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"ARE WE NOT MEN?"
The famous line from The Island of Dr. Morreau. A crazy movie about a mad doctor who lives on a remote island doing experiments on animals to make then human.
The results of his work are neither human not animal....just some whacked, freakish mutants who endeavor to fight their natural insticts and strive to be human.....to be men.
The famous line is spoken by the leader of these creatures, called the law giver. He exclaimes the line, "ARE WE NOT MEN?", to encourage and challange the others to have integrity and do the right thing.
Would it be as powerful a phrase if it were Are We Not MALE?
I have noticed over the past five or so years that there has been a shift of referring to men as "male".....especially women. After having noticed this for a time, I found myself feeling a little slighted....and perhaps a bit irritated at this trend.
Male is a broader less exacting term to refer to us. Yes, we are male....but so are dogs, pigs, spiders, and probably even some slugs are male....not that I would be able to tell the difference...of even care to.
Strangely enough the women who I hear refer to us as male don't usually use the term female to refer to other women. They just call them....well...women...or girls.
I am not sure what is the reason or motivation for this trend, but I have a hunch that it has been driven by "N.O.W." types in an effort to refer to men in the least masculine term they can.
Other than a police report, I can not remember a single instance of a man calling to himself of other men as "male."
I don't appreciate this movement to emasculate my gender.
You can be be born male, but you have to strive to be a man....or at least a real man. You guys know what I am talking about. When we were little boys, men talked to us about being a man. It was something earned.....or better yet.....it is a process....or even better yet a journey. There we go. It is a journey.....much like love. I love my wife. It is not something I get a certificate that says I love my wife and sticked it on the wall and say it is done. It is a day to day process loving my wife. I have to keep loving her. In the same way I have to keep being a man. Not to do so is to be less than a man.
I am proud to be a man.
Anyway....that is my long winded thought for the day.
More wine for my males!......I mean men!
The famous line from The Island of Dr. Morreau. A crazy movie about a mad doctor who lives on a remote island doing experiments on animals to make then human.
The results of his work are neither human not animal....just some whacked, freakish mutants who endeavor to fight their natural insticts and strive to be human.....to be men.
The famous line is spoken by the leader of these creatures, called the law giver. He exclaimes the line, "ARE WE NOT MEN?", to encourage and challange the others to have integrity and do the right thing.
Would it be as powerful a phrase if it were Are We Not MALE?
I have noticed over the past five or so years that there has been a shift of referring to men as "male".....especially women. After having noticed this for a time, I found myself feeling a little slighted....and perhaps a bit irritated at this trend.
Male is a broader less exacting term to refer to us. Yes, we are male....but so are dogs, pigs, spiders, and probably even some slugs are male....not that I would be able to tell the difference...of even care to.
Strangely enough the women who I hear refer to us as male don't usually use the term female to refer to other women. They just call them....well...women...or girls.
I am not sure what is the reason or motivation for this trend, but I have a hunch that it has been driven by "N.O.W." types in an effort to refer to men in the least masculine term they can.
Other than a police report, I can not remember a single instance of a man calling to himself of other men as "male."
I don't appreciate this movement to emasculate my gender.
You can be be born male, but you have to strive to be a man....or at least a real man. You guys know what I am talking about. When we were little boys, men talked to us about being a man. It was something earned.....or better yet.....it is a process....or even better yet a journey. There we go. It is a journey.....much like love. I love my wife. It is not something I get a certificate that says I love my wife and sticked it on the wall and say it is done. It is a day to day process loving my wife. I have to keep loving her. In the same way I have to keep being a man. Not to do so is to be less than a man.
I am proud to be a man.
Anyway....that is my long winded thought for the day.
More wine for my males!......I mean men!