American Culture Rot: Opting Out of Manhood

Men in Skirts Edition...

JiClockwise from left: Brad Pitt at the Berlin premiere of Bullet Train; Harry Styles in black lace; now acceptable Virgin Atlantic crew uniforms; and one of Yannik Zamboni’s winning evening wear designs on a male model.

Sometimes when you see something, you have to say something. This is one of those times…

Brad Pitt (yes, that Brad Pitt) recently wore a women’s skirt to the Berlin premiere of his movie Bullet Train. The Celebrity Style section of the US magazine website covered it this way...

“The Oklahoma native pulled off the look at the upcoming film’s screening in Berlin, Germany. He stepped onto the red carpet, wearing the linen number that featured a distressed hem and a pleated construction. Pitt paired the skirt with a coordinating linen jacket, a soft pink shirt, and Stylmartin boots that drew attention to his leg tattoos.”

What the...?

When asked about it, Pitt spoke out against traditional masculinity, saying he finds the Clint Eastwood style of tough manliness to be “exhausting.”

Really Brad?

Clint Eastwood, like the rest of us, is not perfect. But he is a patriot, a former public servant (mayor), and a credit to his profession at a time when most Hollywood types are immature dolts.

Pitt’s foolishness is no isolated case...

British airline Virgin Atlantic recently updated its gender policy and uniform requirements, allowing male employees to wear skirts. The airline claims that it champions those “who see the world differently” and approved the policy in September 2022, allowing both male pilots and crew to wear women’s clothing if they prefer.

Amazon Prime’s Making the Cut is a competitive design reality show that features up-and-coming fashion designers competing to win a million-dollar prize. This year’s winner, Yannik Zamboni (a skirt wearer himself), won by dressing men in women’s clothing. Zamboni was clearly not the top designer on the show, but he apparently best fit the producers’ LBGTQ agenda.

Not to be outdone, English singer-songwriter Harry Styles has been photographed wearing a lacey black cocktail dress on one occasion and in a lady’s blouse with pearls and earrings to match on another.

Please understand that I am not including items like kilts, clerical robes, or thobes (the loose, long-sleeved, ankle-length garments many middle eastern men wear) as those ARE men’s garments. I’m talking about confused men who opt to wear women’s clothes. Consider this...

“A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.” (Deuteronomy 22:5)

Again, I’m not talking about ladies in blue jeans, but those men who would willfully rebel against the Word of God.

We have never before seen a time in history when what it means to be a man has been so misunderstood. Men can have babies. Women can be men. Some men don’t want to be men… they want to be women… all while perverted male drag queens strut in schools and defile church pulpits.

Young men have been spoon-fed emasculating messages by the entertainment industry for years... including juvenile male movie stars, milquetoast male sitcom characters, and effeminate entertainers (including some in so-called Christian bands). Confused transgender people like Bruce “Caitlyn” Jenner are now celebrated as role models.

Fashion designers have been steering Americans away from traditional values and gender roles for decades. In the 1960s, fashion icon Pierre Cardin became obsessed with androgynous looks to willfully blur the lines between men and women. Cardin not only worked to change how people dressed but also how they believed and behaved. Since then, designers have gone from producing stylish garments to trying to make desperately woke political and social statements.

At the same time, our public education system, from K through college, has served to keep men as children, encouraging them to stagnate as adolescents with no self-discipline, moral absolutes, or sense of responsibility and accountability.

Perhaps even more significant is the decline in the number of intact homes with a stable and loving mother and father. Family breakdown in the United States began in earnest in the 1960s with then-President Lyndon B. Johnson’s so-called “War on Poverty”. The program was designed to create minority voter dependency on the Democrat Party for the non-stop continuation of welfare benefits. One consequence of this was the collapse of the family and the generational rise in fatherlessness due to welfare incentives. This actively discouraged marriage and encouraged the absence of a father in the home... yet another disastrous Democrat Party policy.

With no father in the home, the doors are open for even more severe problems. Nearly two-thirds of youth suicides and 90 percent of all homeless and runaway kids come from a home with no father.

Without a stable two-parent home, it is harder for boys to develop respect for women and form appropriate relationships with them. These two essential aspects of childhood development have been passed down from parents to children for thousands of years. But this family influence has been steadily eroding over the last 60 years. The problem has now become generational, with sons growing up without knowing what a true intact family looks and feels like. They are often doomed to think that fatherlessness is normal and that money comes from the government.

With each successive generation, it becomes more challenging to break the cycle, and the prospects for family restraint on morality and behavior are fast disappearing.

Masculinity is no longer clearly defined by our culture; its influencers are attacking it. With all of this, it’s no wonder why so many boys are no longer interested in becoming men but instead choose to opt out of manhood.

Manhood is the opposite of boyhood... not the opposite of womanhood. A boy becomes a real man when he leaves behind the things of a child. The Apostle Paul wrote this...

“When I was a babe, I used to speak as a babe, to think as a babe, to reason as a babe; but now that I have become a man, I have done away with the traits of a babe.” (1 Corinthians 13:11)

Real men replace their childish ways of thinking and accept their God-given responsibilities.

Real men respect and appreciate women.

Real men don’t operate solely on feelings.

Real men are secure in who they are as males.

Real men know that men and women are not the same.

Real men don’t listen to those who promote pajama boy types or those sad sacks who wear women’s dresses.

Real men don’t look to male fembots for fashion advice.

Real men wear pants.