The article that I am linking to in TODAY’s post is from the far-left Huffington Post. Please do not read the article if you are under 30. Huffington Post, like most radical feminism web sites, has dropped down to the level of 50 Shades of Gray. Reader discretion is advised. But I had to write about their article because it really shows you that radical feminists are not innocent little doves hoping for traditional marriage and children.
First, a little introduction. Radical feminism is a rejection of traditional sex roles for men and women, and the committed union of men and women in marriage.
Here is what radical feminists oppose:
- female sobriety when among the opposite sex
- male sobriety when among the opposite sex
- female chastity prior to marriage
- male chastity prior to marriage
- women preparing for the traditional roles of wife and mother
- men preparing for the traditional roles of protector, provider, moral leader and spiritual leader
- paying for their own condoms and birth control pills
- men who are pro-life and pro-natural-marriage
Radical feminism wants nothing to do with men who are sober and chaste. The only real way to decide whether a man is good or bad – for a radical feminist – is whether he is attractive looking and does not try to lead women or hold them accountable morally or spiritually. Men are just accessories designed to provide women with fun and thrills. They are not to be selected for their ability to perform “sexist” virtues like chivalry, providing or leadership.
Now, feminists have been very unhappy lately, because their plan for forming relationships (focus on career, choose hot guys, get drunk, have premarital sex, wait by the phone, claim that all men are evil when no one calls, repeat) doesn’t work. But radical feminists don’t see the problem with their promiscuity plan. They don’t think that marriage is a good thing, because it has unfair sex roles. And they don’t think that women or men should prepare for commitment by being sober, chaste and self-sacrificial. They think that they can choose pleasure right now, and at every moment following, and that this will somehow work out to provide them with lasting love, support and intimacy as they grow older. Somehow, after they tire of sexual revolutionisting with the hot guys, they will easily be able to find a man who is simultaneously hot and sober, faithful, committed, and a great father to whichever children she decided not to abort. And if this plan doesn’t “work out”, then it’s the fault of patriarchy and toxic masculinity.
The Huffington Post article explains why radical feminists think that their plan is failing:
[…][S]ome straight women have thrown their hands up in despair at the prospect of dealing with straight men. These men, who grope us and talk down to us and consistently fail to clean the bathroom ― we’re supposed to make lives with them? Let them touch us?
Women woke up one day to find that their husbands voted for Donald Trump and their sons have been ***posting on incel boards. Even before we heard the claims about Harvey Weinstein’s history of sexual harassment and assault and the ensuing avalanche of other horrifying Me Too allegations, we heard about our president grabbing women “by the pussy,” Bill Cosby feeding women roofies, and R. Kelly allegedly sexually exploiting young girls. So many straight men, we have been forced to accept, are bad to and for us. Why would we take the enormous risk of loving one of them?
All the bad boy leftist men they freely chose to have premarital sex with for money or career advancement failed to please them. And all men must be the same. After all, radical feminists rejected traditional male virtues and roles as “sexist”. Instead, they decided to have premarital sex with secular leftists like Bill Clinton, Anthony Weiner, Elliot Spitzer, etc. Those men are fun and thrilling, and might even help your career. If these relationships failed, then surely the relationships not chosen – the ones with the sober, chaste, responsible men – would have failed, too, right? You don’t expect a woman to have a relationship with someone who doesn’t support abortion and gay marriage, do you? How could a man who is pro-child and pro-marriage possibly be suitable for commitment and parenting? Just choose the hot ones who make you tingle, and then generalize about all men from those failed experiments.
More:
One seductive yet impossible fantasy might be the romantic attention of a man who lacks the exhausting baggage of male entitlement.
To find such a fantastical being, women ― in fiction, at least ― have turned to the sea.
Yes, the radical feminists are turning to the sea to find fictional mermen who meet their feminist ideals for relationships.
More:
Lucy, the protagonist of The Pisces, is newly single, running out of time to finish her dissertation, and spiraling out of control.
[…]Despite the therapy sessions, Lucy can’t stop searching for male attention to restore her sense of desirability and worth. Before each encounter with a prospect, she feels buoyant and eager, but again and again, she’s left sexually and emotionally unfulfilled, in part because the men don’t much care whether she’s enjoying herself.
One man she meets on an app ― a hot younger dude in an open relationship ― convinces her to have sex with him in the lobby bathroom of an upscale hotel. It’s quick and mediocre. She doesn’t come. Afterward, he leaves without telling her, stranding her alone at the hotel bar. Lucy thought the encounter would be something different, that it would make her feel deliriously sexy and desired. She tries not to let herself feel sad about how transparently he was using her to fulfill his fantasy while her own went entirely ignored. What she wants is for even this one-time fling to care desperately about making her come, for his world to narrow around her pleasure, even for just a few minutes.
