Feminine Side? Nah...

Maybe I can put more than just theological meanderings and such up here and make the site more readable because I actually update the stupid thing more than once a month. So, I was reading a FoxNews article about television shows that feature males with more sensitive characteristics. I read the opening line to the article…

If television is to be believed, America’s cities are flooded with packs of sensitive, professional men looking for meaningful relationships, meeting male friends for brunch and talking about the states of their hearts.

That’s hyperbolic, but hey, that describes me. I do meet with my male friends for breakfast at Panera in order to pray, to talk about what I’m struggling with, to talk about my relationship with Jesus and with Rosanna. The author of the article makes it sound like this is a bad thing, or at least exaggerates that the new TV shows mentioned are trying to picture every man like this.

Well, whatever. I just got my beans steamed when I read the following, near the end:

Female viewers agree that it’s nice to see guys who are a little more in touch with their feminine sides.

This is what sparked me to write this in the first place. I really despise the whole “get in touch with their feminine side” mantra, implying that tenderness, sensitivity, brokenness, vulnerability, etc., are female traits that we men must tap into. While I think I’d agree that, naturally, women tend to express that more readily and in different ways than men, I think men who lack those qualities are not real men in the first place.

Blech. A plague on both their houses.