Is Feminism Letting Islam Take Over the Western World?
When I was a young teenager, Calista Flockhart was on Ally McBeal wearing short skirts and complaining she would never find a man to love her and take care of her. Enraged feminists spoke out claiming Ally was setting back their movement 50 years. Women didn’t need men, men needed women. And it was time for women like Ally to take advantage of that fact.
But for myself (who realized this about the same time that Ally was making headlines) I knew that my purpose had always been to raise a family and to write. In that order. Now, neither of which are we certain I will be any good at, but for my part that is what I have always felt is my purpose.
Enter enraged feminists types and my collegiate experience.
As a girl raised in a military family I am the first to tell you that I was sheltered from differing opinions much of the time. There is no more homogenous place than a military base. And really – it must be said – an Officer’s side of a military base. The people I went to school with, for the most part, thought like me. And when thoughts were ever discussed, which they rarely were because we were teenagers, everyone agreed. We were strong on defense, we loved our families, and we wanted families of our own to grow up living the American dream. Patriotism is not more prevalent in any part of our culture than in the American Military family.
But when I got to college I was tossed into a sea of diversity. And we all know that higher education is a liberal stomping ground. For the most part, the kids I went to school with (in Texas mind you) were pretty similar to me. All middle-class kids, their parents paying for their education, who worked part time jobs for play money. But the teachers were a different story, and I remember feeling very different than them. They taught principles that varied from my own, and there were two occasions I can recall that I walked out on a professor because he was stumping from his pulpit, and not teaching me anything at all.
So from that point forward and since living in that bastion of political correctness and the feminine mystique, Boston, Massachusetts, I know that I am different. I know that I do not think that a majority of those that are on our televisions at night or that are in the movies we watch. I know that many of the writers I read probably think I’m a religious nut, conservative crazy. And I know that many of my own friends know that I am the conservative. The Conservative. As if I’m the only one among them with a firm belief that my role in this world is caregiver. Whether that be to my husband, my children or my dog. That’s my role. It’s what I am best at. Is that all I am? Not at all. I am a plethora of different things ranging from political nut, avid reader, to an aspiring blogger. But what I consider to be my greatest gift, is my willingness and eagerness to care for my family.
This long diatribe into my own experience isn’t really the point that I’m making today. I received an article from a Swedish writer who talks about how Feminism is single handedly inviting Islam to take over Western civilization. And while I do not agree with modern feminism, I don’t generally like to demonize my sex and their decisions, but his article is worth reading and worth commenting on.
His central point is that Western Feminists have maligned men and blamed them for the oppression of not only Western women, but men in other countries as well. Particularly, men of differing faiths and ethnicities. So as compensation, feminism is over compensating for this oppression by forcing their societies to adopt quota policies that put Muslim men into power positions and allow them greater access to welfare programs. And for those Muslim men and women that are seeking visas, these feminists have pushed for and voted for policies that allow immigration ratios to favor those from Muslim countries.
I don’t know if the rise of the Islam can be laid purely at the Feminists door. But I do see this: feminism has blurred the gender lines so badly that men in my generation and that generation behind me have no idea how their women want them to act.
Do they or don’t they? Do the men pay or do the women? Do you go dutch? Do you open doors? Do you offer to help with car mechanics or can they handle it themselves? Do you protect them from predators? Do you walk them home at night? With today’s modern woman, who can tell what she wants? Feminism doesn’t know what it’s been fighting for for the last twenty years and all that it has succeeded in doing is taking the role of the man and shredding it into pieces.
And that kind of change in dynamics can’t just be affecting the dating sphere. These things have ramifications. And women in Sweden are discovering that men are not as willing to jump to their defense when they are abused by Muslims mostly because, their women have taught them that they don’t need them.
From the article:
“What happened to the slogan “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle”? I’d just like to remind Ms. Watson that it was in fact the women who started this whole “single is best” culture that now permeates much of the West. Since women initiate most divorces and a divorce can potentially mean financial ruin for a man, it shouldn’t really be too surprising that many men hesitate to get involved at all. As one man put it: “I don’t think I’ll get married again. I’ll just find a woman I don’t like and give her a house.” At the same time, women during the past few decades have made it a lot easier to have a girlfriend without getting married. So women make it riskier to get married and easier to stay unmarried, and then they wonder why men “won’t commit?” Maybe too many women didn’t think all this feminism stuff quite through before jumping on the bandwagon?”
It’s completely accurate. Women have ruined their hopes for finding a man that will commit and raise a family with them because, to quote an old phrase, “They are giving the milk away for free.” Whether or not its right or wrong, cohabitation puts off marriage. Why get married? You’re practically married anyway? Add to that no religious pressure to marry and you have the basic reasons that young couples don’t feel the need to have the ceremony.
