31/08/2024
On this Father's Day in Australia, a reminder that our core mission as a dad is NOT to be 'kind'. Nor 'safe'.
This is a feminised, amputated aspect of our role.
Women (who value kindness and safety) often project these onto us. Not directly, but through our hyper feminised culture in the modern West.
We men were designed to be bold, dangerous and overwhelmingly strong, but GOOD.
'Safe' is not 'Good'.
'Kind' is not 'Good'.
'Gentle' is not 'Good'
Good is Good.
“Aslan is a lion — the Lion, the great Lion.”
“Ooh” said Susan. “I’d thought he was a man. Is he… quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion”…
“Safe?” said Mr Beaver …”Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.” (C.S. Lewis, “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”)