Heretics and Rebels

Rejecting the New Religion

An ex-feminist explains why it’s so hard for women to reject feminism:

Feminism presents itself as a choice, a movement for women, by women, empowering them to think freely, live authentically, and reject imposed roles. But in practice, it functions as a moral orthodoxy. It is no longer merely an ideological option among many, it is the default cultural script, particularly in the West. To deny it is not treated as thoughtful dissent. It is treated as betrayal.

This is the paradox at the heart of modern womanhood: a worldview claiming to liberate women from conformity now demands total conformity to itself.

In theory, feminism is optional. But In reality, it is compulsory….

To understand why feminism cannot be questioned, you must understand that it is no longer a tool, it has become an identity. To many women, feminism is not just something they believe. It is something they are. Critiquing it feels like violence to them because it unsettles the framework that justifies their lives, the moral foundation upon which millions have staked their pride, their pain, their personhood.

And so they do not respond with debate. They respond with rage.

You don’t shake an individual out of her faith in a false religion, or cause her to reject her culturally imposed identity by gentle persuasion, but by total rejection of that identity and forcing her to choose between it and you.

Going along to get along is not an option, Deltas. Never pedestalize poison.

It raises the obvious question: can a woman be a Christian and a feminist?

And the answer, obviously, is no.