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I've talked about "Man Up" before in my post at Loveawake dating site blog, entitled "Good Christian Men, Think Twice".

But I saw it again recently at Matt Walsh's blog. He posted at "Dear single dudes, it's time to man up" that men who talk about "hanging out" with women are really just afraid. They fear commitment, marriage, fatherhood, "emotional accountability", and all other such trappings of what the Feminine Imperative defines as manhood.

What Man Up Used To Mean

Mr. Walsh also asserts that he was once like them, and found the hookup scene wanting. He exhorted men to "honor" and "protect" women's "vulnerability" when they open themselves up sexually. He claims that most women want "something serious" with a suitable man. According to Mr. Walsh, women always treat sex seriously. He strongly suggests that men are responsible not only for their own sexual conduct, but also are responsible for the conduct of the women they have sex with. Mr. Walsh winds it up with a plea that men wear their hearts on their sleeves; that they tell their hookups how "into them" they really are, because women "deserve" that from the men they interact with.

Go read Mr. Walsh's post for the full context. There is so much there one could write about and pick apart. But what struck me was "Man Up". He doesn't use the offending phrase except in the headline. But in reality, his post is one long exposition of what "man up" has come to mean in today's hyperfeminized, gynonormative culture. As I finished reading it, it hit me, and dawned on me why I hate that phrase so much now, whereas it never used to anger me too much when my friends or older men used to bust my (and each other's) balls with it.

"Man up" no longer means what it used to mean.

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How Man Up Was Rewritten

Feminism and their Churchian co-conspirators have appropriated the phrase "man up" to mean something very different from its original meaning, and Matt Walsh has fallen prey to it. It's why a lot of men (myself included) bristle at the phrase, particularly when uttered nowadays.

Originally, "man up" was a rebuke and a correction from men to other men and boys who needed a good kick in the pants. They needed encouragement or sometimes just a stern reproof from another man to get with the program, stop being such a whiny bitch, stop being a pussy, pull your weight, get your shit done, etc. "Man up, son! The rest of the tribe needs you to get with it!" It was done to (1) give him some encouragement; (2) call out slackers and layabouts; (3) get those slackers and layabouts to either shape up or ship out; and (4) discipline through healthy shame. Men used to be told to "man up" when they weren't doing what they needed for self sufficiency; or what the men and the tribe needed them to do — including actually winning dates and influencing women instead of drifting.

Now in today's feminized culture, men are told to "man up" when they aren't doing what women and feminized men want and expect them to do. In this culture, "man up" is a demand that a man submit himself to the feminine imperative. He needs to hitch himself to a plow, get a job, make money and "put away childish things" not for his own good, but for the specific purpose of making himself useful to a woman. He needs to do these things not because it will sharpen him and make him into a man; but because they will benefit some woman in his preordained role as her husband, and as father to her (not their, HER) children, effectively becoming a beta in a relationship.

"Man up" used to mean "your tribe needs you". Now, it means "marry the slut". It means "a woman needs your money, services, and labor".