Le C21 Homme et Jarhead

Like most things gender is a manmade product. Gender, whether or not you like to admit it is a super conscious act. This is not to say that our ideas of how the opposite sex should act are not influenced by biomechanics but that at this stage of our "evolution" masculinity has become rather useless. Anthony Swafford understands this. Strength, valor, and courage are rendered useless in the face of a gun since neither of those can protect you or help you win a war when your enemy has the bigger gun. But also in the world of a bomb a gun is useless since the airforce gets there before the marines. The irony of this is that guns  an almost comic signifier of phallic strength is also rendered useless as well. This is to say that the marines in Jarhead suffer from Blue Balls and their balls are becoming so blue there almost patriotic.

Think about it: he doesn't shoot anyone during the entire war, he has no females to socialize with and his balls are getting completely bruised by the fact that his lady friend is cheating on him. So is Jarhead just a novel about men carrying big blue patriotic unused balls! Yes yes it is. 

Some "great"(used ironically) critics of the modern masculinity view the first modern war The American Civil War as the source of modern masculine problems and they also sight Women's liberation as stemming from the demasculization that the male sex experienced in WWI. (Remember "The Sun Also Rises" how Jake Barns couldn't get it up?) But personally i think it's a whole bunch of bullshit and if slaves can vote why not women?(black humor I don't mean it, no pun intended , I'm not racist, oh shit is it racist to make a joke about slavery and then to insinuate that women have served a role akin to sexually based slavery for hundreds of years and then that the word "black" denotes a race of people when it obviously does not (a white or black bunny is still a bunny and i could never hurt either, now a bunny made of golden fur i would slaughter) but if you feel completely offended by inane uneducated comments please don't watch CNN or CSPAN since their is an entire nation of men who believe this and it ain't Iraq ohhhhhhhhh shit .........)

Anyway, after the gun the weak and the strong became equal, after the bomb the strength and bravery became OBSOLETE and in a very real sense so does notions of masculinity, but the true question here is of copulation so that the traditional male and his masculinity  has become obsolete, girls (wink) and is nolonger fit for reproduction since  intellectuality now decides and wins a war, this is also why we are losing in Iraq, but apparently the entire nation has not realized this, so yes i was going for Hillary and yes i believe the media sandbagged her during her interviews (no pun intended).