The feminist movement has achieved a lot in the United States. In addition to the killing of abortion, I suspect that the most regrettable achievement is the destruction of the idea of achieving excellence as a woman, which may seem contradictory. After all, aren’t feminists fighting so women can have a whole world of opportunities ahead of them?So we can fly high, chase our dreams, conquer, stand out?Well, not really. If you ask ordinary people what the feminist cause is, will they say that women are equal to men?To ensure that we are not treated as inferior or second-class citizens. And, of course, if you say so, that sensible person would. However, when the feminist position is summed up in this way, there is a sneaky work underway, as under the hood.
The idea that women are equal to men is not a feminist idea; it is a Christian idea. The apostle Paul said this long before Elizabeth Cady Staton or Gloria Steinem, when he taught us that in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave or free, male or female (Galatians 3:28). And she said it nearly two millennia before the women’s rights staff arrived. Feminists try to take credit for something that is the fruit of the gospel, working through culture like leaven in the dough. We have to stop allowing feminists to act as if they have somehow achieved our equality. Unconverted societies never treat women well, which is extremely easy to document. The woman treated with respect is a fruit that only grows on one type of tree, and that tree is the cross. Of course, Christians believe that women are equal to men. This belief is not something we commit to or learn from feminists, in fact it is one of our hallmarks. We have verses for these beliefs and have always had them.
- So what about feminism? Honestly.
- It all comes down to a scramble for definitions.
- What is the same? Really unpleasant? It means? The same thing ?? Does a Christian believe that women are different from men? with different qualities.
- Skills and responsibilities.
- We do not believe that these differences imply inequality.
- A feminist.
- On the other hand.
- Believes that true equality cannot be achieved without resemblance.
- However.
- A rolling pin is different from a measuring cup.
- And we can see that without saying that one is better than the other.
- And what a strange thing if we couldn’t! Imagine showing someone your kitchen utensils and that person indignantly accuses you of believing that the measuring cup is better than the rolling pin.
- Better at what? If you want to measure the flour.
- It will be very difficult to do it with a rolling pin.
- And you will have similar problems if you try to open a dough with a measuring cup.
- A roll of dough should be judged by the standards of what makes a good roll of dough and measuring cups should also be judged on their own terms.
- (Note that if the home analogy bothers you.
- It shows that you are doing exactly what I am talking about.
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We believe that women are different from men and should therefore be met by the standards of what constitutes an excellent woman, judged on her own terms. An admirable and successful woman is different from an admirable and successful man, and will accomplish different things. This is really at the heart of our disagreement with feminists: they want standards, categories and judgment to be exactly the same for men and women, but the surprise is there: the standards they want to apply to all are the ones that have always been applied to men. ?Breaking the glass ceiling is not much due to the insistence that male standards of success are now imposed on women.
In our society, a woman who achieves truly feminine excellence is seen as backward and shameful. The few successful women in the male world receive a pat on the back and a gift of participation. She’s terribly condescending. Think about how our society celebrates women who manage to join elite military teams, or something similar. Honestly, it’s the same reaction when a very, very slow girl finally crosses the finish line of the race, 12 minutes after everyone else. ceases to be so easy to flatter with this kind of admiration. If you’re careful, you’ll realize it’s not really a compliment.
Christians, especially Christians, must fight harder to recover the idea of female excellence. Often, in the name of conservatism, we buy the stereotype and embrace the figure of the woman “impotent, weak and mediocre”, thinking that it means femininity. But we must study our Bibles and learn to incorporate virtues such as women, obedience as women, ambition as women, wisdom as women, courage as women, fidelity as women, strength as women.