point over the Tory Party’s temerity that they would actually behave as conservatives and vote in favour of the traditional definition of marriage. By militants, I mean people who are so convinced of the rightness of their case, that they advocate the disenfranchisement of millions of citizens who might think otherwise on the issue. Ghost of a Flea in particular was wondering aloud his total revulsion why their leader, Stephen Harper, did not go out of his way to openly support Gay Pride Week and take part in the culminating parade, thereby demonstrating his Party’s forbearance towards gays:
I have a pretty good theory on that, which goes thusly: such an overt public display of celebratory tolerance for the vulgar and for the raunchy would probably offend his instinctive sense of manly pride and honour. But I suppose manly pride doesn’t count for very much anymore, not in this country, not by this girly bunch. The social engineers have done such a remarkable job at assaulting the male component of our culture and replacing it with a gender-neutral society, that what's left of our country’s masculinity now gets readily dismissed as those "bigots" simply because they don't actively endorse gay pride and gay culture. Much no wonder we’ve gone so far astray. Somewhere along the way we became a nation of overly sensitive, fanatically tolerant girly men.
The problem with us men is that most of us think it’s unmanly to celebrate our male pride, at least in a deliberately organized and politically orchestrated way; because true manliness has more quiet in its confidence, less stridency in its assertiveness. And so not surprisingly we have been easy targets over the past couple of generations, prone to the feminist social experiment that stigmatizes manliness throughout our public and educational institutions, based on the male-hating stereotype that conflates masculinity with violence, aggression and dominance.
But as Gandhi once said: "Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or lordliness. It consists in daring to do the right and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds, not in words." Listen to that wisdom: it consists of deeds, not words. What does that say about us, a country that is all words, all bluff and no deeds. We're a nation of bullshitters, not zealous doers on behalf of a just and good cause (e.g., America and Australia in Iraq). It is apparent that we have forgotten what it means to be honourable, to exhibit manly honour; what it means to feel shame for not living up to it. What it means to be brave, self-restrained, with feelings of delicacy and respect toward loved ones. What we should be celebrating is fatherhood and the role models that fathers should become. Think quintissentially of Gregory Peck's very fatherly role as Atticus in To Kill A Mockingbird. Why is it that we no longer celebrate that?
The truth of the matter is that as a society we've been worshipping unmanly behaviour for so long now, that it is manliness and all the virtues that manliness represents that is continuously under attack and heading towards extinction; not minority gays who get the full-time backing of our politicians, judges, media, businesses and celebrationists. Maybe the Flea should stick that in his pipe and smoke it.
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 11:00 p.m. | LINKS |
History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.
Walter Bagehot
In an atmosphere permeating with general disgust over at The Journal of N=1 the other day, the SSM militants not satisfied with their convincing win on the passing of same-sex marriage, were busy debating their own tipping point over the Tory Party’s temerity that they would actually behave as conservatives and vote in favour of the traditional definition of marriage. By militants, I mean people who are so convinced of the rightness of their case, that they advocate the disenfranchisement of millions of citizens who might think otherwise on the issue. Ghost of a Flea in particular was wondering aloud his total revulsion why their leader, Stephen Harper, did not go out of his way to openly support Gay Pride Week and take part in the culminating parade, thereby demonstrating his Party’s forbearance towards gays:
And for anyone who dislikes being called a "bigot" all you have to do is explain to me why Stephen Harper could not be bothered to participate in Pride Week. That was a million Canadian voters in one place where he could have explained by his "separate but equal" apartheid marriage proposal was worth the votes of gay Canadians. But I see no effort on the part of Harper or his party to include gay Canada. And I see no other reason for it than pandering to folks to dislike gay people whether or not they happen to be married.
I have a pretty good theory on that, which goes thusly: such an overt public display of celebratory tolerance for the vulgar and for the raunchy would probably offend his instinctive sense of manly pride and honour. But I suppose manly pride doesn’t count for very much anymore, not in this country, not by this girly bunch. The social engineers have done such a remarkable job at assaulting the male component of our culture and replacing it with a gender-neutral society, that what's left of our country’s masculinity now gets readily dismissed as those "bigots" simply because they don't actively endorse gay pride and gay culture. Much no wonder we’ve gone so far astray. Somewhere along the way we became a nation of overly sensitive, fanatically tolerant girly men.
The problem with us men is that most of us think it’s unmanly to celebrate our male pride, at least in a deliberately organized and politically orchestrated way; because true manliness has more quiet in its confidence, less stridency in its assertiveness. And so not surprisingly we have been easy targets over the past couple of generations, prone to the feminist social experiment that stigmatizes manliness throughout our public and educational institutions, based on the male-hating stereotype that conflates masculinity with violence, aggression and dominance.
But as Gandhi once said: "Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or lordliness. It consists in daring to do the right and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds, not in words." Listen to that wisdom: it consists of deeds, not words. What does that say about us, a country that is all words, all bluff and no deeds. We're a nation of bullshitters, not zealous doers on behalf of a just and good cause (e.g., America and Australia in Iraq). It is apparent that we have forgotten what it means to be honourable, to exhibit manly honour; what it means to feel shame for not living up to it. What it means to be brave, self-restrained, with feelings of delicacy and respect toward loved ones. What we should be celebrating is fatherhood and the role models that fathers should become. Think quintissentially of Gregory Peck's very fatherly role as Atticus in To Kill A Mockingbird. Why is it that we no longer celebrate that?
The truth of the matter is that as a society we've been worshipping unmanly behaviour for so long now, that it is manliness and all the virtues that manliness represents that is continuously under attack and heading towards extinction; not minority gays who get the full-time backing of our politicians, judges, media, businesses and celebrationists. Maybe the Flea should stick that in his pipe and smoke it.
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 11:00 p.m. | LINKS |
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