I Was 17 When I First Heard Gloria Steinem Speak–It Felt Like a Rallying Cry. Now It Feels Like a Warning.

I was 17 the first time I heard Gloria Steinem speak at a rally for young women.

We were told we were powerful.
That we could do anything.
That we didn’t need men, and we certainly didn’t need to raise them.

Back then, it sounded like a revolution.
Today, it sounds like indoctrination.

💔 Nobody Asked the Children

Gloria told us we could “have it all.”
But did anyone ask the kids of the women who tried?

Because I did “have it all”

A child.
A college education.
A string of jobs.
And exhaustion that never left.

And my daughter? She was caught in the middle.
Bounced between households, never fully rooted.
No one ever asked her if this feminist blueprint was working.

🎓 My Professors Were Heroes — Or So They Told Me

By the time I was a young mom in college, I was knee-deep in liberal arts courses that preached:

“We fought so you could be more than a human incubator.”

And I thought:

That’s a strange way to talk about the gift of life.

Especially from people who support abortion on demand and call pregnancy a “burden.”
They honored their own struggle, but dismissed mine.

Because I didn’t want to “have it all.”
I wanted a family that stayed together.
I wanted to raise my daughter with love, not political talking points.

✝️ What If God Got It Right?

What if the real problem wasn’t inequality, but the rejection of God’s design?

The Bible doesn’t say women are less than. It says:

“It is not good for man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” (Genesis 2:18)

Helper doesn’t mean lesser.
It means complementary — uniquely strong where he’s weak.
Just like he is, where we are.

We weren’t meant to compete with men.
We were meant to complete the family unit together.

We Were Promised Freedom. We Got Fatigue.

Radical feminism promised:

Liberation
Autonomy
Power

But it delivered:

Loneliness
Burnout
Division

And today, I see women on Instagram celebrating their “freedom” from men
while raising kids alone, asking their followers:

“Why did they tell us we could have it all?”

Maybe because “having it all” always came at the cost of something sacred.
Usually, the children.

🕊️ A New Kind of Feminism: Rooted in Reality and Redemption

This isn’t about hating women.
It’s about loving truth.

Women are strong.
Men are not the enemy.
Children need both.
And God’s design for family wasn’t oppression — it was order, partnership, and peace.

Let’s stop pretending the blueprint worked.
And let’s build something eternal — not just empowering.