This thread is for building a case in support of biblical patriarchy and against feminism.
The Bible doesn't teach patriarchy - at least, not in the sense feminists usually mean. God puts upon men
responsibility, not the right to boss their wives around. They are given the "last word" in decision-making within the household, but not the first one, the "buck" stopping at them (and the blame for whatever bad things result), and must
earn the trust and respect of their wives that is essential to their submission. Nowhere in the Bible does God ever issue to men carte blanche authority over their wives, or women generally.
Having said this, I don't think any wave of feminism has been biblical. This doesn't mean that I think women shouldn't have the right to vote or to seek careers beyond that of motherhood. It means that the misanthropy and envy that has been present always in feminism is not of God. These things are, in fact, very fleshly and have been well-inflamed by the devil to their present destructive - and bitterly ironic - form. But this is inevitably what happens when people throw off God's will and way for their own.
*how feminism has made society worse
On balance, I think this is demonstrably true. Yes, general societal equality between the sexes is a good thing but what I see now in feminism is a destructive mimicry by women of the worst kinds of men. Feminism today is often associated either with hyper-promiscuity and type-A, narcissistic behavior, and/or butch lesbianism. Female feminists (there are lots of beta-males calling themselves feminists) today are aggressively slutty (to use their own word), preening, even, over how many men they've had sexually. Even though this is as morally debasing of women as it is of promiscous men, even though sexual disease is rife in such a lifestyle, even though one's conscience and ability to truly love are profoundly damaged by this sort of behavior, modern feminists seem more eager than ever to be more "free" than men sexually.
Ironically, in being so, women have become the sex-toys of the very men they are trying to exceed. Now, many feminists will let any man who cares to do so ogle their private parts as they march, nude, en masse down a public roadway or gather in lewd groups in public parks to wave placards, proclaiming their right to be sexually foul. It isn't men with wholesome, noble, hearts and minds that take advantage of these silly feminists, cheering the naked, idiot women on as they leer hungrily at every region of the exposed forms of these deluded females. No, good men want nothing whatever to do with such repulsive women.
If they aren't carrying on sexually like a human version of a public urinal, some feminists are despising men, looking for the slightest reason to accuse them of misogyny, sexism, bigotry, oppressiveness, and brainlessness. Men are just over-sexed neanderthals, in their view, who are unredeemable except they feminize themselves. Men must be subjugated by women and made to pay in various ways for being male. These feminist must make men see that they are the lesser sex, and, really, utterly unrelated to the happiness and fulfillment of women. What benefit has this sort of feminism been to modern western society? None that I can see. It has only divided, and antagonized, and warped society, pitting men and women against one another to no constructive end.
Some women who've over-imbibed feminist ideology have taken to directly challenging men physically, attempting to compete with them in sports and even in combat. But the best women athletes and fighters cannot offer any real challenge to their male counterparts. When they do, they are easily defeated and sometimes badly injured. This has been made especially evident through the men-pretending-to-be-women nonsense that has made a mockery of female sports, mediocre male athletes dominating their female opponents. Has this united the sexes in the constructive building and maintenance of stable, moral societies? Not hardly.
I think, too, that feminism has no small part to play in the population collapses that are occurring world-wide. Feminism isn't the only factor, of course, in the enormous decline in populations around the globe, but it certainly has contributed to it. And so far as it has done so, feminism is responsible for the destruction of millennia-old societies. Within the next fifty years, many of the countries of Europe will be mere cultural artifacts, overrun by Muslim cultural jihadis who are breeding themselves into power throughout Europe. These nations have been in population decline for so long that they cannot recover, their unreplaced, aging populations soon to grow unsustainable and vulnerable to the antagonistic foreign immigrants they've allowed to flood their societies. It's going to be a bloodbath, actually, and motherhood-hating feminism has helped to bring such a circumstance to pass.
And so it goes, feminism corrupting and perverting God's design for individuals, families and societies and causing great harm as a result.
