“Perhaps the biggest obstacle facing those of us who want to see a restoration of our culture, a return to the family, to healthy and honored womanhood and motherhood, and wide-scale desexualization, is the wide gap separating us from those who want to maintain their crafted narrative.” – The End of Woman
A recent United Nations study of violence against women and girls in sports revealed nearly 1000 lost medals in 26 different sports from biological men identifying as women. Ignoring biology, hormones, and other feminine characteristics, womanhood is now defined by a mere feeling—the unfortunate outcome of the diminishment of women over time.
In Carrie Gress’s 2023 book, “The End of Woman”, Gress in telling the history of feminism and its effects on culture has revealed how the devaluing of feminine attributes, virtues, and nature, has made women more like men, and thus contributed to their loss of identity. Beginning with the history of feminism, from its origins in the eighteenth century to modern times, gaining equality was not enough. Competing with men in business, and even sex, has all but erased the innate characteristics of womanhood.
While early feminism secured much-needed rights for education, work, and equality, its ongoing narrative vowed to smash the patriarchy and end male supremacy. Using the handmaiden’s tale of red-robed women, equality for women came to be defined by a decline for men. Equalization of the sexes, to compete, and not compliment one another, led to a decline in traditional female norms. Deeming the patriarchal family as oppressive led to a restructuring of society, especially marriage, and the role of motherhood.
Ignoring the obvious biological realities of the female form, feminism made male lives the norm to be imitated. Male sexuality became women's sexuality: free love and promiscuity and the avoidance of monogamy, and marriage. Birth control aided women in achieving sex without consequences. A secularized movement to remove Christianity, and God from America, put an end to family values. Women bought the bargain and were left unfulfilled. Now, it is women who divorce their husbands at a rate of 80 percent which has only led to increases in suicide, depression, drug addiction, and STDs.
But the God-given differences in gender gave women their birthright as life-givers, suited best for marriage, homemaking, and monogamy. Just as the loss of strong men in society has hurt cultural norms, so too has the making of women less womanly led to a culture of the unborn, the unmarried, and the unfulfilled. Feminism hurts women the most by keeping them from their natural state. Women can, and do, have it all, but maybe, not all at once.
With today’s cultural confusion, it shouldn’t be surprising that now men are crossing over to fill the void left by womanhood, redefining it on their own terms. By cosplaying a perverted version of women, men have taken over women’s spaces and women’s accomplishments.
In country singer Shania Twain’s 1999 song, “Man, I Feel Like a Woman”, Twain’s female empowerment anthem celebrates womanhood. Feminism went too far and did more harm than good when faux liberation only left women unhappy, unfulfilled, and at war with men. Women need strong men, and men need feminine women. Let women be who they are.
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