The second post today comes from the American Thinker, by Lewis Dovland and is entitled Why American Women Should Want Their Own Harrison Butker. As a reminder, Butker is the NFL Kansas City Chiefs football player who gave the commencement address at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. Butker gave a description of what God's plan was for marriage, in that each person, male and female has a distinct and special purpose. Neither can be complete without the other. Yet he is being attacked mercilessly by the Left.
Butker’s comments at the graduation ceremony for Benedictine College, a Catholic institution (where he gave a Catholic message) in Atchison, Kansas, has Democrats in a tizzy, clutching their pearls, getting the vapors, and collapsing onto their fainting couches. And of course, going into full-blown scorched earth mode.
His comments were so egregious that all the usual misquoting, false framing of facts, false analogies, ridiculous assertions, and plain contumely were immediately out in full force. Not only should he be fired from the KC Chiefs and have his career and life ruined, but he should be executed, so despicable is his crime.
Pause and think. Nature made men and women different from each other in a perfect and complementary yin/yang design. Women are natural nurturers, with a capacity to deliver much deeper feelings and empathy, and their maternal instincts are not taught but ingrained. Nesting is a natural tendency, and a woman’s home is her face to the world.
Men are simpler creatures (just ask any wife) and are not known for deep emotions on a regular basis. When societies refocus a man’s reproductive and power drives into beneficial application (usually through culture and religion), their ingrained nature makes them natural providers for their offspring, defenders of their family, yet remain no-nonsense masculine creatures, provided society hasn’t yet ‘whipped’ them into shape.
A man’s natural focus is problem solving, which is why women get frustrated when they bring an issue to their husbands and then he immediately goes into “problem solving mode” to fix it, when all the woman wanted is for him just to listen without much talking to let her know he understands her feelings. (Which makes near zero sense to a man, BTW.)
There is more to it than that, but at the very least we should recognize that men and women are different yet complementary. Each has his or her special areas of influence yet are equals in everything. The Apostle Paul explains it pretty well:
The true idyll is a co-equal relationship in which the husband presents controlled strength over the potential violence he could unleash, while meeting his wife’s needs and giving her both love and security, while the wife meets her husband’s needs, giving him the admiration and respect he needs to be fulfilled. This is how a man and woman should act in the sense of “two becoming one flesh” as Paul states in Ephesians 5:31-32. The sacrifice goes both ways.
Go read the whole article. Note that the author does not endorse the model of manhood which he calls "Neanderthal man" because that is not Biblical. But clearly, he does not endorse "Mr. Milquetoast" either. As I say, read the whole thing.
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