Summary of the W!tchy War on Masculinity

An index of links by topic for this 2 month long theme.

Readership: All
Theme: The W!tchy War on Masculinity
Length: 1,900 words
Reading Time: 10 minutes

Overview

Our coverage of The W!tchy War on Masculinity is actually a combination of three interrelated themes that I’ve pieced together into a collage of writings that are focused on the impact on men.

1. Gynocentric man bashing
2. Modernity / Scientism / Positivism
3. The Jezebel Spirit / W!tchcraft

This 2-month long theme touched on 3 battlegrounds in the War on Masculinity:

1. The Church
2. Society
3. Intersexual Relations

One post touched on all these topics, which is fitting to its namesake.

1. Σ Frame (Jack): Uncovering Nakedness (2023/12/16)

Other posts are categorized below.

The Convergence of the Church and Crumbling Attitudes Towards Masculinity

Pope Francis

2023 has seen a new low in both the disintegration of the church and the broader social attitudes towards men.  I believe it is no coincidence that these two phenomena are occurring in conjunction.  At its root, it is the revilement of authority.

Looks like I called it right on the money when I decided back in late September to focus on this topic as a theme.  This topic has received more airplay over the sphere during this time than any other topic.

During this time frame, the Church of England condoned same sex marriages in mid November, followed by Pope Francis and the Catholic church on 2023/12/18. On the SAME DAY (I think), the U.S. government declared the Manosphere a terr0r!st threat.

Here at Σ Frame, Thedeti and Jack dismantled the alternarratives of the new proto-conservative syndicate within churchianity.  Responses and related posts are also listed.

1. First Things (Aaron Renn): The Three Worlds of Evangelicalism (2022/2/1)
2. Bruce Charlton: Intra-Christian, inter-denominational, hostility – and the cure in Core, Romantic, Christianity (2022/11/26)
3. Wintery Knight: How Will Men Adapt to Violence Against Men and False Accusations? (2023/10/6)
4. Bruce Charlton: Spook spirituality (2023/10/23)
5. Matthew E. Cochran: Facing Wokeism as a Church (After Lutheranism Part 4) (2023/10/24)
6. Wintery Knight: Why Are Christian Leaders So Desperate to Appease the Secular Left? (2023/10/24)
7. Laughing at Feminism: The hatred of incels (2023/10/26)
8. The Orthosphere (J.M. Smith): They May be Good Men But Still Trying to Destroy You (2023/10/31)
9. Σ Frame (Thedeti): Heads in the Sand (2023/11/3)
10. Σ Frame (Jack): Rewriting the Script for a Kinder, Gentler Feminism (2023/11/10)
11. The Orthosphere (Bonald): Blessed are the sorrowful; the Christian’s response to world apostasy (2023/11/12)
12. Bruce Charlton: What is the relationship between Christianity and the decline of the world? The basis of Romantic Christianity (2023/11/15)
13. The Orthosphere (J. M. Smith): The Two Golems (2023/11/17)
14. Bruce Charlton: Is it a certainty that The Church will (in a meaningfully Christian sense) necessarily endure? (2023/11/17)
15. The Orthosphere (Alan Roebuck): The Esthetic Damnation of America (2023/11/20)
16. The Orthosphere (J. M. Smith): The Pleasure of Malevolence (It’s Who We Are) (2023/11/21)
17. The Orthosphere (Bonald): My own thoughts on the future of Christian theology (2023/11/22)
18. Gunner Q3: Giving Thanks For No Burden Of Performance (2023/11/22)
19. Σ Frame (Thedeti, Jack): Skirting around the Skirts (2023/11/24)
20. Σ Frame (Jack): Strachan’s Strafe (2023/11/25)
21. Bruce Charlton: The spiritual problem of traditional “high volume” (H-V) religion – and what should replace it (2023/11/25)
22. Francis Berger: Hope is the Antidote to Despair, But It Can Also Be a Double-Edged Sword (2023/11/27)
23. The Orthosphere (Alan Roebuck): Christian Reconquista: Retaking the Mainline Denominations (2023/11/28)
24. Σ Frame (Jack, Thedeti): The Sacred Cow (2021/12/1)
25. The Orthosphere (J.M. Smith): The Ways of Usurpation (2023/12/2)
26. The Orthosphere (Alan Roebuck): “Unite the Right:” A Conceptually Simple Framework Based on First Stopping the Destruction (2023/12/4)
27. The Orthosphere (Alan Roebuck): More About That Reconquista Thing… (2023/12/5)
28. Σ Frame (Jack): Controlled Opposition (2023/12/6)
29. Σ Frame (Jack): The Cold Christian Shoulder (2023/12/7)
30. Σ Frame (Jack): Double Bind (2023/12/8)
31. Laughing at Feminism: On Tides and Trolls (2023/12/12)
32. Σ Frame (Alexei Karamazov): Case Study: The Problem of Female Pastors in the Church (2023/12/14)
33. Catacomb Resident: When Men Have Had Enough (2023/12/10)
34. Bruce Charlton: This-worldly pseudo-Christians cannot tolerate anything pessimistic, because that makes them feel despair (2023/12/18)
35. Bruce Charlton: Self-blinded optimism and Christian convergence with The System (2023/12/19)
36. Σ Frame (Jack): Darkened Delusions of Male Insecurity (2023/12/22)
37. Σ Frame (Thedeti): The Reality (2023/12/23)
38. Catacomb Resident: Institution versus People (2023/12/23)

