Logical Antithesis

Groundwork: Defining Inequality

Please, understand that while I do not believe in the equality of men and women, I also do not believe that women are inferior. I honestly believe that men and women are complimentary, that the a pairing of the genders completes both halves. And there was a definite cultural need, once upon a time, to give more freedom to women; what you haven’t been told is that it wasn’t the men who shackled women into the Victorian role, but women themselves manufactured the rules and traditions; women locked women into a golden cage.

To understand why I think women and men aren’t equal, lets take a moment and look at geometry (the mathematical field). There are two terms in geometry that differ in their specialty: equality, the nature of things being nearly identical; congruence, the nature of things being exactly identical. If you take the four corners of a perfectly square table and look at them, they are equal. All four corners have approximately the same measurable size (90° in this case) and depth. Yet the corners are not congruent because their location and rotation differs; should these be congruent you would just have a stack of corners and legs, and a very lousy table indeed.

Another way, is how do you have the yin without the yang? A simple illustration of this is that only heterosexual couples can produce children naturally. If both genders were the same there would be no children.

So Really, What Then is Feminism?

The name “feminism” evokes a prominence around the female gender, a female chauvinism if you will. (Though not necessarily as strong or as belligerent as chauvinism.) My youngest sister originally thought that feminism was about being feminine. But do the modern feminists follow these principles?

Not really.

The feminist culture infers that women are inferior, because staying at home and raising children, cooking and cleaning, and all the other tasks “traditionally left to the female” are all the things that these women try to leave behind. Feminist women try to become men. So to give the feminist movement’s goal a name I must call it masculinism.

What Then, is Masculinism?

Masculinism is the simple thought that men are superior and that women must change to be like them; a side-effect of this is that there is less room for men to act like men, and so they must be emasculated by the same movement. This isn’t the cultural empowerment of women, but a cultural rebellion in outright opposition against what God has laid out for us.

By mere definition, feminists have flipped the coin. Therefore, any non-feminist woman is now inferior to the males in her life—and she is duty-bound to attempt to culturally, politically and socially emasculate them. How flattering! How kind!

A Quick Summary of Feminist Culture

In my frank opinion, feminism is nothing short of a pride-filled attempt to create a tyrannical matriarchy. It is also one of the facets to the Communist Manifesto and the French Revolution; both “liberated” the female gender into virtual (self-deluded) slavery and violence. Modern feminism does the same; liberating women from the role of wife to that of a whore.

But what does the Bible say in opposition to this?

The Spiritual Value of Men and Women

(Galatians 3.26-29)
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye are Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Paul expresses the spirit of men and women, bondsmen and freedmen, and Jew and Gentile as being completely congruent. This is perfect equality: one soul has the same value of another regardless of its physical circumstances. Therefore men and women have the same spiritual value through the unifying nature of Jesus Christ.

Whom is the Leader?

(1 Corinthians 11.3)
But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

(1 Corinthians 14.34)
Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

(1 Timothy 2.11-14)
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

(Ephesians 5.22-25,33)
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; […] Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

(Colossians 3.18-19,24-25)
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance; for ye serve the Lord Christ. But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done; and there is no respect of persons.

If you think yourself to be a Christian, please do me a favor of finding a contrary verse to these five passages. You cannot quote Galatians 3.26-29 at me for the simple reason that the context is making the argument that all (through Christ) are united and equal spiritually; this argument was to the Galatians who had fallen prey to the argument that they had to be Jews first to become Christian. You will not be able to find a single example or passage that supports the feminist argument without totally perverting the message given.

Man is the head of the woman both in marriage and the home.

Another thing of note lies in the Colossians passage above: the word submit. The first definition of submit means “to yield or submit (oneself) to the authority or will of another.” Because it is a command to the wives, husbands cannot force their wives to submit—it’s a requirement for women to swallow their pride and follow.

In Closing

I cannot claim to fully know the mind of God because I must search it out. However, I can easily tell you the meaning of the scriptures that I have quoted; to gain any other meaning from these passages is to be delusional.

So, for those who are the impossible, the so-called “Christian” feminists, I hope this has given a little food for thought. And, I hope that eventually you will submit yourself to God first, and then a husband or your father (if unmarried). Because until you submit there is no way for you to live in harmony with God. God’s apostles, and God himself throughout the Old Testament, have bound this (Matthew 16.19, 18.18). And who are you to defy God?

For yet further reading on the role of wives and husbands, read 1 Peter 3.1-7. There are many other passages that I have not listed; partly to leave something for those interested in studying the topic, partly due to time.