Far too often, I see men who are just kids. It is no wonder the American culture deems men the dunces and women the "fairer"sex. Men today are largely a joke. Our grandparents would laugh at us hysterically if they knew what we, as men, fret and worry about. Maybe I'm obsessed with the way things used to be, but I really believe that the world was a better place 50 or 60 years ago.
We leave the comfort and security of our parents' home to go off to college where we do absolutely nothing productive. Then we get married and we are "taken care of" by our wives. Our lives as adults consist of going to work and earning money. We bring the money home and the wives pay the bills and take care of everything-cooking, cleaning, rearing children. We weren't raised by men, generally speaking. Most of our fathers were too busy earning a living to do anything other than watch a ball game. We can't fix anything as we have no mechanical aptitude. Really, what do we have to offer?
Men are rarely responsible for anything around the home, maybe taking out the garbage if we have a particularly stern wife.
We leave the comfort and security of our parents' home to go off to college where we do absolutely nothing productive. Then we get married and we are "taken care of" by our wives. Our lives as adults consist of going to work and earning money. We bring the money home and the wives pay the bills and take care of everything-cooking, cleaning, rearing children. We weren't raised by men, generally speaking. Most of our fathers were too busy earning a living to do anything other than watch a ball game. We can't fix anything as we have no mechanical aptitude. Really, what do we have to offer?
Men are rarely responsible for anything around the home, maybe taking out the garbage if we have a particularly stern wife.
What happened to the days when the father was the head of the house and was respected? I say, in today's culture, why should women respect us? We haven't given them anything to respect us for. We spend our free time at home playing video games like a 15 year old twerp that is avoiding his parents, and essentially that is what we do. We have to do more.
I say it is time for men to be men. It is up to us to take the reigns of the home. It is time for men to realize that God made two parents for a reason. It is time to take part in raising children, cooking and cleaning, and teaching our children about God and how to be good people.
Until we do, every joke on the TV is about the stupid father, husband, boyfriend, insert other random masculine name here.
I am so thankful that I have had a great Dad. He has taught me so much. Not so much in words, but in action. You see, Dad worked 3 jobs for 5 years and 2 jobs for 17 years. He hustled. He worked with his hands and figured out how to fix anything. He could make a dollar stretch a mile. He was my strong as an ox and as wild as a bronco at times. He taught me respect. Not just for my elders, but for God and authority. He taught me to work hard. He showed me that being a father was more about taking time out to have enjoy life than to be overtly commanding.
"Be strong. Act like men." 1 Corinthians 16:13
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Dynamite, brother! Keep this good writing up. ---JLP
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