day no. 17,155: don't fight feminism like a girl

“A man must insist that his children honor those whom he honors, and the first one on this list should be his wife and their mother . . . a man rarely stands taller than when he stands for a lady. Such respect for women is not a capitulation to feminism but rather the only antidote to it.” — Douglas Wilson, Federal Husband

Feminism is the confused idea that a man who opens a door for a lady is shutting the door on her opportunity to open doors for herself. It is the lie that a man goes off to war in order to keep her from getting to. It is the absurdity of saying that a man pays for the date in order to rob her of the privilege of spending her own money.

1 Corinthians 11:7

For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man.

Honoring women is not the surrender of men to feminism, it is the submission of men to God, it is the glory of God honoring the glory of men.

The misogyny of the manosphere overreacts to the demands of feminism by refusing to give regular women what they are owed. Instead of cherishing women as the weaker vessels, they rough house them as an equals. In fairness, this is merely giving the feminists what they asked for. They wanted to be treated like men and so the men beat them up. The feminists said that women were the same as men. The chauvinists simply allow them to get their way and give them the opportunity to see that they aren't.

"When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her. He can be afraid of her speech and still more of her silence; but force reminds him of a rusted but very real weapon of which he has grown ashamed." — G.K. Chesterton, A Miscellany of Men

The manosphere has tried to solve the puzzle by getting rid of their own shame rather than using their strength to resist the taunts of loudmouth hussies. Men began boasting about how strong they are by taking to the internet to whine and complain about women and how unfair everything is out there. Those men have become women. They gossip and slander and resent their rulers. 

Honoring women as a weaker vessel is not waiving the white flag of surrender to feminism, it is the battle cry to sunder it. Men honoring women unravels feminism. You cannot fight feminism by treating women like equal sparring partners. If men want her to be as terrible as an army with banners, and they should, they must fight for her, not against her.