Is the Christian Manosphere Gynocentric?

Posted on 2026/01/30 by Jack

Talking about women should be edifying.

Readership: All; Men;
Theme: Validation; The Christian Red Pill;
Note 1: This essay was inspired by some comments under Farm Boy’s post at Spawny’s Space: Avoidance (2025/6/6).
Note 2: Gratuitous images added for those who doubt the main assertions of this post.
Length: 1,800 words
Reading Time: 10 minutes

Intro

One of the main reasons we keep writing posts and comments on blogs over the years is because it’s fun talking to other men. Another is that it keeps our thinking and writing sharp. Yet another is keeping ourselves from repeating the mistakes we’ve made. Yet another is that younger men might learn something from our experiences.

It’s an absolute societal tragedy that men and women aren’t getting and staying together. Men have to learn to be happy alone first. Many of us older men didn’t understand this when we were younger. We could not, or did not. We might have chosen better or worse. Or sooner. We don’t know.

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Posted in Agency, Authentic Authority, Authority, Collective Strength, Communications, Competence / Competition, Conserving Power, Culture Wars, Discerning Lies and Deception, Faith Community, Fundamental Frame, Gynocentrism, Holding Frame, Introspection, Manosphere, Masculine Disciplines, Moral Agency, Online Personas, Personal Domain, Personal Presentation, Power, Purpose, Sphere of Influence | 5 Comments

Women’s Existential Fear of The Red Pill

Posted on 2026/01/28 by Jack

Did you say, “Patriarchy” or … (gasp) … “Female SuBm!s$!0n”!?!  D’oh!

Readership: All
Theme: The Christian Red Pill; Transactions;
Length: 1,600 words
Reading Time: 9 minutes

Intro

The bible is described as the sword of truth (2 Corinthians 6:7; Ephesians 6:17; Hebrews 4:12). Christians know it is a weapon of spiritual warfare.

But this concept is not limited to the Christian perspective; it is also true from a morally inverted perspective, except it inspires fear in the enemy rather than confidence.

In Weaponizing (2024/7/29), I mentioned a few articles and research papers about how stuff is ‘weaponized’.  The colloquial meaning of ‘weaponize’ is to exploit what is, in many cases, presumed to be an ideology, for the purpose of attacking a person or group, or for spreading discord.

I concluded that whenever this word is used (e.g. in cultural media) it usually conveys the viewpoint that one finds themselves at the brunt end of an unassailable truth, and so reverts to vituperative defamation of their opponents’ motives in response.

From a Christian perspective, all these accusations and objections are yelps of pain that indicate the sword of truth has found its mark on yet another so called “victim”.

Since then, I’ve found several appearances of ‘weaponizing’. This post will cover one of interest.

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Posted in Collective Strength, Cultural Anthropology, Culture Wars, Ethical Systems, False Authority, Female Evo-Psych, Intersexual Dynamics, Media, Psychology, Relationships, Society | 7 Comments

Gavin Ortlund

Posted on 2026/01/26 by Jack

What is the overall impact of a man’s teaching, despite his credentials?

Readership: All; Christian Men
Theme: Christian Community; Metacognitions; The Christian Red Pill;
Length: 1,100 words
Reading Time: 6 minutes

Intro

In a previous post, Tubal Cain told us about a young married Protestant pastor who converted to Orthodoxy, but was deterred from pursuing the Orthodox priesthood because his wife didn’t want to be married to an Orthodox priest and filed for No Fault divorce. This threat is potent because divorce disqualifies a man from a leadership position in the church.

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“His wife recently filed for divorce because of her husband’s conversion process from Southern Baptist to Eastern Orthodox. He’s a graduate of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, with an M.Div. Sadly, his desire to attend Orthodox distance seminary and become a priest has been hampered due to a No Fault divorce he didn’t want nor ask for. He is maintaining frame, and will be completing a 1 year catechism, and will be baptized, chrismated, tonsured, and received into the church soon.”

Tubal Cain also spoke about a young married man whose wife stepped out because he intended to convert to Orthodoxy.

“Also, I’ve seen this same ploy played out before with a young married man with children whose evangelical wife threatened filing no-fault divorce when he left Vineyard Fellowship and began catechism at our parish. He subsequently left due to this.

