(Warning: mild spoiler alert for “Wonder
Woman 1984”)
Wonder Woman 1984
- Scene 1: a thriving (?) male-less society competes to identify the strongest woman (or girl).
- Scene 2: Four adult males rob a store run by a woman. After which, they are subdued by a woman.
- Minor theme point: a loser male, seeks power to feel like a winner, only to be told by his young male child that he doesn’t have to be powerful to be loved by same said male child.
The Andy
Griffith Show (Click
here for reference article)
…At the end of the first season, [Ron] Howard’s father spoke with producers about grounding the portrayal as they did with Griffith’s character. He wanted to see a more natural relationship with his father…“My dad was around the set quite a bit, and somehow my dad said, ‘What would happen if Opie knew that Andy was smarter than him? How about if Opie actually respected his dad? I just thought it might be different.'”
What does “Wonder Woman 1984” and season one of “The Andy Griffith Show”
have in common? Not much really; other
than emasculating the adult male. Thankfully, Ron Howard’s father stepped up
and put an end to this early on. Unfortunately,
this went unchecked in many other tv shows and movies with what I can only assume is
part of a trend to pit man vs woman by tearing
down the patriarch
to build up the matriarch? On a related note, I am routinely amazed by the gender inequality
conversation. To me when I look through
the prism of biblical and constitutional principles, the premise of gender inequality and the existence of a Patriarchy seems flawed from the start.
Hollywood continues to sow false narratives of an evil, ignorant, buffoonery
of a man vs a virtuous, intelligent, and powerful woman (or child). Also seemingly eager to show at every opportunity how
a woman can be just as physically strong or stronger than any man. A scenario that does not usually bare itself out in the
real world and doesn’t offer any real significant value to continuing her
existence in a real life battle. Personally, I
think a woman should attempt to arm herself with weaponry before engaging in physical combat with a man,
but I’m sure there are some folks out there who disagree. Our politicians and social justice warriors use these visuals to implement unrealistic solutions to solve this "inequality", but end up doing nothing but wreaking havoc on our economy, eroding our freedoms, and destroying the family unit; leaving us worse
off in our relationships than when they began. These false narratives delay inevitable disappointment for both genders who
buy into those narratives, and they will eventually have to face the truth; that men
should be men and women should be women.
But this is only the half of it. The rest of the story, at least biblically, is that the ultimate
individual in our society is not the powerful man or the powerful woman, it is the
powerful marriage. Two becoming one – [KJV Genesis 2:24 - Therefore shall a man leave his
father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one
flesh]. With this union, your
power is limited only by your willingness to work together selflessly for the
benefit for each other, your children, and society. A blueprint laid out by God, only to be
routinely dismissed or attacked by all to some extent, generation after generation after
generation. It’s hard enough to live by
this blueprint, sin nature being what it is, but this is most certainly not
helped with regular doses of male emasculation by tv and social media.
By the way, I thought I had marriage all figured out in the beginning, only to discover a most worthy and incredibly competent adversary in
my wife. Improvement came when we both stopped trying to subdue and dominate the
other in marital warfare, and start loving each other as we would love ourselves. We reduced the competition and try to work and
act as one. I can only imagine where our life would be
today had we actually got it right from the start. But maybe that’s the journey we need to take sometimes
in order to understand and value biblical principles.
By the way, if you are not in a biblical marriage either by
choice or circumstance, live your life as you see fit, man or woman. That is your God-given right. At the end of the day my goal is for us to stop vilify and tearing each other's choices down for our own benefit. We all should be given the grace and space to live with the
consequences of our own actions, good or bad.
We should not allow our lives to be dictated by a cultural census, others
defining for us what a man or a woman needs to be, in many cases pitting genders
against each other. This “Gender War” will only end when we stop participating. Instead, share your own personal experiences, principles, and values with others. If it is valuable and produces success, others will follow. This is the American way; not coercion, not suppression,
and most certainly not manipulation.
For now, what I can tell you is the solution is not found in
Hollywood, the government, the psychiatrist office, or even your parents; relationships are way too unique and personal. For me, after a reset of preconceived ideas, the
solution was discovered in the King James Bible, which promotes a man and a woman working
together to produce a strong family unit. A complete and wonderful blueprint built on love,
sacrifice, and selflessness. It is only
here where you can find that a man can be a man, a woman can be a woman, and when brought together a truly powerful
and equal {pause for dramatic
effect} “One”.
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