connor_a{at}hotmail.com quoted the SOTU:
> "Tonight I propose a three-year initiative to help organizations keep
> young people out of gangs, and show young men an ideal
> of manhood that respects women and rejects violence."

We don't need the help.  We want you to stay out of our business.
There were once people who taught boys an ideal of manhood.  They were
called fathers, but you took them away.  Now you're left with the job
they once did, and you'll make a hash of it.  You already have.

You define manhood in terms of women, for one thing, and then you
insist that we respect _women_.  Not people, mind you, but women.
Already, you give away that this is just another women-first program
masquerading as an attempt to help men, and you turn it into the sort
of nagging that gang bangers already get from their mothers.  It
doesn't appear to work that well, does it?

If you think the inner cities are violent now, try putting at-risk boys
into feminist re-education camps.  See if it turns out to be a good
idea.

I might add that no amount of indoctrination can make us respect they
who are not respectable.  Respect has to be earned, and you don't do
that by going to the gym dressed like a topless dancer, or having three
kids by two different men, or by abusing the court system to get what
you want, or by getting into a college by lawsuit rather than by merit.
 Neither is it helpful to demand respect.  If you are worthy of
respect, you don't have to ask for it.  You just get it.

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/02/sotu.transcript.4/index.html
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