Feminazis and the War on Women: Why They’re Wrong

May 2 by Lindsey Kolb

Throughout my life I’ve been an extremely motivated and driven young individual, but not because of my gender. In the past year that I’ve been in college, I’ve been contacted to join certain groups that promote “feminism” and “freedom from the unjust men.” Students set up tables in the student union of my university and beg people to come hear their two cents about why women need to have their rights respected. One day, I decided to take a walk over to one of the tables to see what one of the organizations that were trying to promote women to support a Pro-Choice position on abortion. As they started talking to me they immediately asked my political affiliation and whether or not I was Pro-Life or Pro-Choice. I simply told them that I was a Conservative Republican and that I am 100% Pro-Life. Now, the boy and the girl sitting at the table immediately stood up and started screaming at me. Yes, in the middle of the student union with hundreds of other students around. They wagged their finger in my face and told me that because I was a Conservative and because I was Pro-Life, that I immediately was against women’s rights. The boy even told me that I wasn’t doing my duty as a woman because I was for women not being able to do with their bodies what they want to.

I sort-of just stood there for a while and let them have their 30 seconds of anger. Then I simply told them that it was my right as a free and independent American that I could choose whether I advocated to be Pro-Life.  Then they continued to argue with me illogically saying that because I’m a woman I HAVE TO advocate for more women’s rights. Personally, I’m tired of the women’s rights debate. I was tired of it before I talked to these radicals and I’m still tired of it now. Why? Because there shouldn’t even be a debate about “women’s rights,” or a “war on women,” or even why “more women should run for public office.”

These debates need to let up because all they are doing is making women seem even more inferior than they felt to begin with. Now, I don’t identify with the feminist movement, nor the radical feminists that I like to call “feminazis” that are extremely adamant about promoting feminism 24/7. With my Christian beliefs I believe that God ordained the man to be the head of the house with women right beside him. There are obviously different associations with each of the genders—men usually being the more dominant, athletic, and strong natured—women being the more nurturing and motherly nature. However, men and women don’t always have to hold to their typical “gender roles” as society seems to make them adhere to.

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