In a world that leaves men behind, the time is ripe for the overthrow of feminism’s tyranny, claims Eric Conn, founder of New Christendom Press and host of the Hard Men Podcast.
At the 2025 Right Response Conference, Conn asserted that America is under an iron fist of women-dominated Human Resources departments and public schools. These women constitute an “enforcement army” for leftist ideology, including cancel culture and DEI, Conn assessed.
The podcaster terms this phenomenon the “Longhouse,” referring to “a female-ruled and a female-normed society.” Conn drew the term “Longhouse” from the shape of traditional Native American houses which he said were subject to matriarchal rule. The Longhouse is characterized by heavily policed speech, the affirmation of others’ feelings and an overemphasis on safety.
According to Conn, the Longhouse has infiltrated not only secular institutions, but also conservative, evangelical communities. Conn alleged that women-majority staff run Christianity Today, The Gospel Coalition and the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Conn accused prominent conservative figures of tolerating gay marriage, condoning pornography and supporting women in the military. He claimed conservatives also enforce standards for hate speech and keep certain discussions off of the table.
“We need to confront the ways in which the conservative movement is the Longhouse in a skinsuit,” Conn insisted.
Furthermore, Conn jabbed that evangelicals have nullified male headship in the home by promoting the idea of servant-leadership.
“Masculinity in [the Longhouse] is described as toxic unless, like evangelicals, you can rebrand it in a way that is female-subservient, like the servant-leader model,” Conn stated.
To counter the dominance of women in society and the church, Conn exhorted men to retake their role as rulers in every area of life. He argued that men need to confront emotional and “hysterical” women who suppress male leadership.
The woke Longhouse formed due to male laxness and female success in education and the workforce, Conn claimed. He suggested that Christians should reject public education because it churns out atheists and apostates.
“Women in the academy were the instrumental cause of wokeness in America,” Conn determined.
Part of taking down the Longhouse means discouraging women from seeking fulfillment outside of the household. Conn advocated for “sexed piety,” referring to the idea that men and women pursue piety in ways according to their sex. He decried young professional women and urged their fathers to stop promoting careers as a woman’s calling.
“Papas, don’t let your daughters grow up to be boss babes,” Conn advised, arguing for a reimagined workplace with a revitalized emphasis on men working in the trades. He scorned the economic pervasiveness of woman-dominated “nurturing professions” such as healthcare, childcare and food service. Conn remarked that such jobs mirror the tasks of a housewife.
Saving society from the entrenched rule of women also means reclaiming masculine energy, Conn argued. He advocated for bucking HR departments, safety norms and “hysterical women” by responding with humor and apathy.
“You have to embrace the J.D. Vance, ‘I don’t really care, Margaret,’” Conn said, quoting the U.S. Vice President’s remark in a news interview.
Throughout his speech, Conn made few mentions of specific Bible passages in support of his argument, despite claiming to be applying “all of Scripture to all of life.” In fact, Scripture contradicts some of Conn’s points.
For example, Conn advised men to respond to nagging women by saying, “I don’t really care, Margaret,” However, 1 Peter 3:7 warns that when men stop understanding and honoring their wives, their prayers to God will be hindered. Ephesians 4:29 calls men and women alike to speak “only such as is good for building up.” Hence, Conn’s flippant exhortation to men runs afoul of God’s unambiguous commands to be swift to care and slow to quip.More fundamentally, Conn risks swapping the biblical headship of husbands with the unbiblical tyranny of men. The foundational command of passages like Ephesians 5:25 and Colossians 3:19 is not mere leadership, but Christ-like love.
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Comment by David on June 4, 2025 at 2:23 pm
He would have fit in well with John Knox who wrote “The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstruous [“unnatural”] Regiment [“rule]” of Women.” Knox was unhappy with the several female rulers of his era.
Comment by John on June 4, 2025 at 7:00 pm
Just another Mark Driscoll waiting to happen.
Comment by Tim Ware on June 4, 2025 at 7:38 pm
Conn makes some good points. I think it’s noteworthy and lends at least some support to his ideas that this article was written by a woman.
