Tag: women
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The Folly of Women in Combat: A Parable of Moral and Cultural Decline
The drive to place women in combat is not an advance of civilization but a mark of its decay. It reveals a society that no longer knows what a woman is, what a man is, or why those differences once mattered. The story begins in 1978, when female sailors sued the U.S. Navy for the…
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A primer on patriarchalism versus complementarianism — It’s Good to be a Man
This was a Facebook comment of mine, turned into a short article on the “It’s Good to Be a Man” website, posted on August 19, 2020. Bnonn Tennant made a few edits. Summary: Complementarians are primarily concerned with male and female roles in marriage and church; the patriarchal-household view is concerned with how male and…
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Effeminacy
Effeminacy is the lack of masculinity where it ought to be. In that sense, only men can be effeminate, and in classical discussions of this vice that’s how it was presented. Effeminacy is a softness in men that prevents them from fulfilling their peculiarly masculine responsibilities. The term could also apply to speech or mannerisms,…
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Notes on Effeminacy, Feminism, and Other Odds and Ends
Effeminacy is the lack of masculinity where it ought to be. In that sense, only men can be effeminate, and in classical discussions of this vice that’s how it was presented. Effeminacy is a softness in men that prevents them from fulfilling their peculiarly masculine responsibilities. The term could also apply to speech or mannerisms,…
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Odds and Ends, June 2024
I wanted to give a little follow-up on my sermons on 1 Samuel 14 from the last couple of weeks: A few links I want to share: At some point, we will have conference video from the “Courageous Church, Hostile World” conference we held at TPC back in February. In the meantime, I wanted to…
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Pick one: Romance or Equality?
You can have equality or romance but not both. The feminist version of equality killed sexual polarity which in turn killed romance, attraction, and ultimately marriage (as low marriage rates attest). In South Korea, an all out gender war has led to the lowest birth rate in the world, despite great prosperity. In the United…
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