I recently went to a homeschool progressive dinner.  I was disgusted to see the guys behaving like a bunch of nutcases.  I wouldn't have really cared if it was a bunch of eight-year-olds, but these boys who were busy doing something utterly brainless are going to be graduating from highschool in only a few years.

When I asked my dad, he said this was normal behavior for that age.  What happened to the responsible young men of the last centuries?  Where are the guys who graduated from college at sixteen or seventeen, ready to take on the world?  I could chew out today's guys for being irresponsible nutcases for hours.  But who's fault is it really?  It's really the girl's fault.  When feminism first reared its ugly head, with it came the decline of our culture.

When a girl says, "I can do anything a boy can do; in fact, I can do it BETTER than he can," she contributes to the decline of our culture.  Not to say that there are not things that girls can do better than guys.  Usually we girls can out-cook and out-clean the average boy.  We also look better in long hair.   However,  the average guy can usually out-run, out-lift and out-grow the average girl, not to mention several other things.

But we girls manage to make ourselves rather difficult to argue with, and it seems that we have grabbed the tiller of leadership and refused to let go.  Consequently, the majority of young men have simply not learned to lead because we girls seem determined to do it for them.  Only a small minority of today's young men have stood up and said, "Sit down, be quiet, and let me steer."

Of course, when they say this, we have a tendency to rebel.  We pretend we didn't hear them.  We try to talk them out of it.  Worst still, we fight with them over it, and anyone who has gone boating can tell you that  two people fighting over the tiller will probably swamp the boat. 

"But," you say, "they don't know HOW to steer!"  Hmm.   Have you let them learn?  The only way to learn how to swim is to jump in the water.  If you'll just put up with the little bumps as they learn, they'll probably figure things out pretty quickly.

Scripture on this subject?  Colossians 3:18 'Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.'   I Peter 3:1-6 is also good on this, 'Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands....' Another verse is Ephesians 5:22-24, 'Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.  For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church...'  (Eph. 5:22-6:4 is a good section for families.)

"But," you protest, "I'm not married!"   You may not be, but if you are not, you are in training to become a wife.   Don't think that you will suddenly start being submissive as soon as you say 'I do'.  Whatever habits you are developing now, you will probably keep for the rest of your life.  If you develop a habit of disrespect now, you will keep it, and there will be problems in the marriage.

Well, I think you get the point.  Let the guys do the driving, but be sure to have dinner ready for them, lest they starve on bachelor food.

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