(Genesis 1:27) God created man in his image; in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them.

The feminist movement is proudly and boldly marching in places no man, or woman for that matter, has been before. As of late I have become aware of this phenomena, where men are gravitating to the softer side of life. Manbags, mani/pedis, and tight clothes are all things that men in our culture ascribe to, and all in the name of redefining masculinity.

Being a man used to be about being a patriarch: Own some land, be distinguished, head your family. These days, it’s all about the chase. Chase money. Chase power. Chase women. Chase an image.

Research shows that men and women’s roles are in as much flux as ever. The old debate about feminism is largely over. Almost everyone thinks that women should be given a fair deal at work and elsewhere. Women have long articulated their frustration at the gap between hopes and reality. After all, you have to go back to the late 50s to find a time when most women of working age were real “housewives”. Now the real Housewives displayed as single, driven, aggressive, combative, and glamorous. With this new role reversal and lines blurred, women, the emotional of the two sexes, have become victims of psychological and mental illnesses, and feelings of unhappiness. Woman are prescribed two-thirds of psychotropic drugs dispensed by British pharmacists, and they initiate proceedings in three-quarters of British divorce cases (“independent women?”).

Femininity, we now know, is a tragic and fragmented thing, and capable of many definitions. Until recently, masculinity has remained a fairly coherent concept. But some commentators have recently shifted the focus of the debate about gender onto men’s roles. Neil Lyndon’s book No More Sex War argues that the labour market, legislation and particularly women themselves have pushed men into a position of inequality.

The fruits of the inequality battle are seen most prominently in our popular culture.
Exhibit A: Kanye West

He wears pink shirts and tight jeans and makes cute teddy bears his mascot. He even has a blog dedicated to fashion, both men and women. Kanye has walked into the doors that were opened by Cameron and Lil Wayne. It’s also why Kanye West can choose not to rap on his new album, but to sing one song after another about love and heartbreak. It’s a stance that makes others nervous — and why West remains one of hip-hop’s most compelling figures.

In a Slate article about the word “no homo” it was noted that: “when these rappers say “no homo,” it can seem a bit like a gentleman’s agreement, nodding to the status quo while smuggling in a fuller, less hamstrung notion of masculinity.”

In Kanye’s own words – ‘What if your drawbacks ended up being your superpower? I do have feminine ways,’ he tells GQ magazine. ‘Now I’m 30 I’ve accepted that. I’ve realised everything I’m not made me everything I am.’

Exhibit B: Japanese Herbivors

There’s a peculiar trend afoot that bucks the macho man culture in Japan: young men who are heterosexuals but say they aren’t interested in girls. Japan is already in the midst of a severe birthrate decline. A self-confessed herbivore remarked, “I don’t take initiative with women, I don’t talk to them,” he says, blushing. “I’d welcome it if a girl talked to me, but I never take the first step myself.” Multiple recent surveys suggest that about 60 percent of young Japanese men — in their 20s and early 30s — identify themselves as herbivores. Their Sex and the City is a television show called Otomen, or Girly Guys. The lead character is a martial arts expert, the manliest guy in the whole school. But his secret passions include sewing, baking and crocheting clothes for his stuffed animals.

Exhibit C: The Metrosexual (David Beckham)

He’s well dressed, narcissistic and obsessed with butts. But don’t call him gay. Beckham is the biggest metrosexual in Britain because he loves being looked at and because so many men and women love to look at him: He’s the future, but also a way of adapting other, less advanced specimens to that future. Men of all sexualities are taking a greater interest in their appearance. They go to hairdressers rather than barbers; avoid using soap because it’s too harsh on their skin; visit the gym instead of playing sport and even have difficulty deciding what to wear.

Beckham has helped break “masculine codes”, says Warwick University sociology professor Dr Andrew Parker, “defying various manly expectations such as what clothes a man is allowed to wear”. Beckham may be captain of the English soccer team, but he wears sarongs and nail polish, and has even posed for gay magazines. As the American online magazine Salon said, he has admitted that he likes to be admired, and does not care if it’s by women or by men.

The promotion of metrosexuality was left to the men’s style press, magazines such as The Face, GQ, Esquire, Arena and FHM, the new media which took off in the Eighties and is still growing (GQ gains 10,000 new readers every month). They filled their magazines with images of narcissistic young men sporting fashionable clothes and accessories. And they persuaded other young men to study them with a mixture of envy and desire.

Conclusion:

I don’t believe that God is a woman. “in the divine image he created him” (not her). Both man and woman were created by God but only “him” is who is identified as being created in the divine image. Men need to man-up and reclaim their divine position –  women need to reclaim their position and step out of the man’s role. I do not believe that this is a coincidence. This is a planned phenomena. Men are protectors and are workers. If you make the protectors and workers soft, then a community is left defenseless when there is an intruder or evil force. First make the men weak, then the plan for infiltration will occur. Be watchful, and be blessed.