I miss John Wayne.
And no, I don’t mean that America needs every man walking around in a cowboy hat talking like he just rode in from Monument Valley (however wonderful that sounds). I miss what John Wayne represented culturally. Strength. Grit. Courage. Duty. Confidence. Personal responsibility. The expectation that when something went wrong, a man stood up, protected his family, handled his business, and did not need society’s permission to be masculine.
Somewhere along the way, America decided those qualities were dangerous. We spent years telling boys that masculinity was toxic, aggression needed to be suppressed, competition was problematic, traditional gender roles were oppressive, and the differences between men and women were increasingly irrelevant. Then we took away many of the cultural expectations that once told young men what they were supposed to become.
Now everybody is standing around asking why so many young men seem lost.
Are you kidding me?
Look at the circus surrounding the WNBA right now. Former NBA players Royce White and Enes Kanter Freedom have deliberately injected themselves into the debate over transgender eligibility in women’s basketball. Freedom and White announced their eligibility for the 2027 WNBA Draft, obviously designed to force people to confront the logical endpoint, men DO NOT get to compete with women!
How did we get so lost that we can’t define what it means to be a woman? It honestly makes me disgusted on every level. Women fought for generations to have their own opportunities in sports. Young female athletes should not be expected to surrender those protections because mentally unwell adults have become terrified of saying that biological sex matters.
And think about the message we are sending young girls. We tell them to work hard, train hard, become strong, compete, and believe in themselves. Then, when they ask adults to defend the boundaries of women’s competition, people become afraid to speak up for them, to defend them, how far we’ve fallen.
People experiencing REAL gender dysphoria are human beings with a mental disorder. But compassion does not require society to abandon biological reality.
The American Psychiatric Association replaced the diagnosis “gender identity disorder” with “gender dysphoria.” The change deliberately focused the diagnosis on clinically significant distress rather than treating a person’s identity itself as a mental disorder. Like so much of the woke BS, this has been planned and coordinated.
Americans need to be looking closely at what has happened culturally over the past decade. Gender identity has gone from a specialized medical and psychological disorder in a very small segment of our population to something discussed constantly in schools, entertainment, politics, advertising, sports, and social media. When children and teenagers are involved, parents need to be demanding answers to where these ideas came from.
This is the part that makes me furious because we have spent years teaching boys everything they supposedly should not be. Don’t be too aggressive. Don’t be too dominant. Don’t be too competitive. Don’t be too masculine. Don’t make anyone uncomfortable. Don’t behave like some caveman.
Fine. Then who exactly are we expecting to run toward danger when everybody else is running away?
Who protects the family? Who teaches the next generation of boys that strength carries responsibility? Who tells a young man that there is something honorable about becoming physically capable, emotionally disciplined, financially responsible, dependable, courageous, and willing to sacrifice for his wife and children?
Masculinity without morality is destructive, and will be the downfall of our society. Strength without character becomes brutality. Aggression without discipline becomes violence. Sexuality without responsibility becomes exploitation. Healthy masculinity is strength under control. It is courage tempered by wisdom. It is the ability to protect without becoming a bully, lead without becoming a tyrant, and sacrifice without expecting applause. Shove your participation awards up your asses, and pull your woke mentally disabled brains out, fully.
Boys need to be taught that being strong is good. I want them taught that their strength exists so they can protect people who are weaker than they are (MEN will always be physically STRONGER than women, no amount of hormone replacement will change what God created). I want them taught that being a husband and father is not some embarrassing relic of an oppressive past.
Make America Masculine Again!
Our culture has failed young women spectacularly. We tell girls that sexualizing themselves for strangers online is “empowering.” We normalize pornography for boys and then act shocked when those boys grow into men who struggle to understand intimacy, commitment, and the dignity of women. We reduce sex to recreation and increasingly discuss pregnancy as though it were an unfortunate mechanical malfunction.
Then we call all of this liberation.
I call it evil and intentionally destructive propaganda.
Women deserve something infinitely better than being told that freedom means becoming sexually available, chemically altered, perpetually objectified, and disconnected from motherhood, family, and the biological SUPERPOWER that comes with being female.
Being a woman is powerful. Being a mother is powerful. Creating a family is powerful.
There was another story this week that boiled my blood. Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed legislation changing the state’s framework surrounding later abortion and eliminating the previous 24-week statutory limit. Watching this witch and the evil twats standing around her smiling made me furious.
