The War on Masculinity

DR. ROGER MCFILLIN

Let me put this bluntly: We are witnessing the most comprehensive psychological operation ever conducted against half the human population. The target? Masculinity itself.

This isn’t mere speculation or paranoid theory—it’s a calculated reality operating in plain sight. The most insidious aspect of an effective psychological operation is precisely that you remain oblivious to its existence. Like fish unaware of water, we swim through this manufactured paradigm daily, never questioning why traditional masculine traits are systematically pathologized by the very institutions entrusted with our mental wellbeing. The most powerful form of control isn’t the one you resist—it’s the one you’ve been conditioned to embrace as progress.

Don’t believe me? Look at the American Psychological Association’s own guidelines for treating boys and men, where they explicitly identify “traditional masculinity ideology” as harmful. What is traditional masculinity you ask?

They have declared war on the very qualities that make men… men. The therapeutic establishment pathologizes the core masculine traits—stoicism, self-reliance, competitiveness, and action-oriented problem-solving—recasting these evolutionary adaptations as dysfunctions requiring correction. What our ancestors recognized as vital male strengths, today’s feminized psychology labels as “emotional avoidance,” “toxic independence,” and “unhealthy aggression.”

The mental health profession—dominated by an overwhelming 75% female therapists and 80% female psychologists, most subscribing to progressive left wing ideologies—has systematically elevated feminine emotional expression as the gold standard of psychological health while waging a calculated assault on traditional masculine modes of processing.

It speaks volumes that the same mental health industrial complex so eager to pathologize natural masculinity now finds itself utterly incapable of defining what a man or woman actually is. These self-proclaimed experts who diagnose boys’ energy as disorder and men’s stoicism as dysfunction suddenly become philosophical relativists when asked the most basic biological question. Their ideological agenda couldn’t be more transparent—they’ve engineered a system where healthy masculine traits require “treatment” while the very concept of maleness itself dissolves into subjective abstraction.

This female-dominated therapeutic establishment has constructed a framework where endless verbal disclosure, emotional vulnerability, and communal processing aren’t merely options—they’re mandatory requirements for being deemed “mentally healthy.” This is the reality when you surrender your sons to many of today’s therapists. The agenda isn’t about equipping boys with tools to overcome challenges and develop resilience—it’s about fundamentally rewiring them to process the world through a feminine lens. They don’t want boys who channel their energy into strength, achievement, and protection; they want them socialized into feminine behavioral patterns, measuring their psychological health by how well they mimic girls’ emotional expression. This isn’t treatment—it’s gender reprogramming disguised as mental healthcare.

Men who process emotions through physical activity rather than tearful conversation, who seek introspective solitude rather than support groups, or who demonstrate resilience through restraint rather than release, find themselves diagnosed as deficient rather than different.

The consequences extend far beyond the therapist’s office, as boys and men increasingly internalize the message that their natural psychological makeup is fundamentally flawed, creating a crisis of masculine identity under the guise of mental health advancement.

Tears in therapy are celebrated as “breakthroughs.” Vulnerability is the ultimate virtue. Expression—not resolution, strength, or action—becomes the measure of wellness.

To be crystal clear: I’m not claiming therapists are consciously attacking masculinity. They’ve been trained to understand mental health through a feminist paradigm so deeply embedded in modern American life that many reading this have never questioned it. This is the inevitable result when public schools and academia prioritize compliant acceptance over critical analysis and constructive debate.

For decades, our educational institutions have systematically rewarded those who parrot approved narratives while penalizing independent thinkers who challenge prevailing orthodoxies.

The result?

Generations of mental health professionals who’ve never once questioned whether their therapeutic models might be gender-biased or culturally myopic. They simply absorb and apply what they’ve been taught without critical examination. The programming is perfect precisely because it remains invisible to those spreading it—therapists genuinely believing they’re helping boys while unconsciously engaged in their psychological reprogramming.

Conversely, this is not in any way opposing or demonizing men who naturally possess different personality characteristics or haven’t adopted traditional masculine traits. There is vital space in a diverse society for all types of men who can display moral courage. This is instead a plea to recognize the psychological operation at work and understand that traditional masculinity is not harmful to boys and men. What’s harmful is the systematic pathologizing of natural male energy and the medicalization of boyhood itself.

