Marxist feminism. It has invaded every woman’s life and mindset. From the shows we watch to the jobs we work to the classroom to ads on social media, we’ve all been exposed to the endless onslaught of the modern day definition of Matt Walsh’s now-famous question, “What is a woman?”

As women, I feel like it’s kind of easy to roll our eyes at that question. Why would anyone actually ask that question? Sure, the trans movement has confused countless people about what their bodily anatomy actually means, but most women are just out to live their best life and find fulfillment.

Now, if you think this article is going to say, “Become a wife and a mother, and you’ll be fulfilled as a woman”, think again. I’m not necessarily saying that. But I am calling for a balance. It is becoming a hotter topic every day that women are struggling to work careers, be a wife, and mother their children all at the same time while feeling like they are being fulfilled.

However, what if we told women that built inside of them is the genetic coding to finding that fulfillment we’re all craving? What if we taught young girls that being intrinsically feminine isn’t a bad thing or weak? What if we allowed the sexes (men and women) to be respectively masculine and feminine and that neither are toxic or weak in their true sense? That the masculine and feminine are, in fact, two opposite forces that compliment each other so beautifully in a monogamous marriage?

But first, as always, I’ll introduce you to a little bit of history behind Marxist feminism and then take a peak at the wave of women leaving the feminist movement.

WHO WAS BETTY FRIEDAN? A DRIVING FORCE BEHIND MARXIST FEMINISM

Betty Friedan was a woman of her times. She wrote the wildly popular book The Feminine Mystique in 1963 with more than three million copies selling during Friedan’s years as a feminist activist. What was her book’s message that made it sell like hot cakes? It challenged “the pervasive post-World War II belief that stipulated women would find the greatest fulfillment in the routine of domestic life, performing chores and taking care of children” (Smithsonian Magazine).

In modern language, Betty Friedan taught that being a SAHM (stay-at-home-mom) couldn’t actually fulfill women like they’d always been taught. The womanly traditions of housekeeping, mothering, loving their husbands, and just providing a sense of warmth and safety was “incompatible with genuine female contentment” (Heritage Foundation)..

Friedan lived a life of activism with the message that women in the 1960’s were waking up to the realization that they wanted more in life than their husbands, their children, and their homes. That “more in life” would take the form of a career.

BETTY FRIEDAN BACKTRACKS ON MARXIST FEMINISM

Interestingly, unlike many popular feminists of today, Friedan saw her work blossom as women left their homes and obtained careers. However, Friedan began to speak out when she saw how far her initial concept of feminism was taking itself and the women who ascribed to it.

Friedan voiced concerns that “the women’s movement […] was becoming ‘anti-love, anti-child’” (The Heritage Foundation).Friedan was disgusted by the free sex movement among women. In her memoir Life So Far, she stated “the women’s movement was not about sex, but about equal opportunity” (p. 223). Friedan disliked lesbians and spoke on the issue of love and sex, urging women to see them as a good thing, not something to be twisted by gender ideology or seen as something masculine.

Friedan was not a fan of the woke direction her feminist activism had taken. But in hindsight, we can see it went a lot further than she could have ever hoped… or dreaded.

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WHAT IS A WOMAN’S IDENTITY?

As feminism has continued to go through its waves, its definition has continuously moved further away from even Betty Friedan’s most negative claims about traditional womanhood. Wifehood and motherhood have now become the antithesis to what a woman should be.

Friedan believed women had the wrong idea when it came to their identity. Friedan taught that women had to solve their identity crisis by shifting from the traditional confines of wifehood and motherhood to a nontraditional “‘cause’” or ‘“purpose’” that would make women creative and draw them into the world of careers.

She specifically taught that “those on the way to forming healthy identities engage in projects that serve mankind, make the world a better place through social reform, and lose themselves in careers that they find meaningful and rewarding and that call forth all of their capacities” (The Heritage Foundation). This concept became a way of life for most women in America as they either stopped having families (which Friedan later condemned) or placed their careers as a higher focus than their families.

Today, most women don’t even question whether they should continue working once kids are in the picture. They don’t even ask if it’s healthy for kids to be in daycare or what the psychological and emotional ramifications of constant mother-child separation are. It’s just how we live.

SHOULD WOMEN BE MORE LIKE MEN?

The important thing to consider as we look at the waves of feminism through recent history is that feminism largely exists to make women more like men instead of encouraging women to thrive in their own identity as a woman.

