By Cara E. Ruegg
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| When Women Wear Pants, c.1915 USA from: Anti-Suffragette Postcards Posters |
There are a lot of terms coined by feminists. Below I will dissect just a few of these terms and illustrate just how misleading and incorrect they are, how, while they sound as if they are something good and liberating, they are really working toward a hidden and evil motive that serves only to oppress women all the more.
Toxic Masculinity
One of these terms coined by feminists is “toxic masculinity”. Now feminists will argue that by “toxic masculinity” they are only referring to those qualities in a man that are toxic. The problem with putting “toxic” in front of “masculinity” is that you are implying there are masculine qualities which are, in themselves, toxic. This is false. There is nothing brutish and cruel in a truly masculine man. The man most true to His masculinity was Christ. He is the perfect man. He is the ideal. And there is nothing toxic about His masculinity. No, what these feminists claim are toxic are not masculine qualities at all: they are the qualities of an insecure coward, not a man. We do not hear the expression "toxic virtue" do we? Why not? Because virtue cannot be toxic. What is good cannot be toxic. Feminist terminology is therefore incorrect and abusive traits should simply be labeled as abusive, not interwoven with something which in itself is good.
Second point, this use of the term “toxic masculinity” works to the advantage of those extremists that want to basically make man effeminate. Their aim: to reverse the natural order. They want those masculine qualities themselves; they want to be the heads in the family, in society; they do not want to be “humble housewives” by any means. They are proud and they are clever to their own detriment, and to society’s detriment. So by coining masculinity toxic, they make society think men shouldn’t be masculine; they should embrace their “emotional side” and basically become womanly. According to an article by Meghan Murphy published by Feminist Current, it was stated, “femininity and masculinity are not real things and reinforce sexism” and that to refuse to adhere to these set stereotypes makes one human. She argues we’re all “trans to some degree — not just those men who prefer dresses and those women who don’t want to be the object of the male gaze” (see next paragraph on what is meant by “male gaze” and feel free to laugh about this with me since what seems implied is all “truly feminine women” apparently want men to objectify them, which is, needless to say, a joke). (2016, Murphy, Prince was not Trans) In this article and many others, the glorification of overly emotional men or any man who steps outside of this “masculine stereotype” is obvious. It seems obvious to me, based on this article and others written by like-minded feminist extremists, that these women do not want men to actually be men at all.
Male Gaze
Another term used by feminists is: “Male gaze”. This is defined as a way of looking at the world through a “masculine lens that views women as sexual objects” (2017, Dastagir, A feminist Glossary). Talk about double standards! If men coined a term “female gaze” in reference to how women view the world in an illogical, emotional, and overly fanciful and unrealistic way, feminists would be in an uproar: how dare they class all women together! How dare they make such assumptions that all women see things the same way! It is true, some men are not truly men and more like animals; they lack control over their passions; they are spiritually weak; their flesh dominates their soul. But this is some men, not all, and hopefully not even most. If it is most now, it is partly due to society and even feminists claiming this is in man’s makeup and there’s no way of getting around it. Yes, due to fallen human nature, man very well may be prone to letting his passionate appetite take precedence, but this is not how it should be. He is not meant to see women as mere objects of pleasure, but as human beings in need of his admiration and protection. The truly “male gaze”, the “male gaze” which Our Lord had and which all men should strive to have, views all in reference to the Father’s will. Our Lord uplifted women in His time. He saved the prostitute from her death sentence; He released Magdalene from the bondage of her seven demons; He, who was God, chose to become man through the virginal womb of a woman; it was a woman He chose as the passageway to our salvation.
Benevolent Sexism
Unbeknownst to most, maybe even to the feminists themselves, feminism is destroying chivalry and other objectively good masculine qualities. Those feminists may argue that, well, I’m wrong, that I’m misinformed, but, if that’s the case, I’d like them to explain to me why benevolent sexism is a frequently used term in their feminist glossary. This term refers to those men who think it is their right to protect the woman and support her so she can stay at home and spend quality time with the children. Feminists claim it “seems like a compliment” but is really an insult because it’s “restrictive”. (2017, Dastagir, A feminist Glossary). Now a man feels fulfilled, or at least he ought to, when he is able to protect and defend. This makes him feel heroic and satisfied and a woman who deprives him, even makes him feel guilty for this quality will produce what I suppose is meant by “toxic masculinity”, a man who is a brute, who mistreats women, a misogynist. There are women who scoff when a man opens the door because she translates this to: he thinks I’m not strong enough. There is no “will you help me lift this box?” because out of sheer pride she deems she can do everything herself. This leads to men reluctant to offer help because they think such an offer will offend her. This doesn’t apply to all women, not even women who claim to be feminists, but it does apply to some feminists who aren’t actually in the minority. And if a man’s chivalry is no longer, at least, encouraged then he will eventually lose it at least to a certain degree, which is why there are so few men who go out of their way to open the doors for women, to offer their coat to her, to really treat her as someone worthy of their help. They have been taught to be selfish and it is, partly, to the fault of feminists who will not allow men to demonstrate any type of chivalry and why? Because it hurts these women’s pride. Because they want to be the ones to do everything. A knight in shining armor having to rescue them is an insult. So, no wonder, there are very few knights in shining armor around.
SWERF
The funny thing is, much to the feminists dismay, is that the sex most oppressive of women is usually not men, but women themselves. And, by this, I am not referring to those women that are anti-feminist, but those who belittle others and are typically very uncharitable. In my own experience I have found it was women who were the most judgmental and catty, who made both Middle and High School a nightmare. And this leads me to another feminist term: SWERF, also known as: “sex worker exclusionary radical feminists”, which refers to feminists who say prostitution oppresses women. Many feminists are actually in revolt about this, saying that these “conservative feminists” that are against prostitution, are really just trying to control women’s bodies and claim that this kind of “bullying and oppression is “whorephobia” (SJWiki); SWERFs are actually labeled by many feminists as a “hate group” (2017, Miano, Femmagazine). I’m sorry, we were just talking “male gaze” above, but now there’s an actual movement within the feminism wave that glorifies women who wish to be prostitutes? What sick perversion! If they are claiming women do not need to have control over their animalistic urges, what right do they have to claim men ought to? They then become hypocrites.
These terms mentioned above are only a few that, although they sound liberating, are really disguises for a sick and corrupt movement to destroy the family, the Faith, and society as a whole. These terms stress that truth is subjective, which it’s not; they stress that men should be ashamed of their masculinity, which they shouldn’t; and they reverse and pervert the natural order, which is objectively a sin.
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