He”s right that both conservative evangelicalism and the mainline have been thoroughly feminized. I doubt Conn expects people in those versions of Christianity to agree with him. I would imagine he doesn’t care what they think.
Comment by John on June 4, 2025 at 9:08 pm
Tim Ware,
What does the gender of the writer have to do with anything? By my count the IRD has nine full-time writers at the moment, only two of whom are women. Hardly strikes me as a “thoroughly feminized” institution.
Comment by Salvatore Anthony Luiso on June 4, 2025 at 10:54 pm
Very sad.
I wonder: How common are opinions such as Conn’s among the Christians of America?
Regarding “‘You have to embrace the J.D. Vance, “”I don’t really care, Margaret,”‘ Conn said, quoting the U.S. Vice President’s remark in a news interview”:
In other words: “Don’t confuse me with the facts!”.
Comment by Tim Ware on June 5, 2025 at 12:36 am
My wife grew up in the UMC but left it some 55 years ago. Here’s how she categorized UMC pastors some 55 years ago….”weak, mild, wimpy.”
Comment by Tim Ware on June 5, 2025 at 1:00 am
John,
Physical gender aside, there’s more testosterone at a lesbian convention than there is at a gathering of evangelical and mainline pastors.
Comment by John on June 5, 2025 at 9:05 am
Tim Ware,
Ok. That didn’t really answer my question. What exactly would a “high testosterone” gathering of pastors look like to you?
Comment by Cal on June 5, 2025 at 9:31 am
I stopped attending the PCUSA church when it finally (I’m a slow learner) dawned on me that it was female-run, by and for elderly liberal females and gays and their fans, and I asked myself “Why would a normal man want to be here?”
Comment by Gary Bebop on June 5, 2025 at 12:01 pm
The femininization of the ecumenical mainline has been “a thing” for some time. But attitudes are shifting. Leaders are now wary of overweighting their institutions with feminine leadership. Much discussion about this is needed, not just rancorous argument, and both sexes have salient words to contribute.
Comment by Wilson R. on June 5, 2025 at 12:36 pm
Something is really, deeply wrong with this guy. I hope somebody he will become a follower of Jesus. I also hope that someone will care enough to show him to be a real man instead of a poser. Hint: It takes more than growing a long beard and sporting a Fashy-Boy haircut.
Also wondering: Who’s going to break the news to this poor boy that Jesus’ entourage included women, and that they weren’t there to do the cooking and ironing but actually helped fund his ministry?
Comment by Wilson R. on June 5, 2025 at 12:37 pm
@ Tim Ware:
Was Jesus displaying insufficient testosterone when he compared himself to a mother hen seeking to protect her chicks?
Comment by exumc on June 5, 2025 at 12:57 pm
I’ll see your I Peter on nagging wives and raise with Proverbs 21:
9 Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
19 Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and nagging wife.
Comment by Barbara Beebe on June 5, 2025 at 4:27 pm
I would be interested in the views of the woman that wrote this article……. Especially if she agreed with any of Conn’s statements!
Comment by Gayle on June 5, 2025 at 7:24 pm
He is showing the most absurd ignorance about Native American cultures. He heard someone apply the word “matriarchy” to the Iroquois Confederacy and that was all he needed to go on, even though that “matriarchy” had utterly zero resemblance to the “gynocracy” he sees today.
Comment by Tim Ware on June 6, 2025 at 12:29 am
The commenters really came out of the woodwork on this one! Even those who usually come out only when the subject is about homosexuals were activated.
Let someone say something about men that is not either denigrating or emasculating, or let someone say something that challenges the sacred cow of the mainline and conservative evangelicalism that God is essentially feminine, and they come out with guns a blazin’.
It’s really hilarious.
But it’s also irrelevant.
Comment by Douglas E Ehrhardt on June 6, 2025 at 3:37 am
The How To Defeat Trashworld Conference was something else! The libs tried to stop it before it even happened. I enjoyed watching heads explode. I’m an old boomer who has seen the destruction that feminism has wrought. Including a devastating battle in Family Court. The men who have been abused by the womyms movement are fighting back ever so slowly.Along with a few churches.Gives me hope.
