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Erasing Females: The Feminist Mystaque

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This makes so much sense and ties into a question I had asked about marriage in the Advice forum.

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Note: This column is part of Scott Lively's series "30 Days of Pride-Month Push-Back."


"Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands" (Proverbs 14:1).


Betty Friedan, author of "The Feminine Mystique" in 1963, was one of the most toxic women ever empowered by Marxist radicalism. She was co-founder of one of the bloodiest abortion-pushing entities in American history, the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) and was cursed with a personality even her leftist allies at the New York Times characterized (in her obituary, no less) as "famously abrasive" … "thin-skinned and imperious, subject to screaming fits of temperament." But the most destructive part of her legacy was "Second Wave Feminism," which "The Feminine Mystique" was "credited" with triggering. Perhaps more than any other person, Friedan is responsible for weaponizing feminist grievances to poison women against home-based, family-centered lifestyles and transform them into aggressive workplace competitors with men, leveraging leftist power in the civil rights movement to achieve the cultural Marxist goal of "disintegration of … the monogamic and patriarchal family."


As a man who came of age in the 1970s I am a part of the first generation of males upon whom was imposed Friedan's feminist theory of social order by the American public-education cabal. We were the first to be indoctrinated in the false narrative that men and women are equal and interchangeable in all things, and that men's collective unfair past "oppression" of all women warranted new public policies and practices favoring the advancement of women in roles traditionally relegated to men. Men who declined to voluntarily defer or submit to women's leadership in this campaign were deemed "male chauvinist pigs," justifying anti-discrimination laws to punish those who stood in the way of "equality." I only broke free of that mindset when I became a Christian in my late 20s and started understanding God's plan for family.

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What the author says about the effect of Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique" and its Marxist connections is accurate.

I do want to point out that there is a distinction "Radical Feminists" and "Liberal Feminists" that feminists themselves identify.

An ideological Radical Feminist is firmly in the Marxist mold of Betty Friedan. Their ultimate intent (what is Marxist about them) is the destruction of all forms of current society, from government down to family. Radical Feminists are the "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" feminists. From its start, however, Radical Feminism was criticized for actually being more bourgeoise than truly Marxist, because like Betty Friedan herself, it was born of well-to-do white women who were simply bored of being housewives. It didn't really address the cause of women who were oppressed economically or racially beyond being women. The concept of TERF--Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists-- rests on the fact that it's specifically ideological Radical Feminists who oppose considering transwomen as women. For Radical Feminists, it's all about the superiority of being born with a uterus.

Liberal Feminists preach making the current system work equally for both men and women. That might seem safer, except taken to its end it leads to an acceptance of everything, including transwomen identifying as true females. Because Liberal Feminists are trying to maintain the current structure, they are ideologically opposed at root to Radical Feminism.

Also, rather like the infusion of CRT in primary and secondary education, the infusion of feminism into primary and secondary education has muddied the boundaries. Most women who declare themselves "feminist" don't actually know enough about the ideology to know which of their beliefs are Radical Feminism and which are Liberal Feminism.
 
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