Name: Make Men Masculine Again
Uploaded: 2020-06-13T01:05:46.000Z
Duration: 5 min 9 s
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Aggression, violence, ambition unchecked by conscience -- all the stuff of “toxic masculinity,”

And, the solution is obvious: make men less toxic.

But I'm here to tell you that this way of thinking is not only wrong, it's dangerous.

Here's why: When you try to make men more like women, you don't get less “toxic

Because bad men don't become good when they stop being men; they become good when they

Aggression, violence, and unbridled ambition can't be eliminated from the male psyche,

And when they are harnessed, they are tools for good, not for harm.

The same masculine traits that bring destruction also defeat tyranny.

The traits that foster greed also build economies.

The traits that drive men to take foolish risks also drive men to take heroic risks.

The answer to toxic masculinity isn't less masculinity; it's better masculinity.

It's a young man opening the door for a girl on their first date.

It's a father working long hours to provide for his family.

It's a soldier risking his life to defend his country.

The growing problem in today's society isn't that men are too masculine, it's that they're

When men embrace their masculinity in a way that is healthy and productive, they are leaders,

When they deny their masculinity, they run away from responsibilities, leaving destruction

One in four fathers now lives apart from his children.

And children who grow up without a dad are generally more depressed than their peers

They are at far greater risk for incarceration, teen pregnancy and poverty.

Seventy-one percent of high school dropouts are fatherless.

“Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives ... family is the most important.

And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation.”

That was said by then Senator Barack Obama in 2008.

If “we are honest with ourselves,” he went on “we'll admit that ... too many

fathers are... missing from too many lives and too many homes.”

As much as we try to deny the need for real, masculine strength in society,

Healthy families and strong communities depend on the leadership and bravery of good men.

Yet, the current trend is to feminize young men in the hopes of achieving some utopian

In the school classroom boys are invariably “the problem.”

On the playground aggressive games like dodgeball have long been banished.

We tell young men that their intrinsic desire to compete is wrong.

This anti-male tilt continues on through higher education and into the workplace.

It has created millions of tentative men, unhappy women, and confused boys and girls.

Here's a secret that everyone woman knows: women want real men:

men they can count on and, yes, look up to.

No amount of feminist theory will change that.

I don't know any woman, at any age, who is attracted to a passive man who looks to

her to be his provider, protector and leader.

Every woman I know wants a strong, responsible man.

That's not a consequence of a social construct or cultural pressure—it's innate.

The devaluation of masculinity won't end well because feminine, passive men don't

Passive men don't defend, protect or provide.

Passive men don't do the things we have always needed men to do for society to thrive.

In his book The Abolition of Man, English social philosopher C.S. Lewis writes about

He describes the tension “between cerebral man and visceral man.”

“By his intellect,” Lewis explains, man “is mere spirit and by his appetite mere animal.”

Take away one, and you're left with a man who's either weak or wicked.

And in a world of wickedness, weak men are nothing more than enablers of wicked men.

They all have two things in common: Bad men who do the raping, murdering, and warring;