On Feminism

Charlie at Another Think has a wonderful post that explores the latest technology in abortions and the emotional effect this technology could have. It's beautifully written and well worth reading. A couple key paragraphs (emphasis in the original):

But Saletan and others who celebrate the abortion pill may have put too much faith in technology. We are not wise creators. All technologies have unintended consequences. We already know that the abortion pill has severe risks, including bleeding and the possibility of death. But that's not the worst of it.

I have to wonder if women will have the stomach for self-induced abortion? I have to wonder what the emotional toll will be for women who no longer have an abortion done to them, but take the entire procedure into their own hands?

Those who "who celebrate the abortion pill" are, by and large, feminists. If you look at feminist policies and rhetoric and boil it all down, their core belief is this: Men are vile, and women need to become just like them.

Huh?

Feminists are passionate. They're driven to achieve their agenda in a way that baffles non-feminists. But behind the passion, there has to be an explanation that makes sense of their core belief. Women who hate men, motherhood, marriage, and who promote uncommitted sexuality and abortion have something more going on than simply a desire for equality in men's and women's paychecks.

I remember hearing a long time ago that a high number of the women who founded the feminist movement and its groups had grown up in abusive homes. And I believe it, because it goes a long way toward explaining the attitudes they hold. Whether the father-figures in their homes were abusive toward their mothers or to the girls themselves, these men formed the image the girls would hold of men throughout their lives.

Men are vile. There's no better way to describe a man who beats his wife or his children. There are worse words to describe the ones who sexually abuse their daughters. And a woman who grew up in a home like this would look for ways to keep this from happening to her as an adult--and to keep it from happening to other women. She would take some pointed lessons with her to adulthood.

Women need to avoid the powerlessness that marriage brings. Marriage ties a woman to a man and gives him power over her. And each child she has ties her even more tightly to that man, reducing her ability to survive on her own without him.

Even a single woman has her options severely limited by the children she has, so childbearing is to be avoided.

Instead, women need power and autonomy, and in our society power is found in the workplace--never in the home. So women need to do what it takes to gain that kind of power, and that means becoming more like men. Focus on career. Avoid attachments that could end in marriage and home. Keep the sex recreational, and if pregnancy happens, get rid of it, because a child is an anchor that will drag you down and keep you down.

So now we have feminists who promote abortion and the workplace as joint saviors of women. And even though the feminists say they want women to have a choice over their lives, they are distressed when women choose to marry, have children, and stay at home to raise those children. In the eyes of the feminists, those women are oppressed and probably being abused.

I don't believe that feminist anger springs out of hatred. The hatred of men is a by-product of the feminists' desire to save women from the pain that they see as coming from men.

Theirs is a desire for good that has gone very, very bad. And our society is paying the price.