The men who promote the evangelical masculinity cult won’t *actually* fight for anything.
If they have power over you, they silence you with threats.
If they don’t have power over you, they ignore you—or, if they can’t ignore you, they talk about you as if you’re not there.
If they have power over you, they silence you with threats.
If they don’t have power over you, they ignore you—or, if they can’t ignore you, they talk about you as if you’re not there.
But they never engage directly with any actual argument made by any actual person who disagrees with them. They avoid the direct exchange of ideas at any cost.
Their rhetoric bears this out: they paint emotional pictures of home-invasions wherein men protect women with violence force—never confronting the plain fact that women are far more likely to suffer violence at the hands of a man they know than a man they don’t.
They offer platitudes about the “high calling” of homemakers—never acknowledging that their own incomes draw on tithes from women’s salaries, or the reality that subsisting on one income is a privilege open to very few, due to economic policies favored by men like themselves.
They recite the enslavers’ mantra that those who disagree with them deny the authority of Scripture—never attempting to explain how their hermeneutic differs from that of their Confederate forebears, or allowing that it’s possible to disagree about what Scripture says.
All the talk of fighting is bluster: they won’t actually fight for anything.
The only weapons they really know how to wield are manipulation, avoidance and bureaucratic control.
The only weapons they really know how to wield are manipulation, avoidance and bureaucratic control.
*violent force
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