This Is Making You Effeminate

[Michie]

Men do hard things.​

Effeminacy, as St. Thomas Aquinas defines it, is the vice that is opposite of the virtue of perseverance, namely, “when a man is ready to forsake a good on account of difficulties which he cannot endure.” St Thomas continues and explains: “This is what we understand by effeminacy, because a thing is said to be ‘soft’ if it readily yields to the touch.” St Thomas also describes effeminacy as a reluctance to suffer due to an attachment to pleasure.

Effeminacy, then, is when a man refuses to do what he needs to do, out of fear of dealing with hardships or losing his precious comforts, to which he is disorderly attached. He is a slave to comfort and his worldly pleasures become more important to him than the pursuit of virtue or acting righteously as a man.

This showcases a sort of spiritual “softness”, in which the actions of a man are determined not by morality, values, or principles, but by that which is easier and most comfortable.

Effeminate is different from femininity —which is a virtue women should pursue—, but effeminacy does make a man less masculine, as it makes him softer, less perseverant, and incapable of leading properly.

What Causes Effeminacy?​

Continued below.

This Is Making You Effeminate

Men do hard things.

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[RileyG]

Thanks for posting

 

[PloverWing]

Thank you for posting this. It has helped me understand some of the categories of thought that were used in the ancient and medieval world, which in turn helps me to understand St Thomas a bit better.

 

[Learning always]

Great post, Michie.
Men in the West today excessively love comfort, which can be seen in the way they dress --- they wear the cheapest shorts, t shirts and slippers when going out. Some even dress like that for attending Sunday Mass. No respect for anyone, not even God.

Look at photos taken before 1940s. You'll find that the lowest class people before 1940s dressed in a more dignified way than the mddle class of today.

(Not to mention modern men in the West watch all those rubbish movies.......)

 

[fide]

Thomas's observations and insights are truly remarkable. And the writer of this essay has very insightfully applied Thomas to our culture today. I search for a better word than "remarkable" - "excellent" maybe is better, or even "superior". This essay certainly clarifies the current culture of the West to be decadent: self-destructive, demasculinizing of males as well as defeminizing of females, producing self-indulgent children as the norm. No wonder Trump is so deeply hated by the swamp. And no wonder the crisis in the Church - and thus, the world - today.

 

[fide]

Great post, Michie.
Men today excessively love comfort, which can be seen in the way they dress --- they wear the cheapest shorts, t shirts and slippers when going out. Some even dress like that for attending Sunday Mass. No respect for anyone, not even God.

Look at photos taken before 1940s. You'll find that the poor people before 1940s dressed in a more dignified way than the mddle class of today.

(Not to mention they watch all those rubbish movies.......)

Fr. Benedict Groeschel, CFR, now deceased, once said in a talk (I probably am paraphrasing - I can't remember exactly) - "The poor wear their very best when they come to church; the middle class dress like they're going to the beach. The rich dress like they're coming home from the beach!"