by Joyce Landorf
S everal months ago, 200 women representing the Women’s Lib eration Movement, marched into the offices of Ladies Home Journal magazine and staged an 11 -hour sit-in to protest being second rate citizens. Their demands were va ried but “ equal rights" seemed to be the central theme. The magazine then gave these women five full key pages of the August, 1970 issue to express their views with out editing or censorship. I read every word and with a great deal of dedicated willpower managed not to throw up. My next reaction was a chain of questions: Are they serious? (They are!, My, how they are!) Are most women this desper ately unhappy? (According to them, yes! yes! yes!) Are most women champing at the bit to get out of the house and home act? (Another re sounding Yes!) We are going to hear more and more from these groups of women liberators because they have a way of yelling, screaming and stamping their feet more loudly than anyone I know. Undoubtedly they will win precious magazine space, valuable book publications and television and radio coverage. Most certainly they will always out-shout the Chris tian women of today, even though we outnumber them. We are just too lady-like to yell but I, for one, 14
They have free 24-hour child care centers so women are able to work. Women doctors, scientists and farm laborers work alongside of men and at equal pay. If this freedom and equality are so fantastic, how come we don’t hear any of the Russian women explaining the glories of such a life? I suspect it ’s because with all this new, delicious freedom and equality they’ve won, they have lost the glowing radiance of inner happiness and feminine charm; the kind of charm that looks good only on a woman; the kind that men fall in love with for a life-time — re gardless of outward looks. If I’m a “ second-rate citizen” as these groups state so loudly, why am I so happy? Why the joy? Why the deep pride and satisfaction when I look upon my husband and children? It’s because I’m NOT a second-class, downtrodden woman. My position as a wife to my hus band is what a key is to a lock. One without the other is frustrat ing^ useless, but together func tion in the place and plan of God to great usefulness . . . especially when we are locked into Ephesians, Chapter Five! It’s my hope that concerned Christian women will not sit back and say, "Tsk, tsk, isn’t it terri ble?” but will unite together to pray for these misguided liberators and (in a lady-like way of course) OUT-YELL THEM! THE KING'S BUSINESS
do not propose to be brainwashed by their godless, unfeminine think ing. First of all, they must be desper ately unhappy and horrified at be ing created female. I personally love it. I wouldn’t want the tensions and pressures my husband carries for all the tea in China OR equal pay! These women feel frustrated, trapped and nailed into a coffin marked, “ Wife, Housew ife and Mother.” I am, since Christ, under no such bondage! The book FAS CINATING WOMANHOOD calls be ing a housewife a “ domestic god dess” and my days of this train ing, cleaning and loving for my family and whole household gives me exceptional joy! The king at my house has asked me to reign as his queen! (Since our life wasn’t al ways like that, however, I can un derstand some of the W.L.M.’s yell ing!) Secondly, I’d like to see the edi to r’s of Ladies Home Journal, pub lishers and men in the communi cations area, T.V. and radio give some Christian women like Ruth Graham, Dale Evans and Frances Gardner equal pages and air time to even up the score a little. Lastly, the name, “ Women’s Lib eration Movement,” has a slightly Communist ring to it and when I got to thinking, I realized that in Russia and Red China today women are enjoying the “ equal treatment.”
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