But my mom would never let me go.” That is emasculation, and the boy needs to be rescued from it by the active intervention of the father, or another man. It had a roller coaster-the old wooden kind. Another said, “We lived back east, near an amusement park. “My mom wouldn’t let me play with GI Joe,” a young man told me. She tried to get a restraining order to prevent him from teaching the boy about guns. I just read a story of a mother, divorced from her husband, who was furious that he wanted to take the boy hunting. If a mother will not allow her son to become dangerous, if she does not let the father take him away, she will emasculate him. Something ladies better bear in mind, next time someone recommends this book for your husband. Hence women are wholly unfit to raise men. Instead, their mothers teach boys to be girly, and domesticate and figuratively castrate them. Men aren’t proper, masculine males their fathers never taught them to be one. In Wild at Heart, Eldredge explains why humanity doesn’t know his Happy Premises, despite them being buried deep in every man’s heart (where Eldredge found them, though others hadn’t), despite them being buried deep in the scriptures (where Eldredge found them, and where millennia of other Christians hadn’t). You must never, ever show it to the Laker Girls. This was how God made men to be, and even Jesus was like this. Man needs to pursue Woman, see her as his Beauty, and take her to be part of his grand adventure. Man needs to be wild, free, and undomesticated he needs to pick fights and conquer stuff. Loony self-help ideas tend to gravitate together in my mind, whether fictional or not.)

(I stole this term from Bowfinger, which I watched again recently. Here’s why.Įldredge’s profoundly misguided thesis is constructed around certain Happy Premises. It wasn’t my copy, which is the only reason I didn’t throw it across the room in disgust.

Consequently there are a lot of men who own a dusty copy of Wild at Heart, and mine’s pretty dusty too, ’cause I refuse to read it again. People buy books like Wild at Heart to inspire the men in their lives. At the time (’cause I tried to get rid of it on Amazon) it was going for 20 cents. The book was all the rage among Christian men five years before. Nine years ago a friend, who should’ve known better, gave me a copy of John Eldredge’s Wild At Heart as a Christmas gift.

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