Manhood Under Assault

It’s a difficult time to be heterosexual male in America because present day American society has only one role for heterosexual male: ignorant lout.

The present American orthodoxy teaches that a man must be a rude, crude, ignorant, beer swelling, sports watching brute who makes Fred Flintstone seem civilized in comparison in order to be heterosexual. If a man is educated, polite, well-groomed, honest, honorable, decent and well read; in short civilized, he must be gay.

This horrible stereotype is reinforced everywhere in our society on TV sitcoms where all the average American males are shown as ignorant, beer guzzling sports addicts. In movies where all the American heroes are shown as vicious, nasty, rude, ignorant brutes and the villains as well mannered and well groomed. And most graphically this stereotype is shown on the reality TV hit, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy where the only way average men can learn how to be civilized is to imitate gays.

The results of this horrendous message can be seen all over America today men increasingly act in a rude and crude away. The grandsons of the men who wore full suits to the movies wear t-shirts and blue jeans to weddings. Sexual assault and abuse of women is rampant. Average middle class men go to sports bars and strip joints where women are treated as nothing but sex objects. Movies and other entertainments are increasingly rude and crude. Foul language that was once only heard from the mouths of sailors is now heard on the streets everyday.

The ideal of American manhood is now the ignorant lout, the ideal of the great American gentleman is dead killed by homophobia and a vicious stereotype. Men are afraid to act civilized, to be polite, read, learn, dance, dress well and groom themselves because they are afraid to be branded gay.

Every day experts tell us that young men are performing worse academically and fewer and fewer boys are succeeding in our schools. Some of them even predict that in a generation or two there will be a shortage of men in our colleges. The reason is obvious: boys don’t want to be seen learning because they’re afraid that they’ll be branded gay.

Vast numbers of American women remain single because they can’t find a man with an acceptable standard of behavior. In other words they want a real man who is also a gentleman and can’t find one except in old movies.

In society at large men are afraid to be polite, read books in public, eat at good restaurants and go to the theater or any movie that doesn’t involve explosions or potty humor because they’re afraid of being branded gay. Our society is becoming less educated and less civilized all the time because of this stereotype.

Under present day American standards such he men as George Washington, Robert E. Lee, George S. Patton, Ernest Hemingway, John F. Kennedy and Clark Gable would have been branded gay. After all Washington and Lee were educated gentlemen, Kennedy and Gable were snappy dressers and Patton and Hemingway both read poetry (Patton, about the toughest general our army ever had even wrote poetry). Of course those men didn’t have to worry about being branded gay if they were seen reading a book or heard quoting poetry in public. Gable didn’t have to worry about being branded gay because he was wearing a nice suit with a matching tie. Nor did JFK ever have to worry about loosing any votes because he wore nice suits on the campaign trail.

It is time for the heterosexual men of American who don’t want to be forced to choose between acting like a barbaric boob or being branded gay to rise up and say enough is enough. It is time to show the people of this nation that a man can be civilized without being gay. For if we don’t it will be impossible to live a civilized existence in an America with only two kinds of me