I was musing this morning about men who support Kerry.
I find it really difficult to understand.
Most men I respect have attributes that would not
include angling for a PH over the male equivalent
of a broken fingernail. (Now, I hasten to add that
I've suffered a broken nail or two in my life, oft at
inopportune moments; however, I've managed to trudge forward
uttering a curse word or two beneath my breath, and did so
without involving others in my petty mishap.)
Despite being a female looking in on male group behavior,
I think I have a pretty good idea of how the group dynamic works.
Men are usually harder on other men than are women. (We women
can, of course, be more than equally hard on each other.)
From a young age, cowardly behavior was usually a cause
for derision among men, as was less than optimal sports or PE performance. As a group, I've often found that men are
less yielding in their concepts of honor than are women,
the latter sometimes being prone to more of a sliding scale.
Perhaps the single most striking attribute of male group behavior is loyalty.
So, please tell me, how is it that there are so many men supporting Kerry?
What attribute(s) does he have that outweigh his
shameless pursuit of PH's? How can men get by Kerry's
anti-war behavior and testimony before the Senate
wherein he turned his back on his "band of brothers" after
having physically abandoned them? How do they square his communion with the enemy during the Paris Peace talks with
his claim of loyalty to country as an underpinning of his
bid for the presidency? How can they select a CIC
who does not respect the troops? Who believes that the UN should have the final say over our own military? And who
is unwilling to defend this country unless he gets the green light from France and the UN?
At bottom, Kerry doesn't have a single attribute of a strong man to whom we can look up....at least I can't.
<edit: And please don't tell me they're girlie men because that's an insult to women!!> |
