By Philip Martin, Crisis Magazine, Feb. 28, 2024
Philip J. Martin is a graduate of both Auburn University and the Franciscan University of Steubenville and is currently residing in beautiful Daphne, AL with his family. He is an award-winning fiction author and has published numerous pieces of non-fiction, fiction, and poetry in various publications.
The modern world has declared that children not only do not need a father or to be fathered but that a woman or multiple women can be a substitute for a father.
It has been three years since the President of the United States said the following: “There’s not a single thing a man can do that a woman can’t do as well or better. Not a single thing.” This was surely to many, of course, one of the most triumphant statements by a man on the role of women since Percy Shelley went about condemning monogamy and chastity to the fate of Ozymandias (“boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away”).
As much as there is fun in the debate over whether art imitates life or life imitates art (especially after quoting an artist like Shelley), in this case we have a clear case of art (words) imitating life (the loss of men as men). ….