If macho is dying, it's time for assisted suicide

The article in Salon begins “[w]hat centuries of feminist protest didn’t accomplish, the global recession will—the death of macho.

It’s easy to classify the Salon article as anti-men, but it is, more precisely, an illogical emotional outburst by one of those delusional protesting feminists, and it is generated by hatred for families. It celebrates the loss of jobs for men as if that somehow helps women—and maybe it does help pining, divorcees who sit at home making their living writing hate speech against men, but as a protesting feminist, you’d think the author would have considered that maybe those jobless men will simply take the women’s jobs. They are, after all, macho. Maybe they’ll become journalists.

Key to the article’s premise is the definition of “macho”. The article is, after all, about its death. Conveniently, the author defines it in the article. So we needn’t speculate. It is defined as "aggressive, risk-seeking behavior." Aside from the obvious grammatical problem with the definition being a noun and not an adjective, there is another problem. It defines liberalism.

Remember Barney Frank? I’m sure you do. He’s the congressman from Massachusetts who hired a male prostitute – hey, maybe that’s the basis for the new show Hung. Now that might be worth watching. Now I understand why it’s a comedy. Who would play Barney Frank? But I digress. Barney Frank, and others engage in, promote, and, indeed, legislate aggressive, risky behavior. So if macho is dying, it’s time to pull the plug.