(5) According to Ong, it is part of the human condition that the mother (or mother-figure) looms large in the psyche. Therefore, part of the challenge of developing one's ego-consciousness is to struggle against the powerful feminine force in the psyche.
(6) According to Ong, in theory, it is possible for boys and men to work out a distinctively masculine sense of identity without denigrating girls and women and feminine behavior and qualities. In plain English, according to Ong, masculine does NOT have to mean anti-feminine.
However, I hasten to add that Ong does not turn his attention to discussing possible physical, sexual, or emotional abuse by the mother or mother-figure.
But the Jungian theorist Robert Moore of the Chicago Theological Seminary claims that men who rape women are acting out their fear of the threatening feminine figure in the psyches that most likely is the result of being abused by the mother or mother-figure.
CONCLUSION
In conclusion, if Ong's basic line of argument is correct, then those ten commentators at Fox News are revealing something about their own psyches when they characterize certain events as allegedly representing "wussification" in
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