Posts Tagged ‘gender’
Man Under Fire
I’ve made a lot of promises about exploring cultural and biblical masculinity in more depth and detail this summer, and just have not gotten around to it. Here is my first installment.
Salvo Magazine did an amazing article on the educational system and media’s attack on boys and men, respectively. Quoting Christina Hoff-Sommers in her 2001 book The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men, the article details how America’s public schools consistently suppress developing masculinity, and “establish femininity as the norm:”
This book tells the story of how it has become fashionable to attribute pathology to millions of healthy male children. It is a story of how we are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world. No one denies that boys’ aggressive tendencies must be checked and channeled in constructive ways. Boys need discipline, respect, and moral guidance. Boys need love and tolerant understanding. They do not need to be pathologized.
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