I’ve no doubt you know a lot of women who put up with shoddy behavior, roll their eyes and say “eh, guys.” People like you have spent their lives teaching them not to expect much from someone with a Y chromosome. Your entire premise here is “hey, don’t expect much from us.” Have you any idea how disgusting and contemptible it is to hear you and your ilk use being male as an excuse, like it’s a freaking handicap?
Accepting the mantle of manhood used to be strived for, an honor bestowed on someone after enduring trials and hardships. Generations of boys died trying to achieve the rank, faced lions with nothing but a loin cloth and sticks, climbed mountains, lived on their own in the woods. Being a man is a status to be lived up to, not an affliction to be lived down.
Nowadays, it’s simpler. You decide at some point what kind of man you want to be, and you start living up to it. It sounds easy, but it isn’t, as evidenced by the huge number of guys that never bother. You don’t get far before you realize it’s going to be tougher than you thought, keeping your word, standing up for what’s right, being considerate of others, taking care of your loved ones. But as before, you become someone others can respect because you already know deep down that you respect yourself.
The real crux of your little parable about leaving a thousand dollars unattended lies there. Would it be stolen? Probably. Would I steal it? No way. That’s not the man I want to be, and so I’m not. And I wouldn’t think much of the person that did take it, nor do I think the fact that there’s a* lot *of such people an excuse to cut the person that did some slack.
What’s odd is that I don’t think you’d think much of someone that would take it either, even though you’d take it yourself. I’m not seeing a guy that thinks well of himself in these posts. Not being much worse than the next guy makes for a poor yardstick in life.
