By Andrea Guachalla
It is easy to identify the dangers and incongruities of an ideology when its negative consequences are on full display, isn’t it? Remember how Women’s Day was celebrated by the feminist movement around the world a couple of weeks ago?
That was undeniably ugly!
Besides all the violence targetting public institutions, churches, private property, and even women committed by the feminist mob we heard their ever-green demands: the right to be more like men, followed logically by the “right” to be unlike women. We witnessed the feminist demand that culture accepts and stands for their view that there is no such thing as a design for men and a design for women and that those are social constructs designed merely as means of oppression.
This last part is the exact same reason the feminist movement is avidly supported by transgenderism and the LGBT community.
Their reclaim of the right to be more like men comes with all sorts of anti-women demands that oppose the very idea of what a woman is: women demand the right to “not be pregnant,” i.e. the right to kill their own unborn babies. The right to “not be mothers” because it’s an “unpaid job” therefore to be viewed as modern slavery. Women are fighting for the right to be sexually promiscuous and be celebrated for it, which in itself untruly assumes all men are promiscuous. Women angrily fight for their right to get the same salaries as men for equal job positions, although most of them would never be able to give you one single example of a woman who was the victim of the so-called “pay gap,” or quote any source that would analyze the issue from a multifactorial perspective.
Then we go on invading men’s roles… Women fighting for the “right” to be the ones who provide financially for their families, the right to be “free” to invest valuable years in a career instead of investing it on being a home-maker, instructing one’s own children, and discipling other women. And here is the final nonsense… Women are fighting to be given jobs that are typically for men because of the dangers they entail, and the strength required for them… For what? Proving that we are as strong as men? Ok, and then what? “Congratulations, ma’am, you won the right to work in the mines and be potentially poisoned by the high concentrations of heavy metals in the environment.”
That’s the feminist fight. A fight against motherhood, femininity, family, and even life. Feminism is a fight against what it means to be a woman, and against what it means to be a man.
Do we have proof of it?
Oh, yes, we do! We witness the consequences of the widespread idea of the “patriarchal oppression” and the feminist demands every time there are grotesque protests on Women’s Day. We see its deadliness every time a country legalizes the killing of unborn babies and calls it “women’s right to reproductive health”. We witness the nonsensity of feminism every time they complain about motherhood being an “unpaid job”, and every time femininity and the family are undermined.
Feminism is ugly at its core, but it can look pretty. Nobody can deny that.
We are offered all a woman could ask for… A world for women.
We are offered to be empowered by having the focus of education, and the media on us. We are offered to be released from the “slavery” of motherhood and encouraged to be as sexually promiscuous as we would like, having the security that the government will fund the killing of our own babies in case we don’t want them. We are offered to be vindicated for all the wrong society has caused to all the women in the history of humankind. We are offered not only to be equal to men but to be more than them. We are offered more than rights, we are offered privileges. We are taught we are sufficient, beautiful, independent. Who needs men, a family, or a church when we have ourselves? We are more than enough. The world is ours. The news and social media often focus on our “suffering” and “female oppression,” completely disregarding that men live in the same fallen world as us.
When confronted with the statistical facts that say men are disproportionately more affected by criminality, violence, and homicides, have an ever-lower survival rate, a higher chance of dying by chronic diseases, mental conditions, suicide, or the dangerous jobs they must do (all that to name just a few examples – see references below) the feminists´ response is:
Who cares!? They are men, and we hate them.
Men don’t care. But you know who does?
Women.
Because this world is for women and exists only to vindicate them, and serve them. But not to all women, of course, only to those who agree with the feminist narrative.
How did we reach the point where such nonsense is widely supported by culture, entertainment, organizations, men, women, governments, and even churches?
It must be that it looks pretty…
And it does… Sometimes.
It is not appealing to the eye to see feminists setting fire to female police officers as we saw in Women’s Day. No… That is ugly for sure. But do you know what looks more pretty-ish and acceptable? Emma Watson. The sweet Hermione Granger, who grew to be an avid advocate of feminism, with all its nonsense, and incongruencies based more on feelings than on actual facts.
See? Feminism can be pretty too. It can look good, it can feel good.
And the entertainment industry takes the task of sending out the feminist message out and loud with many pretty faces… Anne Hathaway, Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus, Mark Ruffalo, Chloe Moretz… And the list goes on and on. What is hard to find really, is people in the entertainment industry who do not stand for feminism, and especially the killing of unborn babies.
Entertainment, and the media… Trying their best to empower women not knowing that we are already powerful as God designed us. Not realizing that we were given the privilege of carrying life, being home-makers, and serving God, our family, and the Body of Christ, and even while doing all that we can be entrepreneurs, hard-workers, business owners, and be of service to our communities. How low the feminists view women that they feel the need to undermine the very things God made us for.
Who is anti-women in reality?
The pretty faces of feminism will be there, being used as a tool to actively advocate for the re-defining of womanhood, and manhood, family, and life, and they will achieve to make it look like something desirable and good, as they have done so far. The question is, how do we fight that back? What do we do as we see all these celebrities and the entertainment industry shaping the thinking of our generation and the generations to come?
The answer is: we fight with the Sword, the Word of God.
Our only source of truth, and goodness, love, and meaningful design is one: God’s Word. If we know the truth, we will be able to weigh everything with it and know how far ideologies like feminism are from it. We must be close to God, and pray for discernment. We must see things from a Christian worldview.
That is the reason here at TTO we will launch a series called “Feminism and Pretty Faces” this year, where we will analyze the rhetoric and arguments of many feminist advocates, and weigh them with the Word of God, fact-check their claims, expose logical fallacies, and try to bring light where darkness is embraced. We welcome you to be part of this journey and hope that it will bless you, and equip you to respond to liberal ideologies in a Christ-like manner, and stand for the truth of the Bible unapologetically.
References:
- World Bank. Life Expectancy.
- Movember. Mental health.
- UNODC. Homicide and Gender.
- Jordan Peterson. Debate on the gender pay gap, campus protests, and postmodernism.
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