Raising Up Esther Workshop

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Raising Up EstherWorkshop
Nurturing the Nations

• The Disappearance of Women

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Part 2 THE LIE ROOT OF THE POVERTY

• 3 The Framework
• 4 The Crushing of Women
• 5 The Culture of Sexism
• 6 The Disappearance of Women

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Vae victis!Woe to the conquered!

• In the codes of all the nations which are
  called civilized, man has written the laws which
  govern the destiny of women in these cruel terms
  Vae victis!
• Honore de Balzac
• (1799-1850)

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Misogyny

• miso (hatred)
• gyne (woman)
• Misogyny the hatred of woman

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The Irony
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Social Darwinism

• The chief distinction in the intellectual
  powers of the two sexes is shown by man's
  attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he
  takes up, than can woman whether requiring deep
  thought, reason, or imagination, or merely the
  use of the senses and hands. We may also infer
  that if men are capable of a decided pre-eminence
  over women in many subjects, the average of
  mental power in man must be above that of woman.
• Charles Darwin

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The Death of Female

• Femalicide The death of woman
• Feminicide The death of the feminine metaphysic
• In the modern world a single, unfettered,
  male is the ideal!

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The Disappearance of Women

• By entering the public sphere at the expense of
  the private, woman legitimated the male world and
  rejected her own.
• Lilian Calles Barger
• Eves Revenge

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The Disappearance of Women

• These movements allow us to become, in a
  sense, invisible as women and able to navigate
  the male-defined public world with less notice.
• Lilian Calles Barger
• Eves Revenge

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The Rise of Feminism

• Christ was the first feminist
• First wave Maternal Feminism
• Second wave Modern Feminism
• Third wave Post-modern Feminism

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First Wave Feminists Maternal Feminism
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First Wave Maternal Feminism

• 19th early 20th century
• Biblical worldview or its memory
• Interested in others
• Woman valued in
• Being - humanity
• Function - motherhood

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Maternal Feminists Fight

• Against male value system and power structure
• To get women out of the sweatshops and into the
  home
• For a family wage
• Pro-life
• Abolition of slavery
• Womens suffrage

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Maternal Feminists Leaders

• Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1850-1902)

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Second WaveModern Feminism

• Mid to late 20th century
• Secular Humanism Meta-narrative
• Interested in self
• Women valued in their being but not in their
  function

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Modern Feminists Fight

• Stood against female value system
• To get women out of the home into the marketplace
• Pro-abortion
• Sexual revolution sex without responsibility

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Shapers of Modern Feminism
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Influence of Communism

• Materialism Human beings are instruments of
  production
• Womans ideal place is in the workplace
• Womans worth is as a producer of products, not
  children

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Modern Feminist
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Worth in the Market Place

• Money is the marker of success in a market
  economy it usually accompanies power, and it
  enables the bearer to wield power, including
  within the family.
• Linda Hirshman
• Brandeis University

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Mothers Are Like Animals

• man was set apart from other animals by his
  minds power to have an idea, a vision, and
  shape the future to it. .. when he discovers, and
  creates and shapes a future different from his
  past, he is a man, a human being.
• Betty Friedan
• The Feminine Mystique

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Being Female is Second Class

• The things that men used to do to degrade women,
  now modern feminists use to degrade women!

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Peter Drucker on Modern Feminists

• We are busily unmaking one of the proudest
  social achievements in the nineteenth century,
  which was to take married women out of the work
  force so that they could devote themselves to
  family and children.

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Be Child Free!
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For a woman to be all she can be, she must be
child free!
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The Anti-Maternal

• Women who change their childrens diapers have
  "voluntarily become untouchables." - Professor
  Hirshman
• Vacuuming the living room floor with or
  without makeup is not work that takes enough
  thought or energy to challenge any womans full
  capacity. - Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique

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Un-Pregnant

• Enabled women to be like men
• Not pregnant
• In the marketplace
• When sexism and feminism define personhood as
  being male not pregnant then knives and
  chemicals make women like men!

