TWM: Man! I Feel Like a Woman...Really???

"Man! I Feel Like a Woman!"

I'm going out tonight-I'm feelin' alright

Gonna let it all hang out

Wanna make some noise-really raise my voice

Yeah, I wanna scream and shout

No inhibitions-make no conditions (no self control)

Get a little outta line

I ain't gonna act politically correct

I only wanna have a good time (typical hedonistic attitude of our era)

The best thing about being a woman

Is the prerogative to have a little fun (fun, fun)

Oh, oh, oh, go totally crazy-forget I'm a lady (no need to be proper

Men's shirts-short skirts

(Be as powerful as men; possess sexual freedom)

Oh, oh, oh, really go wild-yeah, doin' it in style

Oh, oh, oh, get in the action-feel the attraction

Color my hair-do what I dare (I-define-myself mentality)

Oh, oh, oh, I wanna be free-yeah, to feel the way I feel

(freedom from any societal norms, but also freedom from God's beautiful design)

Man! I feel like a woman!

Read the lyrics to that song, and if you're discerning and biblical wise, you can't help but see how the feminist movement has warped our view of womanhood. What can I say? I heard that song on the radio tonight and almost didn't realize what I was singing and had sung along to many times. But, when I stopped and thought, I realized I was supporting the downfall of biblical womanhood.

In "You've Become a Long Way, Baby" in VotTWM, Mary Kassian provides an educated overview of the development of feminism. Let me summarize her history lesson. Basically the Feminist Revolution began in the late 1950s as Betty Friedan started to question the happiness and freedom as wives and mothers. She found many women to be dissatisfied in those roles based on the discoveries she published in The Feminine Mystique, calling women to trust on other authority than their "own personal truth" and overturn the male dictated image of womanhood. Thus women had to reject Judeo-Christian beliefs regarding truth and gender.

As the Feminist Movement gained momentum, women renamed/redefined themselves, and with this came "1) full self-determination, 2) freedom from biological distinctions, 3) economic independence, 4) total and equal integration not the workforce, and 5) sexual freedom" (VTWM, 61). The movement gained support through "conscious raising" - bringing women together to share their frustions with in hopes of breeding a collective bitterness that would lead to political activism. This bitterness spread through the country, which resulted in the mentality that women were actually better than men. Societally everything changed as women's studies programs popped up and the doctrines of the Feminist Movement trickled down from the higher institutions of learning to the kindergarten classrooms. They also questioned the identity of God. THey couldn't accept the God of the Bible because He is male, so they began to say they were to the ones to define God--making themselves gods.

How ridiculous this all seems to me now. Ten years ago I was, "I am woman. Hear me roar." I was convinced I was just as good as any man and could do anything I wanted to do. I may have even believed a girl could do anything better than a boy. I was ready to make my way in the world. I didn't realize I was contradicting myself as I stood in my cheerleading uniform waiting for whichever boy I happened to be dating to pick me up. I wanted the power of the feminist movement at the same time I wanted the love and protection of a patriarchal society (though my desire for this love and protection was also perverted).

As women, we don't realize how we have bought into the lies of the Feminist Movement. We believe a joy, freedom from children, and

sexual freedom will bring us happiness. But look around...Are women happier with these things than they were before? No! They're torn. They hate being left to work and care for a home - two full-time jobs. THey hate men who want provide or abandon their families. Most women have what they want when it comes to being equal with a man, but still they are dissatisfied... just like the women Betty Friedan interviewed.

They are dissatisfied because they don't have Jesus. We all have areas where we fill unfulfilled due to sin. I am single, so I want a man. I am married, so I wish I were single. I don't have a baby, so I want a baby. I have children, so I wish I had waited longer to have children. That is why we have to accept God's design though we live in a sinful world. He created us male and female, and He did this to teach us about the Trinity and about Christ and the Church. Kassian points out Romans 9:20-21: "But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, 'Why have you made me like this?' Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?"

We shouldn't question our Maker. If you believe God is all-wise and all-good, you won't reject the beauty of true womanhood. Man, you can feel like a woman, a woman who is pleased by her Maker and in turn is desiring to please her Maker, not please herself.