Honouring Motherhood

Our society hails female athletes as heroes for young girls. But are they?

Here is a video of American figure skater Alysa Liu winning a gold medal at the Milano-Cortina winter olympics this February. Ms Liu displays grace, beauty, strength, endurance, style and eloquence during her skating performance.

And this morning she would have woken up looking sleepy; I imagine she got herself a coffee, life goes on. That moment is over. It’s done. Maybe she can do it again at the next olympics. Maybe. Good for her, right? Strong and empowered women, right?

My article on banning women’s sports got a lot of traction. The comments are very revealing for how deep the feminist infection goes. The women are screaming like harpies and the white knights are simping and exclaiming at how I am an awful excuse for a man and that they will protect the womens from me, right my ladies?

My article was meant to shine a light on a single aspect of the impact of feminism in our culture. Feminism implicitly means that the moral framework is centred on women and their choices and decisions. Women first. Men a very distant second.

And children? Where are the children?

The children are nowhere.

I don’t think that video is strong and empowering at all. I think that it shows a waste. It shows a young woman who has swallowed the lies of the modern world and she believes that she has everything. But she doesn’t.

Oh sure, she can now go off and become a wife and mother, right? But that would simply be second fiddle to what she did on the ice. Women are told that they can have it all, but that is a terrible trap. It simply means that they are supposed to be able to do everything. That sets the expectation. You are a modern woman you are supposed to be able to do it all. To be a woman and a man. Nobody can do everything, however. And when our young women hit the wall when they come up against this material fact then they become depressed and disillusioned, and then they start taking the pills that the medical industry assures them will fix everything and cure their pain. But it doesn’t.

I’ll tell you what is the greatest display of beauty and grace and strength there is for a woman. The moment when she holds her new born baby and she looks at that baby and her baby looks back at her. That right there is the essence of female empowerment. That is the essence of female strength. And here is the kicker - the next day she has it again. And the next day, and the day after that. And then she has more babies, and her beauty and grace and empowerment grows with every one of them.

A little while ago I was at a mall in the USA with a woman and her four young children. An older gentleman approached us. He had an infectious joyful smile on his face. To my embarrassment he assumed that I was the father of the children. I truly wish that that was the case, but it is not. He said a few words and it was at that moment that I understood that he was just so happy to see a woman with so many beautiful children. The children are her glory. She lives that glory in different ways every day.

The children are our future.

We are constantly told that our birth rates are sinking ever lower while our society pushes abortion as a woman’s “reproductive right”. They can’t say baby murder. They have to twist the language to make it morally approachable while at the same time laying the ultimate blame at the feet of women. That’s their evil sleight of hand.

Women’s sports is just another female “right” that we have been conditioned to believe is a positive thing. Feminism pushes the lie that the most important thing in our society is a woman’s right to choose. Choose what? Whatever she wants or desires. Women’s choices are the most important thing, and if you push back against that then you are truly going against the established order.

It’s a lie, it’s incredibly destructive, and it hurts children most of all. Women have been giving men a gigantic shit test for over a hundred years and we have been failing it. Keep giving them what they want and then they will be happy. But it doesn’t work like that, and here we are.

In our screwed up society, if a young woman forgoes the enticements of college and a “career” and all the rest of it, and instead focuses on being a wife and having a family, then this is seen as a tragic waste. But motherhood and being a devoted wife is the most beautiful and graceful thing that a woman can ever do, and it lasts for her entire life, and it echoes down through the generations. That is her glory. If we are going to turn this thing around then motherhood, and only motherhood must return to being promoted as the greatest thing that a woman can do. Because it is. And because it is good, and beautiful, and true.

Here is a video of American athlete Lindsey Vonn at the same olympic games this year. Vonn was attempting to regain the glory of her last Olympic medal back in 2010. She suffered a brutal crash during her race and had to be airlifted to hospital. Vonn has dedicated her entire life to her sport, and she even has a program for “strong girls” to encourage young women to make the same mistakes that she has made.

Vonn is 41 years old. She has no children. She is pushed as being a hero and role model for young women, as is Alysa Liu. But it is that woman with her four beautiful children who should be the real heroes for women.