The couple that practices discipline knows that mainstream society in this culture hates them. That hatred doesn’t speak for every individual, but it speaks for the leaning of the society, and the bulk of its people. The man who leads his home and disciplines his wife is viewed as an evil abuser and worthy of jail, and the wife viewed little better: as a doormat, a weak woman, and oppressed slave unwilling to think for herself. The society holds these views due to gross distortions, but those distortions reflect the heart of its belief system, and are generated by its deepest held values. Most men who spank their wives are loving husbands who care for them. Most wives who get spanked are treasured, and honored by their husbands, and freely share their thoughts and opinions with their man. Yet both are hated for sad and predictable reasons. It is a disordered society, and one that despises God.
The first reason for their hatred, and their blurred vision of the entire relationship, is that men have gone soft when it comes to discipline. They have absorbed the idea that a teacher or a leader is one that always takes you by the hand, speaks in the way you remember your kindergarten teacher speaking to small children, goes on fun outings with you (like to the zoo), and gives you a quiet time out if you’ve been a bit of a disturbance. Enough years with that view of leadership, and that view of correction, and anything outside of that view comes across as downright weird. Clear commands and discipline come across as wild-eyed shootouts, or medieval torture, or pro-wrestling gallantry. Forceful discipline has been shoved into the medieval category, in the minds of the softies. In their “new morality,” Thou Shalt Not Spank.
Now I don’t think this day-care center view of leadership can even try to understand giving your wife a paddling any more than it can try to understand giving your child one. It has already put that into the category of “sin” in its universe, so there is almost a complete blindness to what corporal punishment is all about. Why should they want to understand what they are convinced is a crime from the start? They don’t ask themselves where the proof is that it’s wrong. They don’t consider looking at all the good it does. They don’t wrestle with the effects of softening discipline, or what we have seen from the breakdown of the family, and the harming effects it has on the children. For a rebellion against God’s commandments, they have invented their own commandments, which are more to their liking. Their commandments involve tons of pleasure, a sea of niceness, and continual acts of immoral sex. Spanking does not fit in there, especially if it’s not a kink.
The second reason they hate you is because the man is in charge. They cannot have that. A man spanking his wife is everything they hate, even if they are the “tolerant” type who says: live and let live. That’s because it’s not the spanking that they hate so much. It’s the fact the spanking is given by a man, who is head of his wife because he is her husband. As her husband he firmly corrects her behavior. It’s that entire relationship they hate, you see, not the spanking. They hate real, clear MALE headship. That’s why you don’t hear so much rage against role reversal homes (where the female is in charge), or against “gay” leather boys. You will find far fewer and very minor cultural complains against those practices. Modern westerns hate the man spanking his wife because they hate that the man is in charge, and they hate what a real marriage is. They can talk all they want about how consent makes something alright, but when a man and a woman “consent” to get married, and that marriage involves authority and discipline, that magical power of consent just disappears. It doesn’t make anything alright anymore. They STILL hate you because with a man in charge in marriage, you are the opposite of what they believe in.
Nothing puts an end to feminism, or any gender perversion, more than a man and a woman united for life in a real marriage. That will include the man’s role as leader and provider, and the woman’s role as submissive wife, helper, child-bearer, and homemaker. It destroys attempts to blur gender. Likewise, nothing puts an end to any notion of female autonomy more than a wife being lectured, placed over her husband’s knee, and spanked hard and long on her bare bottom. Any disrespect of men, and disrespect of the family, dissolves in her very humbled status, and her sea of tears. A woman with her bottom getting strapped is not in charge. The secularists know that feminism disappears over the husband’s knee, and know — in the back of their very dark minds — that many women long for this experience. They know it but they fear it: women long to give up their rebellion, to be quiet and peaceful, and to disrobed and spanked by their powerful man. It is nearly like sex to them, and at times more attractive. Moderns want wife-spanking husbands shut up because they put an end to their illusions.
Finally, the culture loathes wife spankers, and condescends to spanked wives, because of what marriage really represents. A man in charge of his home is a picture of Christ leading a repentant mankind in peace. A wife following her husband gently, and honoring him, is a picture of a redeemed mankind, turning away from its sin, and made pure and holy by God. The left-leaning culture hates the man spanking his wife because it hates the man’s authority, and it hates the man’s authority because it represents the Lord’s authority. They definitely do not want to see a picture of that. They do not want a reminder that they are not in charge. They don’t want a reminder of God’s commands. Many would even revolt at the idea of salvation, because the idea necessitates that they NEED salvation, because they are a sinner. People who are basically good don’t need salvation. That’s what they want to think they are.
In that grand view, a man spanking his wife is only a picture of God correcting, chastising his people, ones who are completely submitted to Him, and are willing to receive His correction. They are humbled. They have admitted their wrong. They are washed clean — but with words, a scourging, and love. This culture must ridicule the submissive wife, no matter how lovely and sincere she is, because the submissive wife represents the submissive mankind. She is a peaceful people who has confessed her sin, and returned to peace with God through Christ. What an ugly thing to a people who think they are little gods themselves. What a horrible, a truly frightening idea that promises to get in the way of your Friday and Saturday nights, your political ideologies, your pride, your idolatry, your drunkenness, and living for self that the flesh always does, a life of living for Me. Knowing you are trapped, but holding on to passing illusions to imagine you are not.
There is more to say on why the culture hardens its heart against marital discipline. Remember, this is only a temporary thing. A healthy and understanding culture, one that respects what the family is and respects male authority, has no issue with a man correcting his wife this way. It only demands it is done with care and love. For many hundreds of years wife spanking was practiced in this culture, and while not universal, was commonly accepted, at times encouraged, and would have been expected to occur at least in some households. It was well known that a badly behaved wife could be strapped by her husband, and she should be. Should a criminal go unpunished? Why should she? Similar is true of other cultures and other religions across the globe. That’s because discipline in the home, given by the man, is a part of the natural order created by God. It is not unique to a small set of modern Americans, nor is it a specific Christian teaching. It is a natural part of the marital relationship, because anyone can see that the man is the head of his wife. It is common knowledge to all mankind, and it has been a common, and cross-cultural practice. If you spank your wife then, you are in the norm, even if you are in the minority in this culture. The secularist may hate you, but what he hates is not you — it is the good, the social order, and God.
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