The greatest lie currently told by the modern left is that masculinity is toxic. That talking point, in various forms, has come from every segment of society. Teachers tell young boys not to fight, Gillette implies that flirting and grilling is toxic in its ads, school is designed to restrain energetic young men, and physical achievement is looked down upon by a sniveling, effeminate elite.
The reason why the left is spreading such a lie isn’t that it cares about those supposedly hurt by masculinity. The sort of politicians letting tens of thousands of rapists and other violent felons out of jail early couldn’t care less about the women “hurt” by flirtatious behavior in the workplace, the people that lose fights, or whoever might feel “uncomfortable” by the specter of a bearded, well-dressed, muscular man grilling ribeyes while wearing Ray-Bans.
No, the left is attacking masculinity because masculine men are harder to control, as BAP excellently shows in The Bronze Age Mindset.
Think about it for a minute. What type of person is it easier to control- the latte-drinking soyboy with arms smaller than his cheating girlfriend, or the guy that can (and does) benchpress the shot girl at the bar. Who would it be easier to send to a gulag- the modern-Viking that has a beard, is shredded, and is a “contractor” for Blackwater, Triple Canopy, or Aegis, or the guy that sits in a cubicle all day and lets his wife control him and his family? Who would it be easier to oppress- the free-thinker that boxes, hunts, and works outdoors, or the “metrosexual” Starbucks-sipper with a “career” in a soul-sucking field like consulting or finance?
Undoubtedly those that are more masculine are harder to control. They’re the free thinkers, the independent spirits, the family men of vigor and virility.
Hence why the Greeks and Romans, at their best, tried to cultivate such men. Yes, they didn’t want barbarians, brawn without brains is almost as bad as brains without brawn, but they did want men that could fight for their city-state (or empire), that could build a life without the assistance of the treasury, and that embodied the highest ideals of those martial societies. The goal of every real Greek was not to be a middling bureaucrat but to be a hero that became a god, as Hercules was said to have done. The goal of every great Roman was not to become an effeminate, oriental despot, as the later Byzantine emperors became and Xerxes was, but to be a successful, honorable consul that led armies to victory and received a triumph in return.
Those societies cultivated masculine heroism because they knew it was what led to the best outcomes for society; while violence was a possible (and likely) outcome of it, fights between free men were regarded as far better than peace by means of servility. In other words, it was better to die on one’s feet, like Leonidas at the Fiery Gates, than to live on one’s knees, like the many oppressed subjects of Xerxes, Darius, and the Parthians.
The modern left is waging a war on masculinity because it wants to erase that spirit. It wants you not to be strong and free, but to be its weak plaything.
Think of the assaults the left is launching. It is attacking faith, families, financial independence, and hard work. It wants your faith to be in the power of bureaucrats, not in the God of our forefathers. It wants your family to either be dependent on its generosity, rather than your hands. It wants you to be dependent on it rather than independent because of your hard work and financial responsibility.
So, to get there, it lies. It pretends masculinity is toxic. It ignores that real men build and care for families, pretending that “masculinity” means non-consensually knocking up the secretary and then discarding her in the chase of another. It pretends that all who fight are wolves, ignoring the many sheepdogs that protect their kin and fellows. Like the attacks on knights, framing them as thuggish butcherers rather than chivalrous warriors of God, attacks on masculinity are misrepresentations dishonestly framed as honest criticism.
We conservatives must reject those attacks. Masculinity isn’t toxic, it’s one of the most beneficial things for society. A society of masculine men has strong families, is full of those that deal honestly with one another, and can defend itself from the wolves at the door.
What is better- the England of the British Empire, a society that produced men like Churchill, Kitchener, and Nelson, or the England of the modern-day, which allows suicide bombings to happen so as to not seem “racist.” What would you prefer- a nation of men like George Washington or a nation of men like Obama and Paul Ryan? What is better, the Greek-reading, iron-lifting right championed by BAP, or the court-jester conservative, weak right pushed by Bill Kristol and John Boehner? Undoubtedly the former is better in each case and that is because the former is masculine and the latter is weak.
Bravery is superior to cowardice. Honor is superior to deceit. Chivalry is superior to licentiousness. Independence is superior to dependence. Masculinity is superior to weakness.
Fight the lies of the left. Masculinity isn’t toxic and attacks on it are meant to control you, not make your life better. So, endeavor to be a real man. Raise a family. Surround yourself with strong men and tender women. Defend what’s yours and build a successful life.
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Amen.
“…school is designed to restrain energetic young men…”
Yep, true. I fully support boys having men for teachers. We see what happens with too much exposure to female teachers who suppress rough and tumble little boys. Let them be wild and loud. Give them plenty of outlets to release their energy and let them take risks. Climb trees, spend time in nature, let them roughhouse…better yet, DADS, roughhouse with your boys.
