I think another part of it is there isn't much dignity in being a woman. Women who are stay-at-home moms can be seen as lazy or weak. The whole thing about women always in the kitchen is treated like an inferior position. Does that make sense?
Okay, hatred-filled feminists, as well as hatred-filled men who do that are both messed up, hope we can agree on that, to claim this about women is so ugly, just because they choose to devote their main portion of work to the needs of their family. This is going to be a little longer post so forgive my rambling
I'll first say something my husband says. The woman was not supposed to
have to work.
Having to work is a curse from Adam after the fall. She was to be a helper to Adam, not carry the whole workload.
In Israelite society with God's goverment, a woman could do craftsmanship and deal in business, if she wanted to, because you didnt have factories and all work was home-based, with visits to the market to sell merchandise. We see examples that the woman from Proverbs 31 "worketh willingly with her hands", then the businesswoman Lydia. But the woman did not
have to go work, just do some housework to help. Now, this my observation, thanks to the feminists the society has changed so much that now, we the women all pretty much
have to get up from Monday to Friday, some even more, and deal with Babylon. It's not a choice anymore. When you examine the two orders, the first one gives you choice and freedom, the modern one limits you. The devil made factories to strip men, and even women, from their families most of their days and to make them toil in spiritual Egypt and Babylon, like the pharaoh.
Being at home is a privilege, not a limitation. You'll see this when you're elder, because now you're just in schooling, and probably didnt get to see yet how messed up people can get. Or did you not see it in school? Earlier, parents would basically homeschool, or hire a teacher for you if they were rich, and you would not be mistreated. In God's system, the woman gets to do all she wants, without being exposed to the world mess. Per example, you can be exposed to harassment at work of all kinds, but when you work from home and sell your goods on a market with your husband or parents, or online, you dont have to deal with that. In God's society model you work from home as much as you want to, if you want to... but the modern society is not designed for this because the foolish feminists demanded to share in the curse of Adam. Although we can still do it the Bible way and make our own businesses if we like. Not saying anybody is sinning by going to work, of course, God's intended way is just more convenient, that's all.
They said they wanted rights, but Biblically they already had these rights in a God-filled society. There were few things women in ancient Israel were limited in. They usually did not get featured in the prominent place, but their voice was heard. They sometimes did get a prominent place, too, as seen fit by God. Prophetess Deborah judged and led the whole nation.
Women couldnt go into military combat, per example, but isnt this reasonable? Godly men didnt want their women to die in combat or worse, be tortured and raped by the enemy. This is not to say women are cowards, they could be engaged directly in war in special cases as God leads and gives - like Jael, or Rahab. But are you sure you can stomach piercing an enemy's head with a tent nail like Jael, see what I'm saying? But she was strengthened by God for His purposes.
Women were educated in the temple just like everybody else. It was the
pagan women that were being looked down upon in pagan societies (this kinda led them to rebel with all these mother goddess religions). Why rebel when you are treated right?
God basically gave them at least a week off each month for their periods to pretty much chill because they were set apart for ritual uncleanness, imagine that, no school, no work, like today - nobody cares if you're falling apart, you have to work and sometimes lift heavy stuff at work. God counted it as illness, "sick of her flowers", so they surely had the freedom to rest if they were in pain. Just giving this as one more example on how the modern system has no concern compared to God's system. It's just about making everyone toil, they dont really care about you or your rights, satan wants his pyramid to be built.
Even a woman doing a typically man's occupation in ancient Israel would probably have been unusual, but not unbiblical, if she enjoyed that activity. There's nothing in the Word to hold a woman from working typical man work, but simply why would a woman even want a job where she would, say, have to lift very heavy things, it's not just very hard on her, but also if she got pregnant she could lose the baby. There surely have been widowed men in ancient Israel. They had to take care of housework and raising children. It is possible, just not preferable, because women are naturally more apt with babies and have natural instinct with them and can nurse while a man cannot. In the same way, a widow had to do hard work like chop wood and work all day long, plus housework and her children. This is possible too, but it's not preferable. I think we all see why these cases are not preferable, and that two is better than one and when the work is being naturally split, the man taking physically more demanding work and the woman helping him so he can rest at home when he is done, and eat a warm meal, and have some comfort in his day after his toil. This natural division of work is not in any way degrading for either side, it's done in love.
Woman taking care of housework and children does not mean a man wont touch a ladle or a cradle. Men of God cooked at times (Isaac, Ezekiel), and a mother cant be a father at the same time, so ideas of some worldly men how men shouldnt cook or take care of children, and how this is beneath them, are ridiculous. Why a man couldnt prepare a meal if he considers it fun or if his wife is ill is beyond me, there's nothing un-manly in it, and why should he not be a good
father and spend proper time raising and teaching his children in the ways of God. The thing is godly men just have somewhat less time because they are following their calling to provide food and shelter for the family, that's all.
Feminists have stripped the woman out of the home in addition to the man, and now children get more and more influence from the world. The women were deceived, and this was the serpent's real agenda, to get to the children and expand the Adam's curse on Eve so Eve suffers the double portion now. They have added a burden and the world keeps adding them. You have to look perfect, you have to have a spotless house at all times, you have to have this or that, you have to be a Martha Stewart, you are worthless if you are stay-at-home mom so you have to go work in Babylon to prove your worth, and so forth. None of these burdens is coming from God, but from the world. God only requires you to love your neighbor and follow God and you're pretty much free within that scope. It's called freedom in Christ.
So what the feminists have actually done is to put all the burden on the weaker vessel, because they insisted that women are strong. Now women have this insane workload of having to go to work, and cook, and nurse children at home, and often all alone, because they say they dont need man. Or the roles are switched and man is made the woman's helper. Then they despise him for being stay-at-home dad, ditch him and go whore around. Because God's order is in-built into us, that a man should be the provider (this is Adam's obligation, a woman can join in and work if she likes, but this is not as a command to her; however, the man has been commanded so). Then these women despise him inwardly as time goes because he abides in their own mindset, and is not providing. Then you have men who are bitter and have pretty much Muslim ideas about submission of women, that's another extreme. So see, a lot of suffering and confusion has been made because men strayed from God's way.
