I am tired of being a ‘hood.” Childhood means that you haven’t grown up yet and not as much is expected of you as it will be when you reach adulthood. Adulthood means that you have reached that age when you ought to know better, and you will be held accountable for your actions. Those are fairly simple.

I am so tired of Manhood and Womanhood.

Manhood sounds sexual. In fact, I will probably get some quirky people reading this because of the use of that word. Maybe it is a sexy word. Maybe that is the reason that the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood chose it. Maybe they wanted to show their machismo.

Now that is a good word. Let’s change the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood to the Council on Biblical Machismo. That is all that is needed – CBM – and that is all they want anyway. You can drop the word ‘Womanhood’ when you make this change. The word ‘womanhood’ just means being a woman, and we all know what that means.

But Machismo. Now that is a word!

It means “a strong or exaggerated sense of manliness; an assumptive attitude that virility, courage, strength, and entitlement to dominate are attributes or concomitants of masculinity.”

Isn’t that the definition of ‘manhood,” also? Entitlement – how God created man to live.

Read the excellent article by Michelle A Gonzales, “Breaking the Habits of Machismo:”

“Some churches calling themselves Christian continue to act as if women are second-class citizens in the kingdom of God – despite what the Bible says.”

I am tired of being a hood. If you are tired of being labeled a hood, speak up!

We have raised the hood on so-called biblical manhood
and womanhood.  Join us!