What Every Man Should Know About Feminist Issues

Nurturing

by Rod Van Mechelen

Copyright 1991, 1992 by Rod Van Mechelen

Nurturing, according to pop-feminists, falls almost entirely within the female domain because men are not socialized to nurture. But, everywhere around us we see examples of men nurturing women. When a woman says to a man, "I can't do this, will you help me," typically he will fall all over himself to help her. Another way men nurture women is by "mentoring": "More women (some 67 percent) reported having been helped in their ascent by a male mentor than by a female one (only 14 percent)." (Savvy Magazine, January 1988, p 95)

Men nurture with money and problem-solving (Why Men Are The Way They Are, Berkley edition/September 1988, Warren Farrell, Ph.D., p 292), and, as James Nibblett notes, men nurture the world.

When women nurture, they nurture "us." That is, they extend care to friends, family, and self. Conversely, most of the nurturing men do is directed toward "them." That is, men nurture society by creating civilization and safe spaces for women and children, family and the future.

Pop-feminists undermine this by ignoring or attacking the ways men nurture.

When men nurture, civilization thrives. When society does not allow men to nurture, civilization disintegrates into what George Gilder calls a "sexual suicide society." By attacking men, pop-feminists are forcing our culture to commit sexual suicide.

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