You raised some good points. Your points about the culture of toxic masculinity are fair points.
The issues of ‘female empowerment’ combined with the ‘sexual revolution’, has led to a confusion about what it means to be a man. The bread-winner, the husband and father, the head of the household, seemed to have been swept away. What does it mean to be a man? To buy into the ideology that there is basically no real difference between male and female roles and become more feminine? Or to go the other direction (due often to a lack of decent male role models) and embrace the toxic male culture you describe?
Yet, whatever the reason, there is a real and very noticeable lack of involvement in men when it comes to assisting in ‘liturgical functions’ at Mass (or in the parish in general). And yet, I’ve still had it said to me that, as a Church, we need to increase the involvement of women. What we need to do is increase the involvement of men, there are already plenty of women involved.
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