I've been Busy writing THE MAN CRISIS over the last week. Finding a stride on that book and I haven' t had to blog. I hope to have a review of Netflix's Luke Cage Season 2 up soon (Up to Episode 6) and I have a review planned for Josh Howard's T-Bird & Throttle #1 planned. Until Then here's a sample chapter of my upcoming Nonfiction book THE MAN CRISIS.
Chapter 4
The Decline of Male Authority
When
God created the Earth he gave man dominion over it. And part of that dominion
is the establishment of Male Authority.
What
is Male Authority? Male authority is the acknowledgement of men and women that
God has given men control over the earth. And as His stewards, men have been
given the power to give orders, make decisions or enforce the obedience of
other men, women, and children on the planet.
As
the being with a direct connection to God, men have been given responsibility
for what goes on Earth. And as His stewards that they are directly accountable
to God for their actions.
In
God’s natural order women taught male authority to their sons. As boys saw
their mothers submitting and deferring to their fathers, they learned at an
early age that a man was someone who had the same authority that God had. And
because God had given men authority over the Earth had he was someone who
needed to be respected above all others in a community.
Unfortunately,
over the last 50 years male authority has been undermined by feminists. As feminists
were given economic and political power in America by men, they began
establishing single mother households and households with weak emasculated
fathers. That changed the culture from one that acknowledged and respected male
authority to one to that acknowledged and respected female authority.
As
single mother households began to increase over the last 50 years through
out-of-wedlock births and the rise in no-fault divorces, boys began to learn at
an early age that female authority was superior to male authority. Because boys
saw women as the ones who were responsible for taking care of them and saw
women as the ones in charge of places of social environments like schools they
learned to submit and defer to female authority figures instead of male
authority figures.
And
as those women began to speak negatively about men they taught their sons they
didn’t have to respect male authority or male authority figures. When boys saw
women like their mothers dismissing or disregarding the orders of a man like
their father, walking away from male clerks and cashiers in stores or threatening
someone like a police officer in a traffic stop, it taught boys that they
didn’t have to follow the lead of a man or acknowledge the power of his
position.
Most
men are in crisis today because three generations of men haven’t been taught to
respect male authority or male authority figures by women. While they run into
mostly female authority figures like their mothers and teachers when they are
younger, they often run into male authority figures like bosses and police
officers when they get older. And because they have never been taught to
respect male authority at a young age by their mothers, they wind up falling
completely apart when confronted by a man who has any position of power.
Boys
who don’t learn how to acknowledge and respect male authority at an early age
grow up to become men who struggle in life. While these men have no problem submitting
and deferring to female authority figures, oftentimes they have no respect or regard
for male authority figures. Whenever these men run into a male authority figure
they see them as an equal instead of a superior. And because they see that male
authority figure as an equal, they oftentimes try to challenge that man instead
of respecting the power of his position.
Thanks
to the way many men have been raised over the last 50 years many men have a hard
time following the orders of male supervisors on the job. Because these men do
not know how to respect the power of a man’s higher position, they try to
challenge that man’s power like they would a subordinate. And when they try to
challenge that man or defy his orders, they usually wind up getting fired from
a job.
Worse,
they try to challenge the authority of those given power by the government like
police officers. Oftentimes these men escalate confrontations with police into
conflicts. And those conflicts can lead to a man getting himself arrested or
killed by a police officer for something as simple as a traffic stop.
Men
who understand male authority understand they may not like what a man says.
They may not even like him as a person. But they follow his orders because they
respect the power of his position. And they respect the power of his position,
because they would want to receive the same respect if they were in the same
position.
Male
authority is paramount to maintaining a civilization or a culture. Without male
authority, there is no order. Male authority creates the order that allows a structured
hierarchy for men to follow the lead of other men. When boys don’t learn how to
respect male authority at an early age they don’t learn one of the most
important life skills that will enable them to survive in the world.
Seems This broad brushing comes from a religious perspective of male dominance. With this thinking it’s no wonder some men feel threatened. Men and women are certainly different, but that doesn’t give one the right to dominate the other. There is room for all of - both sexes - to have a say in their lives. Can we all just get along?
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