Weaponized No Fault divorce is certainly on most men’s radar, and for more often unbiblical and willy-nilly reasons cited.

Another one of the things he’s shared with me is that things really went south when his wife started listening to Gavin Ortlund. His words: “Thanks, Gavin Ortlund, for breaking up our family”.”

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“Do you know of this guy, and curious if you’ve written about him?  I’d be interested to get your twist and analysis on the situation.

He’s a Reformed Baptist apologist, seems to take things out of context, appeals to emotions, attacks Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox alike…

Personally, I find him unsettling, and don’t listen to him.”

It is noteworthy that this man pinpointed the teachings of Gavin Ortlund as a contributing factor to his divorce.

So let’s take a closer look at Gavin Ortlund.

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Posted in Authority, Churchianity, Collective Strength, Complementarianism, Determination, Discernment, Wisdom, Divorce, Enduring Suffering, False Authority, Female Evo-Psych, Fundamental Frame, Leadership, Models of Failure, Moral Agency, Orthodoxy, Perseverance, Power, Purpose, Relationships, Sphere of Influence, Stewardship | 6 Comments

The Pastor and His Wife as a Model of the Church

Posted on 2026/01/23 by Jack

The pastor and his wife set the standards for the entire church.

Readership: All; Christian Men
Theme: Christian Community; Metacognitions; The Christian Red Pill;
Length: 2,200 words
Reading Time: 12 minutes

Intro

In the last few posts, I’ve taken a nuanced perspective in considering that American Evangelical Protestant (AEP) church leaders (AKA “Big Eva” pastors) may be specifically ‘targeted’ (before marriage) and ‘controlled’ (after marriage) by specious women who are motivated by attention, control, and status more than serving her husband, the church, or the Lord. In support of this view, one post spells out some of the Puppet Pulpit Strings that are common to AEP churches, and questions whether these are appropriate or helpful.

This problem simply doesn’t exist in ecclesiastical churches, i.e. Catholic and Orthodox, because there is a well-established traditional patriarchal order that does NOT depend on the charisma or social skill of the clergy — nor the V power and/or social acumen of their wives.

This post collates a few descriptions, insights, and well-informed comments under the last few posts that have expanded our understanding of the Pulpit Strings to provide us with a current, independent lens to look at this issue.

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Posted in Authentic Authority, Authority, Cathodoxy, Choosing a Church, Churchianity, Collective Strength, Complementarianism, Conserving Power, Counterfeit/False Paradigms, Courtship and Marriage, Discerning Lies and Deception, Discernment, Wisdom, False Authority, Fundamental Frame, Gynocentrism, Headship and Patriarchy, Headship Authority, Holding Frame, Intersexual Dynamics, Leadership, Organization and Structure, Paradigms of Religion, Protestantism, Sphere of Influence, Teaching | 32 Comments

A Baleful Tale of a Pastor’s Sexless Wife’s Influence

Posted on 2026/01/21 by Jack

A pastor’s wife who is incapable of normal sexual relations leads to the downfall of a spectacular ministry.

Readership: All; Christian Men
Theme: Christian Community; Metacognitions; The Christian Red Pill
Length: 1,000 words
Reading Time: 5 minutes

Intro

In the previous post, the 2 situations of divorce that Tubal Cain mentioned are both examples in which the wife was clearly at fault. Here’s another true anecdote in which the husband / pastor was more or less at fault, catalyzed by his wife’s incapability of fulfilling marital duties (i.e., normal sexual relations). I’ll call this Case Study C.

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Posted in Adultery and Fornication, Collective Strength, Courtship and Marriage, Divorce, Health and Fitness, Intersexual Dynamics, Leadership, Models of Failure, Power, Protestantism | 16 Comments

If the Pastor’s Wife ain’t Holy, ain’t Nobody Holy

Posted on 2026/01/19 by Jack

What is the overall influence of a Pastor’s wife in a femcentric church?

Readership: All; Christian Men
Theme: Christian Community; Metacognitions; The Christian Red Pill;
Length: 1,400 words
Reading Time: 7 minutes

Intro

This post contains a few observations about the influence of Western Protestant pastors’ wives, with a summary at the end.

