From Chapter 1 of Reverend Zach Garris’s Masculine Christianity:

Masculinity is in peril. Women are being pushed into roles formerly held by men, which in turn is driving men out of society. Women are pursuing more advanced degrees, working full-time jobs, and sometimes even making more money than their husbands. In other words, women are pursuing careers outside the home.

The problem with this is that it comes at the expense of children and family life. Rather than aiding men as wives and mothers, women are competing with men in the same tasks. As a result of women displacing them, men are doing quite poorly overall. Fewer men are going to college, and a high number of men are not in the workforce at all.

Men are suffering high rates of divorce (often at the instigation of their wives), incarceration, loneliness, alcohol and substance abuse, and suicide. Marriage is in such a sad state that many men have decided to entirely forego traditional marriage and children. Yet when men suffer, everyone suffers. God has designed men to lead their families, and thus women are also suffering as a result of the decline of men.

The erosion of masculinity harms us all. Everyone is aware of the breakdown of the family in the West and its effect on children, many of whom are growing up fatherless or splitting time with their divorced or never-married parents. However, women too are harmed by this breakdown. There are many bad men in the world, and there are now fewer good men doing their job to protect and provide for their wives and children. Women are left vulnerable, and they are being used sexually rather than committed to in marriage.

Of course, it is not only the family that has suffered. The church and state consist of families, and both institutions are weakened by the breakdown of the family unit. The decline of men has coincided with the rise of the welfare state, as civil government seeks to provide financial assistance—and thus fills the provisionary role of the father—for children born outside of wedlock. Such policies have not only rewarded (and thus encouraged) bad practices, but they have also usurped the charity role traditionally reserved for the church.

Women have also sought leadership positions in the church traditionally held by men, with many churches now ordaining women as pastors and elders. Considering the clarity of the relevant biblical passages, as well as the overwhelming historical practice prohibiting such, the acceptance of women church leaders has undermined the authority of both the Bible and church history. There is no question that the church is weaker as a result of female leadership.”

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
Isaiah 3:12

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