It is not a weakness to start a family, to raise children, to love and respect a man who loves and respects you back, it is a strength, and one upon which our nation, at its best, is based.
An event in Dallas for young, conservative women was held over the weekend by Turning Point USA, to bring women together, to talk about values and how best to lead a fulfilling life filled with love. Speakers at the event stressed the importance of relationships, finding and building community, the necessity and grace of motherhood, and the importance of strong families.
But to so many publications on the progressive left, these ideas of communion, companionship, citizenship, and stewarding the future of civilization were nothing but hate-filled messages designed to send women back into the proverbial stone age. They just don't seem to understand that the careerist, opportunistic, hook-up mentality that has been pushed on young women for decades not only doesn't make women happy, but makes our society and civilization weak and soulless.
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Media Matters blasted TPUSA for suggesting that women who want marriage and family should find a man who can protect, serve and lead his family, and to create a relationship grounded in morality and God's love. They honestly believe it is bad for a woman to want to marry a man with strong values instead of pursue a life of random, meaningless hook-ups.
"The consistent message was simple and clear," they wrote with derision, "Young women ought to aspire to find a man who will marry them and shepherd them through life, followed by having babies and dedicating themselves to domestic responsibilities."
Not only did Media Matters misconstrue the premise, but they have no tolerance for more traditional lifestyles that prioritize family, love and community over career, casual sex, and identity politics as a means to fulfillment. They assume that there is something lesser in raising a family, something lesser in being a mother, a wife, bringing the next generation to adulthood with Christian values of faith, responsibility, and kindness.
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This in itself speaks to how far the left has fallen. They truly believe that the traditional ways of western civilization, founded in a morality based in God's teachings, gives women less power than being employees in corporate America, beholden to the whims and dictates of progressive ideology.
As mothers, wives, stewards of community, participants in cultural and political life on local levels, women have intense power. Women are the core, and TPUSA knows this fully.
It is not a weakness to start a family, to raise children, to love and respect a man who loves and respects you back, it is a strength, and one upon which our nation, at its best, is based.
Charlie Kirk, founder of TPUSA, is fully aware of this. Media Matters disparaged him for saying that the women in attendance would do well to find "a protector and a leader," and that "deep down, a vast majority of you agree." He suggested women hold themselves to high standards, wait until marriage for sex, and look their best.
Contemporary media so often tells women to devalue themselves, to look ugly, and to seek out men who are practically emotionally infantile. These men are not a source of anything worthwhile for a woman who seeks fulfillment through family, motherhood, and community. Kirk provides advice for women who want the very thing that creates stability and strengthens the social fabric.
Somehow Media Matters seems to think that where we are as a culture and society, where women are sexually available capitalist shills with no love in their lives and no babies, is worth upholding to the exclusion of tried and true ideas.
Mediaite makes the same miscalculation, taking aim at Newsmax's Benny Johnson who told the audience, when introducing Kyle Rittenhouse, that "Men, your number one goal is to protect your family and to stand strong in the face of opposition from culture and evil."
Mediaite must believe that men should not protect their families and should not stand strong, which makes it unclear just what they think men should do. Should they stand idly by while those they love are being attacked? Should they not defend themselves? Obviously not, but neither Media Matters nor Mediaite are interested in advocating for a strong, resilient culture, but instead propagate grievances based on identity and victimization.
Not to be outdone, Daily Dot joined the fray, claiming that the Young Women's Leadership Summit "appears to have been designed to convince their high school- and college-aged audience to become subservient, Christian mothers as soon as possible." Literally no one, not a single person at YWLS, implied or said that women should be subservient.
The outlet also slammed Johnson for saying "have more babies," as though there is some greater impulse and mission in life than having and raising children. There isn't.
Since the 1980s, women have been told that motherhood is not worthwhile, that creating a family is meaningless, that being into career and monetary success, that personal, independent fulfillment is a greater calling. If that's true, then why are so many women unhappy, alone, and facing a life without love?
The young women at TPUSA heard perhaps the most essential message of our time: aspire to love, to faith, and to family. Love, faith and family won't hold women back, it doesn't get in the way of some greater aspiration or career, instead it fuels them. With support, with love, with partnership, women can achieve anything, and it is this message that was prevalent at TPUSA this weekend in Dallas.
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