Monsignor Pope Ping!
Popedude says, “Nevermind!”
Simply put, the risks outweigh the benefits for a large majority of men; we’re reaping what we’ve sown. The liberated women can enjoy the world they’ve created, as long as they don’t mind the masses of children babbling in foreign tongues that are looking to their tax revenues for food, clothing, and shelter.
The American people have never learned this lesson; what makes one think they ever will?
My son went to a small, Christian high school. The girls in his class were only interested in the boys when prom rolled around. Other than that, the girls didn’t see the boys as potential mates, they saw them as competitors. And the girls learned this from their fathers.
We used to define success in this country as a loving marriage and family. Now, success is an 8,000 square foot home with a five car garage with a Porsche and Land Rover in it. Hollywood and the ad agencies have made their financial backers rich selling us emptiness.
Excellent. The subtext to the real history of the nature of humankind is.... that a matriarchy does not do well, and/or is in constant contention over biological and cultural roles that are put there by Nature.
Hence the idiocy of a bull dyke trying to run for president because she’s so “smart”. Or forcing male physical and mental norms into our military fighting forces for reasons of politics, and thus..... reduced capability to fight and defend our country from invaders and usurpers.
The communist playbook... requires the destruction of religion and of natural marriage/family roles. In order to breakup society to replace it with ..... THEM.
My 31 year old son is one of the angry ones. He is 0 - 3 on serious relationships and can catalogue unrealistic expectations and absurd fickle behavior at the drop of a hat. He can talk for hours on the subject.
His conclusion has been that women have no idea what they are looking for in men, so it is futile to try to accommodate their ever-changing demands. In addition, for most women his age, common decency, respect for others and tried and true moral values are routinely rationalized away and place no bounds on their behavior. Now, he just approaches life as he sees fit, and if they don’t like it, to hell with them. He believes his values, instincts and decision-making have been validated repeatedly as on target nearly all of the time.
What is truly eye-opening is that his Mom, from whom I have been divorced almost 14 years, is in the process of being put on the road by her pretty-boy husband who was my replacement. In recent discussions with my son about her current trials, she has been informed by my son that she treated me with the same types of absurd, fickle behavior and unrealistic expectations to which he was subjected by a recent girl friend . . . of which his Mom was highly critical. After being slapped back into reality by her son and exiting husband, my son thinks she now has an appreciation for the utter stupidity and injustice to which she subjected me. That’s too bad. It is about 14 years, one wrecked family and 4 wrecked lives too late.
Whether married or single, the answer to the mess men are in is always Jesus Christ and the true manhood he offers. The man Christ Jesus gives us self-control (something essential re:”sexual energies”). Real manhood is submitting to the Father of our spirits! Real cowardice is refusing the upward call of God and all that implies.
Its quite silly for the state to issue a license to engage in acts that are perfectly legal without the license.
I'm an advocate of getting married within the Church and ignoring the State. The State doesn't recognize marriage as a sacrament, so why should the Church recognize the State's control over it, when they don't exercise control over it in any fashion?
Your thesis is flawed. Words like retreat and statements like job equality indicate that you like a kinder gentle form of feminism. The roots of the problem are much deeper than that. The emphesis on the individual rather than the family in: economics, rights and status represent a more foundational framing. Feminism like communism sees the family as a hindrance to their goals and so they labor to break the family structure to erect thier own vision of society, but that vision has never been and can never be. Thus both communism and feminism is destruction of the most basic building block of soviety in defiance of God and His created order. Money is not free and women are not men, but insanity does not blink an eye. Feminism sacrifices the family for the female member’s short-term benefit. The patriarchy is supplanted for the amazon reign, and that reign is the annihilation of society. Sow the wind reap the whirlwind!
Men = providers and protectors
Except now they are big babies and want to come first ahead of their children and focus on their sex lives. That’s the problem. Not feminism.
Ping!
Unless reversed in short order, it is very difficult to see much besides social chaos ahead.
William Flax
So when are men going to change the laws they’ve made?
One thing, Monsignor Pope––please make certain that you forward a copy of this article to your archbishop and maybe some of the other bishops.
I’m thinking that if the measure of their awareness and concern is to be gauged by the various efforts these bishops have made over the past 50 years to address this issue (as well as many, many other issues), I’d say that they’re completely in the dark.
"I can tell you as a heterosexual married male in management, who didn’t drop out of society, the message from the chicks is: 'It's not just preferable that you should f*ck off, but imperative. You must pay for everything and make everything work; but you yourself and your preferences and needs can f*ck off and die.'"And then women wonder why modern young men look at the state of affairs, and decide it's not worth the trouble.
I agree with Cardinal Burke, who refuses to use the term
“traditional marriage”. Marriage is man and woman united by God in holy matrimony. Not two men, now two woman, not two dogs, not two cows. Now there has been times when a man had more than one wife, but never in the history of mankind has marriage meant two people of the same sex joined together to form one. The reason is simple, they can’t create another human being and that is the purpose of marriage.It is called the continuation of the human race. This is the definition of marriage, and has been since the beginning of time. To call marriage by any other name but marriage, you are legitimizing other forms of marriage, which there is none. If two mentally deranged people of the same sex want to have abnormal, immoral sex, it certainly is not marriage. Call if what it is, a perversion of the sex act that will cause diseases and an early death for participates.
I loved being married.
Until she died...
Fourteen years ago now, and I have been alone since.
C’est la vie...
Yes, she might not be a pretty white blonde from Minnesota who was cute and sweet until four years at Harvard turned her into a paranoid shrew. She might be short and dark-haired and brown-eyed and speak broken English with a cute accent.
But she'll make you a vastly superior wife. :)
But the same women men who say they want a nice, unthreatening boyfriend girl next door type who wants children go home and swoon over simple-minded, giant-chested, testosterone-saturated hunks surgery enhanced bimbos in Game of Thrones Baywatch.