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Related: About this forumChristian Women Taking Back 'Feminism'
The term feminism has been hijacked by the secular feminist movement, says Betsy Hart, a syndicated columnist for Scripps Howard News Service and author of It Takes a Parent. Many people including Christians and a lot of young, secular women associate traditional feminism with very angry, men-hating, strident, unattractive and unhappy women.
But today, Christian women like Palin and Bachmann are redefining a feminist as a woman who is conservative and pro-life, who has a calling in the workplace, but who also embraces her role as a Christian wife and mother.
In a 2010 speech, Palin drew a connection between herself and feminists, but reconfigured the term to mean a self-sufficient, pro-life Christian who believes being a woman is a source of her success. Bachmann has said she went into politics partly because of her womans intuition.
This fledging movement has more and more Christian conservative women looking back to feminisms early roots and finding a lot to admire and emulate.
http://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-women-taking-back-feminism-55280/
I'm posting this to contrast another recently posted article on the same topic that paints this movement as something being championed by rational, intelligent, progressive christian women. That seems to be hardly the case.
If Palin and Bachman are the role models for this emergence of feminist christian women, I think it is doomed to fail.
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)care to raise their own importance and financial capabilities. They have no concern for other women.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)This fledging movement has more and more Christian conservative women looking back to feminisms early roots and finding a lot to admire and emulate. This fledging movement has more and more Christian conservative women looking back to feminisms early roots and finding a lot to admire and emulate.
First of all - if they start from 'men hating angry women' - they are already off to a false start. I've rarely if ever heard another feminist woman say, "all men are dogs" or "all men are pigs". We simply do NOT do that. And no one would ever call Naomi Wolf 'unattractive'. And most feminists including myself could care less about Naomi's looks - and more about the beautiful things that come out of her amazing mind.
Second - They want to go back to the Temperance Societies? How far back are they going? Because truthfully? I couldn't see Stanton giving either Bachmann or Palin the time of day if she were to come back from her grave and walk this earth . . .
zbdent
(35,392 posts)ChadwickHenryWard
(862 posts)It gives me a headache in my eye.
atreides1
(16,079 posts)"I desire that the men pray everywhere lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting, and the women likewise [or 'in like manner']"[1 Tim. 2:8]
"A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet."[1 Tim. 2:11-12]
"[I desire women] to array themselves in a befitted catastola,[15] with reverence and restraint, not with braids, or gold, or pearls, or costly garments. But as becomes women proclaiming godliness, with good deeds."[1 Tim. 2 10]
"Let a woman learn, quietly, in all subjection [to God]."[1 Tim. 2:11]
"Now I permit a woman neither to teach nor exercise authority over a man, but let her be in quietness. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived [when he sinned]; but the woman, having [first] been thoroughly deceived, became [involved] in the transgression [of Adam], and she will be saved by the Child-bearing [i.e., the bearing of Jesus Christ], if they abide in faith, and love and sanctification with self-restraint."[1 Tim. 2:1215]
a simple pattern
(608 posts)What are you looking at? Get back in the kitchen.
Patrick_Bateman
(47 posts)uber intelligent feminist wife who is "happy" most of the time takes great umbrage at this foolishness.
Everything is opposite in their puny world:
Up is down
Black is white
Feminism is them
msongs
(67,407 posts)monmouth
(21,078 posts)frebrd
(1,736 posts)Yuck!