Let's Reclaim Masculinity

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Here's an assignment.  Watch one hour of television.  Not the news.  Just regular TV.  Sitcoms. Dramas. Whatever. Pay attention to the shows and the commercials.  Take note of interactions. 

How many times do you see the father figure/husband figure put down? How many times is he made to appear to be an idiot?

What shows did you watch? Everybody Loves Raymond? The Simpsons?  The Jetsons? Malcolm in the Middle?  The View?  What commercials did you see?

Our culture has been undermining men for years.  Television would have us believe that men are nincompoops who are incapable of doing anything on their own, especially anything domestic. Our culture would have us believe that as women, we need to train our men. We need to make them submit to our ideas and plans since we, obviously, know best.

It's time to reclaim masculinity. 

It's time to pray for our husbands and encourage them as leaders.  It is time to submit to their authority (yeah - I know - not something we like to hear, but it's the order God laid out).

Have you noticed that God seems to call us to roles that go against our natural inclinations? Women are called to submit and men are called to lead. If we were left on our own, how long would it take for men to step back from leadership and let the women step up and take over? Honestly?  Just look at our "post-Christian" culture.  Just as you saw in the television experiment, it is so common to see women taking over leadership positions and men stepping back. (there are appropriate times for women in leadership but that is a whole different post)

Let's vote with our remotes.  Let's let networks know that we want to see men portrayed as they often are and as they SHOULD be: intelligent, loving, and leading rather than as whipped buffoons in need of constant direction and teaching.  

Let's vote with our dollars. Chose to give your business to companies who do not degrade men.  Let companies who do know that they need to change (the Progressive commercial where the husband is wearing a "European Shoulder Bag" jumps out in my mind).

It's time.

Reclaim masculinity.

What are your thoughts?  How are you raising your boys to be godly men?  How are you going to help change the culture?  Does the culture NEED to be changed?