What Feminism Gets Wrong

Simone Rizkallah (View Bio) • March 7, 2023 • View Transcript • View Discussion Questions

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Simone Rizkallah | What Feminism Gets Wrong

Who comes to mind when I say the word woman? Who is the model woman? I doubt all of you thought of the same person.

That’s because there isn’t a “one size fits all” woman. Stay with me here.

You don’t have to be business savvy or powerful, have children, wear the latest brands, or be a supermodel to be a woman. But while the world preaches empowerment for all women, the women it celebrates always seem to fit a certain mold: business leaders, politicians, successful actresses, influencers, or athletes.

Not just women in these careers, but more importantly, women who put their career first. Who don’t have children early on, or ever. Who shatter glass ceilings by remaking the landscape where the contemptible patriarchy once trod. After all, women can be better than men. Today, it seems that women can even be better men! Literally.

Is that the goal of womanhood?

God created men and women to complement each other’s gifts and bring out the best in each other, not to compete when it comes to roles and identities at will.

Feminism once secured us the right to vote, own property, and work. Those are important things! But then, unbridled from God, it came to glorify contraception, promiscuity, abortion, and divorce.

The great Catholic convert, intellectual, and martyr of the 20th century, St. Edith Stein, wrote that “The world doesn’t need what women have; it needs what women are.”

Pope St. John Paul II called this the feminine genius, and stated clearly that “Society owes much to the genius of women.” How’s that for smashing stereotypes?

The goal of our womanhood is holiness and its standard is Mary, the highest expression of femininity. Model women are as interesting and diverse as the saints. We enrich the world according to our own personal vocations which can’t always be put in tidy categories.

Jesus Himself, shockingly for his time, looked women in the eye and affirmed their unsurpassed dignity and His unconditional love for them. He chose St. Mary Magdalene to be the Apostle to the Apostles. In fact, the majority of Christian converts were women. For centuries, our genius, our closeness to Christ, has humbly and profoundly transformed world history.

Pope St. Paul VI, at the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council, boldly declared, ”Women, you do know how to make truth sweet, tender, and accessible…Women of the entire universe, whether Christian or non-believing, you to whom life is entrusted at this grave moment in history, it is for you to save the peace of the world.”

The feminine genius is powerful, and the devil knows it! His attack on femininity is obvious and aggressive.

The future needs women. Most importantly, it needs motherhood, both physical and spiritual. It needs unconditional love and service. It needs holiness.

I’m Simone Rizkallah, from Endow Groups, for EDIFY.

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