Modernity

There has been an ongoing examination of the fallout of Modernity / Positivism.

Here at Σ Frame, Arch Angel brought our attention to the influence and consequences of Modernity.  Much of the discussion on this particular topic here at Σ Frame reverted back to what Bruce Charlton et al. have already observed.  Responses and related posts are also listed.

1. Bruce Charlton: Not even trying: the corruption of real science (2013/7/15)
2. Bruce Charlton: The demotivating effect of Residual Unresolved Positivism (RUP) — and the instant cure! (2015/12/30)
3. Bruce Charlton: What do I think about the Alt-Right? It is just another Leftism pursuing a subtype of mortal utility (2016/9/16)
4. Bruce Charlton: Positivism (which rules modernity) is death-by-definition (2017/12/7)
5. Bruce Charlton: Bureaucracy is the main form of Positivism (2017/12/17)
6. Bruce Charlton: The weight of tradition — our task (2022/1/19)
7. Bruce Charlton: Land of Druids (2022/6/22)
8. Bruce Charlton: Direct-knowing is front-loaded (2023/9/30)
9. Bruce Charlton: “Wrong” questions rarely, if ever, lead to “right” answers — a comment by Francis Berger (2023/10/1)
10. The Orthosphere (J. M. Smith): Myth of Modernity Video (2023/11/3)
11. The Orthosphere (Kristor): Philosophical Skeleton Keys: Substantial ≠ Physical (2023/11/3)
12. Catacomb Resident: Enemies of the Gospel (2023/11/8)
13. The Orthosphere (Richard Cocks): Philip Goff: Why?  The Purpose of the Universe (2023/11/12)
14. Σ Frame (Arch Angel): Why are We in this Mess? (2023/11/13)
15. Catacomb Resident: Jesus Is Still Hebrew (2023/11/15)
16. Catacomb Resident: The Whole Mission (2023/11/20)
17. Σ Frame (Arch Angel): In Science We Trust (2023/11/27)
18. Derek L. Ramsey: Where Do Leftists Get Their Ideas? (2023/12/1)
19. Σ Frame (Jack): Is the Σ Frame Blog Positivistic or Prophetic? (2023/12/3)
20. Bruce Charlton: Second-hand Christians and spiritual scaremongering (2023/12/3)
21. Catacomb Resident: Digging Up Foundations (2023/12/3)
22. Σ Frame (Jack): The 15 Sirens of the Socio-Sexual Apocalypse (2023/12/9)
23. (Red Pill Apostle): The Turnings Applied to the State of Marriage (2023/12/11)
24. Bruce Charlton: Residual Unresolved Collectivism (RUC) (2023/12/17)
25. Catacomb Resident: Mindwar (2023/12/17)
26. The Orthosphere (J. M. Smith): Antichrist is Taking Off the Mask (2023/12/21)
27. The Orthosphere (Richard Cocks): The Misanthropy To Beat Them All (2023/12/21)

W!tchcr@ft

We looked at W!tchcr@ft, what it is, how it originates, and its various modern manifestations.

