The Case for Patriarchy

FINALLY...the CASE FOR PATRIARCHY is here...after years of waiting.

On pre-order today:https://t.co/MhNEM7Yy8a

— Timothy Gordon (@timotheeology) July 10, 2021

A Simple-Minded Egalitarianism

One that ignores morally and politically relevant sex differences while proclaiming loudly about the equality of human nature.

Thank you @erikabachiochi for a great 'Conversation' and paper, 'Vindicating Mary Wollstonecraft's Rights: The Priority of Duty, Virtue, and the Common Good.'

Here is the video. In the subtweet is a link to her new book published by @UNDPress. https://t.co/GpvPeeVf4m

— CommonGoodProject (@CommonGoodProj1) May 16, 2021

Extended Kinship

It will align with a feminist "ethic of care" -- but does it deal with those moral questions and issues that lie outside a woman's moral psychology? No.

https://t.co/EygwwgIm3m

Extended kinship structures and small, tight-knit communities can teach us a lot about the Mystical Body of Christ. This is the story of my own very large, very small place.

— Punky Mantilla ☢️ (@PunkyMantilla) March 16, 2021

A "Transmission Crisis"

Stephen Bullivant on Vatican II

By @CCamosy today on @Crux, Author says New Evangelization must tackle ‘transmission crisis’ https://t.co/xHVwOccpm2

— Crux (@Crux) December 21, 2020

Bullivant attemtps a nuanced view of Vatican II. But he is hampered in his analysis by his adherence to Latin ecclesiology and beliefs concerning primacy. Is mass culture a cause of the "transmission crisis"? Yes. But mass culture is insufficient to explain the fundamental weakness of the institutional churches (Latin and otherwise). Bullivant needs to dig deeper, as he apparently has not seen the studies showing that it is the father who has the most influence in the religious upbringing of his children. Either that, or he is unwilling to affirm the importance of patriarchy and believes he must appear to be egalitarian:

Religious practice in the home and as a family (including bothparents). This is the single biggest predictor of whether a child ends up as religious practicing adult, and there’s a whole social-scientific literature (which I discuss in Mass Exodus) around why. Basically, anything that you do becauseof what you believe, that you wouldn’t do if you didn’t believe, helps to inculcate the importance of those beliefs. Things that take time and effort – even really little things like grace before meals, praying when an ambulance passes – have a large cumulative power and effect.

And while he is aware of the importance of "community," he is probably unaware of what is required to go beyond "socializing" and create an actual community, namely, patriarchy:

Community. Fact is, we’re social beings, and we find it easiest to believe and practice when we hang out with ‘significant other’ who do so too. This is something we used to do very well, but – outside of very special locales, we’re not going back to the kinds of neighborhood parishes, where all or most of one’s neighbors are fellow Catholics. Such places aren’t absolutely impossible – Ave Maria, Florida, would be a thriving example – but they’re not really a scalable strategy. So the trick is to find various ‘hacks.’ No doubt there are things we could learn from both Mormons and megachurches on this score: Both tend to do it better than we do. But really, anything we can do to enable committed Catholics hanging out with other committed Catholics – and such families with other such families – is a plus. Think of it as a mini ‘Benedict Option’ (cf. Rod Dreher’s great book). Until Latins (and others) recognize this fundamental fact of family and political life, they will make no headway in reforming and strengthening their churches.

Naive White-Knighting from a Latin Prog Academic

The cheering of legalized violence against the most vulnerable, perpetrated by a patriarchal culture which demands women kill their own children in order to fully participate, is absolutely infuriating. Historians will castigate us and will deserve it. https://t.co/AQ5OAbmXg6

— Charlie Camosy (@CCamosy) December 30, 2020

Contrary to some very naive Latin academics, this is not a patriarchal culture. This is an atomized mass population center where real power is held by a few. Their political naivete is why Latin progs have no actual political solutions.

Who's funding this?

Ref:https://t.co/iVW3w1TLhV

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) December 30, 2020

#WATCH: Another video taken, showing activists celebrating moments after the #Abortion Bill in #Argentina was passed by their Senate.

“#AbortoLegalYa” and “#AbortoLegal” are trending at the moment. pic.twitter.com/ZiVKrq4v4g

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) December 30, 2020

Naked, fueled by serious drugs and with weird haircuts. Young Argentine women take to the streets to celebrate that they will now be able to legally terminate the lives of the unborn. Behold the MTV/Hollywood/Instagram generation... #CulturalMarxism pic.twitter.com/su8aGQ3Wrl

— RedPilledPoland (@RedPilledPoland) December 30, 2020

In its conflict with the state, the Roman Catholic Church lost to the and is politically irrelevant in its territory now. The chastisement continues.

