The end of the traditional woman is upon us. As a young American man growing up in the South, I thought I knew about the world. Go to work, make a fair wage, provide for your family, and lead and love your family without regard. I also thought that men were men and women were women. In today’s ‘tolerant’ world this no longer rings true. We now have doctors telling us that the language we use in a clinical setting must be unbiased because if we use the words ‘Birthing woman’ it could be construed as offensive. So essentially mothers are no longer women, mothers are whatever the ‘tolerant’ left wants them to be: man, woman, robot, dolphin… does it matter anymore?
What we are doing as a society is both horrifying and beautiful in my opinion, let me explain. We live in the freest country in the world. There is no other country in the world that has a Bill of Rights. Nowhere else in the world do you see such outright freedoms, the question is, where do we draw the line, and can we draw a line? We now have ‘men’ playing in women’s sports, winning at every level. We have women who call themselves ‘men’ getting offended in a birthing room because they are being misgendered. Society is telling women that they must be something more than stay-at-home moms and at the same time telling them that men can be women. This must be confusing for the everyday woman: the soccer mom, the business executive, the woman out there working two jobs. The women that we live with every day.
As a man who enjoys golf, my favorite example of sport is Hailey Davidson formerly ‘James Scott Davidson’ who won an LPGA (Ladies Professional Golf Association) tournament in January. He has been henceforth removed from the LPGA and all titles have been stripped. He also stated that he had ‘an advantage’ and nothing more. We can see this in almost every sport. The most famous at this moment is Lia Thomas, the swimmer who won an NCAA Division I national championship in 2022 (Lia is a man). There are many other examples that you should look at yourself including men pretending to be women fighting in the UFC. What kind of world are we living in where men can play women sports?
Furthermore, as a married man, I am more in tune with my wife than anyone else. I know that the birth of our children was the most important event in her life (she told me so). Ask any woman you know to tell you about her birth story. She will happily comply and tell you all about it (once again, my wife told me so). It is one of the proudest moments of their life to birth a child. It is the most primal and eventful moment we will go through as men and women and as husband and wife. What we are doing is taking away from women what is theirs. As a society we are taking away what makes them unique. Men cannot and will never have the ability to bear children and to say that they can is an attempt at taking away a God-given biological right from them. But in today’s ‘tolerant’ world they can. It is disrespectful to women to tell them that we can do what they can do when we can’t. Men were not built to birth children; we weren’t built to nurture children… women were.
More important is the women that we have in our everyday lives (maybe you’re married like me, maybe you’re dating). These women are being told that they can no longer birth a child and call themselves a birthing mother. They are being told that they can no longer be professional athletes. They are being told ‘If you stay at home and raise a family you are not enough’. It is defeminizing women. It’s taking away what is making a woman a woman. It cheapens being a stay-at-home mom and using the term ‘birthing person’ cheapens what women are. That’s the bottom line.
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