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Posted in Authority, Churchianity, Collective Strength, Complementarianism, Courtship and Marriage, Decision Making, Determination, Discernment, Wisdom, Divorce, Enduring Suffering, False Authority, Female Evo-Psych, Female Power, Fundamental Frame, Intersexual Dynamics, Leadership, Models of Failure, Moral Agency, Organization and Structure, Orthodoxy, Perseverance, Persuasion, Power, Purpose, Relationships, Sphere of Influence, Stewardship, The Herd | 30 Comments

The Threatpoint of No Fault Divorce among Clergy

Posted on 2026/01/16 by Jack

How No Fault Divorce is weaponized against church leaders.

Readership: All; Christian Men
Theme: Christian Community; Metacognitions; The Christian Red Pill
Length: 1,100 words
Reading Time: 6 minutes

Intro

Weaponized No Fault divorce is certainly on most men’s radar these days.

I believe much of the current awareness of this crime against both faith and humanity was made possible by Dalrock’s exposé of this malady. Older readers may recall Dalrock’s observations about wives’ threatpoints and the churchian’s flaccid response to these behaviors — behaviors now deemed selfish and evil by the Christian Manosphere.

Here are a few of Dalrock’s posts on this topic, in case you came late to the Christian Red Pill.

In sum,

  • Wives withhold compliance and sex in a very effective strategy to manipulate their husbands’ behaviors and decisions more to their liking.
  • Wives use No Fault divorce as a threatpoint to coerce or force their husbands to do or to accept nearly anything to avoid committing mass carnage against the children.
  • More often than not, divorcing wives cite unbiblical and willy-nilly reasons for all this.
  • Churchianity, the courts, and all of Western society fully enables and supports all of this.

In this post, I want to expose one unique way that this threatpoint applies to clergy, i.e., deacons, elders, pastors, priests, and other leaders in the church, and also laymen’s overall interest in church.

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The Emergence of the Red Pill Christian

Posted on 2026/01/14 by Jack

Paul Elam’s exposition on the rise of the Christian Red Pill.

Readership: All; Men; Christian Men;
Theme: The Christian Red Pill
Length: 3,000 words
Reading Time: 16 minutes

Intro

Paul Elam released a landmark exposition in his podcast, The Emergence of the Red Pill Christian — 425 Episode 4 (2024/6/21).  If you haven’t heard it yet, it’s a must if you wish to stay current on developments within the Christian Red Pill sphere.  Elam has used this exposition as a springboard for many of his more recent discussions and interviews.

For the Red Pill record, for doing text searches, for the ease of citing quotations and references, and for the sake of discussion, I’ve transcribed Elam’s exposition below.  [Images, links, and section headers added by Jack.]

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Beatniks, Hippies, Boomers, and the Emergence of Post-Modern American Culture

Posted on 2026/01/12 by Jack

How the Boomers rose to cultural preeminence, and ultimately worldwide.

Readership: All
Theme: The Christian Red Pill
Length: 2,300 words
Reading Time: 12 minutes

Foreword

RonTomlinson2 asked,

“My overriding interest in boomers is: How on earth did they get that way?  Because the best men died in two world wars?  Because of mixed schools / more female school teachers?  LSD and pot?  Less corporal punishment at home?”

In this essay, I’ll expand my response to RT2.

I’ll briefly recount the historical development of the liberal counter-culture that formed the backdrop of the Boomers’ childhood and adolescence, and how this contributed to the formation of their own sub-culture of “sex, drugs, and rock music”, dissident life philosophies, and rebellious values — what we now call “Post-Modernism”.

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Altamont Speedway Free Music Festival, 1969/12/6
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Requiem for the Blue Pill

Posted on 2026/01/09 by Jack

The modern intersexual / social contract is intractably revoked, thanks to The Red Pill.

Readership: All
Theme: The Christian Red Pill
Length: 700 words
Reading Time: 4 minutes

Social Systems Depend on a Shared Mythos

A while back, I wrote,

“Any system depends on a majority of people playing respective roles that support the system. Having a critical mass of people conforming to such roles is what makes the system work.”

A social paradigm can only ‘work’ in reality so long as the masses share the same faith beliefs or mythos concerning human ambitions, nature, and purpose.

“The current system is broken because there is too much confusion and disagreement over what those roles should be. Men prefer traditional gender roles, while women want a revised role of being independent from men. We are far enough into it to see where Feminism will lead (female dominance and male oppression), and as more men see the eventual outcome, more men are fighting against it.”

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