Tag: Men

Where Have Men Gone?

Call me a dinosaur, but I miss the days when men walked the planet. I canโ€™t pinpoint when the โ€œwimpificationโ€ of the American male took hold. I only see its ghastly effect upon me, my country, and my Church. I didnโ€™t realize it when I gave...

Men’s Shameful Attitudes Toward Women

The history of menโ€™s attitudes toward women has been, in a word, shameful. In the beginning, at the dawn of cognition, men concluded that women caused them to sin, and then stereotyped women as wicked and projected lustful male thoughts on them: โ€œI...

Viva La Difference

Women! To paraphrase one of my favorite comedians, Stephen Wright, most men canโ€™t live without them and often canโ€™t live with them for their inscrutable ways. This brings to mind, the Rex Harrison lyric in the adaption of George Bernard Shawโ€™s...

Real Men Have Character

In his perceptive booklet, The Abolition of Man, the late Christian philosopher,ย C. S. Lewis, lamented that โ€œwe make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.โ€ As...