What many people don’t realize about men is that men are constantly making calculations about whether or not to impact the world for good. The average man disagrees with things like abortion, same-sex marriage, and transing kids. But the average man also understands that the world is currently being run by don’t-judge people. And those don’t-judge people have made it risky and costly for good men to make bold stands.

As I’ve said before, people used to expect Christian men to be generous and protective, but also bold about declaring and defending spiritual and moral truths. Well, the world has changed.  The old masculine leadership has been replaced with “servant leadership” – men have to be servants of society’s needs, while having no needs of their own. Men aren’t allowed to make any decisions. Men aren’t allowed to challenge evil with words and actions. Men are only allowed to protect and provide. Silently! Just like an ATM. And an ATM doesn’t judge how the money is spent.

So, how does society encourage men to keep dispensing money and making muscles, while simultaneously making sure that they comply with the new feelings-based rules of empathy and don’t judge?

Why, by punishing anyone who expresses a moral or spiritual truth, of course. In the case below, the feelings-dominated schools punished a boy for wearing a t-shirt that disagrees with transgenderism, and then the courts refused to fix the mess.

Here’s the story from Fox News:

The Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving a Massachusetts student who was banned from school for wearing a shirt criticizing the transgender movement on Tuesday.

The student, Liam Morrison, brought the case through his father and stepmother, Christopher and Susan Morrison. The plaintiffs argue Nichols Middle School violated his free speech rights when it banned him from wearing two T-shirts to school with the words “There are only two genders” and “There are [censored] genders” on the front.

Liam was sent home both times after he refused to change shirts. The school argued the shirts made his classmates feel unsafe, and a federal court agreed, saying the message was demeaning for transgender students.

So, if SCOTUS declines to hear the case, then the lower ruling stands. This is where American elites are right now. If a young man decides to try to reverse the decline of civilization by opposing lies and evil with his words and / or actions, then he needs to be punished.

Only two justices stood up for free speech:

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito both issued separate dissents, arguing the court should have taken up the case.

The decision comes nearly a year after the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Liam and his parents in June 2024, finding that the school was justified in asking him to remove the shirt and sending him home when he refused.

Morrison, who was in seventh grade at the time, was sent home with his father in May 2023 after he refused to take off the shirt, according to court documents. He later wore the same shirt with the words “only two” covered with a piece of tape on which “censored” was written. The school also told him to take this shirt off.

In a 2023 interview with Fox News Digital, Liam stressed that his T-shirt was not directed toward anyone, specifically people who are “lesbian or gay or transgender or anything like that.”

“I’m just voicing my opinion about a statement that I believe to be true,” he said at the time. “And I feel like some people may think that I’m imposing hate speech, even though it’s not directed towards anyone.”

So what is the general point to draw from this case?

The key point is this: if society insists on making men bow down to “empathy” and “don’t judge”, then society will find that good men decline to participate in the other male roles, too. Wearing a t-shirt that challenges the transgendering of kids is quintessential MALE behavior – it’s moral leadership. And the public schools, working together with the courts, have punished the boy for standing up for his convictions.

This sends a clear signal to the other men watching: “stop moral and spiritual leading, but keep on protecting and providing.” But society can’t have that. If the secular leftists take away a man’s moral and spiritual leading, then they won’t get the protecting and providing. Men don’t invest in and protect enterprises, unless they are allowed to speak up about their moral and spiritual convictions.

And you can see that this is already happening, with masculine behaviors like protection and provision being withheld from society. Society now cries “where are all the good men?” and “why don’t men make the first move” and “why don’t men pay for everything on dates?” and “why don’t men protect women from strangers on the subway?” But those things are declining, because of the anti-male attitudes of the schools and courts.

The root cause goes back to C.S. Lewis’ old essay “Men Without Chests” in his book “The Abolition of Man”. If you punish men for leading from their Christian convictions, then you don’t get to help yourself to the benefits provided by those same Christian convictions. This is what the “servant leadership” people don’t understand – men don’t want to be reduced to dispensing cash for your shopping and not judging your spending. Good men want to lead. They want to fight against lies and evil, and rally others to fight with them.