What Doug Wilson says about men

But the Bible does not require that men have crew cuts. It requires that men have short hair relative to the women. In particular a man should have shorter hair than his wife.

Paul teaches that a woman should cover her head with long hair precisely because she is the glory of her husband. […] And if hair is a woman’s glory, the question before us should surely not be how short it can be before it stops being a glory. […] A woman’s hair is designed by God to make a statement to the world. When she wears her hair the way she should, it demonstrates her submission and her authority, it shows her gentleness and her power.

This is a common problem with the Promise Keeper approach to the inculcation of masculinity. Men gather together in small groups in order to learn how to relate to one another on a more intimate level. In other words, they gather together to learn to relate to one another as women relate to each other. “Real” masculinity is described as being sensitive, open, responsive, intimate, caring, and the rest of it. (About the only thing that is missing is breast implants.)

A masculine toughness is the only foundation upon which a masculine tenderness may be safely placed. Without a concrete foundation, thoughtfulness, consideration, and sensitivity in men is just simply gross.

Body piercing is a mark of slavery. The Ishmaelites were not part of Israel and were fit for slavery. […] However, the point of body-piercing is not to be attractive but rather the reverse. The intent is to be repulsive. A girl who wears a dog collar is saying what she thinks of herself.

Now he would be a fool who said there was no such thing as a toxic, overdone masculinity—there certainly is. I myself have seen some remarkable specimens of it. But feminism has created it. Accommodations with feminism nurture it.

That book is an argument, that is a defensive reaction, defending young men who don’t know who they are because they have been taught their entire life that white heterosexual males are cancerous. So masculinity is tagged as toxic masculinity. If a boy acts like a boy in school, we hit him on the head with a chemical rock.

▶Watch from 17:37

This said, boys should not play with dolls, and boys who do play with them have a problem. […] For most boys, the right general response to effeminacy is natural (as in, yuck), but instruction and correction is still necessary. This is because the boys do not know how to make the distinction between that which should be mocked in themselves and that which must be honored in the girls. For those boys who gravitate toward playing house, and dolls, and dress-ups, wise parental control, oversight, and redirection is necessary.

Neither are they to catch the latest feel-good wave of revival excitement which is filling up our nation’s stadiums with deep-throated panty-waists. About the only thing missing from the evangelical masculine renewal movement today would be the breast implants.

But if a man is not capable of providing his wife with food and clothing, then he is scripturally disqualified to be a husband. He has no right to get married. In a time when many women are more qualified to take a wife than many men are, it is not surprising that gender confusion is rampant.