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What To Do About Women: The Sequel

To the male population: let's stop acting like boys, and start acting like men.

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What To Do About Women: The Sequel
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This is Part II of a post I wrote, titled "What to do about Women." I covered some things I thought needed to be said about our responsibility as men, to treat women with a certain respect, to cherish them and to honor them.

Please understand, I don't feel like I'm the leading expert on women. Actually, I know for a FACT I am not a leading expert. However, I do know that God has taught me some things through other men, older men than myself, about what it takes to treat women the way God intended. It has also been made very apparent to me, again and again, in the last year and a half that a lot of you missed that post I shared. Because — you just don't get it.

This time, I'm not writing to men... instead I'm writing to all the boys out there. What I mean by that is I'm writing this for two people groups

1. Boys that by age are not yet men but will be one day, so they need to learn (we could argue when this changes, but we won't) and

2. Boys that by age should be men, but by maturity and actions are far from it.

Brothers, please hear me when I say we have to change the way women are treated. I mean, what on Earth are we doing treating the heiress' to the Kingdom of God like this? Why aren't we more focused on doing the little things that make them feel like they matter, because they deserve to know they do matter. I'm going to lay this out for you, and give you my opinion on the things that need to stop, and the things that should be happening in their place. As I said, I'm not an expert, I don't have all the answers and I'm not the smartest guy I know, but these are things even the dumbest man should be able to do for the women in his life (and by plural "women" I mean that includes your mother/sister/friends/significant other, I don't mean multiple significant others!)

Honestly, I am sick and tired of hearing story after story about women, all kinds of different women, being treated like absolute crap by men who are acting like boys. If I could, I'd grab each of you by the shoulders and shake you back and forth while screaming "What the hell is your problem." Women are beautiful, complex and downright confusing beings — I get that, but they are also often times the most genuine, loving, kind-hearted, compassionate beings you will ever encounter. Why would you want to make her feel like an object or a possession?

When God made Eve, he didn't look at Adam and say "I have made you a woman, own her, boss her around, treat her like the dirt that you walk on." NO! God created Adam to work the Garden, and then said "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him" (Genesis 2:18) Then he made a bunch of animals, let Adam name them and then realized none of these beasts were a suitable helper for Adam. God put Adam to sleep, pulled out a rib and created the world's first female human being. Adam woke up, looked at her and said "WHOA MAN, that's awesome" and from then on, the female was known as woman.

OK, OK, so that part isn't exactly Biblical, but I'm a man, and I know that's what 'ol boy was thinking in his head. What he actually said was "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman because she was taken out of Man" (Genesis 2:23). Read that again boys... "bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh."

In the first post I wrote, I used these scriptures to support the idea that women are to walk beside us, which is true. But I want to make a slightly different point here: again, Adam said "bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh." Woman came from Man, woman is a part of man. As men, we demand respect because we are men! So, if woman came from man, doesn't she deserve the same respect we demand for ourselves? Shouldn't we love the women in our lives, even more than we love ourselves? I say we should, it makes complete sense. Woman was taken from the side of man to be his helper (and not in the sense that she's a subordinate), why wouldn't we want to treat women with the same dignity, respect, love and desire that we (most of the time) treat ourselves with?

Look, what I'm trying to say is... let's stop acting like boys and start acting like men.

Stop telling a woman you "don't really want to commit, but we can hang out."

If you aren't interested in pursuing her heart, but rather just her body — don't waste her time.

Don't ridicule her or put her down for things you don't understand.

Women are (often times) more emotional than men, that doesn't give us free reign to mock their emotions (or get mad at them for being emotional) just because we don't understand — sometimes, they don't even understand why they are emotional (so I'm told).

Stop. Don't. Quit. Never. Are all words that should come before this phrase "make(ing) her feel unworthy."

Guess what guys, WE are the ones who are unworthy. God created the most beautiful creature on Earth, and hard-wired her to love us. Don't take that for granted.

Unless your name is Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, or Atilla the Hun, you are not a conqueror There is nothing manly about "conquering" or "exploiting" women for your own sinful, sexual desires by "hooking up" with as many women as you can. Stop doing it.

Try taking interest in her and her interests

Even if she's not a car, a sport, or a craft beer or smooth bourbon (*please note, I'm not saying women do not enjoy these things). I'm not saying you can't still drink, watch sports, or drive your car like Mario Andretti, but it wouldn't kill you to watch a movie/show that SHE likes, to go cheer for HER teams, or listen to HER favorite radio station.

Pursue her heart.

Make it your mission to find out everything you can about her, so that you can partake in her interests, maybe have some semblance of understanding of why she's upset with you and know exactly what to do in those situations (at least sometimes). Don't just focus on how hot she is, focus on how amazing her personality is too.

Give her butterflies.

I'm not talking insects here brothers. I'm talking tell her she's beautiful, cook dinner AND do the dishes, buy her flowers on a day other than Valentine's Day (i.e. the world's dumbest holiday), do something spontaneous, plan a date of the things she likes to do, compliment her when you/she walks in the door, hug her, send her good morning texts to let her know you thought of her when you woke up. Make her feel so special that when she tells her friends about you, they struggle to believe you exist. Trust me when I say that if you can do this, it not only makes her feel special (as she should) it will make you feel like the tallest man in the world.

Be vulnerable.

I know that's a scary word for us men, but let her see that there's more to you than sports, cars and beer. Let her know that you have interests that don't include building stuff and blowing it up. It's OK to tell her how you're feeling, in fact, it might just make her love you more.

Be genuine.

Because guess what, you can stop/start doing all the things above, and they won't mean diddly unless it's from the heart. Don't deceive her, just be real. If you can't do that for her, break up with her, give her the chance to find someone who can.


I said it in the beginning, and I'll say it again. I'm no where near an expert on women. The things I'm saying here aren't difficult to understand. Stop living by the standards of the world, and start living as a man of God. Guess what, if you have a woman in your life currently who cares about you, respects you, honors you, or even can merely "puts up with you", she deserves nothing other than your best.

What to do about women, you ask?

Honor. Cherish. Love. Pursue. Respect.

If I've learned anything from the amazing women I've gotten the chance to be impacted by, it's that those things are enough... and anymore, they're rare. Let's bring chivalry back, let's make a stand.

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