Comments on: Boys Will Be Boys, Alas

by: Ed Whitney

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:44:51 +0000

How does anyone know that jimmie is an actual man? This is the intrenet, after all. Maybe this is some radical feminist or cyberprankster who is writing all kinds of macho manly stuff and putting up a photoshop picture of a pudgy guy who couldn’t survive a 12 mile road march with a drill sergeant if his life depended on it. She or he may be laughing her or his head off at the responses of the outraged people who think they are talking to an actual male chauvinist pig. OK, Ti-Grace Atkinson, the game is up!

by: bruce

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:11:12 +0000

wow, sometimes a person’s idiocy is so pure and pristine that it needs no explication or elaboration. Thanks, little jimmie, for showing us the view into the male wingnut brain..right on thru to the other side.

by: Bonnie

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:00:54 +0000

If this were the 60s, “jimmie” would have an opportunity to show his manliness when he was drafted to fignt in an illegal and immoral war. I wonder then if he would start spending time in Canada because I believe he is not man enough to go fight in any war he advocates. If he is so manly, why isn’t he already over in Iraq.

by: Swami

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:43:35 +0000

Hedges’ words aren’t those of a man bereft of manliness; they are of a petulant teenager angry at the grown-ups.

Gee, Jimmie..since when do 13 year olds pay income tax. It sounds to me like you’re back peddling because Maha called you out on your macho fantasy. You sound like one of those guy who carries a rubber in his wallet for emergencies…you know how that is for us macho types.

by: Chet Scoville

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:31:56 +0000

He also can’t seem to tell the difference between a “germane” question and a “German” one. But I digress.

by: paradoctor

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:38:30 +0000

Sorry, paste-up failure. What I wrote in was:

“Let’s see now. One man defies the IRS as an act of conscience. Another man sees this and feels the need for porn. Yet it is the second one who thinks the first one is unmanly.

It depends on what you think a man is, and what you think character is. In particular, is random aggression a sign of strength or of weakness?”

by: paradoctor

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:34:55 +0000

I wrote in to that comments section:
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Note that the second man needed a porno fix because the first one unmanned him.

by: Redwretch

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:13:02 +0000

“I suppose now we can they all think we’re a bunch of simpering milquetoasts who can be cowed into submission by a few beheadings and car bombs.”

Jimmie needs to redo high school English, or get an editor that’s passed it.

Isn’t the Mahadaughter available for such employment? Reasonable rates, I’m sure.

by: Ed Whitney

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:35:08 +0000

Christopher Hedges has been in wars in Central America, the Balkans, and the Middle East. He has seen the actual human beings who would be blown to bits by the kinds of military action jimmie seems to be eager for. To him, the people on the receiving end of the bombs are made of flesh and blood.

Actual human beings.

I think that aimai is correct in her observations about authoritarianism and the notion that “maturity” has to do with instant submission to authority figures. But there are differences between the Chris Hedges of the world and the jimmies that go beyond the authoritarian analysis. How real are the “others” that are on the receiving end of our plans and ideas?

Perhaps “they” hate us because (1) we are in their face, (2) we want more than our share, (3) we think we are better than they are, and (4) we are clueless about them and don’t give a damn. People around the world are affected every day by decisions made in New York and Washington, and “we” have no idea about the downstream effects of actions taken in our name. We can’t be bothered to learn, since this would upset our peace of mind.

This is the deadly sin of sloth. It is the willingness to guard our peace of mind by deadening our perceptions of reality. It is the aversion to mental and moral effort required to experience peace of mind at a higher level. Very hard to overcome. I cannot point my finger at others and pontificate about this, but I do stand by the diagnosis.

by: moonbat

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:11:26 +0000

Male adolesence is all about confusing the urges of one’s “little head” with the reasonings coming from that thing on top of one’s shoulders. This boy-man has it in spades. I really thought I was reading something by General JC Christian.