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?
o, freakin’ wah. dang.
I gotta tell ya, this whole “turning all the cool guys into designer purse carrying metrosexuals” thing is on my last nerve. really. what happened to truck driving, testosterone overloaded, 5 o’clock shadow-having REAL men?
y’know, the ones who don’t cry like a hysterical teenage girl over getting arrested.
dang
That kid is an embarassment
You guys ain’t kidding. His friends are defending him in the New Jersey papers. Makes me ashamed to have originally come from the Motherland.
Addressing:”he was making a big deal out of nothing”
You’ve obviously never been arrested, cops are not gentle people, if you weren’t watching the video he had a full grown man putting his wight on his face, that never feels good.True, he wasn’t the toughest guy around, but I imagine in his situation you wouldn’t’ve been this different
Addressing:”Attacked Ann Coulter”
Since when is asking a question attacking someone ? He made no threats, no violent actions what-so-ever. The only thing he did was ask a question
Addressing:”don’t produce real men these days” and ‘liberals are pussies’
You Boston fucking socialites sicken me. You want to talk about a real man ? Well I’m a member of the latest generation and I have to do REAL work, not your little managerial positions, your fucking white-collar-bourgeois bullshit, but manual labor of the lowest fucking pedigree, and doing it for shit-pay too. And do I complain ? No, I do it, I get my pay-check, and then I go about my life. But to see you upper-class republican swineshits acting so tough and manly just because you drive trucks fucking sickens me. And if you’re one of those sell-out blue-collar republicans ? Fuck you even more, you sold out your own social class for the respect of your peers. You let the rich folk scare you with their talk of “Liberals want to control your life” or “everyone outside the country wants to destroy us and the liberals would let them” You’re fucking cowards, and there is a place in hel designated for you
A) Getting thrown to the ground by cops hurts no more than a decent tackle in a football game. And when I was his age we played without pads. If I got arrested I’d go quietly and lawyer up, like a man.
B) Tracy was told to move away from a restricted area and refused, then got disorderly, then got arrested. I suppose you mighty Stalinists, oh I mean Socialists, simply don’t believe we evil Americans laws are meant to be followed.
C) I’ll address several points in your last paragraph:
“You Boston fucking socialites sicken me.”
I’m from New Jersey; I lived in NYC and Middletown CT for a while and now reside in South Carolina. I’ve only been to Boston once, and since I was born to an all Black family in the early 70s I’m certainly not a socialite.
“ou want to talk about a real man ? Well I’m a member of the latest generation and I have to do REAL work, not your little managerial positions, your fucking white-collar-bourgeois bullshit, but manual labor of the lowest fucking pedigree, and doing it for shit-pay too. And do I complain ? No, I do it, I get my pay-check, and then I go about my life.”
You are complaining, and worse you’re doing so in a passive aggressive, almost feminine manner by linking to your sad little commie group while pretending you work hard (pics or it didn’t happen) and are just some all American guy. You and I both know your some pot smoking sissy up at 1:36am trolling blogs because you don’t have a job.
I myself worked in non-profits until my wife and I started our own business. Sorry if that’s too bourgeois for you.
“But to see you upper-class republican swineshits acting so tough and manly just because you drive trucks fucking sickens me.”
White collar truckers? Never heard of it. But I have seen many douches that can’t get their own lives together fill themselves up with envy for other people who worked harder than them. Let me guess. You have a drinking/drug problem? Relationships that don’t work out? And you blame it all on everyone but you.
But you know that’s not true don’t you?
“And if you’re one of those sell-out blue-collar republicans ? Fuck you even more, you sold out your own social class for the respect of your peers.”
Your social class is you peers. But tell me how upward mobility, low taxes and the ability to pass on your property to your children betrays anyone? Except people like you who parasitically live off the rest of us.
“You let the rich folk scare you with their talk of “Liberals want to control your life†or “everyone outside the country wants to destroy us and the liberals would let them†You’re fucking cowards, and there is a place in hel designated for you”
Next to Che? Next to the people who mock his victims (like the gays he killed) by wearing his t-shirt? You know like the one you have? Your whiny tirade just proves how unmanly you are. Fuck me for making a living. Fuck me for not wanting to support you. Fuck me for not wanting to live on welfare, for having ambition and actually working for what I want.
Nice try princess, but you’re no different than that rich kid you’re defending.
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