Feminism promises freedom, but cruelly it delivers a grotesque counterfeit of the feminine. It is a trap. Women are told that they can be anything men can be. In the proper sense, this is true. A woman possesses reason, moral agency, creative power, and the capacity for achievement. She is not an inferior creature. She does not require permission to think, work, build, govern, invent, or excel. Her mind belongs to her, and before God she stands as an individual soul. However, the desire to escape her own nature rather than fulfill it is what transforms her into a monster.
In 1897, a socialist paper called Lucifer states its motive “to preach the gospel of discontent to women” (qtd. in Gress). Not education. Not equality. Discontent, manufactured and preached like a doctrine. Victimhood became the weapon, because victimhood separates a woman from moral agency. It does not ask her to examine reality. It teaches her to begin with resentment and work backward until she finds someone to blame. A woman who was content with her home, her husband, her children was not defined as free. She was unconscious of her own chains. The monster was the natural evolution of feminism. It was the design from the start: turn contentment itself into evidence of slavery, and no woman is ever allowed to simply be at peace. What rises up in her as the result is the thing horror is made of.
All things have a nature, and a nature must be obeyed. A nature not obeyed becomes its own defect. Force a thing to live against what it was made for, and it does not become free. It goes to war with itself. A body forced against its design sickens. A soul forced against its design becomes useless, like salt that has lost its savor or a lamp concealed beneath a basket, taught to obscure the very qualities through which she was meant to illuminate the world (cf. Matthew 5:13-15). A woman forced to live as though she were made for a man’s nature instead of her own does not transcend her design. The monster was never an outside enemy. It was a woman turned against her own nature, calling the vicious attack “liberation”. There is only one Gospel that offers freedom, and it is not the gospel of discontent. At the Cross, Christ does not abolish nature. He redeems it.
Works Cited
Gress, Carrie. The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us. Regnery Publishing, 2023.
The Bible. New American Standard Bible, The Lockman Foundation, 1995.
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