Wow, the hot bad boys don’t care about the women who choose them for irresponsible recreational premarital sex? If only there were some way to keep a man committed? It can’t be marriage though, and acting like a wife. That’s “sexist”. I’m surprised that having recreational premarital sex with a hot, promiscuous pro-abortion pro-gay-marriage Democrat doesn’t lead to the woman enjoying herself in the long term.
It’s mermen to the rescue, though:
When she begins to fall for Theo, a tautly handsome swimmer she keeps seeing in the ocean near her sister’s beachside home, it seems like she may have found the something that couldn’t exist. Theo looks decades younger than her, but he is fascinated by her. He seeks her out, pulling up by the rocks at the edge of the beach to talk with her night after night. He wants to kiss her, then give her oral sex for hours under the stars. Soon, she learns that there’s a reason he initially stayed submerged from the waist down during their encounters: He’s what we might call a merman, and instead of legs he has a scaly tail.
Like the creature in “The Shape of Water,” Theo seems to be an exception to the rule of toxic straight maleness. Where other men hurt, threaten and betray, these unhuman beings pleasure, console and conspire with women.
[…]Her ex toys with her emotions; the men she dates are sexually selfish and reckless with her health. But Theo is different, both because he has a scaly tail instead of legs, and because he proclaims to be devoted to her and her pleasure.
After some discussion about the wonders of the merman’s equipment, (so important to a radical feminist!), we read this:
….there’s also an unmistakable queerness to these mythical, human-like creatures. They transgress the boundaries of what society traditionally demands from a male body. Lucy even notes a feminine quality to Theo…
[…]This story is a seductive one, especially to straight women who yearn to get outside of the oppressive structures and expectations of their dating realm. What if we found men who were different? Who were in touch with their emotions, called themselves “feminist allies” for reasons other than wanting to center themselves in the movement, enjoyed giving us orgasms, texted right after the first date?
Wow, she will get treated so well, and without having to marry him (sexist!), or commit to care for his needs (patriarchy!), or fulfill loving obligations for him in a restrictive long-term commitment (slavery!).
She can have sex with a hot sexy effeminate fish who is DECADES younger than she is, who doesn’t have a job or savings, and who isn’t able to be a father to children in any normal sense. But who cares! As long as he wants to give her orgasms, and he’s young and hot, and doesn’t try to tell her to get a real degree, or to get a real job, or to grow up and get married and have children who can take care of her in her old age. The merman provides all that’s important to radical feminists.
And I’m sure that this plan is sustainable, too. He will love her just as much when she is old and wrinkly, because giving a merman premarital sex always makes him commit self-sacrificially for life. That’s the power of recreational premarital sex – it turns irresponsible young hot mermen into pleasure-giving slaves for life.
Iowa’s Republican governor signs ban on abortions after unborn baby has heartbeat
I decided to start the week off with a happy story about a powerful Republican woman taking a bold step to defend unborn children in a blue state. Here is a story from Fox News about Iowa’s governor Kim Reynolds, a Republican, who has signed a bill banning all abortions on babies who have a heartbeat! That’s pretty early on, and will cover most abortions.
Excerpt:
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Friday signed off on a law banning most abortions if a fetal heartbeat can be detected, or at about six weeks of pregnancy, The Associated Press reported.
The restriction is the strictest abortion regulation in the nation, the AP said. It also said passage and enactment of the measure has set the state up for a protracted legal fight.
The State House passed the legislation on Tuesday night with a 51-46 vote, Iowa Public Radio reported. It was debated for more than eight hours before House representatives decided on it. The bill passed the Senate early Wednesday with a 27-19 vote.
The legislation bans abortion in all cases after six weeks of pregnancy, which critics of the legislation argue is before most women are aware they are pregnant. Up until now, a woman has been able to get an abortion in Iowa up to her 20th week.
However, the measure would not ban abortion after six weeks in all cases — some exemptions include instances of rape, incest, fetal abnormalities or to save the mother’s life.
This is the earliest ban on abortion in the nation! I’m so impressed. I’d like women to make better choices about men and the timing of sexual activity so that we don’t have to do terrible things in order to “resolve” unwanted pregnancies.
Life News has more details about how the bill works:
The bill would require abortion practitioners to test for the unborn baby’s heartbeat before performing an abortion. If a heartbeat is detected, the abortion would be prohibited except in cases involving medical emergency, rape, incest or fetal abnormalities deemed to be “incompatible” with life.
