Posted 8/25/2008 05:55:00 PM by Douglas

Absolutely excellent article with the question: "Where have all the real men gone?" There's too much of this one to grab for a pithy blockquote [please read down to her foray into den-motherhood]. But here's some good parts:

By elevating single motherhood from an unfortunate consequence of poor planning to a sophisticated act of self-fulfilment, we have helped to fashion a world in which fathers are not just scarce but in which men are also superfluous.

Lots of women can, do and always will raise children without fathers, whether out of necessity, tragedy or other circumstance. But that fact can’t logically be construed to mean that children don’t need a father. The fact that some children manage with just one parent is no more an endorsement of single parenthood than driving with a flat tyre is an argument for three-wheeled cars.

Ha! Persactly! Just 'cause you can doesn't mean you should. But where does it all end up? Here's a scenario:

Ultimately, what our oversexualised, pornified culture reveals is that we think very little of our male family members. Undergirding the culture that feminism has helped to craft is a presumption that men are without honour and integrity. What we offer men is cheap, dirty, sleazy, manipulative sensation. What we expect from them is boorish, simian behaviour that ratifies the antimale sentiment that runs through the culture.

Surely our boys – and our girls – deserve better.

We sure do, and pardon the pun, but it's coming.