Why Feminists Ruined Mother's Day

This article was submitted anonymously to The New Guards by one of our female readers. We hope you enjoy and consider her words.

According to the Feminist Majority Foundation Feminists believe in

• Equality between men and women

• Abortion, contraception and family planning

• Civil rights for all people

• Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights

• Anti-discrimination on any basis

• Non-violence particularly against women

• The preservation of the environment

• Equal pay and rights for workers

To start, I have no problem with civil rights, anti-discrimination, non-violence against women, and the preservation of the environment; this article has nothing to do with that. Equal pay is a conversation for another day. Their movements for equality between men and women, abortion and family planning, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights have ruined Mother’s Day, and I will tell you why.

Equality between men and women

Feminists believe that women should compete on the same field as men, in some sports related cases quite literally. This year they prevailed as MTV offered an acting award not separated by gender: a woman won. Feminists want women and men to be one and the same, but how are girls going to succeed as WOMEN if we make the standard MEN? Feminists are trying so hard to prove they can do everything a man can do, they have forgotten to celebrate, love, and enjoy all the wonderful things that make them unique and different from men. They have forgotten all the things women can do that men cannot. Men and women are equal, just different. By insisting that women become “equal” or “the same as” men, feminists undermine and devalue themselves. They devalue their anatomy, they devalue their ability to empathize with and care for others, they devalue the home, they devalue the precious and sacred nature of women, and they devalue motherhood.

No man can ever be a mother. But feminists don’t focus on mothers. Mothers don’t further their agenda. According to them mothers have no ambition, no drive, no real worth—they are just mothers. When I stopped going to school after having my first child I was amazed at the way other women began to treat me; unless I had a degree having babies was all I was good for—barefoot and pregnant. My 4.0 GPA, college scholarships, and awards in my field of interest were all forgotten.

The goddess Hestia was the goddess of hearth and home. She was one of the original Olympians, but she gave up her throne on Olympus because she knew her job was greater than any throne she could sit on. While the other gods went off to war she stayed and tended the fire. She made sure there was a home to come back to. She represented light, hope, stability, and virtue. Mothers have the same obligations and responsibilities: to guard the homes, to guard hope, to guard love, to guard virtue, to guard the family. Feminists throw all of this away as they march for women to leave the home, leave their children, kill their unwanted babies, and wear their “virtue” as hats on their heads. Mothers offer their lives for others; feminists care only for themselves.

Abortion and Family Planning

To decide if another person lives or dies is to play God. No one gets to do that (ask Raskolnikov in Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. It’s not worth it). To kill an unborn child is to commit murder and effectively prevent someone from becoming a mother. Feminists glorify this. They glorify women who choose a promotion over a baby. They glorify women who choose their figure over a baby. They glorify women who prioritize sexual pleasure over the life of another human being. To have a child mothers must be willing to offer up their own life in exchange for another. Feminists have tried to rid the world of this notion by saying the “life of the mother” is a good reason for an abortion. There are other ways to save the life of the mother. A real mother would rather die. I would die a thousand times over if it would give my baby a chance to live.

To “family plan” is also to play God. Good luck. Feminists say that if a baby comes but it’s “inconvenient” women are allowed to get rid of it. Feminists say that women shouldn’t have a baby until they finish school, start a career, and are in their mid-thirties. Even then women should probably work part-time because otherwise they will “just be a mom.” By selling this narrative as the norm, every woman who decides to have a child in their early twenties or before finishing school and devote themselves to motherhood is “less.” Less than successful, less than interesting, less than the woman they could be. That doesn’t seem to promote all femininity, does it?

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights

These groups are actively anti-family. Why? Because they cannot naturally have one. It’s biologically impossible. Now, I realize that the actual bringing of a child into the world is not the only thing that makes someone a mother. As I said before, a mother is a guardian of hope, love, virtue, and family. Anyone who protects these things acts as a defender of all things lovely and true and gives value to the role of mother. Lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and trans people do not defend hope--they deny God’s plan. They do not defend love--they distort it. They do not defend virtue--they sell it for nothing. They do not defend families--they can’t have one. To promote and bolster these groups is to push mothers further into anonymity.

So there it is. This is why we have ashamed stay-at-home mothers who have been made to feel guilty for not being “more.” But more than what? More than a bringer of life? More than a guardian of beauty, love, charity, hope, and virtue? More than a tender of the hearth? More than a goddess?

I don’t see how there could be any greater calling. Anyone who tries to devalue this divine calling is driven by guilt and the lies Satan has whispered in their ears. So women, stop comparing yourself to men and become the goddess of life, light, and love that you are meant to be. The world needs you as a goddess more than it needs you in the workplace or as world traveler.

Happy Mother’s Day