Many women today, including “Christian” feminists, complain about the decline of traditional male behaviors. They like the male behaviors that benefit women, like protecting and providing, but they strongly oppose other male behaviors: spiritual and moral leading. They only want “servant leadership” (non-judgmental ATM). They don’t want leadership that fights lies and evil.
Here’s an example of society – under the influence of feminism – responds to traditional male spiritual and moral leadership, as reported in Daily Wire:
An Oregon education worker is suing his district, claiming it threatened to fire him for displaying several “transphobic” books, including Daily Wire host Matt Walsh’s children’s book “Johnny the Walrus.”
Rod Theis has worked as an education specialist at the InterMountain Education Service District outside of Portland since 2008. In his office, Theis had displayed several children’s books, including two titled “He is He” and “She is She” as well as “Johnny the Walrus,” all books with messages rejecting transgender ideology.
A school employee saw some of the books and complained that they were “transphobic,” even filing a “bias incident” complaint with the district, the lawsuit says.
In response, the district opened an investigation and ultimately “ordered him to remove them and threatened him with discipline simply because it disagreed with the books’ content,” Theis’ lawsuit against the district, which he filed Wednesday, claims.
The district said the books were a “hostile expression of animus toward another person relating to their actual or perceived gender identity” and warned him that “further conduct of this nature” may result in discipline, including termination, the suit says.
Meanwhile, the district was allegedly allowing other employees to decorate in support of transgender ideology as well as “Black Lives Matter” and support for the teachers’ union.
The plaintiff is being represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, which is who I would pick if I were in his shoes.
And the ADF says this in their press release:
The district has created and implemented a speech policy that forbids employees from expressing a biological view of sex but permits employees to express viewpoints that a person’s subjective identity determines whether a person is male or female, not a person’s sex. The district’s censorship of Theis’ message, and the speech policy on which that censorship was based, violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
According to the complaint, the plaintiff:
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- is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker employed by IMESD as an Education Specialist
- is a professing Christian who bases his beliefs on the Bible and strives to live out his Christian faith at work and in the community
- has sincerely held religious beliefs govern his views about all aspects of life, including human nature, sex, and gender
- is motivated by his sincerely held religious beliefs to speak on many topics from a Christian worldview
- believes that all people should be treated with dignity and respect, that God created every person male or female, and that people should accept their God-given sex and not seek to reject or change it
So let me comment about this.
I have a very different view of Christianity and male leadership than virtually all Christians. Basically, I disagree with “servant leadership”, and that’s the dominant view of how men should lead today.
The standard cultural view of Christianity is “a set of rules that forces men to be nice so that people will like us so that we will feel good”. This is how most Christians understand Christianity today. For them, it’s not about making truth claims, especially ones that offend non-Christians. And it’s not about taking moral stands, because that is mean and judgmental, and makes people not like us. The standard view is that God wants people to like us, and he wants us to feel good. And that’s why it’s considered normal and natural to respond to a Christian man’s leadership on moral and spiritual issues with censorship and coercion. Everyone is so sure that Christianity is a tool for making men be “nice” that they are sure that Christian men who are not “nice” are wrong, and need to be punished.
My view of Christianity is not the standard cultural view. My view is the old view – namely, that men should be allowed to put up books in their office to indicate that they oppose transing children, even if it is seen by feelings-based people as “mean” and “judgmental”. And if it is too difficult for me to do this with a wife, then I will not have a wife. And if it is too difficult for me to do this outside of a male-dominated profession, then I’ll learn things I hate, like calculus, so that I can work in a male-dominated profession. And if I’m born in a country that enshrines hatred of Christianity into the law, then I’ll do what I need to do to legally immigrate to a better country. The point is that I am not going to put myself in an environment where the feelings-based people are going to rule over me.
C.S. Lewis wrote a wonderful essay a while back called “Men Without Chests”. It appears in the book “The Abolition of Man” which is one of his best works. In the essay, he explains how people expect men to behave honorably and self-sacrificially, even after they have removed the metaphysical underpinnings of those convictions. This case shows how they did it. They feelings-based people punish Christian men every time to speak out about things that God wants men to speak out about.
So, think about the tyranny of “nice”, and the toxicity of “empathy” when you wonder why men are not performing according to your expectations. “Why don’t men give us all their money and stop judging our bad behaviors?” It’s because good men don’t get involved in situations where they will be punished for leading on moral and spiritual issues. We are not here to be your servants. We are here to lead you.
When you emasculate good men out of their natural roles of moral and spiritual leadership, you don’t get the non-judgmental “servant leadership” ATM that you wanted. You get nothing – because good men decline to be reduced to people-pleasing slaves. Good men will find some other way to serve Boss that doesn’t put us under the control of feelings-based people. Every decision I made in my education, career and finances was to escape the coercion of the “be nice, be liked, feel good” crowd. I already HAVE a Boss.
