Ian Blokesworth:
Yes, teaching young children "female-style" and according to the mother's wishes emasculates a man.
Nonsense. First of all, can a style of teaching honestly be called "female-style"? What would that be? Through guidance and explanation rather than through trial and error, sink-or-swim, or other time-honored "male styles"? And "according to the mother's wishes"? Are mothers automatically wrong, simply because they're mothers? Are your swinging gonads so frightfully fragile that they will dry up and blow away when the mother of your children dares to put forth a valid opinion on the education of your children?
Let me break it to you gently, Ward: modern mothers know they don't have to wait 'til Father gets home for matters to be put right. If the mother of your children can't make a competent decision about the raising of your children, it's on YOU. It's not because she's a woman. It's because you impregnated an incompetent ninny, quite unlike the vast majority of women.
There is absolutely nothing "emasculating" about any facet of raising kids. If you allow yourself to be subjugated unfairly, if your wife honestly takes advantage of you in a domineering fashion, if your children are bratty hellions who walk all over you and have absolutely no respect for your intelligence and (for lack of a better word) authority, then yeah, you can consider yourself emasculated. But that's the least of your problems.
A man who defines his own masculinity through the prism of assuming that everything he believes and does is just and correct simply because He's The Man is a fool and a liar, and deserves every last iota of emasculation he fears in his sweatiest nightmares.
