Male
and Female God created us. That means He created masculinity and
femininity as well. Lose one or the other, and bad things happen.
At
UCLA, students recently formed the Toxic Masculinity Committee—designed
to help men understand, among other things, that their innate drive for
aggression is a bad thing.
But is it? The women of Cypress, California, might disagree.
While
shopping at the local Target store, Ismael Duarte noticed a man
following his teenage daughter. When Duarte blocked him from getting any
closer, the stranger walked away. Minutes later, Duarte spotted him
again—this time the man was using his cell phone to try to film up the
skirt of another young woman.
And
that’s when Duarte went into “protect mode.” Duarte kicked the cell
phone away, and pounced on the man, knocking him to the floor. The man
scrambled to his feet and fled. But Duarte and his wife raced after him
and used their own phones to photograph his car and license plate.
Duarte called the police, and the man was arrested.
Now,
as the father of a teenage daughter, I’m cheering Ismael Duarte’s
“aggression.” You see, what gets lost in all the complaints about “toxic
masculinity” is the fact that the very traits feminists associate with
it—aggression, ambition, and violence—can and often are used in a good
cause. My concern is that we are going to end up with fewer men like
Ismael Duarte because boys as young as five are being taught that there
is something wrong with the biologically-influenced traits associated
with masculinity.
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