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Chris Muir has been talking about Manosphere topics more and more over the past year.
This is today’s cartoon. I couldn’t agree with him more (for those of you who bake, don’t get caught up in the yeast part. Just think baking powder).
Vox talks about this in terms of Team Civilization. We need both men and women for civilization to thrive. The key is to cultivate the best of both sexes. Teach boys how to grab onto their masculinity and guide it to influence the world and teach girls how to surrender to their femininity and help men reach their goals. Both are necessary and good.
Edit: Since I posted videos about Manhood yesterday I thought I would post this Foreword of a book I recently bought called Queen of the Home compiled and edited by Jennifer M. McBride. It is a compilation of essays, poetry and vignettes about being a wife. I am very much looking forward to this book coming in.
The volume you hold in your hands is a treasure trove. You are about to dive into centuries of wisdom and encouragement that will challenge you, renew your vision, and refresh your spirit. My friend Jennifer McBride has done a great service in pulling together resources to inspire Christian women in their calling as keepers at home.
Sadly, you will find little of this encouragement in the broader culture, particularly in the West. Having rejected our lawgiver, it seems we are now determined to blot out even the faintest memory of the good, noble, and true path He graciously gave us to walk. All around us, voices cry out that we are “worth it,” that we are powerful, capable, and strong . . . as long as we turn our backs on “quaint” notions like homekeeping, rearing our own children, preparing meals, demonstrating hospitality on a regular basis, and showing respect and honor to our husbands. It seems in today’s world, a woman can be fulfilled in any way . . . as long as that way doesn’t involve her own home or family.
At the same time, we are bombarded with the utterly false idea that women can “have it all”—the happy marriage, motherhood, and full-time career— all at the same time. But none of us can do this. We simply cannot be in two places at once, concentrating our full attention on the demands of a career while also giving our all to husbands, children, home, and church. Common sense should confirm this, but we seem to have rejected common sense along with god’s perfect will for families. Instead of ruling in our own sphere, we have become slaves in another’s. The loss to our civilization has been devastating, for without home-building wives and mothers, culture disintegrates.
Queen of the Home reminds us of our birthright as women, and it is a rich and beautiful one. In the beginning, god set Adam and Eve as king and queen over creation. They were designed to complement one another. It wasn’t good for man to be alone, as god Himself stated. Man needed woman to complete him as his perfect helper. Without woman, godly dominion simply could not take place. With his helper, Adam could tend and keep the garden, drawing on Eve’s gifts and abilities, and be fruitful as god commanded. The Fall harmed that perfect union and distorted the mysterious and holy marriage relationship, but Christ’s finished work on the cross redeems us from the Fall and calls us back to co-laboring as husbands and wives, each with important roles to fulfill as we serve the lord. In turn, our laboring together in harmony presents a picture of Christ and His bride, the Church. What a glorious calling!
Jennifer McBride has given us a powerful dose of inspiration and vision in this volume. I am thankful for her willingness to put it together, and I look forward to sharing it with family and friends. I pray you will be blessed as you enjoy these pages and meditate on the importance of the amazing, multi-faceted role god has given you. You are queen of your home! May your home reflect the glory and goodness of the god Who placed you there.
Jennie Chancey At home,
May 2011
Great thoughts! My six year old daughter has been talking about being a mom and things she will do with her own children at different times on and off for the last six months. I’m pleased, but I’m not entirely sure what to make of it. Does anyone else have a daughter who talks about these things? Is it age appropriate, in other words, or is this too much too soon?
Kate,
My girls talk about it all the time. The youngest is 6. A lot of the stuff they say is “When I’m a mom I’m going to let my kids do X”. X being something that we don’t allow. I just reply “You can raise your children however you and your husband see fit” or something close to that. I don’t think too much of it really. I see more of what kind of wives and mothers they will be in watching how they try to take care of their father and me.
In other words, I think it is very age appropriate. She is watching you and wanting to mimic that. I think it’s an excellent thing.
You should check out the vision forum website on the post below this and go to the girls toys section. They are amazing and she would probably like many of them.
Jennifer McBride also blogs at http://www.noblewomanhood.com/ .
Wow, thanks, Stingray! I feel much better. I feel I am in hot water with her teacher and principal because I keep getting told she’s behind in school because she can’t read yet and I am so exasperated. Their curriculum is absurd- teaching the concept of nouns and onamatapoeia- and expecting them to know all letters and count to 100 before they’re even instructed on it. I point blank told her principal the other day I don’t care if my child knows what a noun is. That I would like her to know her numbers and letters by the end of kindergarden. I can’t afford to quit my job and do homeschooling, but I am working with her in the evenings and she will now be pulled out of class to work individually with extra teachers on her reading and math. I am completely baffled by this ass-backwards approach they have implemented and find it ridiculous that my child is in tears because she can’t read when she hasn’t even been taught sounds (phonics) yet. I’m not purposely trying to hold her back; I think I just have very different goals for her. She is usually an incredibly happy child, is giving beyond belief (she “shares” her milk money), and she is a social butterfly. I am very proud that she has those skills. I originally didn’t want her pulled out of class for this extra help because I was afraid she’d miss other instruction she’d need, but now I’m thinking its better if she gets more individual attention and actually misses some of the other stuff there is no reason for her even to learn about yet. I guess I just need to stay the course and make the best of it and, as usual, not pay particular attention to what other people think is right.