MEN…open the doors for women. ALL women. Little girls too…so they know what to look for when they grow up and find a mate. I pity the man who doesn’t open a door for me.
If you ask a woman on a date, then YOU better pay for her. None of this going Dutch shit.
In a crowded room, you better not sit your ass in a chair. Man up and offer your chair to a woman, any woman. If she refuses, then stand anyway. Suck it up.
Lord have mercy, can we bring back chivalric behavior?? Writers…can you write a ‘How To’ article on how to behave MANLY?? Apparently, it’s desperately needed.
After living in the suburbs in a blue state with sad, pathetic, beta men, it is a breath of fresh air living in my small rural town in TX…among REAL men.
I agree with your first part.
But I’m surprised anyone still thinks people ‘date.’ Or that anyone but a guy could honestly think that women in general deserve to have all the bullshit faux-chivalry like holding doors or give up their seat for them.
That’s one of the reasons that you see males getting walked all over by women, they show the same respect regardless of whether they should or not.
This is why men shouldn’t get their idea of what is MANLY from women. That is the whole point of having fathers and male teachers. Then again, they also shouldn’t get their ideas of what is manly from a disinfo site like genz above.
If males are getting walked all over by women, then I say the problem lies with the man. I wouldn’t respect a man that took bullshit from me.
Men *shouldn’t* get their idea of what’s manly from women. In today’s society, where should one receive manly advice if not available from the father. A good start would be reading classical literature. But again, I AM a woman saying that, so better do your own investigating.
People may not “date” these days. That’s why I suggested bringing back chivalric behavior. Why continue on this way as the two genders merge into something unnatural and unrecognizable?
Please tell me, as a man (presumably), that you’re not giving up on masculinity? That’s not very masculine.
You asked where should one receive manly advice if not from a father. Maybe an Uncle or Grandfather as well. Certainly not from society at large or some Neo con re-pubic.
Our own AP has an answer. A book he recommended, Masculinity Amidst Madness by Ryan Landry is a great starting point. I just finished it and will be taking it to my son next month. If you know a young male 10-20 who is being raised by a single mom, do him a solid and get this book in his hands.
Toxic masculinity as the guuurls call it is the answer to what ails our society. I wish this book would have been given to me thirty years ago.
What are his options? Smack your ass around? Divorce your disrespectful ass? The relationship between men and women has been turned on it’s head in more ways than…hell, do we need a QOTD to list all the ways. Feminism was and is an enormously effective shot across society’s bow.
I should open the door for trash?
What are his options? Don’t stay in a relationship where you’re being emasculated. Simple.
Should you open the door for trash? Yes. Because some little girl is watching, and that’s where it begins. Show them what it means to be a man so they hopefully don’t settle when they’re grown. Gotta start somewhere to reverse this trend, right?
I know so many unhappy married women. Maybe it’s their fault they chose a beta (or they’ve created a beta), but I am certain the dynamics, happiness, and sex would improve in their marriage if their men would stop whining, make decisions for the family, and stand up for the family when there’s a threat.
I am incredibly fortunate to have the father I had. He showed me how I should be treated and what to look for in a man. I’m incredibly blessed with the man I married.
I know almost everything I need to know about you now. It’s all a man’s fault.
It’s disrespectful to expect a man to open a door for trash. Trash is trash. What the little girl will understand is that she can be and act any way she wants (trash) and a man must still put her above himself. The relationship between men and women is a 2 way street.
I no doubt you believe a man should never hit a woman no matter what. Hmm, the US should have an all woman military since men aren’t allowed to defend themselves.
I, too, know almost everything I need to know about you.
GNL…maybe you should study the blog lgr mentions below.
GNL…you’re sounding a little whiny.
Military for men and finishing schools for women. Sound good?
Women got equality (which really meant men and women are the same) and women are crying in their soup. Women changed but men have to stay the same. Haha.
It is all a mans fault because women are not responsible creatures, this is what men are for. Which if why men can not afford to look on women as equals. They are not equal. They are different with different specializations.
Yep. Ever ask why society accepts that women can act a fool almost any time and for any reason without repercussions?
“Should you open the door for trash? Yes.”
LMAO, this is why you don’t listen to women until you can read behind the lines. Yes, a little girl IS watching and listening. The lesson is not the one you think. You are being judged just like foreigners watching an empire collapse. Like a lioness watching a sick and wounded buffalo.
The only solution is Pater Fucking Familias. ‘Chivalry’ will come again only after an Age of women treated like property again
Why don’t you grow some balls and stop hiding behind ‘Anonymous’?
You aren’t talking to me because I don’t post under anything but GNL or Glock-N-Load.
Several of them form a butt-buddy whiney tag team.
Why do boomers think the default setting for posting comments is some conspiracy?
Because a name, fake name, troll name, or absence of one, doesn’t matter at all to anything said.
If men are going to hold doors, then they have to do the other part which is hole women accountable for their behavior. You can’t have one without the other. That means first men have to hold themselves accountable to God.
