Today in honor of Father’s Day, in honor of the men in my life and of men in general, I published a short essay on my blog entitled Benign Masculinity. I don’t get a lot of eyeballs on my site these days, but two commenters didn’t approve of my support for men acting like…men.
Here is my post if you feel inclined to chime in.
12 replies on “Benign Masculinity”
Thank you! It’s so good to see women standing up for the truths that men simply CANNOT state in this culture, even among many who would call themselves conservatives. As a woman, you have invincibility to being called sexist when you espouse traditional gender roles, but we guys would be destroyed if we did. You and your husband are lucky to have each other.
“An excellent wife, who can find? For her worth is far above jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, And he will have no lack of gain. She does him good and not evil All the days of her life.” – Proverbs 31:10-12
The differences you highlighted are exactly why the majority of engineers are men, just to list one example. I’m almost done with finals, and I cannot wait for summer to start because I have a whole slate of old rusty stuff I want to restore and projects to devour before it’s off to college. My sister on the other hand just wants to spend her summer reading (and I plan to do plenty of reading as well).
I loved your essay, thanks for sharing.
Thank you, Nolan. You are exactly right: it is feminist women who have created this (ahem) toxicity and it is women who have to call it out and stop it.
As an aside, as a kid I was in awe of my two older brothers because it seemed they had been born knowing how to build and fix things! Of course now I know that they learned those things from my engineer dad but the ease with which they picked up these skills made it obvious it was natural to them.
Enjoy the summer and your projects!
Thanks, I’ll try.
Well done Annie, that essay (and your reply to comment) explains this phenomena well. and in a civil tone. Thank you for writing this. It needs to be seen by many.
Thank you, Buck!
Well done. I chimed in (minibooger).
I thoroughly enjoyed your essay, Annie. Hope you write more here too. Thanks.
Thank you kindly, Scott!
I’m honestly almost in tears. You’re pouring my heart out. Bless you, dear lady.
Thank you for taking the time to read it! I typically stay away from those kinds of topics on my blog, but the steady degradation of men and of masculinity has been bothering me for a long time. I guess I had to get it off of my chest! Bless you, too, Bud.
Thank you Annie, thoughtful, well written and spot on.
I appreciate that!