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The Pill

• For the average woman, the pill has provided a
  way to divorce sex from procreation, so she can
  make herself available to any sexual partner she
  chooses at the moment. A woman is now considered
  to be available 24/7/365.
• Lilian Calles Barger
• Eves Revenge

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Emptying the WombAbortion

• The widely practiced violence of abortion is
  not a sign of progress but a sign that womens
  reproductive ability needs to be exterminated in
  order for society to go forward. In an
  environment hostile to womens bodies and through
  abortion, women participate in a war against
  their own bodies, objectifying them.
• Barger
• Eves Revenge

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Consequences of the Anti-Maternal

• Fertility in eighty-three countries
  representing 44 of the worlds population has
  fallen below replacement levels in the developed
  countries, the net reproduction rate is 0.7 and
  dropping, which means that the next generation
  will be only 70 as large as this one.1
• Philip Yancey

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Radical Individualism

• me not us
• self absorption not self sacrificing
• being in authority, never under authority
• self serving rather than other serving
• personal freedom without personal responsibility

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Third Wave FeminismPost-modern Feminism
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Third Wave FeministsPost-modern Feminism

• Late 20th and early 21st century
• Secular Humanism No Meta-narrative
• Interested in
• Overthrowing male female distinctions
• Interchangeability
• Female and male are equal (the same)

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Post-modernism

• There is no Meta-narrative like
• Biblical Theism
• Darwinism
• No Essentialism The idea that men and women are
  essentially different
• 1st Wave Women and men are different and equal
• 2nd Wave Men and women are different and men
  are better

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Post-modernism

• 3rd Wave Feminism
• There is no meta-narrative
• Monism All is one!
• All distinctions blur and disappear
• Application
• In the metaphysics of sex no masculine and
  feminine
• In the biology of sex no male and female

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Post-modern FeministsFight

• Stand against male value system
• Against sexual distinctions
• Promote Androgyny
• Transcendent sexuality disappears
• Maleness and femaleness disappears

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Androgyny

• Two Greek words
• andros male
• gyne female
• Androgyny literally means
• male and female in one

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Androgynous Life Forms

• Paramecium

• Amoeba

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The Metaphysical Roots of Androgyny

• Neo-paganism
• Monism All is one
• Pantheism everything is god!
• Religions of Neo-paganism
• Hinduism
• Buddhism
• Taoism
• New Age

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Pagan Animism

• Sophia of the Greeks
• Astarte of the Phoenicia
• Cybel the mother goddess of Phrygia

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The Metaphysic of Androgyny

• Monism All is one!
• This leads to a transcendent androgynous (fusion
  of masculine and feminine)
• Because the metaphysical root is androgyny,
  ultimately
• gender roles are interchangeable
• sex itself is elastic

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Michel FoucaultGodfather of Androgyny
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Sociological Maxim

• Before changing a society, you must first change
  the language of the culture
• Whoever controls the language controls the culture

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Elasticity of Language

• Sacredness of Life
• Abortion
• Pro-Life
• Baby
• Sex

• Quality of Life
• Pro-Choice
• Anti-Choice
• Tissue or product of conception
• Gender

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Deconstructing Sex

• Sex
• Biological term
• Implies distinction i.e. male and female.
• Is not elastic
• Is grounded in the essence of biological and
  psychological differentiation.

• Gender
• Sociological term
• Defined by societal usage
• Gender is elastic.
• We can construct our own reality

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Lifestyle Choices

• Heterosexual traditional female and male
• Homosexual gay and lesbian
• Bisexual relating sexually to both men and women
• Transvestites someone who dresses and acts like
  someone of the opposite sex
• Transgender someone who has undergone surgery to
  change their sex

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Change DefinitionMarriage

• Marriage A sacred covenant, before God, between
  one man and one woman until death do us part!
• Marriage A social contract, before a civil
  society, between a man and a woman until we
  divorce.
• Marriage A personal commitment between
  consenting adults as long as it is convenient.

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• In the Postmodern world, secular materialism
  is being combined with a pagan spirituality to
  shape a new language and ultimately a whole new
  world order.

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Promoting Androgyny
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The Elasticity of SexGender Confusion

• There is no ultimate meaning to our sexuality or
  to our bodies
• There are no role distinctions between men and
  women
• Equality, in modern feminism, means sameness

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The Elasticity of SexGender Confusion

• This interchangeability takes place
• In work - the Marketplace
• In the military
• In the home
• In the church
• It is even being pushed in the act of procreation

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The Proto Change

• Began with 2nd Wave Feminism
• Unisex clothing
• Unisex hair styles
• Cross-dressing
• as either a uniform (women wearing ties and
  vests)
• as a sexual statement (men dressing as women or
  women dressing in mens clothing)

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Proto Change

• University Campus Housing
• First, separated dorms
• Second, men and women to house in the same dorms,
  but on different floors
• Third, men and women living on the same floors
  but in different rooms
• Fourth, men and women inhabit gender neutral
  facilities, using the same rooms, restrooms and
  showers

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Post-modern Feminisms Blank Slate

