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Finally Some Honesty: A Feminists' Perspective On The "Institution" of Marriage

On the most recent Patriarchy podcast, they played this video that The Guardian shared a few years ago on Youtube.  The title is a dead give away as to the video's agenda: "Women, Face It: Marriage Can Never Be Feminist."  Julie Bindel, the speaker in the video, opens up with this statement, "Dress it up, subvert it, deny it all you want - marriage is an institution that has curtailed women's freedom for centuries.  But instead of rejecting the patriarchal and outdated tradition, some feminists have decided to reclaim it."  

Bindel is coming after the "feminists" that claim to be feminists, but still have the audacity to get married.  To Bindel, marriage is an institution that is repressing women from achieving their full equality with men.  Now, this isn't new nor surprising, but we are finally getting the honesty of the feminist movement.  I don't think any sane person would want to oppress any other, like how feminism colors men as oppressing women.  But this is the goal behind the movement - the destruction of marriage - as the guys on the podcast helpfully pointed out.*  It shows just how poisonous feminism is, and what it is striving to do.  

It may be surprising to some, but it is time to wake up, because this is where we are in our culture.  If there is ever a time to have strong marriages . . . the time is now.




*I would recommend listening to this podcast, I just repeated a lot of what they were saying.  (But it bears repeating.)

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