This lack of commitment towards women may be indicative to the way men are not responding to some of these attacks on women by Muslims. Muslims and their culture call for the complete submission of women to men. And yet women appear to be, based on the authors research, the primary supporters of their rise to power. Women, either from stupidity or naïveté, are pushing totalitarian men into power, and the men are standing back and letting it happen. So much for checks and balances.
I’m not entirely sure that I follow the premise that feminism is to blame, but it does bear considering. If feminists have succeeded in weakening men, could the rise of Islam and the fall of Western civilization be placed at their door?
Another quote from the article:
Are some feminists simply testing out men’s limits in the hope of finding some new balance between the sexes, or are they testing men to find our which men are strong enough to stand up to their demands, and thus which men can stand up to other men on their behalf? I heard one woman who was an ardent feminist in the 1970s later lament how many families they broke up and destroyed. She was surprised at the reaction, or lack of reaction, from men: “We were horrible. Why didn’t you stop us?”
If women are simply testing men, I think it’s a test they are losing. Women may be stronger now that in past years, but that is no reason to try and dominate men in the same way that they previously dominated us. That is just reverse discrimination and reverse oppression.
And women still cry about being single and alone. I rarely hear women complaining about their careers (in the grand sense) but I do hear women complaining about how they aren’t married, how they won’t have children until they are 35 because they can’t get married, and how the men they date don’t seem to want to commit. And funny, this phenomenon can be placed at feminisms door, because why would a man want to commit to someone that doesn’t need him? People, as a general rule, like to be needed. It gives them purpose. And no greater animal needs that purpose than the male of the sex. And further more, the other thing that men need in order to propogate the species, they can get without marriage, so why go through the whole hassle to begin with? The new statistics pointing to women having children later in life also point to the fact that men aren’t getting married as often. Women aren’t always having children later in life because they want to, but because that’s how their hand was dealt them because they couldn’t find someone to marry them when they did want to have children.
This isn’t to say that marriage only benefits women and therefore men don’t need it. Marriage benefits both partners in that human beings were meant to be coupled and live with someone. And men benefit from that same as the women do. But the benefits men derive are chiefly different than what women get. Men want a partner, someone to share the workload, someone to emotionally support them when they need it. Men can’t get that from other men. Women need support as well, they need the level headedness that is associated with husbands and they, like it or not, like the stability and protection that men provided. Women alone get harassed be predators, but walk from your car with a man they are less likely to attack. Thems’ the breaks.
Again, I’m not entirely sure all of this lies at the door of Feminism. But it certainly bears a look.
But for myself (who realized this about the same time that Ally was making headlines) I knew that my purpose had always been to raise a family and to write. In that order. Now, neither of which are we certain I will be any good at, but for my part that is what I have always felt is my purpose.
Enter enraged feminists types and my collegiate experience.
As a girl raised in a military family I am the first to tell you that I was sheltered from differing opinions much of the time. There is no more homogenous place than a military base. And really – it must be said – an Officer’s side of a military base. The people I went to school with, for the most part, thought like me. And when thoughts were ever discussed, which they rarely were because we were teenagers, everyone agreed. We were strong on defense, we loved our families, and we wanted families of our own to grow up living the American dream. Patriotism is not more prevalent in any part of our culture than in the American Military family.
But when I got to college I was tossed into a sea of diversity. And we all know that higher education is a liberal stomping ground. For the most part, the kids I went to school with (in Texas mind you) were pretty similar to me. All middle-class kids, their parents paying for their education, who worked part time jobs for play money. But the teachers were a different story, and I remember feeling very different than them. They taught principles that varied from my own, and there were two occasions I can recall that I walked out on a professor because he was stumping from his pulpit, and not teaching me anything at all.
So from that point forward and since living in that bastion of political correctness and the feminine mystique, Boston, Massachusetts, I know that I am different. I know that I do not think that a majority of those that are on our televisions at night or that are in the movies we watch. I know that many of the writers I read probably think I’m a religious nut, conservative crazy. And I know that many of my own friends know that I am the conservative. The Conservative. As if I’m the only one among them with a firm belief that my role in this world is caregiver. Whether that be to my husband, my children or my dog. That’s my role. It’s what I am best at. Is that all I am? Not at all. I am a plethora of different things ranging from political nut, avid reader, to an aspiring blogger. But what I consider to be my greatest gift, is my willingness and eagerness to care for my family.
This long diatribe into my own experience isn’t really the point that I’m making today. I received an article from a Swedish writer who talks about how Feminism is single handedly inviting Islam to take over Western civilization. And while I do not agree with modern feminism, I don’t generally like to demonize my sex and their decisions, but his article is worth reading and worth commenting on.
