The word male and the word man don't mean the same thing.
I think people forget this.
There are plenty of male dogs, cats and rats in this world.
To be a man is to fuse the aggressive energy and dynamism of a male with the control, foresight, wisdom and sensitivity of a human.
The video you posted is somewhat horrifying. They seem like a bunch of guys who are TERRIFIED OF FIGURING OUT WHO THEY ARE and so they renounce their humanness and try to merge into the herd. When one is a barking barbarian in a herd, one does not have to think for oneself. One simply does what the other guys are doing. To be a real man, one should be one's own man. But these guys aren't their own man. They don't belong to themselves; they belong to a herd of braying cattle. They may think they are augmenting their virility, but they are, instead, sinking into a snake pit of almost pre human stupidity.
I think you were suggesting that the convention, and the emotion-packed unity behind Truman, was an example of tribal loyalty and all the aggressiveness that it entails.
Of course, there is plenty of tribal loyalty in conventions. (Without tribal loyalty it would be a sham of a convention.) We can't extinguish all tribal loyalty,. If we did not bond with others, we would all be autistic. Bonding with our brothers is only problematic when we stop thinking about what we are doing.
How old is your Father. If he were older than 70, I can understand why he might be so prejudicial. However, if he is in his 50s and 60s, he was a youth in the 60s and or 70s. Although homosexuality was generally not condoned back then, most young people, in the 60s and 70s, did not freak out about homosexuality and understood that for some people that was their orientation and that it should be accepted.
The word male and the word man don't mean the same thing.
I think people forget this.
There are plenty of male dogs, cats and rats in this world.
To be a man is to fuse the aggressive energy and dynamism of a male with the control, foresight, wisdom and sensitivity of a human.
The video you posted is somewhat horrifying. They seem like a bunch of guys who are TERRIFIED OF FIGURING OUT WHO THEY ARE and so they renounce their humanness and try to merge into the herd. When one is a barking barbarian in a herd, one does not have to think for oneself. One simply does what the other guys are doing. To be a real man, one should be one's own man. But these guys aren't their own man. They don't belong to themselves; they belong to a herd of braying cattle. They may think they are augmenting their virility, but they are, instead, sinking into a snake pit of almost pre human stupidity.
I think you were suggesting that the convention, and the emotion-packed unity behind Truman, was an example of tribal loyalty and all the aggressiveness that it entails.
Of course, there is plenty of tribal loyalty in conventions. (Without tribal loyalty it would be a sham of a convention.) We can't extinguish all tribal loyalty,. If we did not bond with others, we would all be autistic. Bonding with our brothers is only problematic when we stop thinking about what we are doing.
How old is your Father. If he were older than 70, I can understand why he might be so prejudicial. However, if he is in his 50s and 60s, he was a youth in the 60s and or 70s. Although homosexuality was generally not condoned back then, most young people, in the 60s and 70s, did not freak out about homosexuality and understood that for some people that was their orientation and that it should be accepted.