REAL MEN tonight at 9p ET with Andrea

LAST TUESDAY I WROTE ABOUT REAL MEN. Specifically about a post blogger Kim du Toit wrote in which he unloaded his frustration with today’s girly men, shaped by the last 40 years of feminism.

“We have become a nation of women.

It wasn’t always this way, of course. There was a time when men put their signatures to a document, knowing full well that this single act would result in their execution if captured, and in the forfeiture of their property to the State. Their wives and children would be turned out by the soldiers, and their farms and businesses most probably given to someone who didn’t sign the document.

There was a time when men went to their certain death, with expressions like “You all can go to hell. I’m going to Texas.” (Davy Crockett, to the House of Representatives, before going to the Alamo.)

There was a time when men went to war, sometimes against their own families, so that other men could be free. And there was a time when men went to war because we recognized evil when we saw it, and knew that it had to be stamped out. “

Tonight on my radio program — a look at the manhood crisis with Tarek Saab, son of a working class Lebanese father and an American mother, who became the symbol of successful manhood after millions of Americans followed his fortunes on Donald Trump’s TV show “The Apprentice”.

Saab has been talking to young men and women across the country, and has now written about real men and the manhood crisis in his new book GUT CHECK: Confronting Love, Work & Manhood in Your Twenties.

Join us tonight at 9p ET for politics — with a masculine bent.

8 May 2008 | Uncategorized | Comments