Feminist Power Trips

She was provocative, always dressed inappropriately and flashing as much flesh as she dared. She played the sexual tease game with consummate skill already, having just turned 14. She was attending a tiny private Christian school; always in trouble. She tried flirting with the male teachers to get her way. Not missing anything intellectually, either, she was all too smart and crafty.
One day during the religion class, the Associate Pastor was teaching. She said something about her feelings, to which the vicar replied he didn’t care about her feelings on that matter. She retorted petulantly, “Well, you should.”
Constantly jockeying for power by any means available is a fundamentally Western feminist trait. I recall reading one of those subtle propaganda manuals issued by various government or government sponsored agencies claiming to help parents understand their children. A major element in the manual was viewing children’s behavior as jockeying for power. The book tried to portray this as a fundamental human trait. It’s not; it’s entirely culturally derived. It is specifically the result of feminism.
In the Medo-Persian Empire, we see it once rearing its ugly head. In the ruling class, most marriages were politically arranged. Thus, precious few men married within their own national roots. The latter days of the empire were quite cosmopolitan, and it was not a good thing, contributing greatly to their demise at the hand of the Greeks. A critical manifestation of the weakness was the practice of these foreign wives asserting their own preferences, developing a shadow court within the the household. There she would gather people who spoke her native tongue and her husband would have little idea what was going on. At some point, this sort of thing actually threatened the reputation of the Emperor himself, so he issued a decree which turned back these practices rather sharply. The men could have their wives executed for rather minor infractions, but presumably in pursuit of correcting this business of politics and power plays against the man’s stated policies.
I’ll save you the time: You can call me a sexist or misogynist. Like the vicar above, I’m not interested in your feelings and I’m not interested in your protestations that I should care. The Bible approves of the change in Medo-Persian imperial policy. In a Hebrew household, the woman called her man “my lord.” This has nothing to do with dark visions of primitive European feudalism. It arises from Eastern feudalism, which is entirely different; it’s all about people and them as the principle measure of man’s wealth. Whether he actually ruled over people or simply had friends, this was his treasure. His land and other real property could all be replaced, but good people were hard to find and cultivate. That includes a good woman.
The Bible does not lay out and description of womanhood. Rather, it offers manifestations and symbolism. In a given context, she would do this or that. She certainly exercises her own brand of dominion, but she never, ever forgets whose team she is on. If she is not the single most powerful support of her husband, he is better off tossing her out on the street. The whole social fabric is better off. That’s how humanity is wired. It’s not like software where you can reprogram it; this is hard-wired. Any other model will fail every time.
From the narrative of the Fall, we learn — bluntly stated — women will seek power over their men. In wider terms of symbolism, it’s acknowledged this tendency is the result of the damaged mothering instinct. Women since the Fall will be possessed of an instinct to control everything with any bearing on her nest-building instinct. That instinct manifests in a very wide range of ways, but the whole thing boils down to nest-building. Whatever she regards as her nest becomes the subject of political wrangling unless she seeks the face of God and tries to understand her own weaknesses. The woman of God builds her household largely by building up first her husband. She knows how he is wired, too.
Most of the revulsion and arguments from modern feminists assumes the Western model of broken manhood. You cannot get a feminazi to even discuss this part of the whole question. They are building on that European mythology and any other view of reality is unacceptable before it’s even mentioned. Like a rotting rug, pull out that false covering over the ground of truth and feminism dies. If there is anything Satan loves it’s a Western feminist.