"Gender" theories will always result in the destruction of a society.
Early feminist texts obsess over boys and girls being socialized differently. The young girl feminist looks over to the boy playing with trains and guns and silently fumes that she could do all that to, if only she was told to. If only women were told to be engineers, shave their heads and eat out other women then true liberation could be found.
Oops! I forgot sexual orientation was inborn but any expression of said orientation was socially constructed.
Jimmy: "Gee, why are people born gay, straight or bisexual?"
Feminist: "Well, I don't know Jimmy, but your incessant questioning comes across as homophobic. It just is, Jimmy. Accept it. Evolution explains it. Plus, the expression is always socially constructed. Because of evolution. Check your privilege."
The Church can feel the social bombs going off around them, but not being able to recognize what exactly is going on around them. Liberal detractors get to paint them as ignorant of their theories, as if knowing of their theories legitimates them. Further, they get to paint the Church as temporally ignorant. In other words, the future is progressing to this, so let it happen. It's another tool in the feminist toolbox that allows them to explain the devolution of society.
The narcissism is on full display with the claim that "they are the future." They are the heroes, they are saving society from itself. Just like the generation that went through the '60's thinking they were going to lead profound social transformation. They eventually turned to political quietism in the '70's when they realized their movements were never going to lead to that.
It reminds me of the ending to "The Butterfly Effect." Lying about the past in order to reform the future will never work. The feminist activists will lie with impunity about how men could beat or rape their wives at will in the past and that is why the present is better. It is their way of expressing distress at the current social malaise or their personal issues at the expense of long-term social health. The past is always over-the-top bad and some Eden is navigable to in the present, rarely in the feminist declarant's lifetime.
The Church is trying -- vainly -- to resist the the corrosive effects of Western narcissism. It is fighting the good fight, but the dominoes are already set at the collegiate level - the supporters of psychological insanity are already in place.
Cite America all you want, but we are nothing but a rotting husk of world power. America died decades ago.
Early feminist texts obsess over boys and girls being socialized differently. The young girl feminist looks over to the boy playing with trains and guns and silently fumes that she could do all that to, if only she was told to. If only women were told to be engineers, shave their heads and eat out other women then true liberation could be found.
Oops! I forgot sexual orientation was inborn but any expression of said orientation was socially constructed.
Jimmy: "Gee, why are people born gay, straight or bisexual?"
Feminist: "Well, I don't know Jimmy, but your incessant questioning comes across as homophobic. It just is, Jimmy. Accept it. Evolution explains it. Plus, the expression is always socially constructed. Because of evolution. Check your privilege."
The Church can feel the social bombs going off around them, but not being able to recognize what exactly is going on around them. Liberal detractors get to paint them as ignorant of their theories, as if knowing of their theories legitimates them. Further, they get to paint the Church as temporally ignorant. In other words, the future is progressing to this, so let it happen. It's another tool in the feminist toolbox that allows them to explain the devolution of society.
The narcissism is on full display with the claim that "they are the future." They are the heroes, they are saving society from itself. Just like the generation that went through the '60's thinking they were going to lead profound social transformation. They eventually turned to political quietism in the '70's when they realized their movements were never going to lead to that.
It reminds me of the ending to "The Butterfly Effect." Lying about the past in order to reform the future will never work. The feminist activists will lie with impunity about how men could beat or rape their wives at will in the past and that is why the present is better. It is their way of expressing distress at the current social malaise or their personal issues at the expense of long-term social health. The past is always over-the-top bad and some Eden is navigable to in the present, rarely in the feminist declarant's lifetime.
The Church is trying -- vainly -- to resist the the corrosive effects of Western narcissism. It is fighting the good fight, but the dominoes are already set at the collegiate level - the supporters of psychological insanity are already in place.
Cite America all you want, but we are nothing but a rotting husk of world power. America died decades ago.