Of note, S@tanists were highly active during this time, including their involvement in after-school programs in Memphis, and asserting their Constitutional right to install an altar to Baphomet in the Iowa State Capitol.

Responses and related posts are also listed.

1. Σ Frame (Jack): They’re under a spell. (2023/11/1)
2. Σ Frame (Jack): The Spirit of Jezebel (2023/11/15)
3. Σ Frame (Anonymous Contributor 1): The Spirit of Athaliah (2023/11/16)
4. Σ Frame (Anonymous Contributor 1): More on the Spirits of Jezebel and Athaliah (2023/11/17)
5. Σ Frame (Jack): Sexual Promiscuity is the Doorway to Witchdom (2023/11/18)
6. Σ Frame (Anonymous Contributor 2): Testimony from a Reader Battling Witchcraft (2023/11/20)
7. Σ Frame (Jack): Dealing with Feminine Insecurity (2023/11/22)
8. Bruce Charlton: “Psychopath” is a materialist reduction of “innately evil” (2023/11/22)
9. Σ Frame (Jack): Where Shame Tactics become Witchcraft (2023/11/28)
10. Σ Frame (Jack): Case Study of an Interweb Witch (2023/11/29)
11. Σ Frame (Anonymous Contributor 1): On the Incubation of Witches (2023/11/30)
12. Catacomb Resident: Incremental Evangelism (2023/11/30)
13. Σ Frame (Jack): Women Think Being Emotionally Mature and Respectful is Witchcraft? (2023/12/5)
14. The Orthosphere (J. M. Smith): The Beast of St. John’s Revelation is a Quack (2023/12/11)
15. Σ Frame (Jack): Submission / Virgin Shaming (2023/12/12)
16. Spawny’s Space (Cill): Spidey Sense (2023/12/13)
17. Σ Frame (Alexei Karamazov): Case Study: The Problem of Female Pastors in the Church (2023/12/14)
18. The Orthosphere: Satan’s Minions On the March (2023/12/16)
19. Σ Frame (Jack): What is Witchcraft? (2023/12/18)
20. Σ Frame (Jack): Triggers (2023/12/19)
21. Σ Frame (Jack): Catacomb Resident on Witchcraft (2023/12/20)
22. Σ Frame (Jack, Anonymous Contributor 1): How to Identify and Deal with the Jezebel Spirit / Witchcraft (2023/12/21)
23. Knowland Knows: Psychedelics and Emasculation (2023/12/26)
24. Gunner Q: I Predict In 2024, Witchcraft Will… Already Went Mainstream (2024/1/3)
25. The Transformed Wife (Lili Rose): Being Involved with a Jezebel (2024/1/28)

Other Factors and Viewpoints

There were also many other perspectives that tied into this theme.

1. Σ Frame (Jack): The Larger Conspiracy that Justifies Feminism (2023/11/6)
2. Σ Frame (Red Pill Apostle): The Cultural Myth of the SIW (2023/11/8)
3. Christianity and Masculinity: Difference between men and women with superheroes (2023/11/8)
4. Σ Frame (Jack): Abortion is a Betrayal! (2023/11/11)
5. The Orthosphere (Bonald): Three fantasies (2023/11/18)
6. Bruce Charlton: Cons and pros of a happy childhood (2023/11/18)
7. Σ Frame (Jack): Slut Faming (2023/11/21)
8. The Orthosphere (Richard Cocks): Morality as Cosmically Real (2023/11/21)
9. Bruce Charlton: Order or Chaos – or the Third Way: How the options of Life seem to the typical modern (perpetual-) adolescent? (2023/11/26)
10. Derek L. Ramsey: Abortion News (2023/11/27)
11. D. Bradley: Life update: I’m becoming cold… (2023/11/30)
12. Σ Frame (Thedeti): The Covenant Cross (2023/12/2)
13. William Wildblood: A Dangerous Time to be a Woman (2023/12/2)
14. Σ Frame (Red Pill Apostle): The Power to Create vs The Power to Destroy (2023/12/4)
15. Reactionary Feminist: Cumming Of Age (2023/12/9)
16. The Orthosphere (J. M. Smith): Against Inclusivity (2023/12/12)
17. Christianity and Masculinity: Headship is still authority in marriage and wifely submission is obedience Part 2 (2023/12/15)
18. Catacomb Resident: Trust Issues (2023/12/21)
19. Σ Frame: Those Old Notions of Equality (2023/12/25)
20. Σ Frame: Marry for Love? (2023/12/26)

