Perhaps I was too subtle, too indirect and soft worded in ”miso gyny” the other day, so I shall attempt to cut to the chase and keep it simple. Do not equate cowardly behavior with being female. Why? It’s degrading to women, it’s a failure to observe the nature of the world around you, and ironically it tends to produce even weaker men.
Why? I don’t know “why,” but there is some well documented research that demonstrates exactly that and I have born witness to it in a thousands different ways.
Right on schedule, with almost comedic synchronicity, Pastor Wilson just released a video that provides a perfect example of what I am speaking of called, “Advice for Christians in the coming Decade.” He says somewhere around the 4:24 mark, ”We’re debating with people who think you’re a girl.”
If you wish to spend the coming decades swirling the drain into ever deeper leftist tyranny, feel free to follow the good pastor’s advice. In your quest to defy political correctness and self congratulate yourself for your cultural rebellion, please denigrate women even more and whine extensively about the plight of white males.
We attack what we fear. Intentional or not, misogyny is a fear of women. Fear makes you weak. And whining of course, is what children do. Definitely weak. Gah, I can hardly stand whining! I have to give my now grown kiddos, kudos. They sure aren’t whiners.
I’m going to pull rank here on account of the fact that I have been living in the looney bin for a number of decades now. Insanitybytes, remember? I already know the clowns are running the asylum. I know how the game is played. Better yet, I know ”’why”’ they are now the ones running the asylum.
Somebody said something really smart in Bible study the other day, “you can’t get parenting advice from your parents because your own kids are being raised, for such a time as this.” Each generation has specific needs and specific challenges and they are different. This is just as true in politics as it is in parenting. Like, some loveable curmudgeons screaming “get a haircut and get a job” was probably quite appropriate 40-60 years ago. Today with shuttered businesses, muzzled people, and a failed nation state, such statements simply communicate the idea that, “we are totally out of touch, have no idea what issues you’re facing, and we’re unworthy to lead you.”
Welcome to the Republican party, out of touch and unworthy to lead you. Conversely we have rioting in the streets and far left leadership making sentimental google eyes at the mythical “summer of love” of their youth. What’s the message being conveyed? We’re out of touch, unworthy to lead you, and also probably having an acid flashback.
And when a pastor says something like, the culture is pushing men around because they think you’re a girly girl and apparently pushing girls around is quite acceptable so just stop acting like a girl, I assume he is out of touch and unworthy to lead us. I mean, if you know so little about the nature of men and women, so little about human psychology, so little about the root of the problem, why in the world would I trust you to know anything at all about the nature of God?
Insanity is very sustainable. Excruciatingly sustainable. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. If you want to see change in the world, YOU have to change. Metanoia throws a cog in the whole diabolical plot. YOU have to change.
Or not. My money is on “not,” but a bit like the prophets of old my job is simply to point out that if you don’t change course, you’re just going to get the precise same cultural results we’ve gotten for nigh 70 years now, which is an ever faster progressive spiral away from all that we hold near and dear.
I’m not the least bit interested in the gender wars. I actually could care less about alleged equality between the sexes. I am seated so high in heavenly places these days that I just self identify as His beloved. I am just saying if the church wants to be strong and whole and powerful, if we want to influence the culture again, if we want to grow closer to the Lord ourselves, we must be willing to look at those behaviors that have led us to this miserable place we currently find ourselves in.
Some traditions are valuable, they are hills worth dying on, but some are so outdated they need to just go the way of bell bottoms, lava lamps, and paisely. Screaming “get a job” and “don’t be a sissy girl” are ideas so old and over-used, the are like wearing a desiccated piece of road kill about your neck and calling it a “fashion statement.” Let the dead things go.
Also, when you promote fear of the feminine, you will never be able to teach men to let the Lord love them like He loves the Shulamite bride, and that is the only thing that has ever empowered any of us to stand up and walk down the aisle as the Bride of Christ, and “to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.”
“whine extensively about the plight of white males”
Sorry, but, I can’t go along with this concept. Black males have been getting screwed for generations now. The rate of suicide for Japanese males is off the scale. Males all over the world of all shapes and sizes and colors have been abused and treated like mules for thousands of years now. Women think they got it tough being kept barefoot and pregnant, but, what about men being forced to get killed in war and worked to death if they survive combat?
So, it’s obviously some sort of politically motivated political ploy to characterize this particular critique of society as the whining of “white” “males.”
You’re trying to say how disrespectful it is to characterize “cowardice” as “female;” howabout some respect for men who actually suffer when they are accused of being cowards? The point is women can get away with cowardice, men can’t.
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You know why whining is a problem? Because it makes one weak, powerless, and totally self absorbed. You will literally wander around lost in the desert for 40 years, murmuring to yourself. Perpetual pity parties, chronically blaming others for your plight do nothing but rob you of your own power.
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“You know why whining is a problem? Because it makes one weak, powerless, and totally self absorbed.”
So, any expression of dissatisfaction is whining. Got it
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Not sure, as a man, what I am supposed to do here other than to apologize for my mere exitance to the uncaring world for being white, with oppressive ancestors from Europe, and the worse of it all.. I am an offending and shameful male. I confess that in the past I have used the metaphors of female femininity to describe failures of manhood with my male counterparts when we have gathered to spit, adjust the family jewels and butt heads. I suppose I could be sent to the back of the line.. whatever the line leads to anyway, I dunno anymore. I thought I was just following the herd to be accepted. Seems I’ve simply spent my whole life “enabling” others to also enable others… recklessly spreading enabling everywhere.
