Re: GEN: Thoughts for Father's Day
From: Gerald P.Rodriguez (geraldpr@cybermesa.com)
Fri Jun 15 10:06:29 2007
How about that for a broad thrust: "straight-up thuggery." WOW! I never
realized that as a male I was doing that!
Gerald P. Rodríguez, M.D., FACOG
Santa Fe
>----- Original Message -----
From: "FRANCES WREN" <fwren@shaw.ca>
To: "Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L" <ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 8:45 AM
Subject: Re: GEN: Thoughts for Father's Day
> how about honor,courage and emotional literacy.
>
> however, sometimes after a very ,trying long day in clinic...I am so fed
> up with trying to be emotionally literate (I like to imagine I am quite
> good at it)...
> that I would love to resort to straight-up thuggery.
>
> frances wren
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
> From: evsono@pipeline.com (art fougner, md)
> Date: Friday, June 15, 2007 5:18 am
> Subject: GEN: Thoughts for Father's Day
>
>> Boys To Men
>>
>> Many academics would consider my lack of manliness a good thing. They
>> regard boys as thugs-in-training, caught up in a patriarchal society
>> that demeans women. In the 1990s the American Association of
>> UniversityWomen (among others) positioned boys as the enemies of
>> female progress
>> (something Christina Hoff Sommers exposed in her book, "The War
>> AgainstBoys"). But the latest trend is to depict boys as
>> themselves victims of
>> a testosterone-infected culture. In their book "Raising Cain," for
>> example, the child psychologists Don Kindlon and Michael Thompson warn
>> parents against a "culture of cruelty" among boys. Forget math,
>> scienceand throwing a ball, they suggest--what your boy most needs
>> to learn is
>> emotional literacy.
>>
>> But I can't shake the sense that boys are supposed to become manly.
>> Rather than neutering their aggression, confidence and desire for
>> danger, we should channel these instincts into honor, gentlemanliness
>> and courage. Instead of inculcating timidity in our sons, it seems
>> wiser to train them to face down bullies, which by necessity means
>> teaching them how to throw a good uppercut. In his book "Manliness,"
>> Harvey Mansfield writes that a person manifesting this quality
>> "not only
>> knows what justice requires, but he acts on his knowledge, making and
>> executing the decision that the rest of us trembled even to
>> define." You
>> can't build a civilization and defend it against barbarians, fascists
>> and playground bullies, in other words, with a nation of Phil
>> Donahues.
>> http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110010215
>>
>> Read the whole thing.
>>
>> Happy Father's Day, All
>>
>> Art
>>
>> --
>> art fougner, md
>> "May The Wings of Liberty Never Lose a Feather." - Jack Burton
>>
>
