The Battle of the Sexes Belongs in the Home, by Jason M. Craig

By Jason M. Craig, Crisis Magazine, Sept. 4, 2024

Jason M. Craig writes from a small dairy farm in Western NC. He is the co-founder of Faternus, founding editor of Sword&Spade magazine, and author of Liturgy of the Land, Leaving Boyhood Behind, and The Traditional Virtues According to St. Thomas Aquinas. He holds a master’s degree from the Augustine Institute and is known to claim his family invented bourbon.

What is lost in this conversation about the roles of men and women in the family is the defining characteristic of a home as economic, the very meaning of “economics” being “household management.”

“Marriage is a duel to the death,” said G.K. Chesterton, “which no man of honour should decline.” Marriage fully lived is, to borrow a form of battle uglier than dueling, mutual, assured destruction. But it doesn’t destroy persons and things, it destroys ego, pride, and selfishness. Oh, happy war that ends in both sides winning.

It follows that the home is the literal battlefield of the sexes, where their peace and glory are found. This is why Pius XI could, without much controversy at the time, say that God “has ordained and disposed perfect union of the sexes only in matrimony.” …

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