Comment by John on June 6, 2025 at 8:43 am
Tim Ware,
Yet even when Conn is talking about men, he really makes it about women. What does that tell you? You claim he’s saying something about men that isn’t denigrating or emasculating, but he can’t seem to say it without putting down the other sex, deliberately in fact using language and terms like “hysterical” to upset them. Is that what masculine Christianity is? Just a space for men make themselves fell strong by griping about today’s women? When God confronts the first couple on their sin, Adam’s first instinct post-fall is to blame Eve. God didn’t let Adam off the hook when he pointed the finger at his wife. I hear this same tendency in the words of Conn and the other so-called Theo Bros and manosphere darlings who blame women and feminism for all their current problems. All the problems of the modern church, workplace, family home, etc. they blame on women/feminism. Sexual harassment? Blame the women. Deadbeat dads? Blame the women. Shrinking attendance? Blame the women. Their appeal is simple one. “Just give us all the power and we’ll fix everything.” The premise of these so-called masculine Christians is that man’s empowerment and fulfillment can only come about through the return of women to a totally subservient role. I think such an ideology does man a far greater injustice than feminism ever could.
Comment by John on June 6, 2025 at 12:14 pm
Tim Ware,
If you want to talk seriously about the spiritual needs of modern men and more male-friendly programming within our churches that’s one thing. But none of those concerns are valid resources to fall into the arms of the Eric Conns of this age. I don’t mind having a minister who hunts and wants look like a character on Duck Dynasty, but when he gets online and tells the men of the world all their problems are the fault of women and feminists, that women should all just get back in the kitchen and let the man work, that fathers should choose daughter’s husbands, and the guardrails put in place to prevent work-place harassment should be torn asunder – then I know I’m not listening to a pastor tending to the real spiritual needs of his sheep. Instead I’m listening to a demogogue looking for soldiers. He’s just doing the same thing Adam did when God asked “Where are thou?” What he’s really saying is that he doesn’t know how to feed men’s souls without subgating women. That is a false gospel. Show me a masculine Christianity that doesn’t have put women down. So yeah, you want to have a serious conversation about men’s ministries today and how church’s can better appeal to them, then let’s have it, but the moment you start shouting to women, “Be silent!” or “Get back into the kitchen!” no one can or should take you seriously.
Comment by Tim Ware on June 6, 2025 at 11:27 pm
John,
Thanks for a graphic illustration. Your tirade proves my point!
Comment by John on June 7, 2025 at 8:34 am
Tim Ware,
Did I say anything that was untrue? Did I misrepresent Conn’s own statements in sermons and on social media over the last few years? If so, call me out on it, please instead of trying to play the victim.
Comment by George on June 7, 2025 at 2:24 pm
I agree with Mrs Ware. Let me add that now that there are more women preachers in the UMC/GMC, they are still weak, mild, and wimpy. They treat preaching on SIN to be akin to not waiting for a hymn to break wind.
Comment by John on June 7, 2025 at 10:37 pm
George,
Is it possible you just find Methodist pastors weak in general?
Comment by Tim Ware on June 7, 2025 at 11:38 pm
John,
They are weak, mild, and wimpy. What else can you expect from a denomination that asks as the first question of a prospective pastor (according to a commenter about another article), “Do you smoke?”
Display any kind of masculine characteristic, and you are immediately disqualified from being a UMC (and GMC) pastor.
Comment by George on June 8, 2025 at 6:47 am
John, “in general “ the answer is yes.
Comment by John on June 9, 2025 at 12:36 am
Tim Ware,
Describe some of these masculine characteristics.
Comment by David Gingrich on June 12, 2025 at 8:18 am
IRD tries to subtly disparage Conn. But he is onto a kernel of Truth.
Comment by John on June 12, 2025 at 10:21 pm
David Gingrich,
And what truth would that be?