In a world of feminism and women’s rights, mothers are devalued and underappreciated. With the feminist movement, we as women have demanded equal (but favored) rights, control over our bodies and careers, and have learned a profound revulsion at becoming a mother. Feminism tells us to take reproduction into our own hands - i.e., prevent it - because it will ruin our goals.

Major landmarks in the feminist movement include the legalization of birth control and abortion - both devaluing human life and our own sexuality. The exclusive clique of feminists denounce women who choose to hold their sexuality sacred and do not define “sexual liberation” as women finally being able to sleep with as many men as they want with as little emotion as possible.

In America, the ability to prevent pregnancy has overwhelmed society, so much that women who choose to have more than two children become stigmatized and outcast as religious fanatics. Women who choose to have children in their 20s are deemed unmotivated and intellectually worthless.

The society feminism has created hurts women. It has brought women into a further double bind - working women are selfish and bad mothers; stay-at-home moms are unmotivated and anti-feminism.

I thought feminism was about choice. No, in a feminist world, you don’t get to choose.

Feminism denies the right of a woman to actually have a child and have as many as she wants. In China, where abortion and population control are widespread, women fight for their right to bear children and be mothers. So why in this “modern” country, where women supposedly have freedom, do we continue to dictate what we, as women, must be in order to be a complete woman?

Women’s studies teachers, who often don’t have any children, have informed me time and time again that being a good mother is simply impossible. They even admit that this society drives women to be bad mothers. Their reasoning, however, is flawed. Society sets standards too high and makes it inevitable that women will fail as mothers, they say. But if women failed so often as mothers, why would we be aghast at the mothers who kill their children? Why would that be so rare? Ask almost anyone to describe the perfect mother and they will give you the characteristics of their own mother - not exactly a failure. Ask daughters who was the most influential person in their life and they more often than not will say their mothers.

A high standard of mothering was not created arbitrarily as feminists think. It was created out of experiencing that kind of motherhood. It’s the discouragement of feminists that encourages women to detest something that truly makes women special - the ability to nurture and carry human life within us. Feminists then must hate Mother’s Day.

Source: Cincinnati Enquirer, OH
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