Sugar in the Tank

As Mother's Day fast-approaches...hear the hoofbeats of a fell army hell-bent on fell deeds...you might want to read a very interesting 20 year-old article that appeared in Newsweek a-way back when.

It's titled "The Failure of Feminism," written by Kay Ebeling. At the time of the writing, she was a young, single mom upon whom it had finally dawned that the feminism she had embraced and encouraged actually put women like herself in a much worse state than might've otherwise been.

It'll do your soul good to read it, if you've ever been beaten about the head and shoulders by much smarter people than yourself (supposedly), who berrated you for staying at home to raise your children, or, conversely, for allowing your wife to do so.

The disturbing part of the article, though, is this: Ebeling does a nice job describing how it's all gone wrong for the erswhile feminists, but it is apparent to me that she had not yet pinpointed why it went wrong. I get the impression she might willingly hop onboard if feminism revamped itself, admitted that things have not gone as planned, and then launched out on the whole deal from square one again, with minor policy adjustments here and there.

It's as if somebody played a cruel joke on her by convincing her at some point that what her car really needed, to make it run better, is a couple cups of sugar in the gas tank. Now, broken down on the side of the road, she's gained a lot of wisdom from the school of hard knocks. Nobody's going to fool her like that again! But if the cruel joker comes around to her later with the following tact, she might just go for it.: "I'm so sorry. Did I say sugar? Silly me, I meant corn syrup, of course. Try some corn syrup in your tank once you get your whole engine replaced."

What Ebeling missed twenty years ago is this: Feminism didn't work because God is the designer of both men and women. He also designed.....drum roll, please......Marriage and Motherhood! Whether you try sugar or corn syrup in the tank, it will ruin everything either way because it wasn't designed like that.