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I am not against women making money or doing what's needed to survive. But I am against this culture that devalues the role and blessing of women being in their homes.
I agree.
The shallow, negative depiction of home being boring, restrictive, and unfulfilling by many leading feminists and their supporters often doesn't even give homemaking as a viable option for young women today.
I think part of the issue (but ONLY part of it) may have been...and still is for some...is that the feminists who complained about homemaking being "boring, restrictive and unfulfilling" was because homemaking WAS "boring, restrictive and unfulfilling for
THEM....AND, they may have assumed that because they were women that ALL women felt as they did.
And while I was a SAHM for a few years, I DID feel the tug of being unfulfilled, especially growing stronger as my daughters became a bit more independent. That is, they were in school, housework was done, and I wasn't a Soap-watching-daytime-talk-show-watching-kinda-gal. What's left?
Not once did anyone look at my good grades as a student and say being a good wife, mother, and homemaker would be a path I might want to consider.
Guess it depends. I LOVED school. I LOVED learning. "They" may have looked at you like, "If that's what you want, then what are you doing in college?"
It was a given that I would take on student debt and spend some of my most fertile years on someone's college campus. No one asked me if this is what I truly wanted. It was expected that I would.
No one asked
me if being a wife, mother and homemaker was what
I truly wanted, either. It was
expected I would just...do it because...that's the way it was. That's what women
do. They go to college to look for a husband; not to actually get an education, and to put that degree to use. So, while Feminism (second wave) was in full-swing, the public at large didn't catch on overnight. Some men I dated (mostly mid to late 70's) were in favor of Feminism, at least, from the standpoint of, "Sure! I have no problem with you bringing in a second paycheck...
AS LONG AS, you still take care of me, the house and the kids." I remember thinking "Ugh" as soon as I heard that.
Feminism was supposed to give women
choices. There's nothing in the bible that says that a woman MUST be a wife, mother and homemaker. Yeah, I recall (paraphrasing) that a woman "redeems" herself through child-bearing. But...what IF she CAN'T have children? Or, she gives up motherhood for the sake of the Kingdom?