I'm not sure how to put this politely, but I'm convinced that the modern progressive “feminist” movement is negatively impacting women’s lives and damaging our country.
[I would like to address these feminists in the second person. When I use any form of "you", I'm referencing radical adherents of this movement. First person plural ("us", "we", "our", etc.) is used to refer to women in general, including myself.]
When you manipulate the law to force voters, businesses, and governments to choose us, pay us, reward us, and grant us immunity based on our sex instead of on our character, ability, effort, and/or actual achievements, you destroy women’s confidence, robbing us of self-dignity and the satisfaction of earning our position, reward, or impact on society through hard work, perseverance, and faith. When you point out our gender or our race instead of drawing attention to our person, our character, or our work, you steal our joy and motivation to set and pursue high goals for ourselves and for each other. You also build resentment between men and women, making it more difficult to work together to achieve synergy and to build consensus, much less collaborate and innovate. Your laws erode efficiency, crush our economy, waste resources, and reduce incentives for workers to strive harder or to continuously improve (reference California’s failed Fair Pay Act which Hillary Clinton wants to use a model for the entire country as one would only find in the most tyrannical, socialistic countries).
Stop treating women like babies who cannot pave their own way, compete fairly, or achieve their goals without political pandering. We don’t want or need your props. Give us equal (not privileged) opportunity to become the full expression of who God intended us to be as women without denying the clear and beautiful differences between men and women that make us so complementary for the greater good.
Stop wasting valuable resources on slimy lawsuits that make men fear and avoid us. Just as school bullies reveal their own personal insecurities when they tear someone else down, you demoralize women with your bully tactics that demasculinize men in a flawed attempt to make women appear stronger. It doesn’t work. They say “behind every strong man is a strong woman”, but the truth is that those with true strength of character seek to build others up without regard to any of the biological or mental health factors referenced when accusing someone of bigotry.
The Bible teaches us to love our enemies and to repay evil with good (Matthew 5, Luke 6). Laws intended to reverse discrimination are examples of repaying evil with evil. When governments allow or even encourage Black Lives Matter zealots to return an act of racism with far more bloody murders of police officers who had nothing to do with the initial injustice, evil is repaid with escalated evil. Hatred and murder will increase until love pushes back hate. The idea that good conquers evil or that love overcomes hate was a constant theme in Martin Luther King Jr.'s speeches. The Civil Rights movement of the 20th century did just that, winning equal rights for women and citizens of color. The successes of the Civil Rights movement are to be regarded highly and protected carefully.
However, as C.S. Lewis wrote, “[The devil] always sends errors into the world in pairs—pairs of opposites… He relies on your extra dislike of the one to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled.” The modern version of the feminist movement has pushed our culture over to the deep end on the opposite side, creating a new bigotry that could eventually become as bad as the first. Just as racism and sexism led people to withhold the right to vote from blacks and women, racism and sexism lead voters to choose a candidate or employee simply because that candidate fits into one of these “protected classes” without considering their actual job qualifications.
When race, color, gender, gender identity, sexual preference, and all the other classes I'm forgetting from the diversity unicorn are the only considerations, unqualified candidates are elevated into positions of responsibility they are not ready or equipped to handle effectively. Consider Katherine Archuleta who was selected as the Director of the OPM largely because she was a Latino female, the first for this office. Her unwillingness to respond to system security warnings and her inept management skills resulted in the largest and most dangerous security breach up until that time, involving the theft of over 22 million American’s most confidential personal information. Such epic failure in managing national security information was only recently topped by Hillary Clinton with her mishandling of top secret and classified emails. Despite Hillary’s long list of felonies and epic failures of Benghazi sized magnitude, many voters still chose her as the first woman to represent a major party for the presidential election simply because she was female. She has even touted her gender as a primary qualification for the presidency as if that should matter at all. Obama won many votes not based on merit or ability but because he was father was African. Americans have suffered greatly under these three leaders who have brought shame on the genders and races they represent. I want someone with integrity, proven ability, and dignity to represent women. It is better to wait for a good representative than to settle for an inept and/or corrupt one.
Give us equal opportunity, not easy access to positions we do not deserve. If we are to continuously improve, we need natural consequences and obstacles in our path to refine us and make us stronger.
3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, (Romans 5: 3-4)When you remove those obstacles, you impede us from developing the character, grit, confidence, integrity, perseverance, and drive required to make meaningful contributions as both leaders and servants to our communities and country, representing our gender well, with courage, character, and integrity.
"Count it all joy...when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing" (James 2: 2-4)If you want men to respect women, try doing something thoughtful or speaking intellectually to keep others focused on your heart, spirit, and mind instead of dressing immodestly so as to draw attention to your body (shout out to Lena Dunham and Kim Kardashian who post nude photos/video whenever they feel lonely or want more attention). Stop whining and blaming men for all the troubles you bring on yourself. We know a tree by its fruit. If you act like a spoiled, entitled brat or a shallow, fragile snowflake, you probably are, and by displaying yourself in that manner, you objectify women in the eyes of men while demeaning women who carry themselves with dignity and honor.
Fake feminists create micro-aggression movements and then try to feel offended by them. They file petty lawsuits, make excuses, and place unreasonable demands upon others. True feminists value women and femininity while also encouraging and building up the men in their lives. They see themselves as God sees them, uniquely gifted for a divine purpose with equal standing before the Lord as men have but with different but equally valuable roles. A virtuous woman (see Proverbs 31) develops and uses the strengths God has given her for the benefit of others. She filters feedback from others, absorbing the truth while letting the misguided opinions of others roll right off of her. She faces challenges with courage and determination, accepts responsibility for herself and for those entrusted into her care, and makes a lasting impact in this world and for the kingdom to come.
