….who better than a “marketing chick” to decide what is best for young American males….?

Nick Fury on January 8, 2009 at 3:28 pm

or an unmarried blogger with no children?

chitown85 on January 8, 2009 at 4:16 pm

Wonder if marketing chick knows about the Springfield Armory line of XD pistols? Maybe there is a nartual marketing in for them if the programing works out.

Azygos on January 8, 2009 at 5:53 pm

I am thankful I had a Father (not a Weekend Dad) and a Mother who were married and older brothers. Being told how to be a man and not to do things that will bring dishonor to your family was vital to me. Older brothers who would set me straight when I was being stupid when my father wasn’t there. Unfortunately too many kids are from single family parents with only a mother. Welfare programs made the father irrelevant, a check will make it all right. When a child doesn’t see a father providing the shelter, clothing, food, education, inspiration, health care and other essential elements to a family he or she doesn’t understand what importance a father is to play. If the child see a welfare check, section 8 housing, Medicaid, and other government services, what is the point of a father to that child? And they wonder why children fail. Thank god for fathers in the family. Liberals see fathers as mean, wrong, irrational, out of touch…
So Hollyweird raises a lot of this country’s children already and now Disney want to step in. Young boys will be taught to be more effeminate, be more dependent, less independent, be more selfish, not to sacrifice for others, look in the mirror for more time in the day, not to be aggressive, not to be accountable, not to care for those less than you, not to step up when others wont…..on and on and on….

californiascreaming on January 8, 2009 at 7:11 pm

When is Chabad going to do anything for Jewish men. Their web site neglects men. Debbie does very little for men when it comes down to it and she supports other women who have done nothing for men either. Her father supported a man that supported liberal divorce idea’s and then has more faith in arab women having children then Jewish women. SInce her father is no longer alive instead of just being a propogandist for him maybe she should change some of her ways. Becuase otherwise her father will be punished for her daughters sins as well since he taught her to be this way.
Debbie hates a whole religon when she supports her own religon because it lets her do what she wants. Even though she really doesn’t follow her own religon. A woman was created to be a man’s helpmate but neither Debbie nor her friends are married.
Debbie wants an endless war with Muslims which will lead to MORE MEN dying. Do you think divorced and single women hating another religon to the degree they do going to cause more or less war. Do you think are enemies are going to take you seriously or just say that their religon supports women doing what they want and not getting married and having children.

adam6275 on January 10, 2009 at 9:08 pm

“Young boys really don’t need more high tech garbage, extreme sports, and computer games. They need to be taught values and how to be good, responsible young men. And they need to have an opportunity to develop an interest in the outdoors, science, and wildlife developed–things that have been neglected, especially with the decline of the Boy Scouts.”
Deb, “high tech garbage and computer games” are not new, they’re just more violent and sickly realistic now. I am only a couple of years older than you and while I can’t remember (to use the age range of Disney XD’s target) this kind of stuff when I was 6, I certainly can when I was 14.
A great “hi-tech” (hey it is the 21st century and having a basic sense of tech is important, it’s just that gory video games are not the way to go about it) way to develop an interest in science, the outdoors and wildlife is the growing hobby of geocaching, in which coordinates to a box hidden in the woods are given online, and real good “hiders” position these boxes so in finding them you get a real good taste of nice wildlife/outdoors areas; often these are surprisingly in urban areas and place unknown even to locals.
And the sport/movement is very “environmentally active” in a way that I think your political sensibilities would like. There are organized efforts to clean up woods and parks by geocaching groups, yet very little “extremism” (many “extremists” actually hate geocaching because they think it ruins trails and that the hides are “pollution”, not realizing that it is getting a lot of young people who otherwise wouldn’t be interested in nature and the outdoors back into it). It’s “scouts friendly” too, while the Boy Scouts do not have a medal for geocaching because of debates as to whether it is “too much reliance on tech” (the Girl Scouts have one though), quite a few cachers are scouts leaders and incorporate this activity with their troops and say that it helps generate interest in scouting among today’s youth.
I am quite an advocate in the NY area of it’s use as such a tool for youth (though many grownups and even “tech phobic” retirees have gotten into it too) and I can tell you from what I see in forums that it’s pretty active in the Detroit area. Check out these sites for your perusal:
http://www.geocaching.com
http://www.mi-geocaching.org/sechapter/

hairymon on January 11, 2009 at 11:11 am