day no. 15,175: when men are the manure

Jeremiah 9:20-22
Hear, O women, the word of the Lord,
and let your ear receive the word of His mouth;
teach to your daughters a lament,
and each to her neighbor a dirge.
For death has come up into our windows;
it has entered our palaces,
cutting off the children from the streets
and the young men from the squares.
Speak: “Thus declares the Lord,
‘The dead bodies of men shall fall
like dung upon the open field,
like sheaves after the reaper,
and none shall gather them.’”

When we reach a place where the best parts of men are only those which they share in common with women, we toss the husk to the ground. If the only nutritive value men possess is that which is already possessed by women, the rest is expendable. Ring out the good stuff and void the rest. No reason to provide a proper burial, what remains is meant to be trampled under foot, left in a field, and forgotten.

If we decide that the defining qualities of a man are merely what they share with women, the rest can easily be dismissed. 

But if we agree with God that masculinity is the glory the Lord, then we will lament when it is cast off and treated like manure. When feminism wins, we should wail. Where egalitarianism dominates, we need a dirge.

If we cut masculinity off of men, we all end up cut off. We do not improve the man by removing his masculinity, we rob him of what it means to be a man. When we celebrate effeminacy, we emaciate masculinity. We keep the parts and change the pants. We reduce a man to his privates in order to make him more presentable in public. 

This, mind you, only works if the public has been convinced that femininity must prevail, a thing true, Biblical femininity would never desire.