• The body becomes plastic, inscribed with
  gender and cultural standards. The constitution
  of the body rests in its inscription the body
  becomes the text which is written upon it and
  from which it is indistinguishable.
• Pippa Brush
• 3rd Wave Feminist

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Our Bodies Are A Blank Slate

• In Postmodernism, our bodies reveal nothing. They
  are
• A blank canvas upon which to paint
• A blank piece of paper upon which to write
• A white board on which to draw

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Writing on the Body
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Cutting the Flesh Pt. 1Vanity

• Cosmetic Surgery
• Liposuction

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Deconstructing Sexuality

• Transsexual surgery
• Reproductive technology
• Abortion sculpting the womb like a man
• Sperm bank donor sperm for
• Single women
• Lesbian couples
• (Research) genetic material from lesbian or
  homosexual couple used to make an egg and sperm,
  so child is genetic makeup of both partners

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The Elasticity of the Body

• 3rd Wave Feminists and Queer Theory advocates
• Denying the reality of the hard facts of biology
• Affirming the opinion of ideology

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The Cutting Edge ofSocietal Devolution

• Polygamy many spouses
• Pedophilia sex with children (already moving
  into the mainstream)
• Necrophilia sex with dead bodies
• Bestiality sex with animals

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Historian William Manchester

• The erasure of distinctions between the
  sexes is not only the most striking issue of our
  time, it may be the most profound the race has
  ever confronted.1

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Evangelical Feminism
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Francis Schaeffer

• Tell me what the world is saying today, and
  Ill tell you what the church will be saying
  seven years from now.

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Heeding the Crushing of Women

• Much of the church in the western world has
  correctly, if slowly, recognized and responded to
  the crushing of women by Sexism.

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Distinctions

• Christian Feminists
• More consciously secularists
• Challenge the authority of Scripture
• Represent the liberal wing of the church
• Evangelical Feminists or Biblical Feminists
• Have a high view of Scripture
• Would claim to believe in the authority of
  Scripture
• Desire to challenge the traditional
  interpretation of Scripture - specifically in the
  realm of hierarchy roles in the church and in the
  family

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Trinitarian Equality

• All human beings are made in the image of God
• All human beings have one blood
• All humans are equal in dignity, value and worth
• Unity and diversity in community

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Monistic Equalitarianism

• Function from philosophic and religious Monism
  god is one, absolutely and indivisibly one
• Response to Atomism - absolute differentiation -
  Sexism
• Egalitarian asserts that to be equal means to be
  the same undifferentiated, interchangeable,
  identical, or indistinguishable

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Monistic Equalitarianism

• Affirms the equality of human beings at the
  expense of diversity
• Deny transcendent masculine and feminine
• Deny that there is any role or function
  differentiation between women and men
• Promote role interchangeability for men and women
• Ultimately leads to androgyny

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The Hermeneutical Principle

• Evangelical feminists tend to compromise
  Trinitarianism with Monism
• The weight being towards Monism
• The worldview of Monism creates the framework for
  their hermeneutical principle

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Critique of Evangelical Feminists

• Biblical feminists formulated a definition of
  equality for Christian women that concurred with
  the definition put forth by secular society.
  Equality meant role-interchangeability. With this
  definition in hand, Biblical feminists turned to
  the Bible. They found that while the Bible did
  teach the essential equality of women and men, it
  also taught role differentiation....1

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• . In order to harmonize the Bibles teachings
  with their view of equality, these feminists
  found it necessary to determine which Scriptural
  texts were dynamic and which were static, which
  were inspired and which were the authors bias,
  which were true and which were in error. In doing
  so, Biblical feminists adopted a feminist
  mind-set.

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• Christian feminists adopted this mentality when
  they used their own definition of equality to
  judge the validity and applicability of the
  Bible. Even for conservative evangelical
  feminists, womens experience became the new norm
  for Biblical study and theological
  interpretation.

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Elasticity of the Bible

• God the
• Father
• Son
• Holy Spirit
• Son
• He/She
• His/Hers

• God the
• Creator
• Redeemer
• Sustainer
• Child
• They/Them
• Theirs

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Cut From the Same Cloth

• religious and secular feminism were of the
  same essence. They were based on the same
  presuppositions, and were therefore destined to
  intersect and merge. The alteration of
  God-language and the increasing hermeneutic of
  liberty employed by feminist theologians had
  catapulted the religious movement forward onto
  the same path as that of secular feminism.
• Mary Kassian The Feminist Gospel

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The Rise of AndrogynyIn the Church

• As Evangelical Feminists race towards the
  interchangeability of the sexes they rob men and
  women of the glory of their uniqueness and
  contribute to
• the disappearance of women!