Have you noticed? Men are fools.
For proof, just look at the jokes, the innuendo of stupidity, and the subject of thousands of sitcom gags. The fool, the oaf, the bumbling male is so common in movies that it’s expected. Jim Carrey, Jack Black
, Ray Romano, and Owen Wilson have made millions strutting this persona.
They are the complete opposite of the Archie Bunker-George Jefferson-Fred Flinstone buffonery that dominated the airwaves a generation ago.
Admittedly, for thousands of years, men dominated and put down femininity. Women couldn’t voice their opinion, vote or participate in culture and society, except under the shadow of their man. That was wrong. We realized the mistake and our culture has righted the wrongs. But now we are on a rebound that has whiplashed back around again.
What do we do? Should we stuff our masculinity in a bag, spray it with perfume, and put it in a cedar chest to be pulled out only at family reunions and only at the request of a matriarch. We’re dancing around in a culture that is increasingly chiffon and soft. What have we become?
Do you think it’s gone too far?
This isn’t a gender war. It’s a culture war. We need men to be men and women to be women. Things work best when this is the case. Marriages last. Children thrive. The workplace order is restored. When things have failed in my life, it’s because I wasn’t man enough to step up, to make the hard choices, to fight for what was right.
Did you know that just 43 percent of collegians are men? Why don’t young men go to higher education? It’s well documented how poorly boys do in elementary and high school, now ceding the traditionally higher performing math and sciences to girls.
Girls get better grades. They have higher educational aspirations. Girls now outnumber boys in student government, in honor societies, and in debating clubs. Girls read more books. They outperform boys on tests for artistic and musical ability.
Boys are more likely to be suspended, to be diagnosed with attention-deficit disorder, and to be jailed. Teen suicides for boys outnumber girls by a ratio of 6 to 1.
So, have our sons believed the lie?
There is some good news. Men are coming back to the church in droves– that place we had ceded to women for generations. Bless these women, who, in our absence, stepped up.
And it’s that way with families too. Men have not shouldered their responsibility, so women have done what it took to make things work. Millions of single mothers have balanced work with diapers, school with career and their kids made it – no thanks to the deadbeat dads.
But for those who are doing their best to be involved with their kids, to be good husbands and leaders, they should be praised. Instead, the blistering assault continues. And frankly, it needs to stop.
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