Archives for June 2018

Why Women Test Men

June 25, 2018 by Suzanne Venker

* Note: I’ve had the comment section on my blog turned off, but it has since been re-enabled.In my last post, entitled “How to Be a Man,” I wrote about women “testing” men. Here’s a paragraph from that post:Let’s look, for example, at the parable of Adam and Eve, where God commands them not to eat the apple from the Tree of Knowledge. Eve disobeys God and eats the apple anyway, and then commands Adam to do the same. What does Adam do? He obeys Eve instead of God. He eats the apple. The moral of

How to Be a Man

June 20, 2018 by Suzanne Venker

At face value, it may seem odd that a woman would advise a man on how to be, well, a man. In fact, for a long time I resisted writing this at all for exactly that reason. Shouldn’t men, not women, tell men how to be men?Ideally, yes. Unfortunately, it isn’t happening—for two reasons. One, we have a record number of boys growing up fatherless; and Dad has always been a boy’s go-to source for learning what it means to be a man. Second, America is embroiled in a gender war, one in which the sexes

Today let’s recognize the dads who put family first

June 17, 2018 by Suzanne Venker

This article was originally published at Fox News. In a recent article in GQ headlined “Are Kids the Enemy of Writing?” the novelist Michael Chabon describes a conversation he had many years ago with a writer he admired. At the time, Chabon was engaged to his now ex-wife, and his first novel was about to be …