“Let us answer the question, "How can I make a man of my boy?"”
And by ‘man,’ you mean, what, ‘asshole’?
“1. Dress him like a man. As soon as his hair gets a bit shaggy, have it cut!”
Um, have you ever seen a picture of Jesus with a crew cut?
Or wearing pants?
“It is better that little Johnny start life being masculine than to retain those beautiful ringlets at the age of two.”
I really don’t think hairstyles define masculinity… i mean, aside from Sampson.
“Cut off those ringlets and make him look like a man.”
At TWO? Jeez, what a mess your kid must be.
“ From the very first time that he is old enough to wear clothes, dress him like a boy, cut his hair like a boy, and make sure he always looks like a man.”
I have to laugh.
When the AC went out at work, some of the guys wanted to wear shorts because the office was so hot. They said the dress code wouldn’t allow it. But they never showed us the dress code.
So i was about an inch away from wearing one of my wife’s dresses to work when my son bought me a kilt. Then i dared anyone in my chain to say a fucking word about the Scottish American worker’s choice of traditional clothing.
Next day there were about four pair of shorts in the office. Management didn’t say a fucking word.
“Teach him to be around boys that dress like boys.”
Ah. So, overcompensating gays?
“ Teach him it is not Scriptural for a boy or man to have long hair or effeminate tastes in clothing. Read I Corinthians 11:14.”
While looking at a painting of Jesus on the Mount, I’m sure.
“Make him play with boys and with boys' toys and games.”
I hated sports, and the games most of the boys around me wanted to play. I did play (alone) with GI Joe, and sometimes Princess Barbie.
But i didn’t want to be a princess. Or a knight.
i was always the dragon…
“Let him play with guns, cars, baseballs, basketballs, and footballs.”
LET Him?
None of those sound like fun. Would you have MADE me play with those?
Eugh.
“ As soon as I could I taught my boy to play baseball and football. When he was about thirteen I bought him an air rifle. When he was fifteen I bought him a .22 rifle.”
Okay, that makes YOU the manly man, what about what he wanted?
Dad made me a basketball hoop in the driveway. i played with it about once a month for a year. Then stopped.
“Invariably, when someone admits to me he is a homosexual he relates that he played a lot with girls and participated in feminine activities.”
Invariably, experts have shown that the choice was well before whatever games they got to play as toddlers.