Because an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detectable by about six weeks of pregnancy, the bill would prohibit almost all abortions in Iowa.
Unfortunately, Planned Parenthood isn’t going to give up their source of revenue without a legal fight:
Immediately after Reynolds’ announcement Friday, branches of Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union in Iowa responded with plans to sue the state, the AP reports.
[…]Because of the current make-up of the U.S. Supreme Court and lower courts, a law to prohibit abortions in the first trimester most likely would not survive a court challenge. President Donald Trump promised to appoint pro-life justices to the courts, but he would have to appoint at least one more Supreme Court judge before the Iowa legislation would have a chance of being upheld.
North Dakota and Arkansas passed heartbeat bills several years ago, but federal courts struck down both laws.
Although it will be a difficult fight to save this law, at least voters will get another chance to understand that Democrats are opposed to restrictions on abortion. They want abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, and taxpayer-funded in a single-payer system. That way, abortion is as easy to obtain as getting a prescription for antibiotics.
I don’t see why we can’t just tell women not to have sex with men before marriage. If women withheld sex from men who were not their husbands, then men would grow up and start trying to prove themselves to women as husband candidates again. Not giving men premarital sex makes them behave much better towards women. They try harder in school, they work harder at work, they treat women with respect. They learn how to behave like husbands. What is wrong with that? Is the current status quo of using Tinder to be screwed over by hot guys working for women?
The Mysterious Drew lectures on Christianity and the culture war in Defenders
Drew taught Dr. William Lane Craig’s Defenders class for two weeks in a row while Dr. Craig was in Australia. He chose to focus on secularism.
Note: Drew has some problems with the microphone for the first 2.5 minutes of part 1. Be patient.
Part 1 deals with how Europe and America became secular in different ways.
Part 1 topics:
- Secularism: the attempt to take values based on religion (e.g. – Judeo-Christian values) out of the public square
- Television programs that are targeted to more thoughtful viewers favor secular or liberal worldviews
- Consider the sexual revolution – a new set of beliefs about sex are being pushed into the culture
- Sex revolution includes: same-sex marriage, pornography, hookup culture, no-fault divorce
- The effect of the sexual revolution has been to introduce widespread fatherlessness, which is very bad for children
- The sexual revolution is being pushed in the popular culture, but also in the school sexual education programs
- You can see where secularism has led to by looking at Europe, which has largely rejected its Christian roots
- For example, Germany and Sweden are very aggressive about stamping out homeschooling
- They do this because they are trying to push a government-approved set of beliefs and meanings onto children
- How bad could it get? You can look at how Orthodox Judaism was persecuted in Russia after the communist revolution
- How did Europe become so secular?
- Wars in Europe between Protestants and Catholics caused people to think that theistic religion was bad
- Secularists first attacked theism philosophically by trying to replace it with deism – the view that miracles do not occur
- Secularists then pushed a radical empirism which attempted to reduce religious claims to meaningless irrationality
- The Christian church responded by retreating from philosophical and theological claims and focusing on moral claims
- That’s how Europe became secular, but how did America become secular?
- America became secular because Christianity was transformed from a knowledge tradition to an emotional tradition
- Pastors started to move away from presenting Christianity as true and instead presented it as emotionally fulfilling
- Pastors emphasized personal experiences instead of philosophical theology and apologetics
- European ideas arrived: deism, Darwinism, Bible criticism, etc.
- Christianity responded to this by abandoning the centers of learning it had founded (universities) into pious isolation
- As the universities became more secular, they turned out the next generation of influencers, including the media
- This retreat from intellectual engagement was augmented by a fixation on end-times speculation (e.g. Left Behind)
- (Drew talks to Jeremy, a philosophy student at Georgia State University, about whether Christianity is respected in his classes)
- How politicians and the media used the Scopes Monkey Trial to marginalize Christianity as anti-science
- The perception of Christians in the public square changed – they were viewed as ignorant, irrational and anti-science
- Instead of causing Christians to work harder at science, they became even more fundamentalist, and less influential
- Christians today are a tiny minority of influential groups, e.g. – scientists, media, etc.
- In contrast, secular Jews, who tend to grow up in a culture that values learning, have a much greater influence
- Even if Christians try to retreat to the country where they can homeschool, there is no hiding from the Internet
- Which organizations are working against secularism today?
- Example of what Christians can do: Plantinga’s refutation of the problem of evil
- Example of what Christians can do: widespread use of ultrasound to move people to the pro-life view
- Example of what Christians can do: Liberty University’s effort to produce Christians who can work in media
- A story about William Lane Craig and a secular physicist who had lost her faith
People must have liked what they heard and saw in the first week, because he got a big turnout in the second week.
