I was bought up to consider Martin Luther King was correct. What matters is how you act and your character, not the colour of your skin. As the South African Reformed Churches put it…
Therefore, we reject any doctrine
- which absolutizes either natural diversity or the sinful separation of people in such a way that this absolutization hinders or breaks the visible and active unity of the church, or even leads to the establishment of a separate church formation;
- which professes that this spiritual unity is truly being maintained in the bond of peace while believers of the same confession are in effect alienated from one another for the sake of diversity and in despair of reconciliation;
- which denies that a refusal earnestly to pursue this visible unity as a priceless gift is sin;
- which explicitly or implicitly maintains that descent or any other human or social factor should be a consideration in determining membership of the church.
My concern is that among some it is not the colour of the skin but the absence of a vagina that is causing division. For the feminists are trying to enter the church to sow roundup, leaving but their heretical monoculture.
Men who wish to be “feminist allies” must realize that this requires them to accept feminism’s anti-male ideology as correct. Feminists believe that no male has any valid knowledge of anything. Nor can a male have any ability or virtue that could qualify him for a feminist’s admiration or respect. No feminist admires or respects men, because no male can ever have any real achievement or accomplishment that would entitle him to respect or admiration. Everything “people with penises” think they have achieved is, according to feminist theory, actually a result of the unjust oppression of women. In the zero-sum game of feminist theory, whatever a male possesses he has stolen from women, cheating women out of what is rightfully theirs because, in the cruel system of male supremacy, “their genitalia granted them a level of privilege at birth.”
Feminism is not about equality. Feminism is about SHUT UP.
Every woman is infinitely superior to all men — this is the fundamental premise of feminist theory, and if any man thinks he has anything to say that a woman needs to hear, he’s wrong. Feminism means all men are always wrong about everything.
This, folks is not unity. It is anything but unity. As if feminism is about unity. It seems to be as much about division as anything else… and despite denying that the testosterone enhanced have any valid opinions, it seems that modern feminists still… crave male attention.
I’m beginning to think feminism comes down to feminists wanting to have their cake, and eat it, too. Literally. They demand the appreciative gazes of men (the correct men, of course – rich, white and handsome, not poor, brown and ugly), but refuse to stop eating cake, which results in weight gain leading to a dearth of gazes, which infuriates them, so they turn on women (both feminists and the rest of us) and the men who are refusing to make the choice to find them attractive. It’s a vicious little circle.
And the great irony, the irony that #WomenAgainstFeminism makes perfectly clear, is that if controlling the male gaze is your raison d’etre, it’s quite easy to do. Be pleasant, be feminine, maintain your body within the range of normal human weight, be loyal, be honest, be trustworthy, attempt as much grace as you can (my weak point!) and wear flattering, sensible clothing.
Ah well. I’m quite familiar with “I hate you, don’t leave me”. I see it in people who end up seeing me at work. There are far better ways to live: it will require that we help each other correct our faults and be gracious with our strengths.
For unity is a blessing. Jealousy is more akin to Roundup.
