Fathers that should be teaching us to be hunters and fighters are instead themselves bored and check out. We aren't initiated into manhood by anyone. We forget this because our father (or father-figures) don't teach us to be wild any more. His rationale is that as boys, we all pretend to be knights, sheriffs and fighters, but that we forget this part of ourselves as we grow up and become bored, office-cubical workers. You are either a masculine, warrior-prince, or a whimpering, nice guy with dad-issues.
In his view, there is nothing worse than being a "nice guy". Eldredge starts with the premise that modern men are no longer the men God meant us to be - that men have been tamed, and are therefore bored.
It is provocative, to be sure, but it is way too simplistic. We did this book as part of our men's group this spring.
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