Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Men - Emasculated by the Culture

From Tim Drake at the National Catholic Register, an interview with Doug Barry:

One of the crises facing men is that they’ve been emasculated by the culture, haven’t they?
 
http://www.ncregister.com/images/sized/images/uploads/Doug_Barry_p-255x255.jpgYes: One of the key reasons that men have lost the fighting spirit is because so much culturally has made men look like fools. The feminist movement has made men look like they’re not the heads of the family, that they don’t know what they’re doing or that they are little better than animals. These things tear at what men are supposed to be. Unfortunately, this even comes from good, holy women who’ve lost touch with what a man is supposed to be.

God gives men a spirit of adventure and the desire to be a warrior that has to be shaped and nurtured. You can’t destroy the fighting spirit in a young man and expect him to go out and conquer the world for Christ or protect his family or parish from the attacks of the enemy. A lot of men have never been given permission to be a warrior. If you take that out of him, you forget that one day he’ll have to battle other dragons with much graver consequences. - Doug Barry

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2 comments:

Tina in Ashburn said...

All good women in history spent their lives getting men to do their jobs, and act like men. That's the other part of this problem, now women find it simpler to do things themselves, and skip the guys.

And men are too happy to let a woman do all the work - it happens in homes, offices, parishes everywhere. What DO men do today?

Remember how St Joan of Arc tried to get the King of France to act like a King? Or St Catherine of Sienna working on the Pope to behave? Or one's mother getting Dad to take out the trash...

Kathryn said...

"You can’t destroy the fighting spirit in a young man and expect him to go out and conquer the world for Christ or protect his family or parish from the attacks of the enemy."

Agreed!!