Weak Men Make For Tough Times
The Emasculated American Man is Putting the World at Risk
“Where have all the men gone?” A Maltese woman in search of an eligible bachelor sent me this query nearly six months ago, as she surveyed the landscape of her seventeen-mile-long island located off the southern coast of Sicily and found it wanting. “They show no courage…no desire to take a risk. They are all mama’s boys looking for a woman to take care of them--I have more balls than they do.” I advised her not to move to the United States, if she’s looking for a real man.
American men have become eunuchs. They have surrendered to the Left’s relentless assault on masculinity, abandoning their women and inviting bullies to terrorize the nation and the world. Over the last two years, a growing chorus of “mama bears” has stepped forward to protect their children from government-sanctioned child abuse in the form of educational deprivation, anti-social isolation, forced masking, and coerced experimental injections. True—the Karens have until recently received far more media coverage, as they hysterically assault strangers on the street for exercising common sense and good judgement in their ignoring of autocratic orders. The fearless female defenders of our nation’s youth, however, are a much larger group that has been waging a righteous war against local school boards, craven teachers’ unions, and corrupt politicians. They have been winning battles from Loudoun County to San Francisco. So where are the fathers?
They have remained largely silent. They have acceded to the demands of feminists who proclaim that all expressions of masculinity are toxic, that women don’t need men, and that standing up to evil is an act of violence. Husbands in my practice refuse to criticize their hysterical wives for fear of being outed as misogynists. My young male patients refuse to ask girls out on dates, or even compliment them on their appearance, convinced that to do either would lead to their being labeled as sexist. A friend told me he recently held a door open for a woman entering a department store and was met not with a “thank you” but rather a “f--- you.” She said this in front of her daughter and his son, with no hint of shame or embarrassment. This ingrate has clearly taken Gloria Steinem’s famous quote to heart: “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” Should it surprise anyone that men have decided to put their tails between their legs, roll over, and play dead?
What about America’s religious leaders? Certainly, those who swear allegiance to God rather than government are acting courageously and are worthy of emulation. Unfortunately not. Apart from a few outliers in the evangelical Christian and Orthodox Jewish community, for the past two years churches and synagogues have been caving to government pressure, shutting down and cancelling services to congregants, including childcare programs needed by working mothers. Just last month, the head of one of the largest synagogues in West Los Angeles promised to ban this fall all unvaccinated children from returning to the private school affiliated with the synagogue. Early last year, a rabbi in Beverly Hills was observed writing down the names of each person coming to worship. When asked why, he simply said that he was following guidelines provided by the county health department to “keep us all safe.” He could not see the irony—and danger—of a Jew collecting names of fellow Jews on the order of an oppressive government. A weak and foolish man, he displayed cowardice and disgraced his office as a religious leader of his community.
No heroes remain for men to emulate in pop culture, either. In 2006 the movie 300 told the story of a fearless king who, along with 300 Spartan warriors, confronted an entire Persian army. Although he faced certain death, he willingly and without hesitation sacrificed his life for his people. The most recent James Bond movie, in contrast, portrayed a domesticated house husband whose emotional attachment to a love interest overwhelmed his pledge to honor queen and country, leading him to choose suicide on an abandoned island in place of reaffirming his true calling—saving the world from evil men. King Leonidas has become too toxic for Hollywood.
Certainly, do not look to our elected “leaders” for leadership. LA Mayor Eric Garcetti, California Governor Gavin Newsom, and United States President Joe Biden are all cowards who act only in the service of themselves and their families. US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley are more interested in fighting white rage in the US military than in standing up to Communist China. Biden supports firing Navy SEALS who refuse experimental injections as he promotes transgender admirals. Maternity flight suits good. Male warriors bad.
Whatever one’s feelings about former President Donald Trump’s personality or character, it is undeniable that were he still in office, Vladimir Putin would not have invaded Ukraine. Unlike Biden, Trump is a strong man. Biden is weak. And weak men embolden bullies and allow evil to flourish. Due entirely to the weakness of our current President, we are now facing the possibility of World War III. The use of nuclear weapons by Russia is on the table as well. Just two years ago, the strength of American leadership kept our enemies at bay and ensured stability throughout the world. Today Europe is facing its largest act of military aggression since Adolf Hitler, as a direct consequence of American weakness.
It is long past time for American men to stand up, fight back against the assault on masculinity, and resume their proper place as protectors of their wives, their children, their communities, and their nation. They must ignore the shrill cries of the harpies who find themselves threatened by the presence of strong men. Nagging women nag because they sense weakness and a lack of resolve in the men in their lives. When men stand up, take charge, and act fearlessly, women’s insecurities quiet. They need strong men, just as America and the world do. Where have all the men gone? The women want you back. Your country needs you now more than ever.
Mark McDonald, M.D.
Psychiatrist and author of United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis
Your words are beautiful, refreshing music to my ears, Dr. McDonald. It will take a massive pushback on the assault upon masculinity so rampant today, but let it start with courageous men like you taking a stand and calling out to other men to shake off the hypnosis of the leftist media campaign to crush men's balls and be real men who will fight for what's right and protect freedom, their women and children and country. Women too must educate ourselves and our sisters and daughters how to be real women who respect their good masculine men, respect themselves and love and nurture their children. We all have work to do in the foregoing regard, and I appreciate your call to men to be real men. The women who have their heads screwed on straight will respond positively with cheers.
