Suck it up!

So I was driving into work today and I heard this story about a man who used a stun gun on his 18 month old. I was thinking, what terrible thing could an 18 month old do that would suffice this kind of abuse and the obvious answer is: Nothing. However I was truly shocked (no pun intended) to find out the rest of the story. Apparently the reason the man was using a stun gun on his kid was that he "wanted his child to be tough... to be toughest cage fighter ever."

Read the whole thing here.

Are you kidding me? What the crap is wrong with people? "My baby is crying, he must not be tough, I'm going to make him tough! I'm gonna use my stun gun on him, that'll toughen him up! Put hair on his chest! Make him a man!" Is this really what some people think?

Eighteen months old. EIGHTEEN MONTHS OLD! He supposed to be soft and cuddly. He's still just a baby.

What is with our culture and thinking a man has to be uber-macho to be a man? I'm not discussing sexuality here, but why do guys that show any emotion at all always get the "Gay" moniker? Like I said, not going into the whole right and/or wrong side of this, but to a straight man, being called gay is an insult, agree with it or not, to most straight men this is truth.

What makes a man macho? Seriously what does it take? No emotions? Lack of intelligence? The ability to use a stun gun on an 18 month old?

I don't know and quite honestly I don't think I care. If being macho is what this man of men was, I don't want it.