None of us can have missed the worldwide attack on powerful men who have sexually harassed and assaulted women under their power, and rightly so. As this wave of righteous indignation spreads around the world, no doubt there are many sexual predators quaking in their boots, just hoping that their victims remain quiet.
However, while this is just, the attack has spread beyond the guilty to masculinity itself, which has long been the target of feminists around the world. Renee Graham, a columnist in the ‘Boston Globe’ wrote “Literally and figuratively, TOXIC MASCULINITY IS KILLING US. Mass shootings. Domestic violence. Fatal fraternity hazing. Rape culture. Work places and schools turned into cesspools of sexual harassment and assault. This is not consigned to one race, ethnicity or socioeconomic level. FERAL MASCULINITY affirms itself every day through violence and domination.” (October 17 2017).
Note that Graham defines these acts as FERAL MASCULINITY. Some of us have called misbehaving children feral – but that does not mean that all children are intrinsically evil. No more than feral masculinity applies a to ALL masculinity though this Globe writer foolishly claims that masculinity is inherently toxic, with no more proof than the offending celebrities!
This target of feminism is just one more attack upon the family (see our article ‘Satan’s Political Correctness’ ) as we will see, but it is without foundation because the actual cause is human nature rather than true masculinity.
These feminists make no mention of the cases where female teachers have been brought to court for seducing male students, but it often happens because we are all subject to human nature, Galatians 5:19, ‘Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,’ Also there are far fewer females in positions of power and consequently less female abuse of males.
It is a fact too that males and females are quite different – males naturally stronger and females naturally more submissive, because they were designed with different roles, both in the family and in society, according to the Bible. Biologically too, the woman invests much more in reproduction than the man, and her preservation is more important to the survival of the species, hence the naturally protective role of the male once he has found and pursued the female, and she has selected him as her mate. We are all God’s creation – that was His plan and He gave His life as an example of the love and protection the wife should expect from her husband, Ephesians 5:22-25, ‘Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.’
That kind of unselfish love is the exact opposite from the selfish lust and lack of self control which these powerful men exhibit because they allowed their human nature to run wild. But it is a big mistake to tar all males with the same brush and blame masculinity when to be truly masculine is to protect the opposite sex, avoiding even lustful thoughts, Matthew 5:28, ‘But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.’ .…… 1 Timothy 5:2, ‘Treat older women as you would your mother, and treat younger women with all purity as you would your own sisters.’ NLT. On the other hand, women have an equal responsibility to avoid provocative attire such as a prostitute may choose for her own reasons.
Feminists would deny that women need protection or should dress modestly, or that mans role in marriage is to lead and provide, and today their success is reflected in adverts on tv which make men out to be clueless, derided by their ‘superior’ wives.
Sadly, many men are so threatened by this aggressive feminism that they have abrogated their God-given masculine role and turned into wimps, when the real solution is to become fully and truly masculine as defined by the Bible, with the help of God’s Holy Spirit.
Only then will the family be productive and harmonious with well balanced gender confident children who understand their respective roles in their own future family and society, which reflects God’s plan to increase and extend His family based upon His eternal laws and His human creation.