The GodMen, a group striving to make religion more masculine, is doing its best to fight the religious gender gap. Will they have any long-term success? Consider me a Doubting Thomas.
The GodMen, a group striving to make religion more masculine, is doing its best to fight the religious gender gap. Will they have any long-term success? Consider me a Doubting Thomas.
Feb 5 2007
When was the last time Tyler Cowen and I agreed? Let's just say it's been a while. But he's just hit the adverse selection nail on the head: When I argue that adverse selection is not the key, I hear a common response: "*You* try getting insurance after you have been diagnosed with an advanced brain tumor," or someth...
Feb 5 2007
Tim Worstall writes, The theory is the Stolper-Samuelson Theorem. Stripped to its essentials this says that we would expect the process of globalization to have the following effect: it will lower wages in the US and raise corporate profits (more precisely, returns to capital). In the poor countries that the US is tra...
Feb 5 2007
The GodMen, a group striving to make religion more masculine, is doing its best to fight the religious gender gap. Will they have any long-term success? Consider me a Doubting Thomas.
READER COMMENTS
Randy
Feb 5 2007 at 3:22pm
Now that you mention it, I have a hard time imagining a non-feminizing religion. The whole point of the world’s major religions is to make men behave in a more civilized (i.e., feminized) manner. Even Islam, with its strict discipline of women, controls the lives of men nearly as much. One religion does spring to mind as masculine, that of the norse gods – fight well and you can make it to Valhalla.
Fundamentalist
Feb 6 2007 at 9:37am
I guess it depends on what you mean by manly. If you mean acting anti-socially or in a destructive manner to oneself and others, then I guess religion is anti-manly. But it’s also anti-female in the same regard because women have many of the same tendencies.
If you define manliness as having self-control, then religion promotes manliness. After all, which is more manly, getting drunk and fighting, which requires no effort, or controlling one’s temper, which very few men can master?
Some people like to define manliness as that behavior which is the worst in man’s peronality. But that’s like defining a great musician as the one that’s the worst at playing an instrument. I prefer to see real manliness as that which is best in man. I see Jesus as the most manly man that ever lived.
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