The Morning Rant

This week's Art Thread choices have been focused on the glories of motherhood. Yes...there has been a theme! And that theme has been the importance and, actually, the superiority of women in our culture.

Why superiority? Because the unique ability of women is the bearing and rearing of children, and that is the most important thing that humans do. Is that controversial? I certainly hope not. But among the post-modern, anti-family, anti-civilization progressive movement in the West, the concept of "Woman," and the positive aspects of children have been subsumed in a deluge of feminism (all five waves!), increasingly hedonistic sexual mores, economic pressures that force women into the workforce, and recently the ascientific nonsense about transsexualism and gender.

Aside from the obvious goal of making all of humanity cogs in the infernal socialist machine, and destroying our individuality, these movements have diluted the importance of womanhood by making us interchangeable. Women in the workforce? Great, because they are just like men! Women who choose not to have children because of their careers or their desire to be unencumbered? Fantastic! Just like men! Women who choose sexual "freedom" by rejecting traditional social mores (and probably innate drives) for having children? Super! Men have been like that...forever! And most ridiculous but no less dangerous is the laughable idea that a man can become a woman: a bit of surgery, some hormones, a forgiving tailor, and poof!

But these are society-killing trends because of the decrease in the number of children being born in the West. It is civilizational suicide, and we are being replaced by fecund third-world denizens who have no interest in individuality, or for that matter Western Culture.

That is the demographic crisis, but there is a cultural and emotional crisis that is just as destructive. By degrading the position of "Woman" in our culture from the pinnacle, we have diluted the entire concept of womanhood. The glory of child-bearing and rearing has become a perceived burden...one that interferes with the hedonism of a post-modern world.

That link between mother and child -- that hopefully the art of the past four days has illuminated -- has been minimized and degraded and trivialized. It is the most powerful human imperative and emotion, and one that should be celebrated and honored. Instead, our current culture maligns it and laughs at it and stigmatizes women who embrace it. And even worse, culture now says that anyone can bear and raise children. Men? Sure! Why not? The popular definition of a woman is apparently anyone who wants to be one...can be one!

Except...men can never be mothers. Sure, there are many (maybe most?) men who are wonderful fathers and who partner with their wives to create fine children. But the position of "mother" is one that can only be filled by women, because they are designed, by God or evolution or whatever you wish to think, to nurture and defend children in ways that men simply cannot do, or even fathom.

That is as it should be, because the innocence of children needs a defender from the vagaries of the world, And women are simply better at it than men. And we don't need art to show us this! Our world has innumerable examples of the innate superiority of women as mothers. Just wander down to the nearest park and watch the moms.

Or even better, watch the mothers in your life and how they nurture and defend the innocent. Because that is what children are...innocents. And God (or nature) has endowed mothers with exactly the tools to be their defenders, in ways that the rest of us cannot.

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

posted by CBD at 11:00 AM

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