Something I wrote on International Women's Day:
If I had any relationship to 21st century feminism, it would be a very awkward one. If people insist that you're a feminist if you support women, then I would be a very bad, very awkward one.
Feminism used to be about equality and fair treatment, but today's feminism just seems constrictive and judgmental. I'm pro life, I'm against homosexuality and co.; and I'd love more than anything to have platonic coffee talk sessions with the opposite gender. I just don't fit anywhere in today's feminism, and I don't think they'd like to make room for me.
I don't mind that much, though. I think when you see any one earthly thing (such as men) as the cause for all the world's problems, it can make you sink into a dark, painful place. You become bitter, because it's like fixing a leak in a pipe that gushing water.
Men are not the problem. Nor are women. Sin is the problem, and if we operated more by Jesus' love and sacrifice, and our love for him, there would be a lot less crankiness and fighting and hurt feelings. At least in my corner of the house.
If I had any relationship to 21st century feminism, it would be a very awkward one. If people insist that you're a feminist if you support women, then I would be a very bad, very awkward one.
Feminism used to be about equality and fair treatment, but today's feminism just seems constrictive and judgmental. I'm pro life, I'm against homosexuality and co.; and I'd love more than anything to have platonic coffee talk sessions with the opposite gender. I just don't fit anywhere in today's feminism, and I don't think they'd like to make room for me.
I don't mind that much, though. I think when you see any one earthly thing (such as men) as the cause for all the world's problems, it can make you sink into a dark, painful place. You become bitter, because it's like fixing a leak in a pipe that gushing water.
Men are not the problem. Nor are women. Sin is the problem, and if we operated more by Jesus' love and sacrifice, and our love for him, there would be a lot less crankiness and fighting and hurt feelings. At least in my corner of the house.
