Everything Wrong with America

I was reading the National Catholic Register this morning and stumbled upon an article written by Sarah Robinson for AlterNet.  It pretty much embodies everything wrong with Pro-Contraception women in America.  Really, more than anything, it's just sad that she pictures NFP women and abstinent women as being suppressed by patriarchal men when in reality we are so much more free than women on contraception.  Here's a little taste:

"Until the condom, the diaphragm, the Pill, the IUD, and all the subsequent variants of hormonal fertility control came along, anatomy really was destiny — and all of the world’s societies were organized around that central fact. Women were born to bear children; they had no other life options. With a few rebellious or well-born exceptions (and a few outlier cultures that somehow found their way to a more equal footing), the vast majority of women who’ve ever lived on this planet were tied to home, dependent on men, and subject to all kinds of religious and cultural restrictions designed to guarantee that they bore the right kids to the right man at the right time — even if that meant effectively jailing them at home.

Our biology reduced us to a kind of chattel, subject to strictures that owed more to property law than the more rights-based laws that applied to men. Becoming literate or mastering a trade or participating in public life wasn’t unheard-of; but unlike the men, the world’s women have always had to fit those extras in around their primary duty to their children and husband — and have usually paid a very stiff price if it was thought that those duties were being neglected."

Because having children and spending time with them is the worst thing that could ever happen to a woman.

She continues to talk about men thriving while women were enslaved at home.  She never really considers the idea that some women actually enjoy being at home--cooking, cleaning, and having time to be at home with their children.

As a dear friend of mine always says, women pushing for "equality with men" have the wrong idea.  They say that equality with men means acting like them.  In reality, what it says is that being feminine is not good enough, and we need to act like men because they are better than us.   Embracing our femininity isn't good enough, we need to be masculine--which will never work.  Radical fact: Women are not men.  Equality and femininity is truly lived out when our feminine qualities are expressed.

Women, don't buy into this kind of garbage.
Men, care enough about women to tell them this is garbage.

Check out the rest of the article here.