This world is fallen and the people within it hate confrontation. It upsets us. In Kirk yesterday there was a testimony of a owman driven away by a clumsy and zealous fellow student who said that if she was not born again she was damned. Well, unless you are born again you cannot be saved. Barry praised her: not for her return but for a process.
As if the spirit of God does not work through harsh words and pain. As if we are children, or as Dalrock points out, Bratty Princesses (TM).
The statue perfectly captures the essence of feminism: A childish sense of defiance lacking a clear objective. It is childish defiance for the sake of childish defiance.
The feminists at Village Voice are quite taken with the statue itself, but complain that this feminist message comes from a patriarchal corporation. That feminist empowerment is portrayed by a girl, and not a woman, would at first seem counterintuitive. A statue honoring the strength of men would not substitute a boy for a man; this would be absurd. But it isn’t absurd for a statue ostensibly paying homage to the strength of women. Even 54 years after Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique and 51 years after she co-founded NOW, feminism is still somehow a perpetual brand new experiment. It is something we just know will bear good fruit if we could ever get around to trying it. The girl in the statue represents feminist optimism, in the same way the bull she is opposing represents optimism for our economy.
By making the statue a depiction of a young girl, the artist avoids the need to depict an actual woman doing whatever it is the feminists are sure women are going to do. It also caters to the emotion of feminism, which is based on a burning discontentment with being women, and a driving envy of men. Sticking it to the man is the underlying desire. It is about tearing men and their accomplishments down, not about women building something of their own. While a woman sticking it to the man is delightful, having a mere girl stick it to the man is even better.
And yet, the creator of the statue has a problem. The pose is of a bratty little girl standing defiantly across from the Wall Street bull. This is what you see in the side view photo from Village Voice. If the face on the statue matched the pose, it would also be of a bratty little girl. But while bratty little girl is the emotion the statue is intended to evoke, actually putting a bratty little girl’s face on the statue would go too far. A little girl with a vexed brow or sticking her tongue out would fit the pose, but not the idea of empowerment. Clearly the sculptor recognized this, and instead creepily placed the face of a woman on the body of the bratty girl. Flip back and forth between the side view and the front view to see what I mean; it is uncanny.
11The word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see a branch of an almond tree.” 12Then the LORD said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it.” 13The word of the LORD came to me a second time, saying, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see a boiling pot, tilted away from the north.”
14Then the LORD said to me: Out of the north disaster shall break out on all the inhabitants of the land. 15For now I am calling all the tribes of the kingdoms of the north, says the LORD; and they shall come and all of them shall set their thrones at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, against all its surrounding walls and against all the cities of Judah. 16And I will utter my judgments against them, for all their wickedness in forsaking me; they have made offerings to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands. 17But you, gird up your loins; stand up and tell them everything that I command you. Do not break down before them, or I will break you before them. 18And I for my part have made you today a fortified city, an iron pillar, and a bronze wall, against the whole land — against the kings of Judah, its princes, its priests, and the people of the land. 19They will fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you, for I am with you, says the LORD, to deliver you.
27Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you want?” or, “Why are you speaking with her?” 28Then the woman left her water jar and went back to the city. She said to the people, 29“Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah, can he?” 30They left the city and were on their way to him.
31Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, eat something.” 32But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33So the disciples said to one another, “Surely no one has brought him something to eat?” 34Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work. 35Do you not say, ‘Four months more, then comes the harvest’? But I tell you, look around you, and see how the fields are ripe for harvesting. 36The reaper is already receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
39Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I have ever done.” 40So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them; and he stayed there for two days. 41And many more believed because of his word. 42They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world.”
the delusions and lies of this time are strong. You don’t get power unless you earn it: from noblesse oblige to true leadership, this comes from serving and helping others. It is not a symbol. It is not defiance. It is doing your duty, the duty you don not want.
It is living soberly and bearing witness. Which will include confrontation. To our Muslim friends: your embrace of the teachings of that slaver, murderer, rapist and pedobear Mohammed, your wish to have child brides, your killing of Christians and Jews, is not bearutiful and righteous. It is ugly. And it will damn you.
Repent, and choose Christ.
To the technocrats among us. you cannot ration by genome or by techique. There is no need for a genome to help with wellness. Get a good diet in the cafeteria, and high intensity interval training in your gym. Make it safe to run. And n the metabolically challenged and injured will get fitter.
In this time when free speech is limited and we are told to be polite, it may be time to be rude. The precious princesses love their narrative. They will become violent: the authorities will allow this violence so that they can silence that which they dislike. As if freedom of speech is only for the nice.
Now is the good time to preach Christ. Now is the time for confrontation. For the consequences of this narrative, this dissolving of borders, is that Christians will become a silenced minority and the world will enter perdition. The field is ripe. Do not damn the clumsy harvester. Do not damn the offence. The spirit can use our pain.
Damn instead those who preach the narrative to appease the bratty princesses among us.