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Posted on 05/05/2025 3:27:10 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Shauna Niequist's mom had spent almost all of her adult life being a pastor's wife, mother, and homemaker. She excelled in all of these roles. But 17 years in, she walked into a counselor's office and said, "I don't know who I am anymore. Something has to change." Through counseling, friendships, and prayer, says Niequist, her mother unearthed the gifts and passions that had drawn her to a social work degree. "I found my voice in my 40s and my vocation in my 50s..."
Betty Friedan would have been proud. Surprised, too, perhaps, to see her ideas—dissected and debated for a half-century now—fleshed out in a faith community not always friendly toward her.
Like every important book, The Feminine Mystique has been vigorously debated in the 50 years since its release...But despite all we might lament about the second wave of feminism, Friedan's clarion call of human achievement is still strikingly germane. "The problem that has no name" is, for men and women alike, the problem of bearing the image of the Creator, yet lacking outlets for creative talent not directly related to child-rearing.
Friedan's reflections on human purpose dovetail with classic biblical anthropology. Between the Garden in Genesis and the City in Revelation, men and women are invited to make something of the world beyond the private space of home. When women and men lose touch with their own crucial participation in human culture, their Imago Dei is dimmed. And when the important cultural activities of homemaking and childrearing are left to women alone, men and women alike lose out.
The Bible starts with the fundamental goodness of work. After creating the world, God invites the first humans to mimic his creativity...
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It’s ironic that the late Phyllis Schlafly, pretty much embodied all of the traits that feminists claimed a woman should be.
The Cray Cray Mystique
Schlafly was a warrier babe turned warrier general, and always a woman!
Like much of liberalism and feminism, the author fails or denies that women’s work is limited by her biology. For most women, unless they abandoned the care of their children to others or deny their children life, ether through birth control or abortion, they will be tied to a series of children for the nine months of child bearing and the following time of nursing. The traditional home industries than women engaged in took this into account; the modern push for women to work outside of the home shoulder to shoulder with men does not.
The biblical prescription for women’s role in society worked well for thousands of years. Rachel Wilson’s book “Occult Feminism” outlines the satanic roots of feminism. Very interesting read.
women, generally self-centered and delusional
always victims, so tedious
I don't think that's fair. It's just that 98% of them make the sane 2% look bad.
I'm only kidding
the ‘mystery’ is gone and “victoria’s secret” is out.
the overwhelming majority of unattached women are 304s with body counts in the hundreds, no loyalty, and will drop a guy the moment a better option comes along.
especially college educated and/or liberal women
You’re both gay.
ungrateful parasites ...
And they did nothing but vilify her.
Feminists must be feminist on the left's terms, just like blacks have to be blacks on the left's terms or they're *not really black*.
The left doesn't care about a woman who makes it like they claim is the epitome of a *real woman*.
All they care about is another public figure to carry their water for them.
Interesting how Proverbs 31 is virtually ignored by feminists and frankly Christians as well.
The churchianity ideal of a woman doesn’t quite match up with the wife of noble character.
How is that any different from men?
It ISN’T at all.
Women and men are two different sexes.
Exactly.
Yeah?
And what? Men are allowed to be hypocrites by expecting standards from women they aren’t willing to hold to themselves?
The author.
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