It shows all that, and more. This is a demonic, orgiastic celebration of bloody slaughter of babies. We saw this same, markedly evil eruption in Ireland a couple years back. Only God can deal with this. https://t.co/oacqtHSiFC

— Edward Peters (@canonlaw) December 30, 2020

At the crack of dawn on Wednesday, Pope Francis’s home country of Argentina legalized abortion, after the senate approved a bill presented by President Alberto Fernandez.https://t.co/2Eow8xtk7t

— Crux (@Crux) December 30, 2020

A Replacement for Christianity

An atheistic religion based on beliefs about gender and human development.

On Laudato Si’, Fratelli Tutti, and the Terminal Decline of Patriarchal Civilization by Luis Teodoro Gutiérrez

Guess his SSH status, and how much experience with women he has.

Feminists Hate the Patriarchy Paradox

Eton goes full Clown World. Feminists teach rape culture & toxic masculinity, but male teacher can't note that "historically, masculine qualities like strength, courage and tenacity have often been as beneficial to women as they have been to men." Madness. https://t.co/fBf135qmn4

— Janice Fiamengo (@JaniceFiamengo) November 27, 2020

MUST WATCH: the feminist-skeptical video that got Will Knowland fired from his teaching position at Eton, after he would not remove it from his personal YouTube channel. This is the vicious insanity of contemporary PC. Please consider donating to him. https://t.co/5WRxj0IDjn

— Janice Fiamengo (@JaniceFiamengo) November 27, 2020

Better than the Alternative

Even if I don't care for figureheads and hereditary monarchies.

No Girls Allowed: Emperor Skips Daughter To Crown His Brother First In Line To The Throne https://t.co/Wfe13fyqcF

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) November 10, 2020

Women Need Patriarchy

How can a creature, oriented mind, body, and soul toward the creative vocation of motherhood, survive in a world that regards all of her natural tendencies as superfluous? https://t.co/0FBAinmfck

— Intellectual Takeout (@intellectualTO) September 24, 2020

Originally published at American Greatness.

Canadian Conservative Millenial Mom

Conservative Millennial women: What do they want? @JillColtonFree explains: https://t.co/4p6jdPafl2.

— Cotto/Gottfried (@CottoGottfried) September 1, 2020

Who controls Canada?

"Safe Haven is all about how cultures are transformed for the better by the arrival of new people, ideas and traditions." @TorontoStar explores Safe Haven in this preview: https://t.co/cvTYKXTsmN

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— Tafelmusik (@Tafelmusik) August 31, 2020

Allan Carlson on the Collapse of the Family

A consequence of the loss of patriarchy.

Fatherless & Childless by Allan C. Carlson
Dereliction of Duty Inside & Outside the Church

A Liberal Reviews a Book by a Liberal Social Scientist

and uses it to uphold the "liberal" regime as the ideal. Never mind the antropological evidence (and the analogue from chimpanzee society) for patriarchy.

Human beings have certain universal social desires—the social suite—that set the generic ends of human life, and so we can judge the goodness of a society by how well it promotes the satisfaction of those ends, which constitutes human flourishing. https://t.co/b8DLTB1hBM

— Law & Liberty (@LawLiberty) August 21, 2020

Law and Liberty

The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society by Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD

Not the Fempowered Monarch of Contemporary Movies

CWR Dispatch: Elizabeth I, Good Queen Bess—Unmasked? by Dr. Jack Scarisbrick
By any standards England’s famous 16th-century monarch was a remarkable human being: intelligent, cultured, charismatic and courageous. But, despite her fame, it is difficult to find much that she achieved.

What's Her Husbands SSH Status?

MI Gov. Whitmer says “my husband made a failed attempt at humor last week” after reports that he asked for preferential treatment to take the family boat out for Memorial Day Weekendpic.twitter.com/f78uiD6SQA

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) May 26, 2020

Blue-Pill Roman Catholicism

This is why Latins lose the culture war, because they can't get the authority of the husband right. Both Matt Fradd and Scott Hahn would probably be safely described as beta.



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Interview with C.R.Wiley - 'Man of the House'

Even if the advice is good

What self-respecting man would go to a woman for it?

