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Boys develop the right side of their brain faster than girls, giving them better spatial, logical, and perceptual skills. They excel at math, building, puzzles, and problem solving.

A man should get his livelihood in order and after that he should get married and start his family. A young man is not ready to begin the process of courtship until he is financially ready to support his family.

Michael Farris, A Sacred Foundation: The Importance Of Strength In The Home School Marriage

Steel Qualities

Guide, Protector, Provider

Builder of Society

Masculinity

Character

Confidence

Health

The steel side of a man makes women and children feel secure. Arouses admiration of all. Makes women feel womanly.

Velvet Qualities

Understands women

Gentleness

Attentiveness

Youthfulness

Humility

Refinement

The velvet side of a man promotes good human relations among all people. Awakens love in women and children.

When a man has both Steel and Velvet qualities, it brings him peace, happiness, and fulfillment.

Aubrey Andelin, Man of Steel and Velvet: A Guide to Masculine Development

Does rejecting feminism mean rejecting women’s equality? No, because that’s not what feminism is about. Rejecting feminism means recognizing that women don’t need feminism to make them equal to men because they already are equal- just not the same. Does rejecting feminism mean rejecting women’s liberation? Yes- if liberation means liberating women from marriage and motherhood. We have learned the hard way that there is nothing empowering about ignoring one’s biology.

Suzanne Venker and Phyllis Schlafly, The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know - And Men Can’t Say

The problem with the sexual revolution is that it was predicated on the lies that gender differences don’t exist and that women want what men want.

Suzanne Venker and Phyllis Schlafly, The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know - And Men Can’t Say

The truth is that feminism has been the single worst thing that has happened to American women. It did not liberate women at all- it confused them. It made their lives harder…. Their female nature tells them sex requires love; marriage is important; children are a blessing; and men are necessary. The culture, meanwhile, tells them to sleep around and postpone family life because that will cost them their identity. And, if their marriage doesn’t work out, it’s no big deal. They can always get divorced. Is it any wonder modern women are unhappy?

Suzanne Venker and Phyllis Schlafly, The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know - And Men Can’t Say

The second tenet of feminism is that, of all injustices perpetuated on women through the centuries, the most oppressive is that women have babies and men do not. The abolition of this inequality is the primary goal. That is why women on the left are compulsively driven to make abortion and daycare universally available to all women - and taxpayer-funded. Women on the left believe they can achieve equality with men only if they can control the number of babies they have (through contraception and abortion) and can outsource (through nannies or daycare) the care of the babies they do have. Eliminate the babies, and the equality goal will be achieved.

Suzanne Venker and Phyllis Schlafly, The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know - And Men Can’t Say

If she must become the man of the family, she isn’t free to function as a woman, to devote her time and thought to making a success of her equally demanding duties as wife and mother.

Aubrey Andelin, Man of Steel and Velvet: A Guide to Masculine Development

A woman’s security does not lie in money her partner earns. She finds it in him as a person of character and dependability.

Aubrey Andelin, Man of Steel and Velvet: A Guide to Masculine Development

Seeing him (her employer) at his best and perhaps as a more effective and dynamic leader than her husband, she makes comparisons unfavorable to her husband whose faults and failings she knows only too well.

Aubrey Andelin, Man of Steel and Velvet: A Guide to Masculine Development

With a strong man, the dominating woman does not exist. Women take over as men allow them to. The responsibility to retain his position is his. This he must do at all costs.

Aubrey Andelin, Man of Steel and Velvet: A Guide to Masculine Development

In a world where women do not say ‘no,’ the man is never forced to settle down and make serious choices. His sex drive - the most powerful compulsion on his life - is never used to make him part of civilization as the supporter of a family. If a woman does not force him to make a long-term commitment- to marry - in general, he doesn’t. It is maternity that requires commitment. His sex drive only demands conquest, driving him from body to body in an unsettling hunt for variety and excitement in which much of the thrill is in the chase itself.

The man still needs to be tamed. His problem is that many young women think they have better things to do than socialize men.

George Gilder

To declare enthusiasm for feminist ideals is almost a new mode of macho, a way to flaunt an invulnerable virility. Many will dismiss feminism as merely a matter of domestic logistics… .

Mention procreation, and they talk about the population explosion. They believe it is just as well that many women indicate disinterest in having children.

George Gilder

Obviously the most enduring way to make this commitment is through marriage. Yet because sexual liberals deny the differences between the sexes, their explanations of why there are marriages and why marriage is needed and desired ignore the central truth of marriage: that it is built on sex roles. Pressed to explain the institution, they respond vaguely that human beings want “structure” or desire “intimacy.” But however desirable in marriage, these values are not essential causes or explanations of it.

In many cultures, the wife and husband share very few one-to-one intimacies. Ties with others of the same sex- or even the opposite sex- often offer deeper companionship. The most intimate connections are between mothers and their children. In all societies, male groups provide men with some of their most emotionally gratifying associations. Indeed, intimacy can deter or undermine wedlock. In the kibbutz, for example, where unrelated boys and girls are brought up together and achieve a profound degree of companionate feeling, they never marry members of the same child-rearing group. In the many cultures where marriages are arranged, the desire for intimacy is subversive of marriage.

Similarly, man’s “innate need for structure” can be satisfied in hundreds of forms of organization. The need for structure may explain all of them or none of them, but it does not tell us why, of all possible arrangements, marriage is the one most prevalent. It does not tell us why, in most societies, marriage alone is consecrated in a religious ceremony and entails a permanent commitment.

As most anthropologists see it, however, the reason is simple. The very essence of marriage, Bronislaw Malinowski wrote, is not structure and intimacy; it is “parenthood and above all maternity.” The male role in marriage, as Margaret Mead maintained, “in every known human society, is to provide for women and children.” In order to marry, in fact, Malinowski says that almost every human society requires the man “to prove his capacity to maintain the woman.”

Marriage is not simply a ratification of an existing love. It is the conversion of that love into a biological and social continuity… . Regardless of what reasons particular couples may give for getting married, the deeper evolutionary and sexual propensities explain the persistence of the institution. All sorts of superficial variations- from homosexual marriage to companionate partnership- may be played on the primal themes of human life. But the themes remain. The natural fulfillment of love is a child; the fantasies and projects of the childless couple may well be considered as surrogate children.

George Gilder

This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes - it liberates young women to pursue married men.

George Gilder

But so-called feminism has not been able to devise a personality for women other than by imitating the male personality, so that the woman’s “claims” conceal a fundamental lack of distrust in herself as well as her inability to be and function as a real woman and not as a man.

Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World

The idea of woman’s emancipation is based upon a profound enmity between the sexes, upon envy and imitation. Woman becomes a mere caricature, a pseudo-being.

Berdyaev, Russian philosopher

Intimacy is an essential ingredient for continuing romance and deep relationships. In fact, I will be so bold as to say: For true love and romance to exist in a relationship, intimacy must be present! Communication is the vehicle for creating and maintaining intimacy.

Dr. H. Norman Wright, Holding On To Romance: Keeping Your Marriage Alive and Passionate After the Honeymoon Years Are Over

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