The Stronger Sex: Man or Woman ?

 The Stronger Sex: Man or Woman?

​Who is stronger, man or woman? A lot depends on how we define strength. If we define strength solely by physical power, then men take the crown, for men are stronger than women on average. They possess greater upper-body strength. But what about emotionally, intellectually, or spiritually? That can be very hard to quantify.

​But let's look at another area. Let's look at strength in terms of who has power over whom. Who is able to rule over whom?

​While many men will go around saying they are stronger than women, the reality is much different. Many men are ignorant of the power of women, and in a male-centric world, it blinds them. Men define power in terms of other men. Men are mostly focused on raw power, while women use soft power for the most part.

​Who is more powerful? The man with the muscles, or the woman who walks by—that beautiful woman who makes every man's heart skip a beat? The woman whom everyone wants to hold the door for? The woman who gets hired on the spot because of her good looks, or the woman who was speeding and is let go without a ticket by a mean-looking male police officer?

​Who is more powerful? Bathsheba, whom King David was powerless to resist, risking his household to attain? Who is more powerful? The Taliban, who defeated the mighty USA, or the women who are so dangerous that their faces must be covered lest the men be taken captive by lust? Think of the rich man who goes to a third-world country in search of a beautiful woman; when he finds her, he lavishes his wealth on her and brings her back to the states to make her his wife.

​Is it King Herod on his throne, or Salome in her youth, dancing before the king, enthralling him, and to whom the king promised half of his kingdom? Just a look, a glance, a shake of the hip would have been enough to take away half of the kingdom. Any other man who desired half of King Herod's kingdom would have to assemble an army and fight for it. But the dance of a young woman was more than a match for the king.

​How many men who would not give anyone a dime will spend a fortune on a woman they barely know? Samson betrayed his strength for a woman. Samson, the mighty man who defeated a thousand Philistine warriors, was defeated by a woman. Solomon, the wisest of kings, was taken captive by his wives. The Israelites on the border of Canaan were defeated by Moabite harlots. We read of Caesar—the mighty Caesar—being enthralled by Cleopatra, and Mark Antony, one of Rome's famed generals, taken captive by her gaze. How many husbands live by the "yes, dear" principle for fear of offending their wives? Men will pay and beg to be with a woman, and yet many men claim to be stronger than women.

​Many men's lives are centered around pleasing women and seeking validation from women, all the while claiming to be stronger. Men seek money, fame, and power just so they can attract women, and yet they claim to be stronger.

​The truth is, the object of attraction is stronger than the one who is attracted. Because women are to a great part the attraction of many men, the truth is that women to a great part rule over men. They don't rule over men through physical dominance, but through beauty, the promise of sensual pleasures, and emotional awareness.

​Many men can resist anything but the power of a beautiful woman, and the man who cannot resist the power of a woman is not stronger than her. Toxic masculinity is nothing but men who realize they are weaker than women; unable to resist, they resort to violence—physical, emotional, etc.—to dominate, to assert back their lack of perceived dominance. Violence is usually the tool of the inwardly weak. The desire to control is the expression of the weak.

​Many men are the slaves of women. To a great degree in modern society, or in the past, women have ruled over men. Women have ruled over kings and generals because women ruled over them through their lust. The person who controls the resources that you seek controls you.

​Women, while physically weaker, are powerful creatures. A woman will analyze a man, seek his weakest point, and unless she truly loves him, will, like a mighty general, take control of the whole man. Her softness, tears, and tenderness are not tools of weakness, but power.

​An army is as strong as its weakest point, and a man is as strong as the passion he controls or that controls him. A man who believes he needs a woman to be validated will be a slave to women. A man who believes he needs to seduce and conquer women to feel like a man has already admitted to himself that women are stronger than him. Hence, womanizers are weak men who look at women as a prize to conquer in order to feel manly.

​The only man who is stronger than a woman is the man who rules over himself, over his passion. Any man who loses control over himself and his passions will find himself being ruled by women. A woman is stronger than any man who lacks self-control and self-possession.

​The stronger sex is the man who has self-possession. He is able to rule over himself, and he will rule over his household. A man who has self-possession will be able to properly love the woman in his life, and his love will disarm her of the weapons of her strength and make her a partner instead of a rival.

​"Her desire shall be to her husband, but he shall rule over you." The woman desires to control the man, and she will succeed over the man without self-control. At the fall, Satan reversed the order of creation and has strengthened the woman while progressively weakening the man. The modern man is weak. The spiritual man, the man restored by God, alone can rule over the woman.