Intro: Ideological feminism was an active participant in the Jesus Christ-and-human-hating catastrophe that overtook Orthodox Christian Russia. After violently seizing control, Bolsheviks set about destroying the Christian foundations of that land.
Destruction of the family was high on their list. They forced mothers out of their homes and into the workplace. Divorce and abortion were made readily and easily available.
Great numbers of children were housed in Detdoma and their souls hardened and criminalized by poison: Darwinism to dehumanize them, and then hate Jesus Christ, hate Christianity, hate mother and father, hate cultural and religious holidays and traditions; embrace obscene sexuality and gender-bending. So wicked did they become that their Detdoma conditioners fled, leaving the hardened youth free to terrorize villages, steal, murder, and rape.
What took place in the Soviet Union took longer here, but the trail of broken hearts, tears, pain and suffering of mothers and fathers caused by the daughters they had done their best to raise but who abandoned them as parasites and exploiters are practically the same.
The diabolical psychology of Marx, Communism, Cultural Marxism, ideological Feminism, ideological LGBTQ+ and all God-haters who dream the dark dream of destroying the world created by God is the same as Progressive Liberalism, and baby and child murdering Liberal Woke Feminism. @SpiritedIrish
Nancy R Pearcey on X. Professor & Scholar in Residence at HCU, Author of Total Truth, Love Thy Body, The Toxic War on Masculinity, and more.
Gloria Steinem’s legacy:
Surveys today show that young women have a low view of marriage and motherhood. And no wonder: Gloria Steinem denigrated married women who work at home raising their children.
–“No more men who are encouraged to spend a lifetime living with inferiors; with housekeepers, or dependent creatures who are still children.”
–“When society stops encouraging men to be exploiters and women to be parasites…”
(Steinem’s 1970 Time essay “What It Would Be Like If Women Win.”)
But Steinem was merely echoing put-downs of women that were common among feminist leaders: “Betty Friedan is credited with launching second wave feminism with her book The Feminine Mystique (1963).
In it, she actually sympathizes with male “resentment” against their wives. The rising divorce rate, she writes, proves “the growing aversion and hostility that men have for the feminine millstones hanging around their necks.”
She promises men that feminism will liberate them from wives who are “passive, dependent, childlike.”
Friedan even excuses male adultery, saying it is “motivated simply by the need to escape from the devouring wife”—the “parasitic” homemaker. She endorses “male hostility for the girls whose active pursuit of the ‘home career’ has resulted in a new kind of domination and aggression.”
That’s right: Friedan accuses women of “domination and aggression”—for wanting to be homemakers.
Simone de Beauvoir, author of The Second Sex (1949), another founding text of feminism, complains that marriage turns women into “leeches,” “praying mantises,” and a “dead weight” on their husbands.
Jessie Bernard, a leading sociologist, charges that a wife “became for all intents and purposes a parasite, with little to do except indulge or pamper herself.”
Ironically, the feminist message aligns squarely with the Playboy mentality, which has been another major force in inciting the male rebellion. An early Playboy article warned that marriage was a trap that would “crush man’s adventurous, freedom-loving spirit.”
The magazine exhorted its readers to “enjoy the pleasures the female has to offer without becoming emotionally involved.”
The very term playboy expressed rebellion. To an earlier generation, it would have been shocking to think that a man should aspire to be a boy. And equally shocking to think that his goal in life should be to play.
As one social commentator writes, “The arrival of Playboy in 1953 . . . was an all-out rebellion against the requirements of marital duty. . . . Playboy sneered at marriage as the enslavement of men.”
(from The Toxic War on Masculinity)