"Why can't a woman be more like a man?" So sings Professor Higgins, played to perfection by Rex Harrison in the 1964 musical 'My Fair Lady.'
Such a tidy summation of the real war on women, as opposed to the phony alleged one you have been sold a bill of goods with. And radical egalitarianism could not ask for a more apt explanation of what it champions.
Women should not need to become men in order to be valued, respected, esteemed, and validated. Yet modern secular progressives call enslavement liberation and liberation oppression when they insist that for a woman to be content with the role of wife and mother she has abandoned the fulfillment of her full potential.
In the past century, American society has believed too much of such drivel on the grounds that experts very seriously dished it up for us. And loving expertise, following the science, and earnestly desiring the achievement of all we were made to be, it is a wonder that we so rarely if ever stop to consider that God is the foremost expert in every field, including what it means to be a man or a woman.
Who else but God could tell us where the science leads that we must follow? Our Creator knows better than any and all of us what our created purpose was and is and will be.
The simple answer to Professor Higgins' question then is that a woman can't be more like a man because God gifted her differently, and suited her for a different set of critically important tasks - namely, being a wife to her husband and a mother to her children.
Yes, yes. Some women do not marry or have children. And perhaps sometimes God calls women as well as men to life-long singleness. Yet we have tried to normalize such in a thousand ways by denigrating marriage while at the same time spiritualizing singleness as a matter of course as though to be unmarried necessarily is or will be a pious thing.
And not content with that, we now have real oppression on our hands where the most celebrated women are those who are actually men. It's as though Professor Higgins got his hands on the levers of power and culture in this country, and answered his own question in the affirmative - 'a woman can be more like a man.'
Only there is a deep and stubborn problem with that, whether we are talking about radical egalitarianism, gender theory, feminism, or transgenderism, all of which make war in sundry ways on womanhood. It's all pretend and make-believe to suppose any of this is healthy or functional. And while we fix our eyes on such illusions, we wander around in the desert chasing mirages until we finally stumble dying to our knees from dehydration.
A woman can't be more like a man because she is a woman. So also, a man cannot be a woman - nor should he ever wish to be. Nor should a woman wish to be a man.
But all of this really boils down to whether or not we are content with God's design. And that in turn goes back to whether we think God should be the authority or we should.
As Jeremiah Burroughs points out at great length and great pains in 'The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment,' we count our little afflictions of so much more account than our many great blessings. And in choosing to fixate on all the dissatisfaction, we make the blessings of no account as they lie fallow and uninvested, unfruitful, unenjoyed.
No wonder we're all so miserable and self-medicated and disconnected.
Yet there is hope, and it comes in the form of embracing authentic masculinity for men and boys and authentic femininity for women and girls, and repenting of all our rebellion and grumbling against God for not having done it the way we think best.
