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The American Mind ^ | 3/30/22 | Megan Basham

[PoliticallyShort]

Few things are more surprising to a church lady like myself than to find better sense about sex and gender coming from a foul-mouthed cable talk show than from our current crop of evangelical thought leaders. But such is the state of the world these days—the crude pagan speaks plain wisdom while the churchmen discourse in the inscrutable, hedging language of feminist accommodation. Bill Maher’s March 25 monologue on women’s reaction to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky offered the kind of politically incorrect truth that certain progressive Christian ladies and the pastors who pander to them have been trying to paint as cultish and troubling.

“Everyone loves, and the world still needs, grown-ass men,” Maher began in a straightforward tone. He highlighted the inconsistency of American women who shifted on a dime from complaining that masculinity is inherently toxic to panting over an embattled world leader growling (at least, we gals like to imagine him growling) such cinematic one-liners as, “I don’t need a ride, I need more ammunition.” The problem, as HBO’s resident bad boy pointed out, is that you can’t neuter men to make them acceptable for gender studies departments yet still expect them to possess the manly leadership qualities necessary to steer homes and nations through choppy cultural waters. “There’s always going to be a little toxic mixed in with masculinity, and no amount of training will turn us into your favorite Twilight character,” he astutely observed. “Masculinity is like coffee. Even when you decaffeinate it, there’s still a little caffeine in there.”

It is this traditional masculinity—the kind that puts wives, sisters, and daughters on buses to safety so it can stay behind to fight a war—that a trio of Protestant Furies have spent the last several years deconstructing as problematic.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Yep...

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4050955/posts

[wbarmy]

Describing her book to the Atlantic’s favorite Christian intellectual, Pete Wehner, Du Mez warns that a generation of white Christian men have bought into an image of a “rugged warrior Jesus.” Their sense of male dominance, she explains, springs from the fact that they “believe God ordained men to be protectors and filled them with testosterone for this purpose.”

To which the women who make up the majority of church attendance these days can only say, Um pardon, but where did you say I might find one of those?

That is a great line and I know women who would actually be asking that question. Where?

[Kevmo]

Interesting article, I’ll need to finish it later. It almost reads like an MGTOW for christian men.