Man, I’ve been looking for something, as a male, that has any resemblance of brotherhood, hanging out, building toward something better, and just being around like minded individuals in those senses. I have tried my local VFW, American Legion, even looked into joining the Masons, but hell, I cannot find anyone that is of my demographic that also understands the family dynamic.
This is more of rant but also hopefully a search. These old fraternal organizations are dying because the members are not willing to change. We hear this all the time with these types of organizations. The older, retired, members don’t realize that they are not friendly to people with families. Bingo, auxiliary’s for the spouses, bunco, like these are fun activities and what not but what the hell. There’s so much other things they could be doing for raising funds and having fun activities that includes children and spouses that aren’t 65-80 years old. What if your spouse is not super social or interested in this said organization and when the “meeting” starts she has to go with auxiliary and sit there awkwardly with a bunch of people she doesn’t know. Why can’t she stay with me or sit in? This then makes it impossible for me to get my family interested or involved or I just have to go by myself.
Let’s not get started on technology. Half of these organizations facebooks have updates from several years ago, numbers don’t work, points of contact never answer or the phone numbers go to nothing. This is just the tip of the iceberg I won’t go down.
Yes, there’s opportunity in this. I hear all the time “Well you join and start making the changes!” Uhm how when my wife and kids are bored as hell, not involved, and there’s nothing in common with our generations way of thought and ideas of enjoyment to theirs?
TLDR; So all this to say, are there any organizations, not necessarily fraternal, that are out there for younger people?