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For decades you could see US culture being reshaped by the ways men are portrayed on TV, and in movies and commercials. We are being told over and over by bad example than men are weak, passive, stupid, foolish, indecisive, and worthy of derision by spouses, friends and family members. These portrayals send the message that men should be ashamed of themselves and quietly surrender their strength, wisdom, and leading roles in the family. Nothing against women, or strong women; but men should embrace strong, positive male roles. Both sexes, both partners in marriage can be clear, strong and positive in outlook. It is the networks and entertainment bosses who approve these deleterious images.

Instead of patronizing such shows, programming that shapes male passivity should be shown as unworthy by viewer abandonment, as a clear waste of funding by advertisers. Certainly there are better things to do with our time anyways: that's why we used to call it the "Boob Tube." I truly admired our next door neighbor and his family when, during the so-called pandemic, they parked their vehicles on the street and turned their two-car garage into workout space.

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"For indeed he was a wonder to me then and always, not for his looks nor for anything that he did, but for the silent power of what he was, the power gathered up in him, as tremendous as a great mountain on the sky, that you couldna measure nor name, but only feel. A man, it was."

Mary Webb - Precious Bane 1920

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