I tend to think that like labor unions, feminists have simply outlived their usefulness. At one time, labor unions were great change agents in improving quality of life in the work place. Now, concerned primarily with money and power, they mostly just get in the way of any meaningful change.
Feminists seem a little bit like that to me these days. There are other reasons I think they're well on their way to making themselves irrelevant. But I thought
Mike Adams summed them up pretty clearly. It's interesting to me that feminists tend to communicate emotionally, in shrillness, hysteria, and anger. These are all stereotypes that today's serious, professional business woman has spent years trying to overcome, thank you very much.
Yet because they are women, and I'm a woman, they insist they shriek for me. If I disagree, I just don't understand. As
Ed Driscoll points out, they simply decide I don't know my own best interests, going so far as to suggest I might be "slightly mentally ill." (HT:
Impacted Wisdom Truth for both links.)
For the record, I believe men and women are different (thank goodness!) but equal. So I continue to try to be a respectful, knowledgeable, proactive advocate for equality - yes, even in the church. I know we're equal because we were created that way - in the image of God created He
them. God says for
them to rule over the earth (Genesis 1:26-28). Men and women are
co-heirs with Christ (Romans 8:15-17). Because we are "clothed with Christ," there is "neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for
you are all one in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:26-29). And my favorite: because I have Jesus as a great high priest, I can boldly approach the throne of grace (Hebrews 4:14-16). It just doesn't make sense to construe female submission to male authority when I've already been invited directly into the throne room.
God designed men and women to
complement each other. Both feminists and the church miss the importance of this. Feminists miss it because they irrationally insist we're exactly the same. The church misses it because while acknowledging differences, it simply excludes half of them. We insist on running the church with only half of the human qualities God created. And, much like labor unions, it makes the church appear irrelevant in today's culture.
