Off the Shelf 237 – Kennedy Hall
If you’re fed up with effeminate males and society’s attempt to diminish the role of males in general then this episode is for you! Kennedy Hall joins me this week to discuss how men can reclaim their role in today’s world by breaking the shackles that bind us. Check out Kennedy’s book Terror of Demons: Reclaiming Traditional Catholic Masculinity here.
From the publisher TAN Books
“Effeminacy is a plague, and it must be eradicated.”
Families are being destroyed and souls are being cast into hell because of soft and effeminate men. In Terror of Demons, Kennedy Hall provides the cure: traditional Catholic masculinity.
Drawing on centuries of Catholic wisdom from Scripture and the saints, Hall provides the tools for the reader to conquer effeminacy and be a man of God. This book is not for the weak-hearted but will strike every man with the sharpness of iron—he who has ears to hear will receive strength herein. The world is in desperate need of such men. Let the men of God arise.
St. Joseph, Terror of Demons, pray for us!
Bio
Kennedy Hall is an author, broadcaster, and teacher. He has published both fiction and non-fiction, and speaks on a variety of topics, including the Catholic faith, masculinity, and political matters. He is a rugby fanatic, and lives with his wife and four children in Ontario, Canada.
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I think Mr. Hall causes some confusion by using a medieval definition of effeminate derived from Thomas Aquinas. Most of us do not think of effeminance as “a reluctance to suffer due to an attachment to pleasure.” Most think of effeminate with the modern definiton of ” having or showing characteristics regarded as typical of a woman.” If you look at the Latin root of the word, the modern definition makes more sense than Mr. Hall’s definition. As such it seems an insult to women in general, but to Catholic women in particular, who suffered martyrdom and great sufffering rather than give into evil or pleasure. Think of all the “virgin martyrs” in the Catholic tradition. The reluctance to suffer due to an attachment of pleasure is neither a feminine nor masculine trait.
Thank you. Anyone who uses ‘effeminate’ as an insult intends to denigrate women. I’ve listened to this podcast and know that Hall himself means that word as an insult to women, and, of course, so did Aquinas.
I tried, really did, to get through this befuddled, effeminate speaking author’s interview but no way was it happening. If this is the voice of the NE history won’t bother to wonder why it failed.
Kennedy is correct about not avoiding tough decisions, and the dangers of pornography addiction. But can he stop being weird? I mean, I’ve had computers crash on me too, when I was in the middle of writing something I really cared about, but I never ascribed it to demonic possession.
My wife and I share decisionmaking, even with tough decisions, and I don’t feel emasculated. I’m certainly not threatened by gay marriage, or transgender rights, or feminism. Underlying this whole “reclaiming masculinity” idea is a sense of insecurity. It reminds me of a scene from the old movie “12 Angry Men”:
Juror 3. Kids these days! When I was a kid I called my father “sir”. You ever hear a kid call his father “sir” any more?
Juror 8. Fathers don’t seem to think it’s important any more.
I, as father of three, don’t think so either.