Evangelical masculinity writers framed feminization as a worse fate than physical injury

Evidence

But this was just part of being a boy. “They will survive the scars and broken bones of boyhood,” Farrar wrote, “but they cannot survive being feminized.” Boys who were overprotected, particularly by mothers, were in danger of having their masculinity “warped.” Homosexuals, Farrar believed, were made, not born. Satan’s strategy in the war against the family was to “neutralize the man,” but the solution was clear: “God made boys to be aggressive. We are to accept it and channel it.” Farrar’s Point Man was a training manual for culture warriors. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 374

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s own earlier chapters on Dobson’s 1980s ‘great crossroads’ framing — this passage directly builds on that.
• DEFINE: Shows the militant-masculinity ideology treating aggression as divinely ordained male nature to be accepted and channeled, not suppressed.