Part 2 deals with practical tips for engaging in the culture.
Topics in Part 2:
- The real root cause of opposition to Christianity is from the sexual revolution
- For example, moral relativism is so popular in the university, but it is almost entirely driven by sexual liberation
- Evangelism and culture-shaping are not the same thing – each requires a different set of skills
- Where do people get their information? Public school, news media, late night comedy shows, etc.
- Two things for every Christian need to do: 1) Get informed, and 2) Get involved
- First: you do not need to be smarter than average. Dr. Craig is a leading scholar because he studies 9 hours a day
- Implying that people with influence are “smart” just provides us with an excuse not to try if we are not “smart”
- Ordinary Christians need to be willing to give up fun more than they need to be naturally “smart”
- Asks Cody: what about that Christian apologist who hung out mostly with internet atheists and then became one
- Famous quantum chemist: you’re right, I am not much smarter than most people, I just work a lot harder at it
- Drew: to get informed, you should follow good Christian blogs like Apologetics 315 and Wintery Knight
- Drew knows Wintery Knight personally and WK is someone who knows apologetics but he also knows other things
- WK connects the Christian worldview to lots different things, e.g. = marriage – he can find you the right people and books
- (Drew holds up “What is Marriage?” book) This is the best book to argue the same-sex marriage issue
- (Drew hold up “The Case for Life” book) This is the best book to argue the pro-life position
- Slacktivism: don’t just send people links that you find on the Internet – read the articles and books and then talk about them
- (Drew holds up the Lee Strobel “Case for” books) These are the best introductory books on basic Christian apologetics
- Audio books are a great way for people to take in the information, and you can get them for free from the library
- The Internet is not the best place for arguing about the things you learn – face to face conversations are much better
- Biola’s apologetics certificate program is an excellent resource, and it’s all audio lectures so you just listen to them
- You can get free apologetics audio from Apologetics 315 and Phil Fernandes
- We also need to learn how to how to change the culture and how the other side changes the culture
- To really make a difference, then a graduate degree might be for you – especially the M.A. in apologetics from Biola
- The university is also very important – Christianity needs to be represented in the university
- Influential people like Supreme Court justices come out of the university, which is why we need to be there
- The Discovery Institute is doing the most to provide a credible rival to naturalistic science
- They have a budget of $4 million dollars and they are punching way above their weight
- If every evangelical sent them $20, they’d have a budget of $1.2 billion – what could they do with that?
- (Drew puts a check for $20 for Discovery Institute in an envelope and seals it, to show how it’s done)
- The Truth Project, which is put out by Focus on the Family – it’s another excellent training resource
- When it comes to politics, focus on discussing policy issues, not on pushing particular candidates
- If every evangelical Christian just pulled their own weight, it would make a big difference
- It all starts by making the decision to take some leisure time to do things that really work
I could not agree with him more on his selections on the marriage debate and the abortion debate. I have bought at least a half-dozen of each of those for people. And I highly recommend getting the Strobel books on audio, especially the Case for a Creator. Love that book. Listen to it a bunch a times and you will start to talk like Lee Strobel.
I listened to all the Biola University lectures before they even had the certificate program, along with the Stand to Reason Masters Series in Christian Thought and about 60 Veritas Forum leture sets. Those things probably did the most for me to become a capable defender of Christianity.
The point he made about giving money to the Discovery Institute is important. In the last month, I sent out $300 to a Ratio Christi chapter for a lecture they gave, and $500 for a Christian group in Canada that put on an apologetics conference.
I think he’s right when he talks about everyone pulling their own weight. I spend about 2-3 hours a day reading and blogging. I donate a portion of my earnings to Christian scholars who study and/or speak at the university. I support Christian students who are doing degrees in philosophy, science and engineering. In church, I don’t anything yet, but I have a network of friends who do things in church, like organize lectures, debates and apologetics book studies. My current pastor is aware of my abilities, and he’s already asked me to help them with an evangelism program they are starting up.
I got started on apologetics by putting in the time on some of the things he mentioned in part 2 of his talk. The basic things to do are reading introductory books on apologetics, especially the ones on philosophy of religion, historical Jesus and physical sciences. If you can’t read, then at least get hold of lectures from Biola University and listen to those, along with Lee Strobel audio books, Brian Auten interviews, William Lane Craig debates. Just put them in the car and listen, and soon you’ll be sounding just like them.
WINTERY KNIGHT 