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Posted on 03/11/2017 4:51:31 AM PST by NYer
March 8, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – What does it mean to be a woman?
Planned Parenthood and the modern-day feminist movement are profoundly confused about this.
Today (Wednesday) is International Women’s Day. Planned Parenthood and its allies would have people believe that one of the greatest ways women can overcome gender “equality” is by expanding abortion and contraception.
They would have young girls believe that cancer-causing contraception is essential to their “healthcare” and that the right to dismember a tiny human being is a “fundamental right.”
But amidst their clamoring for these anti-human “rights,” modern feminism is struggling with some very basic questions.
Do all women have certain body parts? A few old guard feminists say yes; most modern ones say no, some women have penises and some men have vaginas. (That men can have abortions and that “not all women have uteruses” is a common rallying cry for leftists these days.)
Do men who attempt to “become” women still have male privilege? Do women who attempt to “become” men gain male privilege?
Are “trans women” (those who go from male to female) just as female as women? If so, why the qualifier? Why even call them trans?
How many genders are there? Do feminism and transgenderism promote a “binary” notion of gender?
Should female genital mutilation be opposed, or should it be respected and even funded by Planned Parenthood to avoid offending cultures that practice it?
Are women who oppose abortion welcome to identify as feminists and participate in feminist events like the anti-Trump Women’s March?
Modern feminism has strayed far from its foremothers like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who strongly opposed abortion. It’s turned into a divisive, collapsing movement that can’t seem to agree on its most basic tenets.
There’s a better way: embracing the beauty and magnificence of womanhood and all the unique gifts that come with it.
As Alice von Hildebrand said, “The amazing thing is that feminism, instead of making women more profoundly aware of the beauty and dignity of their role as wives as mothers, and of the spiritual power that they can exercise over their husbands, convinced them that they, too, had to adopt a secularist mentality” and try to be exactly like men.
Women can do a lot of things that men can’t. Most importantly, we can carry a whole, distinct, living human being inside our bodies for nine months – and then our bodies can continue to nourish and keep that human alive after he or she is born.
Catholic theology provides women with the perfect champion: the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Church doesn’t expect virgin births of women, nor does it expect women to be sinless like Mary was.
Rather, it gives us the Mother of God to be our advocate in a very special way. She is our mother. She loves us. She brings us peace and healing and the grace to function in a world that is so hostile to authentic femininity and real women’s empowerment.
“From Mary, we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone,” Pope St. John Paul II said. “From Mary, we learn to love Christ, her Son and the Son of God.”
Mary is the ultimate empowered woman and the woman who has singlehandedly changed the course of human history more than any other.
Today, modern feminists around the country will participate in “A Day Without A Woman,” during which they are on strike from their jobs.
If there truly were a “Day Without A Woman,” the worst part of it would be a day without Mary.
“We think that ‘women and girls’ are a meaningful category worthy of civil rights protection,” she said. “If we define sex, under Title IX, to mean gender identity, what we’re essentially saying is that ‘women and girl’ can mean anyone who self-identifies as ‘women and girl,’ which makes the category ‘women and girls’ meaningless as a category.”Dansky said that speaking out on this issue immediately makes you a target for hate.
Radical Feminist Explains Why She Opposes Transgender Bathroom Mandate
To further bolster this sudden awakening, consider the comments of radical feminist and lesbian, Camille Paglia. Rod Dreher, in his American Conservative article, notes:
A reader sends in this clip from a Camille Paglia discussion at last fall’s Battle Of Ideas festival in the UK, in which the lesbian scholar and provocateur identifies transgenderism as a mark of a civilization deep into decadence, nearing collapse. The good stuff starts at the four-minute mark.Lesson from History: Transgender Mania is Sign of Cultural Collapse - Camille Paglia
Rod Dreher's article: Paglia: Transgender & Civilization’s Decline
Quite insightful!!
I'm ironically amused too see a long-term agent of decadence and civilizational collapse identifying others as the marks of decadence and civilizational collapse.
This is what you want, Ms. Paglia. This is what you get. Mambo with Milo as the towers fall.
Camille Paglia makes a good point, but I have to say, she is looking quite androgynous herself these days, especially when you see earlier photos of her on the side bar. Just sayin.
Well, actually, with this kind of “thinking” matched with their alliance with radical islam, women will cease to exist altogether.
Camilla Paglia may be a lesbian but she’s NOT a radical feminist. She’s a dissident feminist who reveres men’s contribution to western culture.
Camille Paglia, I’m happy to report, sees right through Milo Y as did I from Day 1. Check her out.
She is, indeed, a decadent, but a wise one who is well worth listening to. Would you not spend time with Oscar Wilde?
I spent all day yesterday going through her You Tube presentations which are the height of intellectual probity.
I’m glad I’m old because I view #fakevaginas and #fakepenises and all this #transgender bathroom nonsense as #freaknews.
I want no part in any of it. Don’t want to hear or read about it and I’m weary from having it shoved in my face on TV news.
Well, that's a +1, as the gamers say.
I'm very fond of Oscar Wilde, but he, like Ms. Paglia, was an agent of decadence and civilizational collapse, though presumably with no ill-will. We choose only our actions, not their aggregate outcomes.
Yawn....
I never see any tv news, unless I’m stuck in a doctor’s waiting room.
Did anyone else notice questions. one young man seemed more concerned how he was going to be viewed (judged) for taking a stand, having an opinion, either way, rather then being concerned with the topic and what is actually best, as well as morally best for the child, the person, society and the world and as well as being willing to have the conviction to take a stand for that which is best and right. He doesn’t realize that it’s a fight that needs to be fought because those with wrong, destructive and demoralizing views will advocate those as best and force their views on others, while people like him allow them to do so out of fear of being labeled wrong, bad or worse truthful.
She is right about androgyny and ISIS, though. What is amazing is that it is happening at warp speed.
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Without any of the natural equipment, I am planning to self identify as a Black Muslim Woman so send some equal opportunity cash my way. Oh wait, since I am attracted to women, I must be a lesbian too. Get me a role on a TV show!
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Indeed.
Excellent metaphor!
I don’t think either of them are contributing to collapse - in fact, paradoxically, they have kept western culture alive if by a very thin strand. I think it was WWI that provided the collapse of society, not Oscar. His effect on homosexuality was to force it back into the closet for another 60 years.
No one can ever change for xx to xy or from xy to xx. A person can be feminine “xy” and masculine “xx”. To pretend a person is what they aren’t isn’t best for them, others or society.
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