I have seen too much ranting on gender equality by liberal progressive feminists to let the subject go without commentary. One basic principle must be understood and comprehended first:
All human beings are created in the image and likeness of God. Thus, all human beings are equal dignity. However, human beings are often created unequal in function.
A woman can be a mother, a daughter, a sister and a wife, but she cannot be a father, a son, a brother or a husband. Likewise a man can be a father, a son, a brother or a husband, but he cannot be a mother, a daughter, a sister and a wife. Yet both are equal in dignity but both functions are needed in equality for a healthy society. This idea of equality comes from Christianity. St. Paul writes in Galatians 3:28:
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
In that passage of Sacred Scripture St. Paul asserts the principle of equality in dignity. However, St. Paul acknowledges inequality in function. Indeed inequality does NOT mean that one person is superior (or inferior) to the next due to the function which that person serves. Rather, it means that the functions are unequal because they are different, not because one is greater and the other lesser. St. Paul discusses that very thing in 1st Corinthians 12:12-31. Verses 15 through 20 give an analogy between the different functions in the Body of Christ and different function in the body of a human being:
If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? But as it is, God arranged the organs in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single organ, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
Consistent with this, St. Paul states in 1st Timothy 2:8-13:
I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling; also that women should adorn themselves modestly and sensibly in seemly apparel, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly attire but by good deeds, as befits women who profess religion. Let a woman learn in silence with all submissiveness. I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men; she is to keep silent. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. Yet woman will be saved through bearing children, if she continues in faith and love and holiness, with modesty.
At this point feminists will say, "You are trying to relegate women to the kitchen barefoot and pregnant, always submissive to men," as though motherhood, pregnancy and wifely duties were unworthy functions, to which I answer, "You are willing to accept status as a mere engineer (or technician or doctor or lawyer or scientist or whatever)? Do you not know that the most august human being ever created was a woman, the Blessed Virgin Mary who became the Ark of the New Covenant, the Θεοτόκος (God-bearerer), the Dei Genetrix (Mother of God)? No mere mortal man did that! And you would surrender your womanhood for a status of mere equivalency to a lowly man? As a mother you have the greatest influence on the next generation. No priest, no politician, no male leader has power like that!"
Can, however, a woman be a good engineer (or technician or doctor or lawyer or scientist or whatever) equal in ability to a man? Of course! Indeed, the best engineer with whom I have worked in the 40 years of my career in nuclear energy was a woman. She was the system engineer for the emergency diesel generators at a Westinghouse pressurized water reactor. Before she became the system engineer the diesels never worked right. After she started, they began to function as expected. She and I often disagreed and had some knock down, drag out arguments about updating diesel generator drawings and technical manuals, and other related things. But she was dedicated and honest and technically competent. And she was the only one who could get the mechanics in the Maintenance Department to do their job right (perhaps they were motivated by her beauty, but no matter; the results were pleasing to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission).
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| Jael Defeating Sisera |
But Sis′era fled away on foot to the tent of Ja′el, the wife of Heber the Ken′ite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Ken′ite. And Ja′el came out to meet Sis′era, and said to him, “Turn aside, my lord, turn aside to me; have no fear.” So he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug. And he said to her, “Pray, give me a little water to drink; for I am thirsty.” So she opened a skin of milk and gave him a drink and covered him. And he said to her, “Stand at the door of the tent, and if any man comes and asks you, ‘Is any one here?’ say, No.” But Ja′el the wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple, till it went down into the ground, as he was lying fast asleep from weariness. So he died. And behold, as Barak pursued Sis′era, Ja′el went out to meet him, and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking.” So he went in to her tent; and there lay Sis′era dead, with the tent peg in his temple.
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| Judith Defeating Holofernes |
When evening came, his slaves quickly withdrew, and Bago′as closed the tent from outside and shut out the attendants from his master’s presence; and they went to bed, for they all were weary because the banquet had lasted long. So Judith was left alone in the tent , with Holofer′nes stretched out on his bed, for he was overcome with wine. Now Judith had told her maid to stand outside the bedchamber and to wait for her to come out, as she did every day; for she said she would be going out for her prayers. And she had said the same thing to Bago′as. So every one went out, and no one, either small or great, was left in the bedchamber. Then Judith, standing beside his bed, said in her heart, “O Lord God of all might, look in this hour upon the work of my hands for the exaltation of Jerusalem. For now is the time to help thy inheritance, and to carry out my undertaking for the destruction of the enemies who have risen up against us.” She went up to the post at the end of the bed, above Holofer′nes’ head, and took down his sword that hung there. She came close to his bed and took hold of the hair of his head, and said, “Give me strength this day, O Lord God of Israel!” And she struck his neck twice with all her might, and severed his head from his body. Then she tumbled his body off the bed and pulled down the canopy from the posts; after a moment she went out, and gave Holofer′nes’ head to her maid, who placed it in her food bag.
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| Queen Esther Confronting Haman |
And of course, the greatest example of all is the Blessed Virgin Mary who gave us Christ Himself through her fiat to the Angel Gabriel. Christ was the ultimate defeat for Satan. Thus in Genesis 1:15 does God say to the evil serpent who had deceived Eve:
I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your seed and her seed;
she shall bruise your head,
and you shall bruise his heel.”
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| Mary Queen of Heaven |
Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple; and there were flashes of lightning, loud noises, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail. And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; she was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery. And another portent appeared in heaven; behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems upon his heads. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear a child, that he might devour her child when she brought it forth; she brought forth a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which to be nourished for one thousand two hundred and sixty days.
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| Robert Anson Heinlein |
All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly, which can — and must — be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly — and no doubt will keep on trying.
Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, 'equality' is a disaster.
I hate feminism, progressivism and liberalism. Feminism masculinizes all that is noble, august and honorable in authentic womanhood and true femininity. Progressivism never states the goal to which it is progressing; one wonders exactly what that goal may be. Is it heaven or hell? And liberalism is simply license to do whatever one has the power to do without consequence, without responsibility, without accountability. But Christianity says that a man must be a real man and a woman must be a real women accountable to God and responsible for the consequences of his or her actions.
In conclusion, the idea of gender equality must be smashed and eradicated from society as the pagan filth that it is. We must return to the time-honored principles of men being men and women being women. God created all human beings equal in dignity, but not necessarily equal in function. If you don't like that, then take the issue up with Him.
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