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Actually Doug, from having listened to you for number of years, I’ve concluded that you enjoy your victim status and you often vote accordingly. As a Christian there’s an easy way to be set free from the bondage of allegedly being an “offending and shameful male,” you simply repent, to God, not to me. Trade that bag of rocks in for His grace. But you don’t do that, in fact you keep faith at arms length at least, so you don’t ever have to either own it or grow.
You are free to do what you want to do, but the “poor me” games are tiresome.
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I guess you put me in my place. Oh.. sorry. Can’t be a “victim”.
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You’re in good company. A huge chunk of people prefer to be victims so they never have to be accountable for their own selves.
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But yet is not that the whole point of your post here… that women are tired of being victims to men’s demeaning gender comparisons? I mean, isn’t that the entire divisive feeling permeating around the land.. that everyone feels a victim to someone else’s extremes… perceived or real?
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No, that is not my point. My point is that demeaning gender comparisons always produce weak men and then serves to keep them separated from not just half the human race, but from God Himself.
I am not really a victim of these silly gender comparisons, but men sure are.
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This is all about men producing weak men?? You win.
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I was accused of being a misandrist before. There is no winning.
But I did want to leave on a mic drop moment: “Ask me about Selective Service”.
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Right, but you just want to have mic drop moments with women, which makes me laugh and is totally forgivable. Just the same, women didn’t invent war, didn’t demand selective service, and we aren’t responsible for US policy. Instead of taking your argument up with the US government, peacefully of course, we’re just working hard to make sure women get to go fight and die in wars, too. So at the end of the day we will have lost all the battles, women will be in the military, trans will be in the girl’s locker room, and an elderly man with dementia will be our figurehead. Like I said, this is how we stay the course, this is how we continue to swirl the drain.
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It was meant more as a laughing moment. I want to end the draft/SSS. You are correct, things are beyond head scratching.
I also wanted to have a chuckle at Helen of Troy’s expense.
Yes, I have brought it up to politicians too. They are some of the biggest gynocentric types, simps.
Women discussing it were more level headed than them, not meant to be funny.
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Women are weaker. Women are easier to deceive.
Facts don’t equate to “badness.”
They’re just facts.
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They are NOT facts. Women are not “weaker” nor are we easier to deceive. We will never make men bigger and stronger by trying to make ourselves smaller.
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By and large women are smaller than men.
We are much physically weaker.
1 Timothy 2:14
“And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.”
Those are just factual differences. It doesn’t mean better than or worse than.
Just factual differences between the sexes.
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Thank you, Vincent. Much appreciated.
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You’re very welcome!! My pleasure 🙂
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The comments on this post and the linked one are head scratchers. I feel like I walked into the middle of a conversation. But I did always find feminine slurs odd because they are lobbed at girls, too. Being an uncoordinated clutz, I often got the *you throw [run, hit] like a girl* as a child and it confused me terribly… Conversely, being a logical person meant I was complimented for *thinking like a man.* Uh, no, I don’t. I mean, I really don’t. I’ve been married to a man for almost 30 years. That’s how I know. 😂
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Ha! Great comment. I also remember the put downs, “you run like a girl,” all very confusing messages. I laughed about “thinking like a man” and being married to a man and knowing that just isn’t true at all. Me too!
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After some of these other comments, you’ll be happy to know that I see your point now. In my mind, weakness and cowardice never were ‘feminine’ characteristics. I did come from a long line of pioneer women who in turn came from European peasant stock and I don’t think I’m around today because they were a lot of shrinking violets. Judging by what portraits I’ve seen of them, they were certainly capable of turning men’s heads, but that wasn’t their only quality.
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I knew you would understand, Night Wind. Three cheers for the pioneer women.
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When you say ‘white male’, are you oppressing my binary existence, or fail to acknowledge that white is the most frail of all the crayons, and likely to bear the markings of the flamboyant orange crayon next to it? 🙂 There. I’m out of woke-speak, I need my safe zone.
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Ha! The fragile white crayon. That would be a great name for a pub, a comedy house.
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“Do not equate cowardly behavior with being female.”
Now, I got that point on the first post. The defensive comments were interesting. You should’ve had a trigger alert. 😛
Here’s an interesting story about cowardice and gender.
8 Barak said to her, “If you go with me, I will go; but if you don’t go with me, I won’t go.”
9 “Certainly I will go with you,” said Deborah. “But because of the course you are taking, the honor will not be yours, for the Lord will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman.”
21 But Jael, Heber’s wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died. (Judges 4:8, 9, 21)
Hmmm…do I want to be like Barak or Jael?…I’m confused now. 🙂
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Ha! It is just fabulous to explore those different gender stories in the Bible. Being able to perceive myself a “son” was a huge revelation and changed my perspective about so many things. And sons need to learn how to be “brides,” too!
I really believe the Bible was written that way on purpose, that we are supposed to find ourselves in those passages, to learn that our identity is to be found in our various roles and relationships with Him, not in our gender.
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Yup. I’m a bride and you’re a son. The Bible has a great way of upsetting all our assumptions and turning them on their head! 🙂
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