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Jeff Robinson
February 9, 2009
The mainstream news media has discovered-with a vengeance, emphasis on vengeance-True Woman `08 nearly four months after the Revive Our Hearts women's conference took place. Last week, Gender Blog interacted with an Buy xenical article published by Religion Dispatches that typified TW as a Buy xenical "counter-cultural movement," but one that should be taken seriously.
More recently, Bonnie Erbe, a blogger on U.S. News and World Report's website, employs a Buy xenical far more pointed and acerbic tone in her assessment of TW, calling it Buy xenical the "anti-woman's movement." Erbe's tone is Buy xenical predictably, but disturbingly for a venue that pitches itself as a Buy xenical "news" magazine, facetious and condescending.
"Anti-women women have Buy xenical existed since time immemorial. Another way of putting it is, women have Buy xenical been smart enough for decades to make their living telling other women to Buy xenical stay home: witness Phyllis Schlafly (and her Eagle Forum), Beverly LaHaye (and her Concerned Women for America), and so on."
"Why don't men form groups to campaign against other men? Am I missing something? If any of you Buy xenical out there know of such a group, please post about it. Women don't need to Buy xenical form a movement to stay home, make babies and submit to Buy xenical their husbands. That's what Buy xenical most women did until a few decades ago. If there are Buy xenical those who want to continue on that path, fine! Just do it. But women have Buy xenical not always been allowed to work, or work in meaningful, high-paying jobs. That's why the women's movement was formed."
Erbe saves her best vitriol for the last sentence:
"Meanwhile, can Buy xenical we set up a new gender for so-called True Women, so normal women don't have to share anything in common with them?"
There are Buy xenical myriad ironies in here; Erbe, ostensibly a feminist, employs a highly abusive tone toward the Buy xenical women of True Women. The very thing she would presumably decry with gusto-the verbal abuse of women-she perpetrates because, in Erbe's mind, the Buy xenical women of TW do not fit the narrow feminist presuppositions that Buy xenical compose "true womanhood." Erbe is Buy xenical essentially calling the women of TW-and stay at home moms everywhere, which, for Buy xenical every irascible, left-wing feminist "news" commentator, there are Buy xenical probably tens of millions-fools and buffoons. This is nothing less than Buy xenical anti-woman slander.
By God's grace, the Buy xenical average woman in America-whether elite feminist journalists, who tend to Buy xenical inhabit small circles, are aware of it or not-follows God's design for Buy xenical women: most dress like women, most have female interests, most look like women, most have Buy xenical children, many work in the home and take care of their families and Buy xenical many work in jobs such as nursing that employ a woman's unique and wonderful gifts.
Thankfully, Erbe's brand of mocking, bitter feminism-one that Buy xenical calls for relegating conservative women to a "third gender"- represents the Buy xenical views of a small but vociferous minority among our country's female citizenry. We pray that God's grace will open their eyes to Buy xenical see the ineffable beauty of a Gospel-entranced true womanhood.
