In just a few hours we’ll find out if Brokeback Mountain, the gay cowboy movie, is selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as the Oscar winning Movie of the Year. I’m still hoping for Crash, but there are so many gays and lesbians in the movie biz, and this film is a biggie for their cause, that I’d have to put my money on the buggerin’ buckaroos.

Are gay cowboys the best that our society can serve up for our own boys to pattern after? Isn’t modern life getting way too feminized for our own collective good? If God wanted men to be metrosexual, wouldn’t he have given us a dual set of plumbing?

What got me thinking about this today was Doug Giles’ latest Townhall.com column, Raising Boys That Feminists Will Hate. Here’s an excerpt:

Get it right, mom and dad—you are rowing against the flotsam and jetsam of Sally River. I hope you have a sturdy ideological paddle and some serious forearms, because postmodernism is determined to keep your boy and his testosterone at bay. Yes, they will attempt at every turn to either drill it or drug it out of him.

Parent, if you’re groping for a creedal oar to help you stem the increasingly stem-less effete environment, I’ve got a novel idea: Howzabout going back to the Bible, in particular the book of Genesis, and see what God the Father created His initial kid to be.

Yeah, that’s right. Go back to the source. It hasn’t been all that long since men had to be men, and women, women, right here in the good ol’ US of A. But today, we can be all squishy, and wishy-washy about gender issues — it causes a lot of mental confusion, and pads the pockets of therapists everywhere! Dr. Doug has a prescription for parents of boys:

So, take the time—No . . . make the time, parents of the peculiar Y chromosomes—to venture out with your boy . . . away from the city, away from the tidy and predictable . . . and watch what happens to your son as he separates from the prissy and is forced to interface with the primal. It is magical.

And, if you follow his advice, what can you expect?

Hang with me parents and you’ll see how God hardwired your son to be a wild man, a ruler, a steward, a dragon slayer, a wise man and a son who reflects the grandeur of God and how it is your job to fuel this flame which, by design, burns in your boy’s heart.

Sound pretty good to me. Oh, by the way — Doug has no boys of his own, but he does have two girls — you see, Eve was born into the wild also. Just because one is female, that doesn’ mean you get to be a softie. Strong women are amazing — I should know, I’m married to one!

Unlike the hard core feminists in our midsts, a real-strong woman won’t try to emasculate her, or anyone else’s man. (db)

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