Masculinity

“We have left boys and men exposed to the toxicity of online radicalization through our failure to carve out an appropriate social space in which they can express themselves.” - IFS

“I fear that she’s taken aim at individuals—including people I know—who differ from her theologically but do their best to keep their eyes focused on Jesus, not John Wayne. One does not have to agree entirely with John Piper, for example, to know that he has paid a steep price for opposing some of the very trends that Du Mez identifies in her book.” - David French

“The challenge of raising a boy, then, should not lie in suppressing their masculine characteristics, but rather in shaping them and channeling them toward virtuous ends.” - David French

“Men and women only win when both sexes are equally empowered. By bringing men down, men and women become embroiled in a tug-of-war…. This war exists because women don’t ‘get’ men.” - Suzanne Venker

“Feminists are the cause of the predicament boys and men face by successfully selling the false narrative that men are, and always have been, women’s greatest enemies.” - Suzanne Venker

“C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man is a collection of lectures he delivered out of concern for how the British education system, which was just one presentment of a larger societal disease, was inculcating subjectivity and ‘values’ unmoored from any objective notion of value, order, and virtue.

“The Poway synagogue shooter and the Poway synagogue hero show the two sides of aggression and violence.” - David French

“Ironically, men who are theologically conservative fit the progressive ideal of caring, attentive, emotionally engaged husbands and fathers more than any other men.” - American Thinker

“Now culture is rebelling again, trying to obliterate the very ideas of natural masculinity and femininity. And it’s not just in America. The most popular male band in South Korea, BTS, has more than 11 million fans worldwide. These young celebrities have baby-smooth shaved legs, a five-step skin care routine, and pink-glossed lips.” - Sophia Lee

“[T]he work of defining what makes a man a man has been going on for centuries.” - Intellectual Takeout