From the Federalist

The Federalist carried this article online, written by Carrie Gress, written on June 28, 2021. The title of her article is: "Meet The Flyover Women Pop Culture Ignores: The fly-over woman understands her womanhood and motherhood deep in her bones and doesn't see maleness as a goal to achieve or person to conquer." Carrie Gress is a smart but conservative professor offering a traditional view of womanhood. Here is what the Federalist posted about her at the end of her article: "Carrie Grass is a Fellow at Ethics and Public Policy Center. A mother of five, she has a doctorate in philosophy from the Catholic University of America and is the author of several books, including the 'The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity,' and 'Theology of Home.' She is the editor of the online women's magazine Theology of home.com." My response: She is the prototypical successful woman: mother, feminine, yet liberated, career, professor, writer. She has it all and that is what a woman is about. Let me quote from her article: "Adherents of radical feminism are five decades into a powerful campaign that seeks to shape the way American women think. Politics, fashion, Hollywood, academia, and media propagate a singular vision of womanhood, relying on the savvy use of optics, messaging and even make-up. These radical feminists have done a remarkable job of silencing or sidelining their critics." My response: Her moderate feminism, championing a mixing of tradition values and feminism is balanced and healthy. Radical feminists are Marxist, hate men and will make women and America fail if they continue to get their way. It is hoped that conservatives like Gress can restored the balance needed. Let me quote from her article: "Ironically, whether they know it or not, feminists' unspoken premise insists men are superior to women and women must become like them in pursuit of equality. Therefore, to be equal, women must be able to eliminate the consequences of sex, like men, and rid themselves of unborn children through unrestricted abortion. Abortion is the crux of most women's policy issues and is at heart of the greatest political divisions in the United States." My response: Yes, radical feminists do assume men are superior to women, so women must become like them. First, of all, men are not superior to women. And men are biologically different from women--it is not just social construction. Second, men and women should be treated equally, which means fairly, but not the same because they are not identical. Wiping out men and excessive abortions are not going to make woke women happy or fulfilled. Let me quote her again: "What we will never see in the splashy pages of Vanity Fair, for instance, are the many happy women who buck the feminist narrative, loving, nurturing, consoling, clothing, cleaning, and adoring their numerous children without trying to live like men. From Maine to Hawaii, these are the women who have opened themselves up to the dramatic and self-sacrificial love required when one person truly loves another. They carry children in their wombs, their arms, their hearts, their minds." My response: a good and healthy woman is a mother, a wife, a worker and self-actualizer. She can be feminine as heck and still do all these things. It is not an either/or choice: either she is a radical feminist, or she is a wife, mother and homemaker. Let me quote from her article: "Fly-over women are the moms and daughters and wives and sisters and friends the media overlooks because they are religious or frumpy or don't have sexy day jobs. They are considered uneducated doormats. Their bodies are often tired, hair not always perfectly coiffed, and nails rarely manicured. Their homes may not be camera-ready, their meals are not often gourmet, and talking points are ready on their tongues. But mostly, the issue is that they don't believe in abortion and they do believe in the sanctity of marriage." My response: The Left has lost the middle when they sneer at and disrespect as uneducated, doormats women that are Christian, conservative, heterosexual women that work, live in the real world, raise kids, love their men and sons, believe abortion is murder and marriage is sacred and between men and women. Traditional women and their men are about rebel and rise up and take the country back: the cultural war will be won, and it will not be the Left that wins. Let me quote her further: "These unseen and unknown women are the fly-over women found in every American city and state. They've been called bigots, lectured to, condescended to, and ignored by those who consider themselves morally superior." My response: Intellectuals, progressive and elitists treat regular people, these wives, workers and mother, as dummies, bigots, as intellectually and morally inferior. These women juggle career, marriage and family, pay taxes, run the society. They keep society going. The Christian, heterosexual majority, women and men, are who the society primarily is made for and their needs and issues should be priority. That can be done and is done is free, generous, fair, tolerant America; we need moms and dads to have babies, to get married, and hold society together so that our country has a future. The needs of every minority out of the mainstream, however numerous or few in number, but not by overthrowing the mainline, traditional cultural and our Enlightenment-era constitutional republic. A good place to start rectifying would be to would be to treat wives, mothers and regular women with honor and respect, with no more put-downs or snide carping against these heroines keeping the country going and getting it done every day. Let me quote from her again: "More than anything, these women actively reject the ideology continually advanced by radical feminism. They are tired of the same Marxist effort to reimagine human nature as anything it wants to be. They reject all the latest Marxist fads, propagated with clever sound bites, high-end advertising, and popular hashtags." My response: I do not believe traditional American women reject feminism. They reject radical feminism which is anti-men, pro-abortion, anti-family, anti-homemakers. They reject radical feminism that is a woke, postmodernist offshoot of Marxism. These fanatics, these ideologues are not after justice for women. They do not have the best interest of women at heart, and their revolutionary excesses and drastic, nihilistic solutions will hurt women, children, men--all Americans, and these traditional women know this down to their toes. Let me quote her further: "Fly-over women know feminist ideology is the weary set of ideas that led us to a country in which millions of women are desperately unhappy--and many are hard-pressed to actually define the word 'woman. ‘There is no happiness in an ideology that foments narcissism, self-absorption, and isolation from the basic cell of civilization: the family. Only a deeply confused culture would seek to replace the word mother with 'birthing person' or breast-feeding with 'chest-feeding.'" My response: As a moderate, I always counsel that we can have our cake and eat it too. Women need to marry, have children, run a home and family within a matrix bound by community, church, school and extended family. They can individuate, be liberated and pursue a career, being happy, loved and fulfilled, with a man in their lives, without resorting to narcissism or experimenting with 67 gender choices.