Ideologies have Consequences

Ideologies have consequences. Feminism is a spin-off of Marxism that creates a class warfare between the sexes. So many symptoms of this today. God's design gets discarded to our own peril. We are not designed to be in competition but as complements to each other. We are so confused today that it is only the radical elements of feminism that are dangerous. I would side with Donna Steichen and say that the very beginngings of modern feminism flow out of the Marxist mind-set. That there are oppressors and there are victims. That there must be liberation from these artificial economic, or in the case of feminism, artificial patriarchal oppressions. This was the teaching while I was in college. Marxism seasoned all the foods that we were fed.

Oh, that we may discard such destructive ideologies! May we take our cues not from Marx or de Beauvior but from the Lord who designed masculinity and femininity and how wonderfully they are with one another when according to God's original design.

For a fuller and expert account see Donna Steichen's essay on Feminism in "Disorientation", a collection of essays on the ideologies that infect us in academe.