Perhaps Feminism Is Not the Enemy! (Michael Jensen)

Perhaps Feminism Is Not the Enemy! (Michael Jensen) April 16, 2015

My friend Michael Jensen has a great post over at the Aussie Bible Society page on Perhaps Feminism is not the Enemy.

He opines that he’s heard more sermons against feminism than against domestic violence!

Jensen states:

One woman in Christian ministry told me: “I guess I’m feminist because the things I want for my daughters are: to not have to fight for equal pay, I don’t want them to feel unsafe walking down the street, I don’t want them to be blamed for their rape, I don’t want their opinions to be considered less important than her male co-workers….It’s just fighting to be treated as equals.” That being said, there are forms of feminist thinking, or common feminist opinions on certain issues, that a Christian would be troubled in affirming. There are forms of feminism that (in my view) sell women very short – to name one example, by claiming that pornography is not degrading of women. But there is enough internal debate between feminists that it would be wrong to generalise. There are plenty of feminists who would share with many Christians a pretty strongly negative view of the 1960s sexual liberation and its impact on women, for example.

It is a very nice and balanced piece.


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