Thread by @Ed_Realist, Yet one more thing really annoyed me (as if I needed more) [...]

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Yet one more thing really annoyed me (as if I needed more) about certain Never Trumper vagaries. Here& #39;s David French a few years back on manhood:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/01/masculinity-male-vulnerability-isnt-virtue/">https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/01/m...

Here& #39;s Tim Carney on manhood:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/what-the-metoo-moment-demands-is-a-few-good-men">https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/c...

So Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17 year old who wants to help out in his community, goes to protect a business with a gun but also a med kit, helps treat injured protesters. He& #39;s not acting tough, bragging, showing off. This is a kid who is trying hard to be a man.

I personally think it& #39;s obvious he was acting in self-defense and did little to bring catastrophe down on himself. But even if you want to argue it was dangerous, it was well-meaning actions in PRECISELY the mold that Carney and French would want. You& #39;d think.

Naturally, both writers shit all over him.

French (emphasis added to emphasize he thinks said Christian are wrong, of course):& #39;

Carney:

So apparently Carney wants men to be protectors in the very narrow sense that he described in his first article--the kind of guy who& #39;d never try to sleep with a woman but always be waiting around to beat up the guy who would try.

So basically, pajama boy with a right hook.

Other than that, Carney clearly doesn& #39;t think much of men going out to protect property or women they aren& #39;t already sexless friends with.

I guess French thinks the road to manhood lies through law school and a few years in Iraq.

You can be troubled by kids stepping up when the police won& #39;t. I myself would not let my then 6& #39;3 son at 17 go out to protect businesses unless I was standing by to beat the shit out of anyone who threatened him, which kind of defeats the manhood point.

But it& #39;s utterly graceless to watch all the videos of him that night and not see a boy who is trying to become a good man. And it& #39;s beyond nasty for French and Carney to single him out for stupidity given their prior odes to manhood.

It& #39;s also utterly impossible to believe they would have said the same thing if the president was a Republican who their wise readers obediently voted for on their sayso.

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