By REY FLORES
I’m not sure about you, but I’m pretty sick about hearing about “toxic masculinity.” Is there such a thing, or is it just more emasculation coming from the radical leftists, who hate anything that is naturally ordered by God?
What the left wants to do is further disempower and destroy the family unit. This is just one of the latest tactics they are using. Thanks to social welfare programs, the father has been eliminated from low-income households for decades now. Who needs a husband and father when Big Daddy government can provide?
What Big Daddy government can’t ever provide is a male role model for the children who have been left fatherless. These kids are societal orphans en masse. The radical, modernist, anti-family, pro-abortion radical movement has actively been trying to destroy the family unit since Gloria Steinem stated that “a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.”
The most recent #MeToo movement has done nothing to help, but has tended to exacerbate the situation. The fact that men can behave like pigs instead of like gentlemen is no secret. All of us know this as fact. If it weren’t true, the pornography industry wouldn’t be one of the most successful and profitable global business models in the history of man.
Do men behave badly? Absolutely, but not all of us. Admittedly, I have not been the ideal St. Joseph to those in my lives, but I continue to fight to get there one day, hopefully sooner rather than later.
To use a term like “toxic masculinity” is false at best, and destructive at its worse. What are little boys being taught today? To be strong and want to follow your natural masculine inclinations — that makes you toxic?
Last year’s judicial hearings for Brett Kavanaugh brought the worst out in the radical leftists. Not only did they nearly destroy a solid, responsible, successful family man’s reputation, but a parade of liars was brought out of the woodwork to accuse this man of being a sexual predator, under oath no less.
While Kavanaugh was finally sworn in as the newest Supreme Court justice, his accusers remain scot-free. Why? Because they are women, and in today’s incredibly fractured social climate, women are allowed to make false accusations about any man without facing any repercussion once they are found to be total bold-faced liars?
Does “masculine toxicity” truly exist? No, it does not. If we are in fact going to accept toxic masculinity as fact, then in the name of equality I demand we also use the term “toxic femininity.”
I can sum up toxic femininity in two words: Planned Parenthood. From my understanding of what the word “toxic” means, it can be: poisonous, venomous, virulent, noxious, dangerous, destructive, harmful, unsafe, malignant, injurious, and pestilential.
I can’t think of anything more toxic than contraception, abortion, the harvesting of human organs from aborted babies, and the overall deception and dishonesty, falsely identifying their evil, satanic works such as “women’s health care.”
If you want more toxicity, take a look at the Democratic Party. These politicians cheer the fact that now fully developed, unborn human beings can be slaughtered at the very last millisecond if a woman decides she no longer wants her about-to-be-born baby.
You want toxic masculinity? Look no further than New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. I’d put him right up there with other pigs like Bill Clinton, Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, and many, many more. That is, men who give other men a bad name.
That some men like to hunt, fish, get their hands dirty while working on their land, their cars, or whatever they may do for a living to provide for themselves and their families, is a good thing. These are admirable traits in a man. Again, while I have not always lived up to this standard, I can honestly say that I am proud for the times that I have.
Men like Brett Kavanaugh all of a sudden became even more “toxic” just because he stated that he liked to drink beer. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s funny how the left can promote truly toxic “gay sex,” excessive partying, promiscuous behaviors, and all of that is all right, but a family man who enjoys a beer at home, probably watching sports or perhaps barbecuing in his backyard, that to the left is toxic.
Take also a recent marketing campaign by Gillette, the company many of us know for their shaving products like razors and other grooming products. They portray guys who barbecue, boys who wrestle, and a man who looks at an attractive woman as toxic. Not surprisingly, most of the men portrayed in a negative light were mostly Caucasian.
I don’t buy expensive Gillette products: I’ll usually buy the dollar-store equivalents. After this toxic anti-male campaign, I will definitely never buy anything from Gillette, or any other brand associated with them.
Do women want emasculated, sensitive pajama boys who resemble Harry Potter more than Dirty Harry? I don’t think so. It seems that the left has women who are becoming more masculine while the men are becoming a bunch of creampuffs afraid of their own shadow. This is by design, and we must do everything we can to counter these destructive campaigns.
I’ll say this about the #MeToo movement. In its most honest effort, the movement is needed. For too long, many women suffered all sorts of abuse, harassment, rape, forced abortions, and other horrible and unmentionable crimes.
As men, we need to recognize the absolute necessity and responsibility we have to always remain respectful and honorable gentlemen to all of the women around us.
There’s a huge difference between being a real man, and being a sexist, piggish misogynist. Women want a good man who respects them, not some oaf who objectifies them. Women also don’t want some wimp who’s afraid to be a man. Let’s open doors for women, compliment them at appropriate times with appropriate terms. Let us hold each other in a kind, loving, and respectful manner as human beings.
We often forget that we are made in the image and likeness of God. If you label all men as toxic, you’ve already labeled God as toxic. Perhaps this is a good thing: The ‘toxicity” of truth is anathema to the darkness of evil and those who dwell in it.
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(Rey Flores writes opinion and book and movie reviews for The Wanderer. Contact Rey at reyfloresusa@gmail.com.)
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