Much Ado About Feminism and Submission
“Life is not a competition between men and women. It is a collaboration.” - David Alejandro Fearnhead
Life or people have a way of being stereotypical. There are already set guidelines for us. Mostly, for women, it’s from school to marriage, while for men, it’s from school to work. I was reading the post of a seemingly angry man who wrote that, “a woman, after school is expected to marry but, a man is expected to work and make money for the woman to spend’.
Then, I read a post of a woman who said she wasn’t going to stress herself when it comes to cooking for a man. That, if she cooks a food and he demands another type, the man had better do it himself. Which brings us to a dilemma. Do we all become feminists or do we ‘submit’ to men? This is a symposium discussion but, I’ll mention a few things.
First and foremost, being submissive is different from being subservient. Again, if we want to use the common biblical verse, the Bible said a woman should submit to her husband. In balancing this, if you are not her husband (or an authority for that matter) don’t ‘preach’ submission to her. And as a woman, you should be submissive to your husband. Which is why you should be careful when it comes to marriage. Don’t marry someone you can’t submit to.
This is not to say a man should treat his wife as a slave and try to compare her when he sees some things lacking in her, all because of submission. You saw her before marrying her, so deal with it. In all, dear man and woman, we are not inferior to one another because, the ‘creation’ was the same.
Till the next post, keep learning.