His central point is that Western Feminists have maligned men and blamed them for the oppression of not only Western women, but men in other countries as well. Particularly, men of differing faiths and ethnicities. So as compensation, feminism is over compensating for this oppression by forcing their societies to adopt quota policies that put Muslim men into power positions and allow them greater access to welfare programs. And for those Muslim men and women that are seeking visas, these feminists have pushed for and voted for policies that allow immigration ratios to favor those from Muslim countries.
I don’t know if the rise of the Islam can be laid purely at the Feminists door. But I do see this: feminism has blurred the gender lines so badly that men in my generation and that generation behind me have no idea how their women want them to act.
Do they or don’t they? Do the men pay or do the women? Do you go dutch? Do you open doors? Do you offer to help with car mechanics or can they handle it themselves? Do you protect them from predators? Do you walk them home at night? With today’s modern woman, who can tell what she wants? Feminism doesn’t know what it’s been fighting for for the last twenty years and all that it has succeeded in doing is taking the role of the man and shredding it into pieces.
And that kind of change in dynamics can’t just be affecting the dating sphere. These things have ramifications. And women in Sweden are discovering that men are not as willing to jump to their defense when they are abused by Muslims mostly because, their women have taught them that they don’t need them.
From the article:
“What happened to the slogan “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle”? I’d just like to remind Ms. Watson that it was in fact the women who started this whole “single is best” culture that now permeates much of the West. Since women initiate most divorces and a divorce can potentially mean financial ruin for a man, it shouldn’t really be too surprising that many men hesitate to get involved at all. As one man put it: “I don’t think I’ll get married again. I’ll just find a woman I don’t like and give her a house.” At the same time, women during the past few decades have made it a lot easier to have a girlfriend without getting married. So women make it riskier to get married and easier to stay unmarried, and then they wonder why men “won’t commit?” Maybe too many women didn’t think all this feminism stuff quite through before jumping on the bandwagon?”
It’s completely accurate. Women have ruined their hopes for finding a man that will commit and raise a family with them because, to quote an old phrase, “They are giving the milk away for free.” Whether or not its right or wrong, cohabitation puts off marriage. Why get married? You’re practically married anyway? Add to that no religious pressure to marry and you have the basic reasons that young couples don’t feel the need to have the ceremony.
This lack of commitment towards women may be indicative to the way men are not responding to some of these attacks on women by Muslims. Muslims and their culture call for the complete submission of women to men. And yet women appear to be, based on the authors research, the primary supporters of their rise to power. Women, either from stupidity or naïveté, are pushing totalitarian men into power, and the men are standing back and letting it happen. So much for checks and balances.
I’m not entirely sure that I follow the premise that feminism is to blame, but it does bear considering. If feminists have succeeded in weakening men, could the rise of Islam and the fall of Western civilization be placed at their door?
Another quote from the article:
Are some feminists simply testing out men’s limits in the hope of finding some new balance between the sexes, or are they testing men to find our which men are strong enough to stand up to their demands, and thus which men can stand up to other men on their behalf? I heard one woman who was an ardent feminist in the 1970s later lament how many families they broke up and destroyed. She was surprised at the reaction, or lack of reaction, from men: “We were horrible. Why didn’t you stop us?”
If women are simply testing men, I think it’s a test they are losing. Women may be stronger now that in past years, but that is no reason to try and dominate men in the same way that they previously dominated us. That is just reverse discrimination and reverse oppression.
And women still cry about being single and alone. I rarely hear women complaining about their careers (in the grand sense) but I do hear women complaining about how they aren’t married, how they won’t have children until they are 35 because they can’t get married, and how the men they date don’t seem to want to commit. And funny, this phenomenon can be placed at feminisms door, because why would a man want to commit to someone that doesn’t need him? People, as a general rule, like to be needed. It gives them purpose. And no greater animal needs that purpose than the male of the sex. And further more, the other thing that men need in order to propogate the species, they can get without marriage, so why go through the whole hassle to begin with? The new statistics pointing to women having children later in life also point to the fact that men aren’t getting married as often. Women aren’t always having children later in life because they want to, but because that’s how their hand was dealt them because they couldn’t find someone to marry them when they did want to have children.
This isn’t to say that marriage only benefits women and therefore men don’t need it. Marriage benefits both partners in that human beings were meant to be coupled and live with someone. And men benefit from that same as the women do. But the benefits men derive are chiefly different than what women get. Men want a partner, someone to share the workload, someone to emotionally support them when they need it. Men can’t get that from other men. Women need support as well, they need the level headedness that is associated with husbands and they, like it or not, like the stability and protection that men provided. Women alone get harassed be predators, but walk from your car with a man they are less likely to attack. Thems’ the breaks.
Again, I’m not entirely sure all of this lies at the door of Feminism. But it certainly bears a look.
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