When the World is Screaming "Feminism"

I know. This is a pretty long post. Please bear with me because I actually like this entry. Basaha tanan. Haha.

Simone de Beauvoir, a feminist and an important proponent in literary criticism, argued in her essay, "The Second Sex", that women should wake up, stand up, and change how society has degraded them through the myths that it has created for the people to believe in. Literature, according to her, had always presented females as weak and inferior to men, which is an insult to women, and a motivation for men to view the opposite sex as lesser beings than themselves. This realization not only saddened her, but also made her furious at society and the norms it had set for the people to follow.

Honestly, Feminism's original aim had appealed to me before, especially when it defended the abused women. That was about it, though. Unfortunately, the feminists didn't seem to be contented with this that their objectives had escalated into a movement with more demands. All of a sudden, Feminism was more than just protecting women. It had become a rebellion, somehow, and it honestly disgusted me. There are even a number of instances that Feminism goes over the border of gender just so they could tell the world how women are deprived of a lot of things.

One of the last lessons we took up for midterms in our Literary Criticism class was the Queer Gender Theory. Believe it or not, this is only an extension of Feminism, and, yes, its proponents were feminists. The Queer Gender Theory focuses on how heterosexuality has become a burden in society. I am not really good at explaining things, so to further elaborate on what I am talking about, I think I'd just share my answer to a check-up quiz we had about this theory.

Discuss heterosexuality and lesbian experience according to Adrienne Rich.

Rich argues that heterosexuality abuses women. Heterosexuality, according to her, emphasizes how we tend to make men superior over women, to the point of depriving women of their sexuality and making them objects to men. Lesbianism, then, is just channeling a female's energy to another female. It acts as a rebellion to heterosexuality and showing the world that females are also capable of taking over their sexuality and taking control over themselves.

You could just imagine what I was thinking while writing this. This is when Feminism goes crazy.

It saddens me whenever I think about this and how people want to be over the otherss. They think being superior and liberal is a human right! Feminists think women are not supposed to be where they are right now -- under men. As much as I agree with the fact that some men do take advantage of the weakness of women, I also believe this, Feminism, is just too much. We are supposed to view others better than ourselves. We are supposed to want to serve others. Why are we trying so hard to be up at the top? Why are we trying so hard to be where we should not be? Why do we want to make worldly royals of ourselves?

This also reminds me of the time when the serpent deceived Eve. The serpent coaxed her to take a bite of the fruit that God had told them not to eat. Eve yielded to the serpent, as we all know, because of her desire to be better than she already is. I know you know what happened next. Looking at it, the feminists do have a similar way of thinking.

The Bible says that we should have a heart of a servant, through Him, our Lord Jesus. Either they didn't know that, or they didn't want to. We have to remember that even our Lord, Jesus Christ, became a servant himself. Who are we to complain? Our Lord didn't.

Our professor, who's a guy, by the way, joked about it while we were discussing the theory. He ranted about why females still wanted gentlemen to hold the doors open for them, pay for the bill during dates, pull the chair for them, or carry heavy things for them, when they wanted equality in the first place. Females always cry for equality, yet when the males give it to them even in the slightest of things, they go on saying, "Be a gentleman!" I believe I was the only one in class who shouted, "Hear here!" Being in a class full of females and homosexuals, I don't think it would be easy for me to vent out my belief with regard to this issue.

Honestly, I still do not get how feminists wanted to be on the same platform the males are on. Simone de Beauvoir opposes Eternal Femininity which is a belief that females are bound to stick to their roles being a woman -- modest and submissive. Beauvoir claims this belief to be terribly wrong. I beg to disagree.

I believe being feminine is undeniably beautiful. Being feminine isn't about being weak. It never was supposed to be viewed that way, in the first place. Could you imagine a world when gender isn't a distinction anymore? It wouldn't be as lovely as the Feminists say it would be. Why would you think the Lord created a male and a female? If the Lord wanted the genders to be completely equal in society, He could have just created men. There is beauty in difference. That's why He created females especially different from males. Wake up.

So what if feminists cry to us about being slaves to the norms of society? So what if they want power and we don't? Life is not about trying to be on the top of the ranks. Life is not about seeking for equality in society. We do not need that. The Bible tells us that there is no male nor female in God's love. For Him, we are equal. Even Christ died for all of us -- not just the Jews, not just the males...but for all of us. So the next time the world screams "Feminism" right at our ears, let us just immerse ourselves in God's equal love for us, and all noises and rallies of the world would be barely noticeable.

"There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." Galatians 3:28

xx, Aine <3

P.S. I am so proud of you. You actually finished reading this? Wow. Clap, clap, clap. Thanks. GOD bless you. Read previous posts? I posted two today. Haha. :3