The Effeminizing of America and Covid-19

The effects of effeminization in America has been a matter of concern for some decades now. 

First, there was a rush of popular musicians who manipulated their physical features to appear more feminine, and the girls loved it. It seemed like the more like girls they looked, the more the girls thought they were “cute.” The push for equal rights has made it almost shameful to be manly. To be a strong provider, to be a leader in the home, or for that matter, in the world, and to be a male, is thought of as brutish.

America’s leadership from the highest government offices, to even the pulpits, have been yielded, in many cases, to women. Some churches have recognized the problem and have attempted a resistance with “men’s advances,” “man up conferences,” and all the like. I think it is probably too little too late.

Now we have to coronavirus crisis, and it seems to me that the typical reaction is an effeminate one. Almost every governor in our country, Democrat and Republican (ironically except for a powerful woman governor - she’s more manly than many of the men leading our nation) has taken to responding to this virus like a motherly figure rather than a manly one. Their instinct has been to hover over, to fret about, to overprotect for the purpose of saving lives. It has been at the expense of liberty of life.

I understand. It’s a mom’s place to nurture and to protect, to care for her children under her wings. She weeps emotionally, bitterly at the thought of any hardship to come upon her brood. We all loved to be loved upon.

But no advance happens in the shadow of mom’s apron. Enter the role of the fathers. The masculine figure has always been one to embrace conquest. Exploration, experimentation, and discovery always come with risk, as does liberty.

·      Patrick Henry’s mother would surely have wished him to keep his thoughts “Give me liberty or give me death” to himself

·      Nathan Hale’s mother most assuredly would have rather he was never required to say, “I regret I have but one life to give for my country.”

History is filled with brave men whose mothers surely fretted for their boys.

·      Alan Shepherd, John Glenn, Neil Armstrong

·      Brave soldiers who hazarded everything for their country.

Who doesn’t think the mothers of those signers of our Declaration of Independence and thereby pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor would rather have coddled them?

No caring soul wishes another human being to contract the coronavirus, suffer, and to die from it. None of us, with any sense of decency, would knowingly or willfully infect another human being, knowing it will likely kill him or her. But there is the trouble. It will not probably kill him or her. Yes, some will contract the coronavirus, develop a complication, and die. No one wants to die before their time, but all of us will die. A few of us will die from the coronavirus. We must not allow a motherly, effeminate, emasculated fear to drive us under the apron strings and lose the precious gift of life and liberty.

 

Marvin McKenzie

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