A Totally Serious Post With a Random Mustache

For being a blog for young Catholic women, we hardly talk about one of the most commonly discussed subjects among young women: boys! (Well, except Matthew, whom some of us talk about quite a bit ;).) 

Today I spent the day at the Ohio Right to Life Bringing America Back to Life Symposium. (Note to self: contact the Ohio Right to Life about finding a shorter name for the event :P) As well as being informative and inspiring, this symposium, without meaning to, really showed me the difference between real men and, well, lame men. There were so many examples of really great men, from the sixty-something year old man who talked about why we need to accept suffering, to Brian Kemper, the middle-aged man with the tattoos and piercings who talked about the harsh reality of what abortion really is, to this guy named Peter, a high school age guy who started a group for pro-life youth called Minute Men, so that high school age kids could be a bigger part of the pro-life movement. These as well as other men there are truly an example of following the call to be not afraid, particularly in regards to the pro-life movement.


The fact is that the world needs more real men like these guys. I'm blessed to know a lot of really great guys, but there are too many young men who are angry, afraid, or apathetic. There are so many young men who are angry at authority, and so they rebel, or they do the wrong thing because they're afraid of the consequences of doing the right thing, or they don't really care about the right thing so they just do whatever they want and wind up doing stupid stuff and regretting it for the rest of their lives. 

Real men have mustaches. (Just kidding, mustaches are ugly.)

And it's all society's fault. We live in a society that has no standards for young men to live up to. We're so focused on empowering women, that we've kind of forgotten about the special place in the world that God has for men, which is to be leaders in their families, their communities, and the world. Now here's the part where the feminists get all mad because "women should be leaders!" and I have to say that the feminists have a point. Women should in fact be leaders, but it should not just be the women. The men need to take a stand and the women need to uphold them in that and vice versa. But neither one of them should be doing it alone. 

Real men take initiative. Real men try to fix the problem instead of waiting for someone else to do it. Real men take into account that their life has importance and value, and act as such. Real men take into account that women have importance and value, and treat them as such. That's the kind of men that women are looking for, and the lack of that kind of men is honestly disheartening. 

I'm pretty sure the guys who are gonna be reading this, if any, all fit these standards pretty darn well. Keep it up guys :) But if perchance you are a guy who randomly happened upon this post and thought to yourself that maybe you need some work in some of those areas, go for it! Don't be afraid :)

And obviously, girls, don't settle for any less than a real man. Not that you haven't heard that 10,562,879 times in your life.