So I got sad today when I realized that I didn't have a name adequate enough for a old-timey Gangster. I tried but with with a name like Drew Aaron I just don't have anything to go with it.
Then I realize that if I lived in the early 1900's I probably wouldn't have been Gangster, I would have probably gone off to war and returned to the states and became a cop. I think I would have been a good cop, not one easily bought by the local gangster. Policing had a lot less rules back then. It seems like you were almost expected to rough up the bad guys, and you had to be able to rumble.
Crime hasn't changed much in the elapsed time. I think that with the moral compass of our society crime has almost become an accepted part of big business, it's just done at a level now that most people don't pay attention. Or in some cases people are more distracted by threats of terrorism to be concerned about money laundering and book keeping rings.
What I do envy about the years gone by is the role that a man played in society. This isn't a riff at women's rights or anything. Just that a man was a mans man ya know? Like the kind that served his country, worked his fingers to the bone to provide a good life for his wife and kids. The man knew his role, he was macho, had a sense of charisma about him, like he knew his purpose.
Why do you think action movies with a strong male role are so popular? The hero of the story that will fight through hell and high water to save someone. I think the male role has been muddied by this idea that men should be more like women and women more like men. The gender lines are blurring more each generation. Women want a man who is sensitive, caring, in touch with his feelings. While this isn't necessarily a bad thing, guys have taken it to the other end of the spectrum. The last breed of these original manly men have been deemed "rednecks" or "hicks". Guys that like hunting and gutting animals. Drinking beer and camp fires.
Men today are distracted in keeping up with sports teams, idolizing the guys playing a game for money. Or we've become recluses, spending hours in front of a tv screen or computer/gaming console. Living our our heroic pursuits in a virtual reality. Our wives are left to do all the things that the men should be doing like fixing thing, leading the family spiritually etc...
Media tells us that men are stupid. Watch a TV show in the last 10 years and find the husband defeated, over worked and run down by his wife. Married With Children is a great example, or The Simpsons. The male role is a primate while the wife is the center of balance. Watch a man make a joke about a woman causing an uproar in women's rights. Reverse it and watch a woman get praise for her joke about men. It's unfair and unbalanced.
Men need to take back our identity and if done properly it will only bolster the confidence of women, not tear them down. We can love our wives and kids and still enjoy embracing our bravado.
Then I realize that if I lived in the early 1900's I probably wouldn't have been Gangster, I would have probably gone off to war and returned to the states and became a cop. I think I would have been a good cop, not one easily bought by the local gangster. Policing had a lot less rules back then. It seems like you were almost expected to rough up the bad guys, and you had to be able to rumble.
Crime hasn't changed much in the elapsed time. I think that with the moral compass of our society crime has almost become an accepted part of big business, it's just done at a level now that most people don't pay attention. Or in some cases people are more distracted by threats of terrorism to be concerned about money laundering and book keeping rings.
What I do envy about the years gone by is the role that a man played in society. This isn't a riff at women's rights or anything. Just that a man was a mans man ya know? Like the kind that served his country, worked his fingers to the bone to provide a good life for his wife and kids. The man knew his role, he was macho, had a sense of charisma about him, like he knew his purpose.
Why do you think action movies with a strong male role are so popular? The hero of the story that will fight through hell and high water to save someone. I think the male role has been muddied by this idea that men should be more like women and women more like men. The gender lines are blurring more each generation. Women want a man who is sensitive, caring, in touch with his feelings. While this isn't necessarily a bad thing, guys have taken it to the other end of the spectrum. The last breed of these original manly men have been deemed "rednecks" or "hicks". Guys that like hunting and gutting animals. Drinking beer and camp fires.
Men today are distracted in keeping up with sports teams, idolizing the guys playing a game for money. Or we've become recluses, spending hours in front of a tv screen or computer/gaming console. Living our our heroic pursuits in a virtual reality. Our wives are left to do all the things that the men should be doing like fixing thing, leading the family spiritually etc...
Media tells us that men are stupid. Watch a TV show in the last 10 years and find the husband defeated, over worked and run down by his wife. Married With Children is a great example, or The Simpsons. The male role is a primate while the wife is the center of balance. Watch a man make a joke about a woman causing an uproar in women's rights. Reverse it and watch a woman get praise for her joke about men. It's unfair and unbalanced.
Men need to take back our identity and if done properly it will only bolster the confidence of women, not tear them down. We can love our wives and kids and still enjoy embracing our bravado.
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