Do you remember that time when the Kansas City Chief’s kicker, Harrison Butker, caused a global meltdown after giving a Catholicism-infused commencement address at Benedictine College…a Catholic university…?
Amen. I’m not Catholic, but I found Butker’s address SO refreshing. Women of my generation were sold a bill of goods when we were sold a version of “feminism” that encouraged us to sacrifice the best years of our lives to careers, corporations and industries that couldn’t care less about us at the expense of building and enjoying families who love us. There are a lot of things I’ve liked about my career(s), but none of it comes remotely close to the joy and satisfaction I get from being a devoted wife and mama to my husband and son.
I never understood why “feminism” seemed entirely focusing on celebrating women rejecting their maternal nature to embrace work-not-family. What a childish, reactionary posture, on top of being destructive to most women and insulting. It’s the mindless zombie, cheapo 2020s Disney Marvel DEI version of “representing” women: take a male character… swap in a woman… mission accomplished.
A robust “feminism” would valorize the things that are distinctly female, especially motherhood, while expanding the choices available for those who want something else.
On Christmas Day, I can think of no role model more incredible for a daughter than the Blessed Mother Mary. Revered. Brave. Beloved.
We who are little can be made great by the spirit of God, and we remain great in the spirit of God when we put Christ first above every worldly concern and pray to Mary who is the perfect advocate and mediator of God’s Grace for us. The Blessed Mother stands with us at the center of the Church and the universe just like she stood at the foot of the cross.
Amen. I love her heart posture— grateful and ready to serve God by fulfilling her calling through role He designed for her, no matter what others would say about her. “Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word” is a whole sermon on how to live a blessed life!
It's unfortunate that Western culture has convinced so many Gen X women and younger that career is everything and poo poo'ed the idea of just wanting to raise a family. Ladies - we were conned! It's a shame so much of parenting is being outsourced to anything and everything.
I loved Butker's speech.
Even before my son was born, I set up my life to not depend on my income. Even though I had more degrees than my husband, I easily traded time making money to time at home caring for our child. And it naturally led to homeschooling, b/c let's be honest - mainstream culture and most schools are not inculcating a meaningful life. Just look at widespread depression in our society.
There was this fad going on where some people were convinced that ingesting silver dust (suspended in water) could make them immune to common diseases and the reasoning was that during the bubonic plague the more wealthy people had higher survival rate (which is lower mortality rate but I didn't want to confuse y'all here) ... but people thought that it was because they used silver plates and utensils to eat and the silver was what helped. The reality that they lived in more sanitary environment was ignored. The Covid virus affected people of the lower social caste more than the more affluent and the idea behind the lock down was an attempt to mitigate the spread of the virus. The "herd immunity" ideology seems so rational until the reality is understood that viruses mutate and it could be an ongoing critical problem for poor minorities ... the virus hit the indigenous people hard (for example) so the reality with taking issue with attempts to stop the spread of variants of the virus is steeped in ignorance and racism. The wealthiest people in our world inherited money made by exploiting people of color and so taking issue with "equity" is racist. Some people are abused as children or traumatized as adults even and relationships with people of the opposite gender become impossible. Harrison Butker will probably become a family annihilator and that may seem disrespectful of me but that's the very same kind of stigma that I had thrown on me when I was younger by men I worked with in skilled labor type work. I didn't go to college or even graduate high school but instead of the "Just World" posit that I must've not applied myself or whatever it was more like I was abused by my father and abused by a teacher but I was working construction before I turned eighteen. I joined the military because the socioeconomic circumstances I was in were increasingly dangerous. I had a friend get in a shootout with police and another trying to lure me into intravenous drug use but one of y'all's old idols (one of many that y'all worship), Rush Limbaugh, was an obese drug addict who managed to make a living not really doing anything for anyone. A man with a masters in social work told me that I didn't have the same opportunity that average men did of my demographic so I ended up where I understand what "disadvantaged" means.
Amen. I’m not Catholic, but I found Butker’s address SO refreshing. Women of my generation were sold a bill of goods when we were sold a version of “feminism” that encouraged us to sacrifice the best years of our lives to careers, corporations and industries that couldn’t care less about us at the expense of building and enjoying families who love us. There are a lot of things I’ve liked about my career(s), but none of it comes remotely close to the joy and satisfaction I get from being a devoted wife and mama to my husband and son.
I never understood why “feminism” seemed entirely focusing on celebrating women rejecting their maternal nature to embrace work-not-family. What a childish, reactionary posture, on top of being destructive to most women and insulting. It’s the mindless zombie, cheapo 2020s Disney Marvel DEI version of “representing” women: take a male character… swap in a woman… mission accomplished.
A robust “feminism” would valorize the things that are distinctly female, especially motherhood, while expanding the choices available for those who want something else.
On Christmas Day, I can think of no role model more incredible for a daughter than the Blessed Mother Mary. Revered. Brave. Beloved.
We who are little can be made great by the spirit of God, and we remain great in the spirit of God when we put Christ first above every worldly concern and pray to Mary who is the perfect advocate and mediator of God’s Grace for us. The Blessed Mother stands with us at the center of the Church and the universe just like she stood at the foot of the cross.
Amen. I love her heart posture— grateful and ready to serve God by fulfilling her calling through role He designed for her, no matter what others would say about her. “Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word” is a whole sermon on how to live a blessed life!
It's unfortunate that Western culture has convinced so many Gen X women and younger that career is everything and poo poo'ed the idea of just wanting to raise a family. Ladies - we were conned! It's a shame so much of parenting is being outsourced to anything and everything.
I loved Butker's speech.
Even before my son was born, I set up my life to not depend on my income. Even though I had more degrees than my husband, I easily traded time making money to time at home caring for our child. And it naturally led to homeschooling, b/c let's be honest - mainstream culture and most schools are not inculcating a meaningful life. Just look at widespread depression in our society.
There was this fad going on where some people were convinced that ingesting silver dust (suspended in water) could make them immune to common diseases and the reasoning was that during the bubonic plague the more wealthy people had higher survival rate (which is lower mortality rate but I didn't want to confuse y'all here) ... but people thought that it was because they used silver plates and utensils to eat and the silver was what helped. The reality that they lived in more sanitary environment was ignored. The Covid virus affected people of the lower social caste more than the more affluent and the idea behind the lock down was an attempt to mitigate the spread of the virus. The "herd immunity" ideology seems so rational until the reality is understood that viruses mutate and it could be an ongoing critical problem for poor minorities ... the virus hit the indigenous people hard (for example) so the reality with taking issue with attempts to stop the spread of variants of the virus is steeped in ignorance and racism. The wealthiest people in our world inherited money made by exploiting people of color and so taking issue with "equity" is racist. Some people are abused as children or traumatized as adults even and relationships with people of the opposite gender become impossible. Harrison Butker will probably become a family annihilator and that may seem disrespectful of me but that's the very same kind of stigma that I had thrown on me when I was younger by men I worked with in skilled labor type work. I didn't go to college or even graduate high school but instead of the "Just World" posit that I must've not applied myself or whatever it was more like I was abused by my father and abused by a teacher but I was working construction before I turned eighteen. I joined the military because the socioeconomic circumstances I was in were increasingly dangerous. I had a friend get in a shootout with police and another trying to lure me into intravenous drug use but one of y'all's old idols (one of many that y'all worship), Rush Limbaugh, was an obese drug addict who managed to make a living not really doing anything for anyone. A man with a masters in social work told me that I didn't have the same opportunity that average men did of my demographic so I ended up where I understand what "disadvantaged" means.