what makes a man and where have all the good ones gone.

i have recently stumbled upon a site that i believe is very useful to and necessary to today's boy's. with true hard as nails John Wayne type men dying off who is to teach their children what it is to be a man, a being of both strength and knowledge. i remember when i first learned to shave it wasn't a skill i was actually taught as much one i came to know i knew i had hair on my face and didn't like it so i cut it. thankfully straight razors have gone the way of the dodo and i simply had a little piece of plastic and metal in my hand with a much shallower learning curve. but i learned this skill that is to passed from a father to son in clever land not from some one but from trial and error. i feel that growing up the way i did made me a softer man maybe even could be considered a man of the 90's some one trying to hold on to that strength and honor that the men who founded our nation set the bar for but not really knowing how. our father figures where more often then not women the strong single mother trying to be both. so i would say it is easy to see why we have so many men that are either way to strong or way to soft. the father of beaver cleaver was a strong man he had the perfect balance of what i shall call the male milk shake enough of the soft edge to not go around starting fights but enough of the hard to finish any he was in honorably. i believe given the right age and enough time a boy stumbling onto this site could become the ward cleavers of our days.