{"id":1788,"date":"2017-12-27T21:56:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T02:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/?p=1788"},"modified":"2017-12-27T21:56:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T02:56:32","slug":"metoo-chickens-sexual-revolution-coming-home-roost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/2017\/12\/metoo-chickens-sexual-revolution-coming-home-roost.html","title":{"rendered":"#MeToo: The Chickens of the Sexual Revolution Coming Home to Roost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The #MeToo campaign has far-reaching implications for both feminism and the so-called Sexual Revolution to which feminism gave rise.<\/p>\n<p>First, the Feminist affirms a model of Woman that is, or is supposed to be, radically at odds with what she takes to be the traditional, patriarchal stereotype from which feminists have (allegedly) liberated women.\u00a0 Feminist Woman is strong and self-sufficient; she is large and in charge, no one\u2019s victim.\u00a0 Non-feminist Woman, in stark contrast, is weak, needy, and forever at the mercy of her male oppressors.<\/p>\n<p>Yet as the #MeToo campaign has made abundantly clear, Feminist Woman is a mirage, an illusion.<\/p>\n<p>It is a Big Lie.<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of women on board the #MeToo train travel in left-leaning circles.\u00a0 They are Feminist Woman.\u00a0 And here they are revealing to the world that they are every bit as weak, needy, and at the mercy of their male oppressors as they\u2019ve tirelessly insisted Non-feminist Woman has always been.<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing strong or self-sufficient about a woman who, upon being sexually harassed or assaulted, remains silent in exchange for either accepting hush money or otherwise advancing her career, thereby making it easier for other women to fall prey to the same predations to which she claims she was subjected.<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing strong or self-sufficient about a woman who, after having remained silent for <em>decades<\/em>, in many instances, decides to level allegations of sexual abuse only after many others started doing the same, only once it has become trendy\u2014and profitable\u2014to do so.<\/p>\n<p>And such a woman is nothing if not at the mercy of men.<\/p>\n<p>Feminist Woman is strong, self-sufficient, and no man\u2019s victim\u2014except for when she is weak, needy, and the victim of predatory men.<\/p>\n<p>Second, Feminist Woman\u2019s position on sexual morality is as self-contradictory as her position on women.<\/p>\n<p>Classical Marxists once equated traditional Christian sexual morality with a form of \u201cbourgeois\u201d repression. Feminist Woman, bearing unmistakably her leftist pedigree, regards the Christian sexual ethic as an instrument of misogynistic, \u201chetero-normative\u201d oppression. Thus, the so-called \u201cSexual Revolution\u201d that broke loose some 50 years ago was self-consciously meant as an unequivocal repudiation of the West\u2019s dominant, traditional ethic.<\/p>\n<p>This ethic affirms the virtues of modesty, self-discipline, self-love, and mutual respect between men and women. It prescribes chastity until marriage, which it depicts as the <em>sacrament<\/em> of <em>holy matrimony<\/em>, the lifetime covenant that <em>a man<\/em> and <em>a woman<\/em> enter into with one another and with the God who instituted this sacrament for the essential purpose of begetting and raising children (Yes, given that the etymology of \u201cmatrimony\u201d is \u201cmother,\u201d marriage is inherently <em>heterosexual<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Feminist Woman and her fellow \u201crevolutionaries\u201d have spent over a half-of-a-century doing whatever they could to hack this ethic to pieces.\u00a0 Its virtues Feminist Woman has transformed into vices.\u00a0 Along with her fellow sexual revolutionaries, Feminist Woman has derided and mocked the Christian sexual ethic.<\/p>\n<p>For humility and self-restraint, she has substituted ostentatiousness and self-indulgence.\u00a0 Feminist Woman has jettisoned commitment in favor of convenience.\u00a0 Marriage she wrote off as nothing more or less than a \u201csocial construct\u201d that was devised by heterosexual males for the sake of bolstering their \u201chegemony\u201d over women and sexual minorities (homosexuals, the \u201ctransgendered,\u201d etc.), and sex, far from serving a larger common good like the production and nurturance of the family, exists first and foremost for the sake of bringing pleasure to those who engage in it.<\/p>\n<p>As long as the sex is <em>consensual <\/em>(however individual feminists define this), it matters not with whom, where, when, or how it occurs.<\/p>\n<p>This is the anti-Christian ethos within which the #MeToo campaign has taken flight.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the Sexual Revolution has proven to be not very liberating after all.\u00a0 It has turned in on itself, cannibalizing its own.<\/p>\n<p>Third, but it isn\u2019t just the \u201crevolutionaries\u201d who have been harmed.\u00a0 Most tragically, untold numbers of children, both born and unborn, are casualties of this systematic assault against traditional Christian sexual morality.\u00a0 The rate of children born out of wedlock has risen astronomically, as has the rate of divorce; the phenomenon of the \u201cbroken home\u201d is now commonplace.<\/p>\n<p>And since the early days of the Revolution to the present day, tens and tens of millions of children have been denied the opportunity to leave their mothers\u2019 wombs, killed by their mothers in the name of a \u201cWoman\u2019s Right to Choose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, once convenience trumped commitment and the pleasure of the individual assumed categorical importance, the child in the womb became a \u201cfetus\u201d and the killing of that child an \u201cabortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Given its dependence upon a deceptive vocabulary, the Sexual Revolution, like Feminism itself, reveals itself as a Big Lie.<\/p>\n<p>Yet it is a most dangerous lie, for it has resulted, and continues to result, in the mass destruction of lives, including and especially the lives of the most innocent and defenseless among us, those who have never and could never \u201cconsent\u201d to the Sexual Revolution, and who are unceremoniously ignored by the #MeToo campaigners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The #MeToo campaign has far-reaching implications for both feminism and the so-called Sexual Revolution to which feminism gave rise. 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