While I do not agree with all the principles of the 19th century feminists, they did have some noble goals. The right to own property—rather than to be property—is a right that I am grateful for. We were created male and female, in God’s image, and we have equal value.
Like any human institution, the Feminist Movement was prone to weakness. Whenever people become consumed with their rights they can easily go astray. Somewhere along the line, the Feminist Movement lost its way, as the focus changed from getting equal rights for women to gaining superiority over men. The feminist attitude began to resemble a song from Annie Get Your Gun: “Anything you can do, I can do better! I can do anything better than you!”
I spent several years living in post-communist Eastern Europe, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. I was able to see firsthand the “utopia” that gives women complete equality with men. It isn’t as pretty as the picture the radical feminist media paints on the nightly news. I saw women with shovels digging ditches alongside men. I saw visibly pregnant women standing on crowded subways while healthy young men refused to give up their seat. I saw a culture that, in the name of equality, gave no deference to women in the workplace or in society.
American feminists are aware that this is the result when a patriarchal society legislates feminism. And they want no part of it. Equality isn’t their endgame, after all. Superiority is what they are striving for. They want to have all the rights that men have without the incumbent responsibilities. They want to pick and choose which equalities they want and which responsibilities they don’t. A popular feminist slogan says “Women who seek equality with men lack ambition.”
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