My real father was virtually out of the picture, and my stepfather, while being a very good man, was not a strong father figure. This had an effect on my own life as I came from a broken family. This means more boys are growing up without male role models. While the divorce rate has remained stable at about 50%, the number of children born out of wedlock has been skyrocketing. In our day, the traditional family is on the decline. Without some guidance, he is likely to go down the wrong path. A boy without a father figure in his life will embark on his own search for what manhood means.
Traditionally, young men learn about manhood from their fathers. Everybody WinsĪbsent father who later overcame his wimpy qualities to become a productive citizen just talks to Iran and cares a lot, we’ll have a peaceful agreement. If you just try to understand what you did wrong that made your girlfriend cheat on you, you can make it all better.
Some pussified men think that this actually works in the real world. Unlike the old-school cartoons, the newer cartoons have a definite lesson-everyone is basically good, and if you care enough, you can work through your differences. It eschewed cartoon violence and it tried to impart some valuable message. These chubby, multi-colored bears solved problems by getting together and “caring a lot.” You might not have watched the Care Bears cartoon, but pretty much every children’s cartoon that came after followed the same model. You could only use your wits to stay one step ahead of them.Īt some point in the 1980s, people became horrified at the violence in these old-school cartoons, and they set to work creating cartoons with a more wholesome message.Ī great example was the Care Bears. If there was a “lesson” in these old-school cartoons, it was that there were bad people in the world and that you couldn’t reason with them. There was tons of violence, but somehow we knew that we weren’t really supposed to give people exploding cigars. Bugs would continuously escape Elmer by outsmarting him.
In a typical episode, Elmer Fudd would hunt Bugs in order to turn him into rabbit soup. In the old days before the pussification campaign, cartoons for kids were pure, mindless entertainment, like Bugs Bunny.
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