I am unapologetically pro-life. I am sick of abortion being discussed as the only compassionate response to a frightened pregnant woman. If we really care about women, where is the housing? Where is the financial assistance? Where is the prenatal care? Where is affordable childcare? Where is the father? Where are the churches, communities, nonprofits, and families surrounding that woman and helping her create a life in which having her baby actually feels like it should, A CELEBRATION OF LIFE?
Research into why American women obtain abortions makes that point powerfully. A major Guttmacher study found that 74 percent of respondents cited concerns about how having a baby would affect their lives, 73 percent said they could not afford a baby at that time, and 48 percent cited relationship problems or not wanting to become a single mother. The same study found 1 percent reported rape and fewer than 0.5 percent reported incest.
Using the most horrific and statistically uncommon circumstances to avoid discussing the overwhelming majority of abortions is dishonest and cruel and only hurts women by turning them into murderers.
If finances, broken relationships, absent fathers, fear, existing children, and instability are major factors driving abortion decisions, then a truly pro-woman culture should attack those problems aggressively. Help the woman. Help her keep her baby. Give her actual healthcare, (abortion clinics are NOT healthcare). Give her options. Give her a path forward. Teach the men in her life they are RESPONSIBLE for her and their child’s safety.
And since when do we think of a serious medical procedure like abortion as “no big deal?” Since when do we high five our young people before such a huge procedure? (Don’t even get me started on how women only have 6 days a month to be safe during sex… yes only 6 days!) Why aren’t we teaching our kids about their bodies? Oh wait… we can’t even define men and women, so now this all comes full circle.
I feel like I’ve lost my mind on this issue in a soul crushing way. The physical, mental, and spiritual harm that comes from abortions can not be overstated. The fathers suffer as well, they don’t share the statistics with us on how many men suffer depression after the abortion of their child, and that’s intentional. I’ve been to conferences and spoke to the experts on this, and heard the stories, there are no winners in abortion. There’s a dead baby, and often two devastated parents who must live with the gravity of that for the rest of their lives. Despite what the demented woke folks tell you, shockingly, killing your baby is not easy nor fun.
There is also a physical-health component to this conversation that deserves serious research. We are raising children in an environment radically different from the one human beings inhabited for most of history. Their diets are filled with ultra-processed foods and enormous amounts of sugar. They spend less time outdoors, move less, sleep differently, stare at screens constantly, and encounter countless synthetic chemicals in food, packaging, household products, and the environment. American food = Frankenstein Food.
I want more research into endocrine disruptors. I want more research into male reproductive health. I want to know what environmental chemicals, obesity, sedentary lifestyles, pharmaceuticals, nutrition, poor sleep, and ultra-processed food are doing to our children’s development. MAHA should be digging into all of it.
Stop feeding children Frankenstein food loaded with sugar and artificial garbage and then wondering why they are unhealthy. Start asking what they are eating, what they are watching, how much they move, how well they sleep, what chemicals surround them, and what examples the adults in their lives are setting.
And STOP VACCINATING YOUR BABIES!
We constantly proclaim that everything we’re doing is based on compassion, but are we actually producing healthier people?
Are we helping the terrified pregnant woman by simply telling her abortion is the answer, or would real compassion mean surrounding her with enough support that she doesn’t believe abortion is her only viable option? Are we helping boys by allowing pornography to become almost universally accessible while simultaneously refusing to give them a healthy model of masculinity? Are we helping people who really are struggling with gender dysphoria? Like with the feminist movement, this woke BS is only hurting those it claims to be fighting for.
Look at the LGBT community, organizations such as Gays Against Groomers have loudly rejected childhood grooming that only conflates homosexuality with gender ideology.
I am raising two young men, so this is not some abstract political debate to me. My son’s will NOT be ashamed of being MEN, and men they will be I promise you that.
They are strong, compassionate, capable, disciplined, courageous, and independent. They are capable of protecting the people they love. They respect women. They know that that sex carries responsibility, that fatherhood matters, that marriage should mean something, and that keeping your word is everything.
And I want the young women growing up alongside my boys to know they deserve men like that.
Enough with the circus. Raise boys that become good men. Raise girls to become strong women. Protect children. Support mothers. Hold fathers accountable. Rebuild families. Stop apologizing! Stop the nonsense!
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