The only
place where we actually need equal representation by men and women is in the
home: 1 husband and 1 wife, 1 father and 1 mother.
There is
nowhere else it is necessary.
In fact, the
pursuit of trying to achieve this equal representation everywhere else leads to
the decline of this representation in the home. It has this precise and direct
impact. It does not just correlate it is the primary cause of this issue. When
the home is gutted of this foundation, society is gutted, and everyone else
suffers as a result.
One of the
saddest realities of our modern age is that husbands and wives have become
ships that pass in the night. They stop to refuel and restore at the same port
of call, but in many homes there is no central homemaker who makes the home a desirable place
to be, there are only passing ships that occasionally float the same way.
We tend to
think of the wife staying at home and the man at work as a thing of history
past, but the reality is much different. The truth is that in many ages of
history both husband and wife were required to work. The husband may have been
a farm labourer for the local lord or master, and the wife was a house maiden
for the master’s wife. In fact, this was essentially the plight of many people
in the same era that Paul wrote in Titus that older women should maintain the
home.
The truth is
that women being able to keep the home was always the result of a society
becoming successful. As Helen Kendrick Johnson notes in her book, Woman and the
Republic,
“If
women were of political importance in earlier times, and if a republic is more
favorable to the exercise by them of the elective franchise, we should expect
to find women reaching their highest power under the Areopagus. Exactly the
contrary appears to be true. Native and honorable Greek women retired to
domestic life as the liberty of their people grew. Grote, in his "History
of Greece," referring to the legendary period, says: "We find the
wife occupying a station of great dignity and influence, though it was the
practice of the husband to purchase her by valuable presents to her parents.
She even seems to live less secluded, and to enjoy a wider sphere of action,
than was allotted to her in historic Greece."[1]
As the Greek
society became more successful more women were at liberty to keep the home. In
fact, Johnson notes that in earlier, cruder periods, women had far more
political and social involvement than people might expect. Why? Because life
was harder and more brutal and more people were needed to take part physically.
Also men would die quicker and more often.
In other
words, have you noticed that everyone is feeling poorer precisely at the same
time that more people, men and women, are working and household incomes are
higher than in previous periods? This is not a coincidence. When prosperity is
receding liberty recedes with it. Feminism has not progressed society, it has
caused a regress.
The home
needs one man and woman to fulfil their roles.
Much of our
social ills could be overcome by restoring that foundation in the home.
List of References
[1] Johnson,
Helen Kendrick. Woman and the Republic — a Survey of the Woman-Suffrage
Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of
Its Foremost Advocates (p. 9). Kindle Edition.
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