I'd say it is a sycophantic polemic of a statement, addressed to the fellow elderly to scold the youth about changes the author is not willing to accept.
Right. And we can bust out the quotes that shows that such statements have been echoed by men since ancient Greek philosphers. But I would still say that immaturity and degradation of the public, popular image of what it means to be a man exists and persists. Again, it's nothing new, but I wouldn't dismiss it off-hand either.
The misogyny thread gave us plenty of examples of grown ass men behaving like crass little boys because that's apparently all they know what to resort to. At various points in the past, this sort of thing was identifiable (though, of course,
not at all excusable) as ignorance. That isn't so much the case anymore. Far fewer people can now say, "I was brought up a certain way, saw a certain, limited reality, and my prejudices are based on that." Again, that was never an excuse, but there was an element of truth to it. Now, however, there are very few men in the civilized world who can say, for instance, "I've never seen or been around a homosexual man who wasn't a perfectly normal human being." As such, if you have this experience readily available to you in a way we didn't have 50, 60, and 70 years ago, and yet you're still the kind of asshole who casually drops homophobic slurs like it's nothing, then you're exhibiting a level of deliberate, willful ignorance. That's not any better or worse than plain old podunk dumbass ignorance, but it is different, and worth examining, in my opinion.
Now, the definition of masculinity itself is, at best, debatable and very possibly amorphous. I still think the OP
attempted to make a reasonably fair point about the general view of what it means to be a man; where it's been and what it is today. The blog post is too narrow-minded in its presentation, it brings up subjects such as "feminism" that I think are largely if not wholly irrelevant, and it's too short to realistically hope to make a studied, thoughtful statement on the subject. But I think it can be a springboard for a good discussion. I'm not elderly, I'm part of the generation the OP would seek to chastise, and yet I think there's at least
some validity to the criticism.