Headship

The topic of Headship came up and a few posts were written about this.  Apparently, this discussion was revived back in September when Sharkly (Laughing at Feminism) resumed posting after an 11-month hiatus.  Derek and Sharkly exchanged barbs (mostly through many comments at Spawny’s Space) until Derek took aim at Thedeti and the Σ Frame blog.  DeepStrength closed the debate with a sound affirmation of Biblical Headship Authority.

1. Laughing at Feminism: Who was first given dominion over the earth? (2023/9/13)
2. The Orthosphere (J. M. Smith): God in a Looking Glass (Also My Whiskered Chin) (2023/11/15)
3. D. Bradley: Are women meant to be controlled? (2023/11/24)
4. Derek L. Ramsey: Despair (2023/11/29)
5. Derek L. Ramsey: Talking About Old Women (2023/12/4)
6. Laughing at Feminism: On Tides and Trolls (2023/12/12)
7. Σ Frame (Jack): Invisible Magic Authority (2023/12/13)
8. Christianity and Masculinity: Headship is still authority in marriage and wifely submission is obedience Part 2 (2023/12/15)
9. Christianity and Masculinity: Headship is still authority in marriage Part 2 addendum (2023/12/18)

Mysticism

Elsewhere in the sphere, the doctrinal / philosophical battle over the definition, place, and value of Christian mysticism continues.  Some of us still think mysticism is equivalent to (pagan?) esotericism and that there is a fundamental difference between being a ‘true mystic’ and a serious Christian.

These differences in understanding erupted in a spat over William Wildblood’s account of ‘spiritual guides’.  Are they angels, demons, divinations, an overactive imagination, or just bad digestion?  We can never know with scientistic certainty, except through prayer, mystic faith, spiritual discernment, and testing the spirits (1 John 4:1-6).

1. William Wildblood: Behind the Scenes Spiritual Guides (2023/11/27)
2. Gunner Q3: Disrespecting the Masters (2023/11/29)
3. William Wildblood: Reply to GunnerQ (2023/11/29)
4. Francis Berger: As With Everything, When It Comes to Christian Blogs, Motivation is Key (2023/11/29)
5. Derek L. Ramsey: Meeting the Masters (2023/11/30)
6. Gunner Q3: Emergent Esotericism (2023/12/1)
7. Bruce Charlton: A comment for GunnerQ on “esotericism” (2023/12/1)
8. Adam Piggott: Masterful Pride (2023/12/2)
9. The Orthosphere (J. M. Smith): Here Be Dragons, There Be Dragons, There Be Dragons, Too (A Word in Support of William Wildblood) (2023/12/2)

Notice of Holiday Closing

It is customary for this blog to take a reprieve from posting between the winter solstice and the New Year (12/22* to 12/31).  However, this multi-topic series received more contributions than usual.  Thedeti wrote 4 posts, Red Pill Apostle wrote 3 posts, Arch Angel wrote 2 posts, Alexei Karamazov wrote 1 post, there were 5 posts contributed anonymously, and Jack wrote 2 additional posts to address questions from readers.  Consequently, posting extended past 12/21* this year.

I urge readers to abandon the internet altogether during this time, and to focus their time and attention on family and friends, and the reason for the season.

On behalf of all the authors at Σ Frame, Merry CHRISTmas and Happy New Year!

* The winter solstice is traditionally on 12/21 on Western calendars.  However, the Chinese calendar, which is based on the phases of the moon, indicates that the winter solstice is on 12/22 this year.

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