We simply don’t produce men the way we used to in this country. My grandfather who died a few years ago was a quiet man who loved fishing, had a dry wit and prided himself on doing his own thing with dignity. At his funeral the reverend talked about seeing my Grandfather walking along the road in upstate New York on some errand and when offered a ride he’d decline because he simply liked to take the 2 mile walk to play the numbers.
He was almost 80 at that time. Kids today need Segways to run the malls.
I’d seen the man I called “Pop” get a hook in the finger, slam his hand with a hammer and hurt himself in a variety of ways we men often do and aside from some color language his reaction was always what I think is a proper man’s reaction, a joke and a chuckle while administering first aid. Men are, above all else, supposed to be able to deal with discomfort stoically and gracefully.
Michael Tracey did not, apparently, have the benefit of such an example, as video of his arrest is being circulated by his friends as evidence of him being brutally victimized by the police after attempting to attack Ann Coulter. The video shows no such thing, merely a grown man who must think of himself as the most delicate of flowers screaming like little a French girl as he resists arrest while the heroically patient police try their best not to laugh at his melodramatic hysterics. Observe:
| Ewing Police arrest student at Ann Coulter lecture |
That his friends and family can watch this and think that Michael Tracey was abused by anything other than his own effeminacy and his parents coddling speaks volumes on why New Jersey, and America, has such a dearth of men. Since at least the 90s we’ve been turning our young men into simpering, mincing quasi-adults who have no pride, dignity or sense of self. When I was young I wouldn’t dare cry while being arrested in front of a woman, I’d smirk rakishly and throw her a wink. After all, what’s more enticing to young women than that trouble making rebel who their parents would hate?
Instead Tracey cries like he was thrown off the Rock of Love Bus and then begs the same women who I can only assume will never sleep with him for fear he’ll burst into tears after orgasm to support his quest for justice, which according to reports is a demand they not charge him with the crime which got him arrested in the first place. Gods help us if he ends up in court, we’ll need to provide him with a swooning couch and smelling salts.
What the hell has happened to us?