Why Traditional Masculinity is Threatening

The answer lies in a decades-long campaign that’s been hiding behind compassionate language while systematically undermining the very qualities that define masculinity.

What we’re facing isn’t merely cultural criticism—it’s a coordinated assault on masculine vitality orchestrated by those who understand a fundamental truth: Strong men are the greatest obstacle to centralized control.

Sound conspiratorial?

Follow the evidence.

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Throughout human history, which demographic has consistently led resistance against tyrannical regimes? Which group has traditionally stood as the final bulwark against government overreach? It’s not women, children, or the elderly. It’s not the compliant or weak-willed. It’s physically and psychologically formidable men willing to defend their families, communities, and freedoms—often at tremendous personal cost.

The architects of our “brave new world” understand this perfectly. Their vision requires neutralizing the demographic most likely to resist—masculine men with the strength and conviction to protect what they love. A testosterone-depleted, psychologically fractured male population won’t organize resistance. They won’t defend their communities from encroaching control.

They’ll comply.

They’ll kneel.

They’ll submit.

They will wear masks.

They will stand in line to receive the injection.

This agenda operates simultaneously on multiple fronts:

First, the biochemical assault. Studies published up to 2023 suggest that total testosterone levels in men have decreased by approximately 1-2% per year over the past 20-30 years. This trend translates to an overall reduction of over 30% when comparing current generations to those from several decades ago. Our industrial food system delivers a daily cocktail of endocrine-disrupting chemicals through pesticides, plastics, and preservatives that specifically target male reproductive systems. Processed foods high in inflammatory compounds and synthetic estrogens create the perfect physiological conditions for hormonal disruption.

Wake up… it’s purposeful.

Meanwhile, pharmaceutical interventions are prescribed at unprecedented rates. Antidepressants, statins, ADHD medications, and countless other drugs list “decreased libido,” “erectile dysfunction,” and “low testosterone” not as primary concerns but as acceptable “side effects”—clinical language masking the systematic chemical castration of the male population. Drugs treating erectile dysfunction are top sellers. Not normal.

Wake up… it’s purposeful.

Even our water supply isn’t immune, containing measurable levels of birth control compounds and other pharmaceuticals that fundamentally alter male physiology from childhood. The cumulative effect creates men who are literally less capable of resistance—biochemically engineered for compliance.

You think this is a coincidence?

Second, the psychological conditioning I have been witnessing. Boys exhibiting normal male energy are pathologized and medicated into docility. Young men absorbing endless digital entertainment featuring weak male characters learn that masculinity itself is either buffoonish or malevolent. The American Psychological Association has officially declared “traditional masculinity” harmful—not to be channeled constructively, but to be eliminated.

Wake up… this is purposeful.

This psychological warfare operates in concert with unlimited access to pornography—rewiring young men’s brains for passive consumption rather than active pursuit of women, creating dopamine addiction pathways that destroy motivation and the natural drive for real-world conquests. Birth rates are plummeting.

Wake up… this is purposeful.

The evidence doesn’t suggest conspiracy—it demonstrates strategy. A chemically sedated, psychologically weakened male population creates the perfect conditions for centralized control. Men disconnected from healthy masculine identity struggle with purpose and direction, becoming ideal consumers rather than protectors or builders.

This creates a physical and mental crisis amongst men and boys.

The systematic pathologizing of masculine traits has created a devastating cultural bottleneck for male psychological development. Natural male energy—that primal force that, when properly channeled, drives men to build civilizations, protect communities, and solve complex problems through action—is increasingly labeled as “toxic” rather than recognized as raw potential requiring proper direction.

Traditional avenues that once effectively harnessed this energy—physical competition, apprenticeship, rites of passage, and challenging labor—have been dismantled or diminished in our sedentary, sedated society. Instead of guiding young men to transform their innate drives into the constructive desires to serve, protect, provide, and create, our feminized educational and therapeutic systems attempt to sedate and redirect these impulses through medication, endless talk therapy, and passive compliance.

The result is a generation of confused men, disconnected from their core nature, floating in an existential limbo—possessing powerful internal engines but denied the tracks on which to run them, creating a profound identity crisis masked as progress.

When boys naturally resist the feminized confines of today’s classroom and therapy room—fidgeting during hours of sedentary learning, daydreaming of something much more interesting, seeking physical outlets for their energy, or processing emotions through action rather than words—our system’s response is swift and clinical.

