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A matter of rank, January 12th, 2022, Dear Dawson, we are getting close to the current

center of all the turmoil between the sexes.

Now I use that word current, advisedly.

There has always been turmoil between the sexes, and the nature of that turmoil is handed

down across generations in proverbs, customs, and lore.

But something unusual has happened in our generation.

Up until very recently, men and women both understood the natural order of things.

The man was the head of the home, and there you go.

This was often violated in practice in many different ways, and for many different reasons,

but everyone more or less acknowledged the way things ought to go.

When it was practiced, it was honored, and when it was not practiced, it was denied,

hidden, or named something else.

This is because everyone subscribed to the natural order.

Everyone paid it lip service in other words.

It has been left for our time to abandon this standard as a standard at all.

Not only is it not the standard anymore, it has now become a hate crime to profess that

you even think it should be the standard.

The desire that a woman has to usurp the role of her husband is a desire that goes back

to the third chapter of Genesis.

This is the source of the running tension between the sexes.

Nigen marrying a godly woman is going to mitigate this tension for you, but it will not

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