Feminist Argumentative Essay

Today’s secular women cringe at the words “modesty”, “submissive”, and “stay-at-home-mom”. Our culture is obsessed with the feminist movement. The idea of a woman having a different role than a man is disgusting to them. American women enjoy the most freedom the world over, one could argue, because of how Christianity improved the treatment of women. Even with women’s elevated status in American, arguments against the fair treatment of U.S. women are many. Included in those grievances are wage discrimination, unfair responsibility in the home, and eating disorders; showing how modern feminists have been swayed through propaganda.

The women’s crusade tells us that a businesswoman is paid 77 cents to the businessman’s every dollar. Any form of this statement remains patently untrue. The media do not include details like the employee’s education, capability or job status. Nor do the media tell us that women in medicine, for example, might go into lower paying jobs like family medicine rather than pursue becoming a brain surgeon. She might have less pay due to the fact that she works part-time because she has a family. Many women are CEOs of companies; Virginia Rometty of IMB, Indra K. Nooyi of PepsiCo Inc., and Mary Barra of General Motors, to name a few.

“Men only account for

about 3.5 percent of stay-at-home parents, while nearly a quarter of women with children forsake careers to work in the home.” (Julia Black) This means three-fourths of the women in America with children go to work. Let me ask, “Is that gender bias?” Scripture teaches that older women should teach the younger women to be workers at home. How unfortunate that our society deems the man’s presence in the home interchangeable with a woman’s. I believe it is God-honoring that women stay at home to rear their children to fear and walk with God. Therefore, to the Christian woman this is not a suppression of freedom but rather a privilege.

People say women and girls struggle with eating disorders because men tell them that their bodies are not up to standards.

Leading women activists say that you just need to accept yourself. While feminists push, for instance, that it is okay to be fat, the world is shouting that women should b skinny. The Lord says that our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit. This does not mean we should be obsessed with our weight, etc., but we need to be conscious of and care for our bodies because we are made in the image of God. I embrace the belief that women struggling with eating disorders are striving to meet societal expectations rather than caring for their bodies to the glory of

God.

Even though feminists look down upon and ridicule faithful Christians, Christian women still have hope. We are always to be different. The bible tells us that we should be in the world but not of it. The world will always say their way is better. We must be grateful to God that we live in a free country that respects and honors women. As Christians it is comforting that all these troublesome subjects: wage discrimination, housework inequality, and eating disorders may be put in the proper biblical perspective.