Rather than recognizing these as normal masculine traits requiring appropriate channels, we pathologize their very nature, slapping labels like ADHD, ODD, or “behavioral problems” on their developmental differences. The industrial solution? Ship them off to female therapists who fundamentally misunderstand masculine psychology, or worse, to pediatricians wielding prescription pads, eager to chemically subdue their unruly spirits into compliant docility.

This isn’t paranoia. It’s pattern recognition—and the pattern has become impossible to ignore. What is happening in my field is too obvious to ignore.

The APA’S Declaration Of War Against Masculinity

In 2018, the American Psychological Association released its “Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men”—a document so hostile to traditional masculinity it might as well have been titled “The Official Handbook for Emasculating America.”

Let’s be honest: The APA isn’t a scientific organization—it’s a political machine that’s been as instrumental in mainstreaming woke ideology as any gender studies department. These “guidelines” weren’t developed by objective scientists but by ideological activists with clipboards and PhDs who’ve decided that masculinity itself is a disorder requiring treatment.

Let’s examine what they’re actually targeting:

• Stoicism and emotional control: The guidelines explicitly pathologize men’s tendency toward “restrictive emotionality” and “emotional stoicism.” Yet these traits have been vital masculine virtues throughout history. The father who remains calm during a crisis, the soldier who controls fear in battle, the leader who maintains composure under pressure—these men aren’t suffering from “restricted emotionality.” They’re exercising the emotional discipline necessary for their protective roles.
• Self-reliance: The APA identifies “self-reliance” as problematic, claiming it leads men to avoid seeking help. Yet self-reliance has been a cornerstone of masculine virtue for millennia. It’s not a pathology; it’s a strength that enables men to overcome challenges and provide for others.
• Achievement and competitiveness: The guidelines suggest that emphasizing achievement creates “gender role conflict.” Yet male competitiveness has driven innovation, exploration, and progress throughout human history. It’s not toxic; it’s transformative when properly channeled.
• Risk-taking and courage: The APA frames male risk-taking as dangerous while ignoring its essential social function. Every civilization depends on men willing to take physical risks—from fighting fires to building infrastructure to defending against threats.

Who the fuck would take this psychological castration manual seriously?

Virtually every therapist sitting across from your son or husband… that’s who. Every school counselor evaluating your boy’s “problematic” energy. Every university professor training the next generation of mental health professionals.

The APA’s message couldn’t be clearer: The traditional masculine virtues that built civilization and protected the vulnerable for thousands of years are no longer virtues but vices requiring therapeutic intervention.

This isn’t fringe ideology—it’s mainstream clinical practice infecting every institution touching male lives. Your son’s teacher who suggests he might be “too active” for classroom learning? She’s been trained to view male energy as pathological. The college counselor telling young men their assertiveness is problematic? He’s following APA guidelines. The marriage therapist subtly suggesting a husband’s stoicism indicates emotional damage? She’s implementing this exact framework.

The therapeutic establishment has become the enforcement arm of ideological conformity, with a simple directive for males: Sit down. Shut up. Follow our rules or you are disordered. Chemically alter your brain. Surrender your nature.

And if you resist this “treatment”? Well, that just confirms how deeply problematic your masculinity truly is—further evidence that you need more intensive intervention.

This isn’t healthcare. It’s compliance training masquerading as mental health services—a pipeline designed to transform men from potential protectors into predictable consumers. The psychological equivalent of removing a lion’s teeth and claws, then wondering why it seems depressed.

The most insidious part? We’re paying them to do it—with our insurance premiums, our tax dollars, our out-of-pocket therapy sessions. We are funding school-based mental health programs. We’re funding our own psychological castration while being told it’s for our own good. That’s how weak and compliant we have become.

This isn’t controversial—it’s observable reality. And it’s happening in plain sight for anyone with the courage to see it.

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How Emasculating Men Destroys Society’s Foundation

The assault on masculinity isn’t just harming men—it’s obliterating the traditional family, which remains the basic building block of any stable society.

Strong families require strong men.

Period.

Not emotionally incontinent men who burden their wives with their every feeling, not perpetual adolescents focused on self-actualization, but men who embrace their role as providers, protectors, and moral leaders within their families.

