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A chant I heard more than a few times from the woman’s march yesterday was, “we gave birth to this nation and we can unbirth it.” That saying was not just entwined with reproductive rights, but also with climate change, transgender rights, Black Lives Matter, and opposition to President Trump. It reminds me a bit of the old-fashioned saying, “I brought you into this world and I can take you out.” That’s a somewhat comical saying on the surface if it is never acted on, but in its literal context, “to take someone out” means to murder them, in this case, our own children. That is called speaking death over someone, rather than speaking life.
“We gave birth to this nation and we can unbirth it.”
Unrestrained, unrooted, female power is actually kind of scary. It has no limitations, no boundaries. All in good humor here, but read my about page, I have fled women dressed as giant pink lady bits before, I know of what I speak.. You just cannot reason with estrogen fueled outrage any better than you can with testosterone fueled outrage.
There is something about the nature of female power that has two sides to it, the power to create and nurture, what I call speaking life into the world, and the power to completely destroy, to tear down and dismantle everything around us, often in a murderous rage. I sometimes say maternal instincts are the most powerful force in the world, which is why we know not to tangle with mother bears in the wilderness.
With such awesome, life affirming power, comes responsibility, too. Unrestrained, unrooted, female power can just spray bullets across a field not even carrying if it hits the broad side of a barn or some innocent standing in its way. Which brings me back to “unbirthing a nation.” Unbirthing a nation that has granted women more freedom and rights than any other place in the world, all through human history? Is that even wise?
Unbirthing the same nation that protects and defends us, that grants us the freedom to march and protest in such huge numbers some people were in danger of being trampled on? Unbirthing the very definition of what it means to be female? Unbirthing our own off spring and denying our sacred power to bring life into the world?
Also, I must say I was somewhat hurt by all the declarations that “we are the people,” and “we are the true representatives of womanhood in America.” I am once again left out, cast aside becasue you do not represent me, nor do you represent all the the women who actually voted for Trump, a majority I might remind you, which is why he is now in office. A woman as his campaign director, the first one ever, could actually be said to have given birth to his election.
My pleas are going to fall on deaf ears as they always do, but women really do have a sacred calling in the world, we are called to speak life into the world. It is an area where we must find ourselves and lead the way forward. We are like spring time, female power is all about regeneration, renewal, not destruction, death, and the unbirthing of a nation.
Your words didn’t fall on deaf ears…I felt the same insult as you. I love our nation; even with its flaws…I have optimism for our future because I have faith in man. Faith through our hurt and anger we will find absolution to peace, love , & understanding. When the dust settles, our choices will reflect our individual legacy; our imprint to society as a whole…Sure I get scolded with my difference in opinion but I am mindful to how I make others feel. I just won’t go with the crowd because the majority does ; I have my own mind; my own voice… Change is inevitable and I embrace it.
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As always Memi, The Word first!
Proverbs 30
18 “There are three things that are too amazing for me,
four that I do not understand:
19 the way of an eagle in the sky,
the way of a snake on a rock,
the way of a ship on the high seas,
and the way of a man with a young woman.
20 “This is the way of an adulterous woman:
She eats and wipes her mouth
and says, ‘I’ve done nothing wrong.’
21 “Under three things the earth trembles,
under four it cannot bear up:
22 a servant who becomes king,
a godless fool who gets plenty to eat,
23 a contemptible woman who gets married,
and a servant who displaces her mistress.
To your very fine points:
“feminists”: “We gave birth to this nation and we can unbirth it.”
Dads: “Dads fathered this nation, Moms mothered this nation, let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water!
(A-dad in particular! ; – )
v 20: sounds much like the feminist mantra to me.
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I’m right there with you IB—I’m scratching my head wondering how a “movement” comes about when the participants are living in the most free nation on the planet–as in they may come, go, sing, shout, love hate till their hearts content protected and secure. They have, for the majority, been highly educated and are well read.
They have enjoyed more freedoms and more advancements than any other generation before them, and yet, they are still disgruntled, hateful, resentful and angry….
absolutely beyond my soul….
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Powerful words!!!
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Madonna said she thought about blowing up the White House but knew it would change anything. If a white male said those exact same words after an inauguration, he would have been swooped up by the FBI, ATF, CBP, NSA, CIA, and the rest of the federal alphabet soup, called a terrorist and sent to Gitmo. And they say they want equal rights???? Thanks for showing they do not represent all women, real women.
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Amen! Well said and I’m with you.
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Facebooked it, you put it compassionately and in a nicer tone, shall we say, than I was thinking. Thank you. I feel our God-given dignity was maligned, the rights of unborn women were disregarded, and rage was supreme. I prefer Martin Luther King, Jr’s tactics, but then he also went the way of his Lord….
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Amen! There’s a militant inexplicable side to these women that has gone way beyond “equal rights”, it’s an anger and resentment that they seem to enjoy wallowing in… Amazing post.
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IB,
Just comment on the first part–
They want to unbirth the nation via an act of violence. People who allow such violent behavior to control their lives have no control over themselves or others. They operate in such a dark pit.
Look at Herod and Pharaoh–two men who wanted to unbirth a nation going after the infants to stop the figures who would bring freedom. Pharaoh’s intention was to stop Moses who would deliver the Israelites from Egypt, from slavery, into freedom. Herod wanted to stop Christ who would free the world from sin.
Abortion addicts are not proponents of freedom. They are opponents of freedom in the highest sense of the word. These people are slaves to their own tyranny. It’s depressing. As you said the other day, they are protesting freedom.
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Your words are necessary, it unfortunately the media will never speak
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Sorry – the media will never speak them. They feed on negative news. I’m fed up with all these protests and think those protesting should do something for their cause rather than whining and complaining. Maybe those of us who feel this way should organize a protest against protests.
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Well, if they unbirth anyone, can they please start with Madonna? 😀
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Reblogged this on Let me give YOU the Moe-down.
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Thank you,much appreciated.
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I felt left out too, as the march organizers proudly proclaimed that they were uniting women to be heard. I kept thinking, I know a LOT of women you are not uniting. It’s such a sham to say that you speak for WOMEN. Somehow, those of us who disagree simply get ignored. We don’t count. And that’s bothersome. I’m used to my vote not counting, but my voice–I may be deluded, but I’ve thought I could at least speak and be heard. But now, if I don’t speak in lock-step with the “united women,” then what am I? Left to the side, passed by, without validity. It’s bothersome. This is the fruit of lobbying and voting blocks and the like. How odd that the group that complains so loudly about our democratic rights ignores the individual.
Becky
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It does not seem that this posted landed on deaf ears or blind eyes for that matter. I think you make a good point about the feminine positive constructive power of giving life and the negative power of undoing things.
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Sounds to me like they are squalkin about not having any power while at the same time saying they hold all the power. Oh well, I know I must be wrong because Madonna told me do.
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Told me so. Dumb auto correct
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Reblogged this on Citizen Tom and commented:
Strange how some people claim to represent others. Don’t we have enough trouble electing people to represent us? Yet there are people with the audacity just to step into the limelight and claim to be the one, true representative of this or that identity group. As insanitybytes22 explains, such usually just end up bitterly dividing even those in the identity group they claim to represent.
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Thanks Tom, much appreciated.
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