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Very often today, when a man suggests a male role, many women and even some men critics call this misogyny. He hates women. Sometimes they say, “He’s afraid of strong women.” Very little of this might be true, but the vast majority isn’t. In fact, men don’t emphasize the distinct roles of men and women enough. I’ve written that men have abdicated their role, so that they’ve lost it. Can they get it back? They need to.
Instruction and Example
To retrieve the male role starts with knowing the role. For people to learn the role, and, therefore, know the role, they need instruction and example. Both men and women must promote the male role. This comes primarily from scripture, but also from natural law. Those two don’t contradict one another. The latter says this is obvious. Don’t deny the obvious. However, appropriate institutions must instruct first in this, saying the family and church at least. It should be the government too, but that won’t happen until the family and church do this.
Before an expectation of the government teaching the male role, families and churches should freely talk about the male role in the community. Where will this occur? Restaurants, libraries, businesses, the streets, and events. Some might ask: shouldn’t Christians preach the gospel first, before they get to the male role? These two don’t contradict one another. This idea that you ignore almost all the truth until everyone thoroughly understands the gospel doesn’t follow the examples of Jesus, Paul, Peter, John, or Luke in the New Testament.
The Gospel Issue?
Of course, true believers in Jesus Christ should emphasize the gospel, but all the truth corresponds to the gospel, especially in the expected outcome of the gospel, which shouldn’t contradict it. The gospel is foremost in my mind in all my interactions, and I don’t find talking about all the truth in scripture to contradict or hinder the gospel. No, it accentuates it in accordance with the nature of God. The gospel folds right into any and all the truths of the Bible. All of those truths provide an avenue right into the gospel. In addition, the command of Jesus was “make disciples,” which included everything He taught.
I don’t expect churches succeeding with the gospel when they capitulate on something directly related to God. The language, “gospel issue,” generally I’m negative. It is a Trojan Horse for diminishing the truth. The gospel is the truth. You can’t diminish the truth and not have that not effect the gospel. I know that’s a lot of “nots” in that sentence, but you get the point.
Where We’re At
You know where we’re at today. Girls can be boys and boys can be girls. As a whole, people are rejecting this, but it still exists institutionally in the country. You cannot count on the state schools to stand with the truth on this. They still support the lunatic pronoun situation, which says that these schools are not in the truth business. It has a home in the blue states. That is the extreme and what I’m talking about is far more rudimentary — it’s where the lunacy comes from. Everyone will keep getting more of the same without returning to the truth about male and female roles proceeding from God.
The male and female role could represent either the allegiance to Jesus Christ or the rebellion against Him. There are many other issues, but this one is so basic that it becomes a test case. If you are whispering about this at a restaurant table for fear of the next table overhearing you express it, maybe you don’t like the truth of the Bible. And this is what I’m talking about regarding teaching and instruction of the male role. When you bring it up, look into the eyes of the one you are addressing and detect the reaction. Are the eyes half mast? You shouldn’t have to leave the conversation because of the discomfort.
Some Examples
WNBA
A good example of what I’m talking about as a general idea, that is a side issue for conversation, is the WNBA. In case you don’t know, the WNBA is the Women’s National Basketball Association. Basketball started out as male only. Now it’s very female too and what do you get? You have rampant lesbianism in the WNBA, which is why fans started throwing out sex toys onto the court as a protest. You get someone who obviously likes a man and looks and acts more like a woman, and she is rabidly popular: Caitlin Clark. She seems to deny this identity herself, embracing her fellow players, and they still brutalize her.
I played pickup basketball in California for many years. It was a gym in Pleasant Hill with three full court games played all at once. If you won, you stayed on the court. In the gym were usually about three or four women at any day of about thirty-five or forty men. Five or ten people sat on the side, waiting to play. So these girls were good, right? They were good for girls, but no man wanted to play with them. They just wouldn’t say it. I was playing in my fifties and sometimes, probably because of my age and baldness, I hate to say that the girl guarded me. The women were twenty-something always.
Sports
So I was in my fifties still competing in the gym, keeping in shape, and the girls were twenties. One of them would guard me. How did that turn out. It was never good, because it meant I guarded the girl. What do you do if you’re me in that situation? You treat them like a girl truly. This tension exists between not wanting a girl to score on you, avoiding that embarrassment and that antipathy to your manhood, and yet treating her like a girl. An instinct exists with me for not humiliating her, even though she humiliates herself by her sheer existence at the court.
If you are a man, you can’t play against a girl the same way you play against a boy. You can’t. What you should be able to do is ask the obvious question: “What are you doing out there?” And follow that with the statement: “Please leave.” I could say, “If you want to play, just go find a girls game.” And, “You don’t belong here.” These women didn’t, and yet men would act like they should. These were the best twenty something girl players and in my fifties, they might accidentally score on me, but I would dominate them while trying to treat them like a girl.
War
If you’ve kept up with the most recent war, you maybe heard that an Israeli woman shot down an Iranian man in a dog fight. What does that say? It says that we still very much have a problem that matters. I’m not happy to hear that women are dogfighting men in planes and shooting them down. Of course I would want the Iranian plane to go down. It is symbolic of what people think democracy is today. It is women taking their clothes off, if they want, and women punching each other in an MMA fight. If they dress modestly, that is a brutal, Jihadist regime, as represented by a requirement of modesty.
Reaching the End Goal
I don’t want you to get lost in my examples. These are meant to explain what’s happening on the ground, how it needs to change, and how believers should think about it. I’m talking about knowing what a man is, what the male role is, and then reestablishing that with talk, propagation, instruction, teaching, and standing on it. This is not where this ends. I like to call it, putting it back in the bottle, which I know is a cliche. As you read this, can you get on board, or will you just keep going along? Will you just use the gospel first mantra as an excuse?
It is true, I believe, that men won’t be willing to get back to their role if they won’t believe the gospel. The two do go hand and hand. When man fell, he hearkened unto the voice of his wife at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The trail back comes through the throne of Jesus Christ. The two go together. I repeat, they go together. Preaching the gospel doesn’t mean silence about the male role. The two must coexist. We need to recognize the end goal, a Patriarchal society — expressing that. This is biblical. It is science. And it is the truth. This must start in the home closely together with the church.
More to Come