When we strip men of their natural drive to provide and protect, we create a vacuum that the state eagerly fills. A man who’s been convinced his masculine instincts are toxic won’t fight to provide for his family—he’ll step aside for government programs. He won’t stand against cultural degradation—he’ll passively consume it. He won’t model strength for his children—he’ll model compliance.

The assault on traditional masculinity has created a generation of men increasingly turning to hollow substitutes for purpose and meaning. Many retreat into digital escapes—pornography consumption has reached unprecedented levels, video games consume countless hours, while legalized marijuana and sports betting provide chemical and dopamine-driven distractions. These temporary diversions can never fill the fundamental void created when men are disconnected from their natural roles and responsibilities.

Men feel it. Women complain about it. We can all see it.

After decades of serving both men and women, I’ve witnessed a profound disconnect between what women say they want and what they actually respond to. In therapy offices across America, wives lament husbands who’ve been psychologically neutered—men who no longer take active roles in leading their families, making decisions, or providing direction. These same women who nod along to Hollywood’s portrayal of the sensitive, passive “modern man” privately express frustration with partners who won’t make plans, take initiative, or demonstrate strength when family challenges arise.

Women overwhelmingly prefer traditional masculine traits—decisiveness, strength, protective instincts, and competent leadership—regardless of what progressive messaging tries to sell them. The evidence is in their mate selection, their romance novels, their private frustrations, and yes, their therapy sessions. While publicly celebrating the “evolved” man who prioritizes endless emotional processing over action, they privately long for men who embody the very masculine virtues our culture now pathologizes. This fundamental disconnect leaves both sexes confused and relationships unstable—men afraid to demonstrate the very traits their partners secretly desire. This breaks up families.

While modern feminism proudly pushed women into boardrooms and corner offices, what many women confess behind closed doors tells a different story. Countless women feel utterly crushed beneath the dual burdens of career demands and family responsibilities—working full-time not from passionate choice, but economic necessity.

To be crystal clear: this isn’t about denying freedom or suggesting women with genuine career callings shouldn’t pursue them with every opportunity men receive. Rather, it’s acknowledging the uncomfortable truth that for many women, “choice” has become a cruel illusion. As fewer men step forward willing to shoulder the primary financial responsibilities that once defined masculine purpose, women find themselves conscripted into workforce roles they never truly wanted, while still managing the lion’s share of domestic life. This breaks up families.

The liberation movement that promised options has, for many, delivered only exhaustion—women drowning in competing demands while their partners, uncertain of their role in this new paradigm, retreat from the provider responsibility that gave generations of men clear purpose and direction. They end up playing video games, glued to their phone and sucking on a vape pen. This breaks up families.

Our collective mental health is suffering as a result.

This financial stranglehold in American society isn’t accidental—it’s a masterfully orchestrated strategy to dismantle the traditional family unit. Two exhausted parents both trapped in corporate servitude pay significantly more taxes, create more GDP, and most importantly, surrender their children to daycare centers, indoctrination camps masquerading as schools and ultimately therapists. The state becomes both parent and partner, while real fathers are reduced to weekend entertainment directors and mothers collapse under the impossible burden of being everything to everyone.

The globalist elites understand that a self-sufficient family with a strong male provider and a nurturing female presence is the ultimate obstacle to complete governmental control. This is how strong, confident and courageous boys are developed. That’s why they’ve systematically made single-income households nearly impossible through engineered inflation, oppressive taxation, and the calculated destruction of living wages.

Meanwhile, our children wander through childhood like psychological orphans, desperately searching for strong father figures while being raised by institutions, screens, and overwhelmed mothers—creating not just one damaged generation, but a perpetual cycle of broken adults raising even more broken children. And what happens to communities stripped of masculine protective force? They become soft targets for predators, exploiters, and ultimately, the authoritarian state that steps in to “protect” what men no longer can or will. Make no mistake—this isn’t social evolution. It’s civilizational suicide by design.

The deliberate weakening of men isn’t just about controlling men themselves—it’s about destroying the family unit that stands between the individual and the state.

Chemical & Ideological Warfare Against Nature

Perhaps the most sinister aspect of this war on masculinity is its weaponization of psychopharmacology against boys and men.

The boy who can’t sit still in a sterile classroom environment isn’t suffering from ADHD—he’s displaying normal male energy in an abnormal educational setting designed for compliant, verbally oriented girls. But rather than adapt the environment to accommodate male development, we’re chemically altering millions of boys to fit a feminized academic model.

