The Lament of the Passive Patriarch: A Feminist Response

  رؤية تحليلية لنص اللواء ا ح سامي شلتوت

     بروفسير أماني الصاوي

The Lament of the Passive Patriarch: A Feminist Response

By Amany El-Sawy  🇪🇬

A critical commentary on "Time Has Stripped the Woman of Her Radiance, Her Crown, and Her Throne"f

By Major General Samy Mohamed  🇪🇬 Shaltout 

The article “Time Has Stripped the Woman of Her Crown” masquerades as sorrowful wisdom but, in truth, reveals a striking portrait of male passivity and abdicated responsibility. It is less a critique of women’s evolution than a confession of masculine withdrawal—men overwhelmed not by empowered women, but by their own failure to grow alongside them.

  General Shaltout paints women’s liberation as a trap - engineered by men to enjoy “free pleasures” without marriage. Nonetheless, behind this cynical admission is cowardice. Men, once bold pursuers, now sleep in the sun like “well-fed roosters,” intimidated by strong women who claim space, voice, and independence. Rather than rising to match this growth, they retreat into nostalgia, into complaint, into comfort.

This is not a fall of woman; it is the inertia of man. Where once he stood at the center, he now watches from the sidelines, bewildered that women no longer orbit around him. He scorns her for joining the workforce, for sharing a meal, for laughing freely as if her presence in the world is theft, not rightful return.

 He accuses her of losing her “value,” when it is he who has lost his will to lead, to love, to evolve. In a nutshell, feminism does not fear the empowered woman; it challenges the shrinking man to grow up, to step up to be a partner, not a bystander. 

The real crisis is not her boldness, but his resignation. 

Not her visibility, but his invisibility.

 Not her freedom, but his fear of it. 

She is not the one who abandoned the throne. Patriarch is

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