The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-22
We Are a Nation of Feminized
Men, Says Vance Thompson
Generation of Woans Tutelage Has Warped and Weakened
Us, and American System of Education Is Dis
astrous to Masculine Nature

into society: he is taken into it-like
lap dog. Tho sports-from automobile
races in the mud or races in the water or
in the air to tho prettiest spectacle Of
poio--are feminized. Men no longer
compete with each other for tho Joy Of
battle; they exhibit themselves in in
teresting or amusing or dangerous pos
lures in order 10 provide the kinN OF
excitement" the feminine nature most
feeds upon. An American election las
come to have all the hysterical excNe-
ment that women look for in their
amusements, and 1t is due entirely to
the fact that u generation Of women
trained men have got into the way Of
acting--even In serious political matters
like 30 many women. They are ac-
quirinR. generation by generation, .
feminine way of vibrating instead OF
thinking. Singing shrill hymns they
throng to the polls. follOwing-lflse
women---the noisiest bellwether.
He saw 1t right, the ancient. brfny
man from the frockless seas.
American civilization Is n strange.
febrlc creation OF the women who have
mauled and schoolcd the manhood OF
tho nation. 10. these many years.
1t hasn't the look Of a malo civilizs-
tion-like Germany. Harls to tho Ad.
miral:
"In Prussia, perhaps the most ad-
vanccd and highly civilized State In the
world. foremost in municipal. chemical.
metalurgical and military development.
no boy Ii ever, at any age. under
woman's tutelage. The qualities OF this
great State. whether In tho military.
labor or civic field. are the result OF II"
masculine training. The same may BE-
%or ha I'm nj
| Europe, the boy in the main, where not
entirely, is echooled and trained by men
| and not by women"
That Is where you get the harsh q.
ncient edge Of male nation building. II
is not like our product, being sane and
hard and quiet. We take "A feminine
pleasure in making life exciting. Elk
| element as with the essential woman
| IL always is, Is an end in itself. And
so American life Is tuinutuous. talka-
tive, feverish: It breaches and discusses
| and predicts: il devours newspapers
and shouts and gets angry over patient
printed pages; II screams over mill
| tons Of miles of wire--overhead and
underground; It dimes and dances in pub
| lie In order to get as much excitement as
possible II CANDLES and roars over foot
ball games and races; and in a way
wholly feminine and neurotic II goes its
excited way. The normal man would
never have built up this kind of life.
II pleases him solely because he has
been warped and weakened and emo
tionalized by generations OF woman
tutelage.
And that is true.
There are millions Of course who es-
cape this tutelage. In the streets, in the
factories, in the shops they acquire in
rough haphazard ways the education
man made and man purposed-they
have been cheated OF In the public
schools They get back n little of their
masculine birth right. In which there
is hope for better days. For It is splcn.
ddly true that under stress the Anieri-
can man becomes manly; and tho
American woman becomes moro
womanly.
A naval officer said to me last night
AZ we talked over these things: The
mere rumor Of war will bring the men
up from the cellars and down from the
nurseries Even the touch Of poverty
wakes the male in them. There are
said to be thousands Of unemployed
these days. I know in tho army and
navy we have our pick OF the best men
In the land
But it seems sad and wastefuI-.
does IT not ITO breed up feminlzed boy
; and then trust TO war or want to make
men Of them.
I'm of one mind with the brlny sea p
farer: there's too much white linen
Tapping overhead. The nag Of edu-
Gated.