Exceptionalism and rugged-individualism helped make America the greatest country that has ever existed. Those traits are frowned upon or at least considered politically incorrect today. Multiculturalism tells us that no one culture is better than another. Yet one only has to look at the many civilizations (a word loosely used) around the world that have been in the \u201cstone ages\u201d for centuries\u2014ones who murder their citizens, debase and brutalize women and children, and subjugate their members.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s nothing wrong with being proud of your country, heritage, job, or your family. And there\u2019s nothing wrong with wanting to raise our boys to be tough. Somehow our culture has determined that it is admirable for our boys to be sensitive and ignoble for them to be tough. That would appear to me to be a somewhat feminized perspective on masculinity.<\/p>\n
Boys need to be tough to successfully navigate through life\u2019s challenges. They need to be strong and reliable because someday people will depend on them. A boy may depend on others but a man stands on his own two feet and makes his own way. Frankly, if bad stuff is going down I want men as police, soldiers, and so on who are tough, not sensitive, around to deal with it.<\/p>\n
American educator and physician William Alcott said in 1836:<\/p>\n