The Problem with American Feminists

Christina Hoff Sommers offers a compelling assessment of current feminism in her Sunday, June 17, 2007, Dallas Morning News op-ed piece entitled The Problem with American Feminists.  Seldom does the public get an insider’s revelation of the true nature of what young women are being taught by those now controlling our institutions of higher learning.   Christina Hoff Sommers, is a well know resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and is the author of “The War Against Boys” and co-author of “One Nation Under Therapy.”  I highly recommend her eye opening books. 

In Summers’ words, “Preoccupied with their own imagined oppression, they are of little help to the women of the world who most need it.” 

If in the Western world where women rule democratically by majority vote, yet show little desire to use their power for good and righteous principles, one might question that religious teachings requiring women subordinate to men should apply. 

If American feminism is the natural product of promoting gender equality, then it may prove to be another case where man should have followed the scriptures rather than believing himself superior to GOD.    Ironically, it will take righteous men willing to die, not radical feminist, to help the women of the world who most need it. 

Summers suggest young women are offered a one-sided totally irrational, self-centered college education in self indulgence and self gratification based on “their own imagined oppression.”  While there is nothing new in such revelation, it receives little direct public attention. 

Imagine what would happen if young men were directly educated with the same doctrine.  In fact, they are indirectly being so educated by observing their female peer’s behavior.   Should this continue it’s only a matter of time until society becomes totally amoral and Western civilization fails.   

The reason modern society is preoccupied with the likes of Parris Hilton and Brittany Spears should be obvious as they are icons of female self indulgence and self gratification.   Radical Moslem males could make a good case based in Summers’ argument for suppressing female rights. 

Ms. Summers correctly points to the fact that that it is a significant minority of American women lead by the apparently amoral, irrational radical few that pervade our educational system and influence government decisions. 

Millions of righteous disenfranchised fathers are required by court order to pay for their daughter’s “feminist” college education in the name of “best interest of the child.”  Little wonder the Amish choose to limit their children’s education.  Given the central common theme of religion is, “Service to others, is service to GOD” the majority of young women are taught exactly the opposite.  What could be more sacrilegious?  

Seldom have I come to realize the extent of change that has occurred in the universities over the last couple of decades than by Summer’s essay.   The decade old following quote seems like déjà vu.   

“There are respected academics in women’s studies departments and elsewhere who argue that Jane Austen was a lesbian, that Beethoven’s ninth symphony is an anthem to rape, that mathematics and science are “phallocentric” disciplines ill-suited to “feminine ways of knowing,” and on and on.” – Mona Charen on progressive higher education.

It leaves one with six decades of life’s perspective to wonder whether today’s professors of women’s studies, promoting radical feminist agenda,  were too busy burning their bras in the sixties to have learned anything in a time when Orwell’s writings were mandatory reading:

“You have to be an intellectual to believe such nonsense.  No ordinary man could be such a fool.” – George Orwell

“Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense.” – George Orwell, 1984