An issue I wanted to touch upon today has to do with modern feminism. Now this may inflame some of my readers, but I ask that you can bear with me to the end of this.
Today we have a movement that claims to empower women. A movement which claims women are equal to men and that women ought to have all the same rights and liberties as men. That women ought to make the same wages, that they should be given the same opportunities, and that they should be freed from the stigma of the past.
Let me begin by saying that I am all for giving women the highest degree of respect, and that they should be given the opportunities they desire. But I also know that men and women are in fact different. Feminism tries to enforce an "equality" that is not in fact equal.
Feminism is anything but feminine. The reality is that it's doctrines rob women of their womanhood. It does not empower women to be women. What modern feminism does is compare women to men and then attempt to make women more like men. Feminism insists than not only can women do anything a man can, but that a woman is empowered by doing so.
Don't believe this is the case? Tell me why is it so important that a woman pursue a career? Yet the stay at home mom is shamed by that same society. The feminist will applaud the working mother for the most part, but her success in their eyes is not measured in how much she actually nurtures her children but rather by pointing out that she has success in her career while raising a family.
The feminist is encouraged to go out and follow her dreams. Travel the world, experience life, demonstrate strength, be a leader, etc. Thats the slogan. But if that woman wants to settle down, raise children, be a mother, then she is missing out on what the world has to offer. That is the approach the feminist movement takes.
Why does this have to be? If you look at feminism from earlier times it wasn't like this. The great women who fought for sufferage and other such causes were all pro-woman. Women were being robbed of just rights. But as time went on the movement shifted more and more towards this idea that women needed to be in the workplace. That such women were successful and happy. That truly powerful women can be better men than men, and ultimately that they don't even really need men anymore. There's the messy business about raising the next generation so men are grudgingly given some role.
Many may say this version is painted as an extreme, but let me point out two facts. "Isms" tend to their respective extremes in terms of their goals. The second is this, that I've heard some popular feminists go way farther than I just did. People who take it to such an extreme that if science can make it possible that the roles of men and women could truly be reversed, or that women could reproduce without men. Somehow this is treated as an ideal or goal.
Feminism is an anti woman movement. It promotes the men vs women argument. It divides the human race. Just like the cause it claims to fight against, it subjugates one gender to promote the other. It promotes the female while attempting to rid itself off all that is distinctly feminine. It attempts to take masculinity away from the male and give it to the female, while stripping away anything that is distinctly masculine. As a whole it robs humanity.