None of it makes sense unless all of it is observed.
Feminism has destroyed every civilization that allowed it to flourish and it will destroy this one. There is no going back from it. It has to burn down.
“Writers…can you write a ‘How To’ article on how to behave MANLY?? Apparently, it’s desperately needed. ”
Done. GO here.
AA, The Feral Irishman frequently posts good ones from The Art of Manliness on his blog.
Give the gift of this link to a fine young gentleman you’d like to see thrive and survive.
Podcasts, too.
Wide variety of topics, BTW.
Art of Manliness is a mormon hipster wannabee making big bux off the internet, isn’t it?
many of these manners were literally beat into me as a child. my dad was born in 1908
God made men masculine for a REASON. ‘Nuff said…
Can’t agree. Our full-time handyman is very strong, but illiterate. He is very dependent upon my 5´ 1″ dtr-in-law for help in not being taken advantage of by others. She says “frog”, he jumps. She keeps trim, carries around the 2 3/4 year old, as she carried around the toddler’s older brothers, but it’s a safe bet that Miguel could carry her around. If he planned to carry her off to a cave, yes, brawn would be an advantage, but even out here in the boons we don’t see much of that.
No one here has ever said in my presence that masculinity is “toxic”. That’s a city thing, apparently. The recent urban immigrants, particularly the young trust-fund-hippie types, quickly learn that expressing such ideas will get them shunned by those upon whose good will they must depend. The village is very much a place “where men are men and the women like it that way” kind of place. We men like it that way as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS5aP0xIP-w
Actually, a generation of men raised by men-hating bitches and lesbians (not that the two are mutually exclusive).
The head of the family should be a masculine man. My neighbors; two women, a mother and daughter. Both are divorced “single for a reason” type women. The daughter has two sons, both college-age, both still living at home. They were home schooled. They both act like girls… I rest my case…
A couple of lesbians in our neighborhood just “had” a son. It is genetically one of theirs and some useless sperm contributor (sperm bank I think). The “mom” is a ball-busting bitch and her “wife” is this meek shit from Jordan who clearly looks like she feared men (good reason given the abuse women take in the middle east and under Islam) and ran into the arms of a woman to escape that and find “love.” Instead, the relationship she is in is one in which her “husband” is likely just as domineering as any man she would have ended up with in Jordan. But I truly feel sorry for this boy. Both my wife and I were quite saddened when we heard they were having a boy. He will surely have a horrible upbringing, and will surely hate who he is as a male. I know that heterosexual relationships can be truly f*ed up, but the gay community would easily take the award for screwed up relationships. And why is one always the “man” and one always the “woman” if they are supposedly attracted to the same sex. CHOOSING that way of life, much like pretending you are a gender you are NOT, doesn’t address one’s underlying fear of the reality one was dealt. My 35+ year marriage has certainly had ups and downs, but I’d put it up against ANY gay relationship I have ever come across.
No system that would allow homosexuals to have custody of children is worth saving.
Well, technically one of these women is the actual biological mom. Technically no different from being in a fatherless household. Could have been done with a turkey baster. Now the two lesbians I know that adopted 8 kids absolutely should NEVER have been allowed to adopt even one of them.
But was it a white woman or an arab? It matters.
I do not give a shit about any technicalities.
This ↑
And kids growing up with two mommies would be best off of all of them…..but they absolutely are not.
“Bravery is superior to cowardice. Honor is superior to deceit. Chivalry is superior to licentiousness. Independence is superior to dependence. Masculinity is superior to weakness.”
I think the NSDAP said it better in their Wehrmacht Fitness Manual.
https://www.antelopehillpublishing.com/product-page/wehrmacht-fitness-manual
Seriously, it’s like they were right about everything.
There’s the age old discussion between men and women as to which is worse…a woman having a baby or man getting kicked in the balls.
Woman have a point they, squirt out a watermelon through a tube that’s normally an inch or two in diameter ( some are smaller and some are down right huge ) .
Men have a point as well, getting a shot to the Jimmie’s can make you talk Soprano for a week .
However, women in a year or more after having a baby will say, “Yah know, I’d like to have another baby” .
Men will never say a year later after getting kicked in the balls, ” Yah know, I’d like another shot to the nuts ” .
Getting kicked in the nuts is worse .
At my Casa…I’m the man of the house ! I have my wife’s permission to say so !
Big fire directly across the lake from me. Odd how there are no women on the fire crews and its not because they wouldn’t be allowed. Odd too that of the 6 air tractors and the big bombers there are no women pilots, not that they aren’t allowed. Can’t help but wonder if it might just be that its a freak’n tough job requiring a lot of sustained strength and energy output which women simply cannot compete in. Now if only someone could develope a wildfire fighting plan that could use emotions and feelings, then men wouldn’t be needing to work so hard.