{"id":1776,"date":"2017-12-15T21:52:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T02:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2017-12-15T22:11:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T03:11:00","slug":"contemporary-feminism-self-contradiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/2017\/12\/contemporary-feminism-self-contradiction.html","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Feminism: A Self-Contradiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

The entire Harvey Weinstein\/Hollywood sex scandal is but the most recent glimpse into the Feminist Brain.<\/p>\n

And it is not pretty.<\/p>\n

To explore the Feminist Mind is the equivalent of being inside of Space Mountain while blindfolded, for it is a place racked with all of the turmoil\u2014all of the madness\u2014that one would expect to find in an oasis of irrationality.<\/p>\n

To put it succinctly, the Feminist Mind is ridden with incoherence.<\/p>\n

The Feminist\u2019s insistence that women are entitled to treatment equal to that to which men are entitled rests upon the belief that women are every bit as strong and capable as men. Yet the Feminist\u2019s depiction of women as perpetual victims of Patriarchal oppression belies this claim.<\/p>\n

In other words, women, evidently, are most definitely not <\/em>equal to men in strength and capability, for if they were, then men wouldn\u2019t be able to continually victimize\u2014to outsmart and overpower\u2014women, as Feminists tell us they do.\u00a0 Women, if they were the equals of men, wouldn\u2019t then be in need of omnipresent protection against the predations of the Patriarchy.<\/p>\n

Consider the Feminist\u2019s reasoning in light of the analogy of children.\u00a0 Most of us recognize that children, particularly smaller, younger children, need and deserve special care by adults.\u00a0 This, however, is because we recognize that they are not as rational, strong, and mature as we hope they will eventually become. And because of their underdeveloped capacities and weaknesses, children are more vulnerable to danger than are adults.<\/p>\n

To put it another way, the truth of the claim that we need to be particularly attentive to children\u2014the claim that children are entitled to treatment that is unequal<\/em> to that to which adults are entitled\u2014depends upon the truth of the claim that they are unequal in cognitive prowess and wisdom to adults.<\/p>\n

Similarly, in claiming that women are forever at the mercies of men, and that, as such, they are in need of special attention and protections, are not Feminists implying that women are no more equal to men than children are equal to adults?<\/p>\n

The Feminist\u2019s protestations to the contrary aside, the logic (or illogic) of her or his<\/em> utterances points inescapably to the following conclusion: The Feminist thinks that it is both true<\/em> and not true<\/em> that women are the equals of men.<\/p>\n

The Feminist\u2019s position, in short, is self-contradictory.\u00a0 Thus, it isn\u2019t just false; it is necessarily false.<\/p>\n

A more specific example of this self-contradiction in practice can be gotten readily enough from the reaction of the Feminist to reports of women having been sexually harassed and \u201cassaulted\u201d by men.<\/p>\n

Feminists decry traditional, popular conceptions of women that have always been and remain held by billions of men and women<\/em> around the Earth. \u00a0According to these ideas\u2014Feminists call them \u201cstereotypes<\/em>\u201d\u2014women are of the physically weaker, \u201cthe fairer,\u201d sex. \u00a0As such, they need to be treated by men more gently and protectively than men are inclined to treat one another.\u00a0 These \u201cstereotypes,\u201d Feminists assure us, being the legacy of a chauvinistic, patriarchal world order, must be relegated to the dustbin of history (while his<\/em>tory must be made to give way to Her<\/em>story).<\/p>\n

It is this attitude toward these traditional \u201cstereotypes\u201d that accounts for why some Feminists have expressed resentment toward such chivalric gestures on the part of men as, say, holding doors for women.<\/p>\n

It is this attitude that explains why contemporary action films and television series feature women engaging in bloody confrontations with and prevailing over significantly larger men.<\/p>\n

It is this attitude that powers the Feminist\u2019s push to insure that women are \u201crepresented\u201d as police officers, combat soldiers, fire fighters, boxers, and mixed martial artists.<\/p>\n

In summary, the Feminist would have us think that the only basic difference between men and women is a difference in plumbing: Men are women with penises and women are effectively men without penises.<\/p>\n

Yet at the same time, Feminists embrace real stereotypes that are one-dimensional caricatures of the traditional thought on women.<\/p>\n

To hear Feminists tell it, women, whether in Hollywood or anywhere else, are delicate flowers that will wilt as soon as a man so much as compliments them on their appearance, to say nothing of whistles at or \u201ccat-calls\u201d to them.\u00a0 One recent illustration of this is Heather Lind<\/a>, a 34 year-old actress who just this past week announced that George H.W. Bush, during a photo-op a few years ago, \u201csexually assaulted\u201d her.<\/p>\n

The former president is 93 years-old, suffering from Parkinson\u2019s disease, and confined to a wheelchair. His wife and several other people were alongside him when Ms. Lind claims to have been assaulted.<\/p>\n

In a now deleted Instagram post, Lind wrote that she became \u201cdisturbed\u201d upon seeing a recent photograph of Barack Obama shaking hands with Bush.\u00a0 While she posed in a \u201csimilar photo\u201d with the latter in promoting her AMC program, Bush \u201csexually assaulted me,\u201d Lind remarked.<\/p>\n

So, what did this nonagenarian do to Lind that keeps her \u201cdisturbed\u201d years after it occurred?\u00a0 \u201cHe didn\u2019t shake my hand. He touched me from behind from his wheelchair with his wife Barbara Bush by his side. He told me a dirty joke. And then, all the while being photographed, touched me again.\u201d<\/p>\n

An off-color joke and two pats on Ms. Lind\u2019s posterior by a man who is old enough to be her grandfather\u2014this<\/em> is what passes for \u201csexual assault\u201d in the contemporary Feminist\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n

Lind wants for the world to know the trauma that she\u2019s had to endure.\u00a0 Bush \u201crelinquished\u201d his \u201cpower\u201d to \u201cactually help people, and serve as a symbol of our democracy\u2026when he used it [his power] against me [.]\u201d<\/p>\n

Lind found inspiration to come forward in \u201cthe bravery of other women who have spoken up and written about their experiences.\u201d It now \u201ccomforts\u201d Lind to know that \u201cI too can use my power\u201d to \u201cenact positive change,\u201d to \u201cbe a symbol of my democracy,\u201d \u201crefuse to call him [Bush Sr.] President, and call out other abuses of power when I see them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes, it seems painfully clear that Feminists have taken the very \u201cstereotypes\u201d that they allegedly despise and pumped them up on steroids.<\/p>\n

Women are equal to men except that they are not.\u00a0 This is the foundational, self-contradictory, claim at the heart of contemporary Feminism.<\/p>\n

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