Feminism followed its Marxist roots by destroying the old (women who worked in the home as wives and mothers) and replacing it with the new (career women).

What’s so incredibly sad about this is the fact that women are now looked down upon if they choose the traditional route of being a wife and a mother. They are seen as lazy, uneducated, dependent, and non-contributors to society.

At the same time, women who have followed the cultural blueprint of college and a career and possibly children later in their careers are increasingly unhappy, and we are seeing Gen Z women post Tik Toks about how much they hate their 9-5 or their commute and begging society to answer the question all women have. “But what about everything else in my life that matters beyond my job?”

BIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES MATTER BIBLICALLY

You see, men were made to work. It’s biblical. Even when God cursed Adam and Eve for sinning in the Garden of Eden, He reaffirmed their roles as a man and a woman.

To Adam, God said, “‘By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken’” (Genesis 3:19, ESV).

This verse essentially translates that men are going to work hard – sometimes in unpleasant circumstances- just to harvest grain from the earth to feed themselves and their families. It wasn’t going to be easy. Even the weeds would fight their efforts!

And to Eve, God says, “‘I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you’” (Genesis 3:16, ESV).

This verse is packed with implications for women, but it speaks directly to Marxist feminists in two ways. First, it reaffirms the biblical truth that women were designed biologically to have babies. It mentions birth twice!

And second, it warns women that they won’t want to be submissive to their husbands. It commands women to be submissive to their husbands (not in a cowering, fearful, abusive situation but in a godly manner of mutual respect for each other). Proverbs 31 is an entire biblical passage about a woman with successful entrepreneurial pursuits who also blesses and submits to her husband. But from Genesis 3, it’s clear that women won’t always want to be the loving wife and mother we’re supposed to be. It’s not at all surprising that secularism has urged women to leave the home and their wifely duties in favor of a career somewhere else.

The summary of this is that God made men to work. He clearly didn’t even give men the anatomy to have children, but He did give that to women. Women’s bodies have the anatomy necessary to grow babies, and women also have a hormonal cycle that doesn’t necessarily make working a 9-5 the easiest thing in the world. Can they do it? Sure! Should they do it? Yep, sometimes you have to. If you’re a single girl, that’s really the only way for you to pay the bills and/or you can use it as a way to help your husband if you’re married without kiddos.

But when kiddos come along, things change. How many moms have you seen sobbing as they leave their babies at daycare to return to work? It’s not natural for mothers to put their careers above their families. It’s not natural for a woman to put off having kids until she’s 40 and needs IVF. It’s not natural to freeze her eggs.

The ugly truth about Marxist feminism is that it’s not natural.

CONCLUSION

So many of these things are part of the feminist dream, and it’s not natural. It’s simply making women more like men, and not only is this making them unhappy, it also makes men less attracted to feminist women.

So when a woman realizes she might actually want children, she has spent years pushing men away, and many of them are taken by that time. It’s a tragic and vicious cycle, and even though we see daily Tik Toks of women complaining and asking for answers about why their life has turned out so miserable, we never ask why women’s happiness is on a downward trend compared to bygone years… and what that key difference might be.

What if we started encouraging women to flee feminist ideology and allow themselves to find fulfillment in wifehood and motherhood? What if we encouraged women to separate their careers from their kids? If a woman is dead set on having a career, perhaps it would be wise to consider having her career first and then once she has kids, stepping out of that career and into motherhood for a season. Or vice versa.

It’s not wrong for a woman to want kids. It’s also not wrong for her to want to get married and follow those feminine desires if they haven’t been squelched by the modern narrative. Wouldn’t we rather see women happy doing what they want instead of sobbing at the end of a long day working a 9-5 that leaves them empty and frazzled, wondering what the point of all this is anyways?

Leaving feminism is tough. It’s not easy to take the criticism. I have even buckled under the criticism myself a few times as a new stay at home wife afraid of the judging looks I get when I say I’m expecting a baby and not working a job.

But one thing that gets clearer for me every day is this. I am more fulfilled and happier than ever before. I get to make a beautiful home for my husband. I get to prep for when the baby arrives. I get to encourage other women to make this leap too when and if they can!

And when I see the Tik Toks and hear the other women asking why they’re unhappy, it makes me more determined to find out why that is and to communicate that there is an alternative to the mainstream message of Marxist feminism.

It’s okay to go the other way and discover how women lived before the 1960’s and take back true femininity.

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Leaving Marxist Feminism: The Reason Behind Women’s Exodus From Feminism