We've had the baby boomer
generation, and generation X. I proclaim that the
next generation will be the Soft Generation.
It actually reaches back into generation X. There's
not a decent linebacker among them. They can't play basketball, they gave up their rebellious years,
and joined the IPO craze. They're allowing every
bastion of male
dominance to
fall off to the wayside, and they fail to honor the
testosterone inspired, call of the wild
.On the surface of it, it seems
like these kids are tuff and hard. But back in the
old days, a frustrated football player would go off
and beat the crap out of his woman's car, because a
real man doesn't want to hit a woman. Nowadays a
young football player gets his homies together and
shoots his woman. Even the gangster
rappers,
who pretend to be hard, and really just a bunch of poot
butts. All they rap about is shooting at
somebody, or bum rushing somebody. They never want to
just call somebody out, and threaten to whip some booty,
man to man. They claim to be hard,
but then they join a gang, looking for
acceptance, a family connection, and love. I recall
the lyrics of one RAP cut, that talks about a peer,
who by his disrespectful actions, had managed to "Loose
all his Homie's Love" Soft.
You never heard David Ruffin or Mick
Jagger reflect on their male relationships,
other than to say that "He can't be a man,
because he don't smoke the same cigarettes as
me…" (maybe Mick Jagger is not the
best example of male dominance, but I don't do
research, I just rant and rave… Besides I don't
believe those David Bowie rumors...)
Anyway, back to the matter at
hand. These kids keep talking about having someone "give"
them respect. They don't realize that respect is not
given, and seldom earned. Respect, like power is
usually seized or surrenderd at the insistance of a
fist to the face. |
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