> Is it just me or have we become a nation of pussies? And where was
> I when this cosmic shift took place? Let me explain "cosmic shift"
> through example. When I was a baby we did not have a car seat, no
> one did. When I got older I would sit in the front seat without a
> seatbelt, everyone did. I did not own or wear a bicycle helmet as
> a kid - I still don't. In any event, somewhere along the line a
> cosmic shift took place where only lunatics would put a baby in a
> car without a car seat or drive without seatbelts. The same sort
> of cosmic shift is nearly completed with bicycle helmets. It's a
> strange sort of phenomenon that sometimes makes sense but at other
> times it doesn't.
>
> Another cosmic shift has taken place in America but this one is
> repugnant in all ways. I'm talking about the pussification of
> American men. The seat belts and the bike helmets are all part of
> this and the cosmic shift really accelerated after 9-11. Fear
> began to trump sex on Madison Avenue. The metrosexual has become
> the symbol of American masculinity. Hugh Grant has replaced Cary
> Grant as a Hollywood icon of masculinity. I was at a party ...

> On Aug 12, 6:06 pm, "|-|eavy-quar|<" wrote:

>> Is it just me or have we become a nation of pussies? And where was
>> I when this cosmic shift took place? Let me explain "cosmic shift"
>> through example. When I was a baby we did not have a car seat, no
>> one did. When I got older I would sit in the front seat without a
>> seatbelt, everyone did. I did not own or wear a bicycle helmet as
>> a kid - I still don't. In any event, somewhere along the line a
>> cosmic shift took place where only lunatics would put a baby in a
>> car without a car seat or drive without seatbelts. The same sort
>> of cosmic shift is nearly completed with bicycle helmets. It's a
>> strange sort of phenomenon that sometimes makes sense but at other
>> times it doesn't.
>>
>> Another cosmic shift has taken place in America but this one is
>> repugnant in all ways. I'm talking about the pussification of
>> American men. The seat belts and the bike helmets are all part of
>> this and the cosmic shift really accelerated after 9-11. Fear
>> began to trump sex on Madison Avenue. The metrosexual has become
>> the symbol of American masculinity. Hugh Grant has replaced Cary ...