No Limp Wrist Here

Bout her Mongoose,
I really enjoy your column, it nice to read a real man's take on every day problems. I feel like you and me have a lot in common and am hoping you can help me with something. I see it on tv, I see it in town and it scares me to death. I have a six year old boy and do not want him to turn out to be a limp wristed sissy boy like I see everywhere I look. What can I do to keep him from it?

Dear Ats my Boy,
In the words of Dr. Evil, "I shall call him Mini Me". It is a biological fact throughout the animal kingdom that all species have a primal desire to pass on unique traits down the bloodline so that even after we are gone, parts of us live on. Recently, traditional family has been under attack; whether it's gay marriage, the portrayal of the "inadequate bumbling man" in sitcoms and commercials and even, dare I say it, the feminist movement that demonizes and seeks the need to eliminate old fashioned gentlemen... Your duty as a loving father is to ignore these agendas and raise yours in a way that causes your son to want to be just like dad. It does not take a village to raise a child, you ever heard of the village idiot?  Do you really want them raising your kid?  Stay involved, spend as much time as possible with your son doing the things you love. Give him time, just like dating, I'm sure there were things you didn't love doing with your girl at first but learned to, and did them anyway--no different here.  You will begin to see yourself in him and may see some things you don't like about yourself too, that's just a bonus.