As a radical feminist, mother, grandmother and human being, I'm so very weary of feminism being blamed for men not being responsible adults. I'm DEEPLY disturbed by the misogynist terminology you're using such as 'harpie' and 'nag'. Toxic masculinity is a thing, just as toxic femininity is a thing and it's essential to call it out.
We have 90% of the prison population that's made up of men. THAT'S the problem in our society. Men are suffering and rather than exploring ALL the reasons why they're acting out their pain on society, men, as always blame women.
The assumption that women 'nag' for no reason is especially problematic. What if, just maybe, it's because HE'S actually causing her extreme difficulty? What if she's asked him countless times to take responsibility for something he should be doing without being asked? By labelling her calling him out on this issue 'nagging' you perpetuate the stereotype of a 'harpie' housewife and dehumanize her into a caricature of the full human she actually is. You've set up this scenario where the poor man would just be a stronger, more dominating husband and father if only his wife wouldn't constantly get on his case. Give me a break, already.
By the same token, toxic femininity is the expectation that a man will automatically provide for her which effectively infantilizes her. This is regressive and unhealthy for any adult. BOTH men and women need to become adults, but men clearly have lost their way. It's ludicrous that an adult male requires the woman in his life to be more long-suffering, quiet and obedient and THEN everything will be ok.
Now for some background, it's important to understand that today's feminism is not the same feminism as women's liberation movements in the past. Today's young feminists - often referred to as 'third wave feminists' represent a brand of feminism that has been coopted and corrupted by pornography and mass media. Third wave feminists do NOT represent the original values of women's liberation movements of the past. This type of feminism in fact accommodates the idea of 'sex work is work' and 'makeup and clothes are empowering' and thus serves the patriarchy and betrays the movement to liberate both men and women from rigid gender constraints. Given that 50% of the world's population is women, when people say 'feminazis' or 'karens' or any other derogatory term used against women to silence all of us, it demonstrates that we STILL aren't regarded as fully human.
Radical feminism, which means getting back to our roots, was about empowering women to vote, have reproductive freedom, right to work and support ourselves and own property and many other advantages which we have achieved primarily in the west. However, the majority of women in third world countries do not have these rights so our work is far from done.
It's important to understand the conditions under which the suffragettes lived and why they fought and died to achieve basic human rights for themselves and for their children. At the time, women and children were treated like chattel, often left to starve - as many women in Asia, Africa and South America still do. In other words, their husbands, fathers, and sons at that time had little sense of responsibility for their families and often left their wives and children destitute. Think about it - why would a mass movement for equality for women even exist if women were treated with dignity and respect and their children provided for by the majority of men in their lives? Fact is, the living conditions at the turn of the century in the industrial revolution were a hellscape for women.
Fast forward to today, over 25 million people are enslaved globally. The vast majority - estimates say 80% - are women and children in the sex trade. Who is victimizing them? Men. 99% of pedophiles are men. As we speak men are claiming to be women in order to get access to women's private spaces, gyms, sports, scholarships and so many other areas of public life. Thousands of men in prison have applied to become transgender in order to access women's prisons. Nothing women say matters about any of this. Truly, if women were so powerful and intimidating to men, this would have halted immediately or never even come up in anyone's mind.
Here in the US, 30,000 women get pregnant from rape every year. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8765248/ Does that sound like women are powerful and intimidating? Sex trafficking is rampant, the average age a women gets into prostitution is 13 years old. Yes, that's the AVERAGE age. Average life span of a prostitute is 27 years old. Does that sound like women are powerful and intimidating?
What I would like to see is men stop demonizing strong women who call out their misogynist behaviour and instead teaching men and boys to take responsibility for their own emotions. Women are losing their reproductive rights one state at a time. Women are fighting on so many fronts - trans ideology, rape culture, parental rights, worker rights. Mothers continue to be demonized no matter what their choice instead of being respected for doing the best they can in extremly challenging times.
I was raised by a single mom as one of five children. She was beaten and raped by my father for the 10 years she was married to him. My older sister and I were molested by my father over a 4 year period. She fought to get the support she needed back 50 years ago but was told by the Catholic priest that it was her duty to endure the abuse. There were no shelters back then.
Today, trans idenified males, who have had no surgery, are demanding and winning positions as administrators in women's shelters and demanding that male-bodied trans people have access to these shelters. They are vilifying women who speak out about this and the laws in every country in the world are being changed to accommodate male predators under the guise of 'trans inclusion' to the point of lunacy. A male bodied swimmer Lia Thomas obliterated the women's swimming record in recent months.
Does all this sound like women are getting too powerful and intimidating to men? You see, you only see the examples of women who have had to become angry and aggressive to be heard and you think that all feminists are the same. Behind the scenes, mothers, sisters, daughters are trying to survive in a world that seems to hate and despise them more and more each day. It's harrowing hearing some of the stories of violence and abuse of women I hear about every. single. day.
So, no thank you Dr. Macdonald. Women will not become weaker, softer, more feminine and gentle towards men so as to not frighten then. Like any mother, we must become warriors for ourselves and for our children. It's on MEN to EARN respect from women and from each other. If only for our children. It's on MEN to seek help for their violent, predatory behaviour which terrorizes women around the world. The reason women have lost respect for men is not because men are weaker, it's because they are bullies and continue to demand high standards of women - be sexy, by smart, be feminine, be chaste, be this, be that - while they abandon their children, seek out sexual thrills through porn and prostitution, drink themselves to oblivion, escape through video games and sports and otherwise refuse to grown up.
Women love men enough to call them out on their behaviour. If you shame and vilify women for doing that, you break the contract between men and women that should hold BOTH to a higher standard.