Generally speaking, what we're seeing unfold in our culture with regard to gender is the result of parents who didn't really do much in the way of shaping their kids. I don't think it's a coincidence that in a country where broken and fatherless homes are endemic, so many young men have mysteriously discovered their inner female. This is what happens in a lost society, not an enlightened one. And we are lost primarily because our families are lost, and our families are lost often because our men are not leading them well— if they are even leading at all.

Here is what any halfway decent parent knows: Boys must be taught how to become real men, just as girls must be taught how to become real women. Without any distractions or nefarious influences, perhaps boys would turn into well-adjusted men and girls into well-adjusted women purely by force of nature. But our environment does not allow for that anymore. We live in a culture intent on subverting our nature. Yes, boys are naturally inclined towards the masculine and girls towards the feminine, but many powerful forces are working to usurp the process and sow confusion into the minds of our children.

Therefore, one of our primary duties as fathers must be to show our sons what true masculinity looks and acts like. Otherwise, we know the media is more than willing to step in on our behalf, along with academia, Hollywood, their peers, and the government. We have seen what happens when these entities are allowed to be surrogate fathers to our boys. Indeed, much of what we now attribute to radical gender ideology can be explained very simply: Dad didn't do his job.