The man experiencing anger at injustice or exploitation isn’t suffering from an “anger management problem”—he’s displaying the healthy masculine response to violation. But rather than channel that righteous anger toward corrective action, the psychiatric industrial complex medicates it into oblivion, creating passive men who accept mistreatment.

The teenager wrestling with the powerful sexual urges of adolescent masculinity isn’t suffering from some pathological condition—he’s experiencing the biological imperative that has ensured human survival since time immemorial. But instead of strong fathers teaching these young men to harness and discipline these energies through respect, commitment, and moral clarity, we’ve abandoned them to a toxic wasteland of influences designed to corrupt their sexuality at its very foundation.

Look at the vile contradiction we’ve created: From the moment puberty hits, we bombard these developing minds with unlimited access to increasingly violent pornography that depicts women as subhuman receptacles for male aggression—available 24/7 on devices we put in their pockets—while simultaneously condemning them as “toxic” when they inevitably internalize these messages.

Wake up… this is purposeful.

The porn industry deliberately targets these vulnerable young minds, rewiring their neural pathways while Hollywood, advertising, and social media continue the assault with hypersexualized imagery that treats women as decorative objects rather than full human beings. And what happens when these boys, with no strong father to counteract this poison, begin expressing the distorted sexuality we’ve literally programmed into them? We don’t recognize our own creation—instead, we pathologize them as defective, misogynistic, and in need of feminist reprogramming. The system creates the very problem it then condemns.

Purposeful.

Traditional masculinity, properly channeled by father figures, has always included teaching boys to respect, protect, and honor women—not exploit them. A strong father teaches his son that real masculinity means controlling your urges, not being controlled by them (stoicism); that women are worthy of profound respect as mothers, wives, daughters and equals; that sexuality finds its highest expression in committed relationship, not anonymous conquest.

But these crucial lessons are systematically undermined by a culture that simultaneously hypereroticizes everything while punishing natural male sexual development.

The result?

A generation of confused young men, ashamed of their very nature, oscillating between repression and degradation, with no understanding of the noble middle path that traditional masculinity has always offered—sexual strength expressed through self-mastery and genuine respect for women as full human beings.

As a clinical psychologist who raised a son, the last thing I would do is hand him over to today’s therapists or medical professionals in times of struggle. The ideological indoctrination couldn’t be more apparent. Once you wake up to it, you cannot unsee it.

A society of weak, feminized men is a society on its knees. Our cities have become hunting grounds because men are conditioned to stand down rather than stand up. Families disintegrate without masculine backbone. Communities surrender to centralized bureaucracies because no man defends local independence. Cultural degeneracy advances unopposed because the masculine moral courage to say “not on my watch” has been pathologized.

Let me be clear: this does not in any way support the parody of masculinity characterized by figures like Andrew Tate. That caricature is part of the PsyOp—a deliberate distortion designed to discredit authentic masculine virtue. A direct consequence of what happens when a society fails to support traditional masculine virtues. Ask yourself: Who actually stops sex trafficking? Who willingly runs toward danger to protect the vulnerable from predators? Who is more likely to protect their daughters? Who risks their lives to protect the vulnerable?

There’s a reason why men in law enforcement were systematically attacked leading up to the COVID operation. The establishment knows that when tyranny descends, it will ultimately be strong men with traditional masculine traits—courage, duty, honor, willingness to sacrifice—that stand between the predatory and the innocent. True masculinity has always been civilization’s immune system against evil.

Before enslaving a population, you must first break its protectors. Every tyrannical regime throughout history targeted strong men first—exactly why today’s psychological warfare specifically undermines those most likely to resist authoritarian control.

But hope remains in the primal masculine energy no social engineering can extinguish—in fathers refusing to medicate their sons into compliance, in young men building strength against the tide of weakness, in communities where men forge brotherhood and purpose.

The global elites fear what they cannot control: men of strength who would rather die standing than live kneeling. Our ancestors faced physical battlefields; we face psychological operations designed to destroy us from within. Who is going to share that wisdom with our sons? The therapist who believes ADHD is real? The drug pusher masquerading as a physician? The teacher who want your son sedated into compliance? The psychologist who follows APA guidelines?

Recognize the PsyOp… and

RESIST

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