Kate,
This is the book we use to teach reading. I think it’s fantastic and all three of mine did/are doing well with it. It makes absolutely no sense, whatsoever, that they would teach those kids that a cat is a noun without being able to read the word first, let alone know the sounds it is made up of.
I know of a lot of parents who cannot homeschool for many reason that do a lot of supplementation on nights and weekends. It can work extremely well. If you are looking for any resources, let me know.
SSM,
Thank you for that link. That is good to know and it is a blog I will check into often.
Thanks a bunch for the book suggestion! I think that might be something I could use over the summer to make sure those three months are put to good use.
I enjoyed looking at the toys as well. This Christmas I tried to get things that would be good for long winter, indoor play. I got her a suction cup archery set, a music mat, and one of those ribbons rhythmic gymnasts use. She has a wonderful dollhouse from last year’s birthday that will hopefully get more use as well.
All I can say is thank goodness I took this less stress position at work or I wouldn’t be able to keep my head above water. Nothing worse than knowing you are doing a mediocre job at everything you do.
Hah. Love the comic. Politically incorrect political humor with red pill knowledge = win.
Oh! I sent you an email by the way. Not sure how often you check the blog’s email, so figured I should speak up.
Leap,
That’s funny. I sent out the reply less than 5 minutes ago.
Thank you for promoting DBD ,O Stingray,here and at Dalrock’s.
Equilibrium not equality!
Chris Muir came here and commented on the blog. Wow.
I’m a bit star struck!
Thank you for coming by and taking the time to comment. It made my day!
Keanu,
Exactly.
Genesis 2:18
18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Any vision of the future we build without the other gender is doomed to failure. Men will have to step up again, either in this order or the one to come. We were pushed out of this current order, so most likely it has to die first before we can begin again.
Men and women both have value to add to civilization, but due to our dulled senses in this age, we have confused the place of both. Men are typically builders and women nurturers. This isn’t necessarily a call for 50′s style families, but women aren’t cut out for some roles in society and male authority must be maintained. There is no question that women can do virtually anything, the question is do they do it well, and do they lose what makes them feminine in the process? If males aren’t masculine and females aren’t feminine, you have the mess we currently call modern America, which is likely to collapse in its current form.
I’ve been using dance (pairs) as an analogy a lot lately.
Men / Women, different yet equal, both sides required for a dance to happen. Men lead, women follow. Both have their own part to play within the dance, both are required to do their roles effectively for the dance to be enchanting.
If they swap roles, it’s looks unnatural.
If a man says he can do the entire dance alone without the woman, and the woman does nothing, it’s a horrible thing to watch. Vice versa if the woman swings and sways sensually and seductively off a man standing absolutely still.
Both sides work off each others strengths to put on a memorable show. Claim that either part is more important than the other and your ruin the dance. Both bring equal value yet completely different things to the table.
Feminism has said for the last 40+ years that we should all just watch the woman trying to lead a man that she thinks brings nothing to the dance, thus encouraging the men to simply stand still.
It’s been a horror show to watch that’s for sure.
Chris Muir here and at Dalrock’s? Heh, heh. It all begins to come clear…
but women aren’t cut out for some roles in society and male authority must be maintained. There is no question that women can do virtually anything, the question is do they do it well, and do they lose what makes them feminine in the process?
I fully agree with this. The problem lies in how do we teach this? So many women cannot see, or simply do not care, that men might be better (in some cases a whole lot better) in many jobs than women are. Rather than let men outshine them, laws are passed so thaw women can be in the job. One women being exceptionally good at a job that many men are equally as good at is no reason to force other women into the position. I keep thinking much of this goes back to what we are teaching children. As a society, we try to teach self esteem rather than facts and how to think. Without that base, to many people are all for “if it feels good, it must be right”.
Feminism has said for the last 40+ years that we should all just watch the woman trying to lead a man that she thinks brings nothing to the dance, thus encouraging the men to simply stand still.
Worse yet, they have encouraged men to dance like women and women to dance like men. Men don’t have the loose hip joints to pull of the women’s part and women don’t have the strength to pull off the man part. I would say it only looks funny, but it has actually become dangerous to both.
Muir is a national treasure. We have plenty of blatherers; we desperately need more artists to carry out word of the counterrevolution. The reds are approaching the Concord armory.
“The foe! they come! they come!”
I’ve heard that if a woman gets her feet stepped on, it is usually her fault for not following correctly.
Dancing, I was talking about dancing.
@ Sis
“I’ve heard that if a woman gets her feet stepped on, it is usually her fault for not following correctly.”
LOL. If she’s dancing with me darling.. it’s most certainly my fault.
Me and my two left feet. Couldn’t dance my way out of a paper bag
Which made my flawless dance performance at my wedding such a moment of pride for me. I nailed it!!! I led the whole way through.
Now if i only applied that throughout the rest of my marriage…
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