Being the strong man a woman needs simply means you’re a leader. It means you take charge of a situation and get the thing done—so she doesn’t have to. Here are 7 ways to unleash your masculine core:https://t.co/Ru1OpwxezD

— Suzanne Venker (@SuzanneVenker) May 17, 2020

Not Allies

Collaborative Feminist Degrowth: Pandemic as an Opening for a Care-Full Radical Transformation (Resilience)

Probably most of the recommendations are correct, but the feminist ideologues don't understand that it is "heteropatriarchy" that makes such a civilization possible. Feminists could not build this even on a limited scale alone, forget about advancing a change for the entire world -- they need men to carry out their plans. Even if we could agree on the 90%, the remaining 10% is bound up with authority and the order of charity, and given that those are essential to the political order, there can be no compromise with these feminists, despite the agreement on solutions.

Romans 8:31

Looks like there is a new round of cracking down on dissenting views on Facebook. While social media may have some usefulness, those social media companies deserve to fade to red.

Fight the good fight.

The Agonist: The Need for Male Leadership and Authority by Christopher DeGroot

See also: Liberated for What? by Jack Trotte

Women Choir Directors

So there are some "traditionalists" in Chalcedonian Orthodoxy who do not think that it is appropriate for women to sing in church, just as there are Latin traditionalists who think this way. As singing the appropriate parts of the liturgy is a task of all who are members of Christ's body, I don't know how they can claim this except by an unthinking traditionalism with strict separation of sex roles.

Furthermore, women have been singing in mixed choirs and even directing choirs in the Russian Church for a very long time now, and saints, such as St. John of Shanghai have not only raised no objections to it, but have blessed it to be so. So while one may make a case against women singing on the basis of the comments of some Fathers, the fact that the Church has allowed it, and that this has been without any controversy, and with the blessing of many saints should restrain anyone from making dogmatic arguments against the practice.

It is also a fact that without women singers and choir directors, many parishes would be hard pressed to pull off a decent service, and so even if you could make the argument that in an ideal world, choirs would consist of only tonsured male readers, the problem remains that we do not live in such an ideal world, and have to use the resources that we have. St. Paul’s concern in his first epistle to the Corinthians was that “all things be done decently, and in good order” (1 Corinthians 14:40). If our interpretation of his admonitions leads us to the opposite effect, then I would suggest this means we are misreading him on some level.

Does patriarchy require that men have leadership status in every group, including a choir? The ideal may be to have a male cantor who could also be the choir director, or to have two men filling those roles. What skills does a choir director need, besides leading the group and pointing out corrections that need to be made? A choir director would also need to take the initiative in planning practices and checking on members.

But what if there are no men around sufficiently trained in singing and music to be a cantor or a choir director? What if only women can read music and sing? I suppose then a woman choir director would be tolerable as all of the singers are women. Whether this will remain the status quo, or if providentially a man may be found later... should a parish or the pastor be praying for this?

It seems to me that a man who can read music and sing should be promoted to be the choir director, even if a "more qualified" woman is available, just for the sake of observing the principle of patriarchy. But what if he has no leadership skills? He can learn them. And if his personality prevents him from exercising effective leadership? In that case, maybe the more qualified woman being the choir director would be tolerable. After all, if he does not have the personality or character to enable him to be an effective leader, or if he does not have that potential, then he already has a lower SSH status. A concern with the possible loss of status by being subject to a woman choir director may not be necessary, as he may not be losing much. And if a man is willing to accept a woman as having authority in a choir over him, that is already evidence that he has lower status. But if a male singer is willing to take the initiative to learn how to be a director, and he is rightly concerned with his status among the members of the parish community, especially the women, should he not be given priority over an equally qualified or even more qualified woman? I would think so, as these considerations are important. The purpose of a choir is to sing the liturgy well, but having this purpose does not mean that it is not ordered to other goods as well. The choir, unless they are outsider mercenaries being hired by the parish for their ability, are members of the parish as well, and whatever ordering exists in the choir must also take into consider greater goods as well, such as the good of parish life, and the good of parish life requires patriarchy, if only so that men will have the respect of women. (But patriarchy has other goods proper to it as well.)

(As for the interpretation of 1 Corinthians 14:34, the author article interprets it in light of the surrounding passages regarding prophesying and speaking in tongues, so that the rules governing prophesying and speaking in tongues are the rules guiding when a woman must be silent. I think it is correct that 1 Corinthians 14 does not apply to women singing the liturgy so I agree with the article on that point. 1 Corinthians 14:35 clearly prohibits them from asking questions. Are they allowed to share the fruits of their charismatic gifts (14:26)? Or should this done by an intermediary, either their husband or male guardian? Are women allowed to interpret tongues? Giving a word of instruction would be forbidden to women, if we consult the other commands given by St. Paul. It is probably the case that the structure of worship of the ekklesia was not so formalized as later became, so that there would be periods of time when the members could share their charismatic gifts in addition to the prayers and readings or maybe even with the Eucharist?)