Speak for yourselves. This old lib is 72 years old, and preparing for another 12 hour day as a millwright in a steel mill. In the meantime, I see you fellows as the kind that takes a couple of days off for a paper cut. All flap yap, no real substance. You talk about masculinity, and have no idea of what that is.
While more current generations might not be aware of certain changes in attitude, demeanor and persona of the collective male population of the U.S., those of us who have watched more than one or two generations go by can recall a time when the general character and substance of the young American
man was recognizably different from today's average example. In my opinion, while there are numerous factors to be considered, those most responsible for the subtle but meaningful differences in masculinity are (1) suspension of the draft, (2) advances in technology and (3) the influence of feminism.
Americans are not the only males in the Western world who have undergone changes in their general character. Glaring evidence of this is plainly seen in the generally aggressive conduct of migrant Islamic males recently occurring in Europe and Scandinavia -- with emphasis on the brazen sexual assaults of women in Sweden and Germany. The most surprising (and worrying) aspect of this development has been the lack of meaningful response to barbaric conduct by the native males of the affected nations.
There is no question that the flagrant sexual abuse of the women of Sweden and Germany is a contemptibly brazen insult to the men of those nations, which, by the most basic laws of Nature, calls for an immediate and brutally violent response. But it now is clear that natural mechanism isn't working in those countries. What will happen if (when?) the Muslim invaders ("refugees?") assert their unconstrained masculine aggression on American men by raping and molesting their women remains to be seen.