In this day and age, everything is about equality and proving that women can do the same things men can. It's all about proving a point and disregarding consequences.
Recently, a post from 2018 has been recirculating all over social media. Dale Partridge posted a picture of a couple, and the caption is beautiful, and it really made me think.
Photo Courtesy of Dale Partridge on Facebook
The caption reads:
"This culture's feminism is actually empowering men to be the worst versions of themselves. They get sex without commitment. They get the pregnancy without the baby. They get the date without picking up the check. They get a relationship without being a gentleman. No opening doors, no pulling out chairs, no providing, no protecting, and no male responsibility. Because hey... everything is equal. In other words, modern feminism is the perfect recipe for men to side-step God's call for how to treat a woman. But a Godly man knows better. A Godly man knows he's equal in value but different in role. He knows that he can be a protector, a provider, and a lover without being 'toxic' or 'dangerous.' Men, it's easy to support a movement that allows us to get lazy - it's why so many men have already jumped on board. But don't do what most men do. Do what Godly men do. Cherish women. Value women. Listen to women. But don't ever escape your role in the process."
This is so beautifully written and pinpoints how our differences as men and women are beautiful in themselves.
I have heard it said before, "A woman should know how to change a tire, but should never have to."
Letting a man open the door for you or accepting a man's help to do a task is not disempowering.
Yes, you can physically open your own door, but a man choosing to be chivalrous does not insinuate you can't, it just means he thinks you deserve to have the door held open for you.
We as women are called to call men up and push them to be the best version of themselves.
When we abandon that task and change our role to be the same as that of men, the world loses the quality that women were meant to possess.
Being different doesn't mean unequal. That's something we have to understand to fully comprehend the beauty in our differences.
Men and women were created to complement each other, not be the same carbon copy. Choose to embrace those differences and flourish knowing that you have qualities that men don't.
