What shows did you watch as a kid? Captain America? Transformers? Sesame Street? Bugs Bunny? Sponge Bob? Or maybe you didn’t watch TV all that much? These days, for better or for worse, kids generally watch a lot of television. Partly because they like to and partly because a lot of parents find that its a easy way to keep their kids entertained. To an extent TV is fine, and in some cases might actually be good if the shows have good themes behind them. Other times they are nothing more than senseless entertainment, or maybe politically charged drivel.
One interesting aspect of kid’s show nowadays is the lack of a good “manly” figure. What is a manly figure you may ask? Its not the bumbling, burping, jerks that so often get displayed on TV. Its the responsible, providing, leader that young boys want to look up to. Kids, especially young boys, need role models and examples of what a boy should be or what a girl should be, but our society has really muddled those roles now. Young men are no longer stepping up to be the head of the family or to take responsibility, instead they hide behind drugs, sex, TV, video games etc… What takes their place then? Women do sometimes, but more often than not the position remains empty.
Why and how did this happen? Part of it surely has to do with the feminist agenda of past decades. Feminism is all fine and dandy but it can and does go to far. I think it has negatively affected the gender roles of our society. Some women have really started to act like men and to take over the role that men should be in. I’m not saying that women should always be stay at home moms or shouldn’t have careers. What I’m trying to get across is that a lot of men don’t know what it is to be a man. They are emasculated in a sense. Men need to step up and take responsibility for themselves. They need to have commitment and be encouraged to lead their families.
Well said.