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On "just" having babies and making food

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I recognize most moms like myself prefer to take the ostrich approach to the news and social media hubbub, a tactic I generally endorse. We have too much work on our hands to be fooling with rage bait.

But if perhaps some of the latest commotion has hit your radar, you might be aware that questions regarding headship, women’s roles, and the nineteenth amendment are topics du jour, following CNN’s piece on Doug Wilson. ​

I heard one commentator on the piece voice concern that a comment like, “Women are the kind of people that people come out of,” indicates a view that a woman’s job is primarily having babies and cooking meals — the typical “barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen” view of women that gives feminists nightmares and fuels their tirades.

First, that sentence was clipped and delivered in the piece as if it was the one and only statement about women Wilson had to make, which is not true. Second, people’s responses to the expression are telling.

I honestly have a hard time hearing the statement as derogatory at all. It only sounds like “women are breeders” to you if you think of humans as equivalent to animals. Is our reproduction and motherhood the same as any mammal? You have to think so if you’re a Darwinist.

As Christians, however, we cannot think it the same thing to have a little of puppies and a family of children, immortal souls created in the image of God. To be entrusted with the formation—physical, spiritual, and emotional—of several other image-bearers of God who will live forever in either heaven or hell is no demotion.

Does any career really compare to that? Where are those businesses and profits without people?

The trope feminism has taught us is that thinking of women as mothers, encouraging women to be mothers, or generally elevating and celebrating motherhood is denigrating of women. It’s an oppressive, regressive perspective according to the feminists. Girls ought never to plan on being mothers, but always make some other plan because being dependent on men is the worst. Don’t let your girls voice a desire to get married and have children, but force them into first preparing for a career and letting marriage and babies follow later if they really want to.

Mystie Repent. Rejoice. Repeat.

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