I hate that phrase. Always have. Puts me in mind of drill
sergeants or particularly dull and obnoxious gym teachers pushing you to
scramble up a knotted rope in front of the whole class.
But I can’t think of a better way to say it.
Implicit in the platitude is the suggestion that the way you are
behaving is unmanly, which is not a fair assumption. Possibly it also
intimates that to behave like a woman is a bad thing.
Which it isn’t, of course — provided you’re actually a
woman.
In yesterday’s post, I talked about the decline of
masculinity among millennials (and men of previous generations), and we looked at greed and the push for
universal higher education as societal causes of the epidemic of malaise on the
part of males generally, and their failure to assume their God-given role in
the family.
Today I’d like to look at a third contributing factor: