" I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights', with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feelings and propriety. Feminists ought to get a good whipping. Were woman to 'unsex' themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection. I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations. There are times which force one to take interest in them, and I do, of course intensely"
Queen Victoria 1870
Basic rights for women I support. I support women's rights (desires) to be mothers and have a career as well, within reasonable theological guidelines with Christians of course. But, I neither support feminism or chauvinism. I think the Bible, in context, is the best place to start to avoid basic philosophical sexual confusion. Confusion the West has fallen in to.
ReplyDeleteI hope all is well, L.C. Thx.
Russ:)
That is a very interesting quote... and I heartily agree with it! I've always admired Queen Victoria, and this makes me even more interested in her.
ReplyDelete~Stephanie