Who Run the World

I've had this post written down for awhile. I've had it in my mind since I had my first son six years ago, but it has taken me awhile to process my thoughts on this subject. Now that I have three boys to raise into men I feel the need to express my thoughts on this and maybe open up a perspective for others on this subject. I do not write this to ruffle anyone's feathers and I know that some people may not understand or want to understand this from a mom of three boys perspective, but it is a real subject that our culture is living out.

Now from the outside looking in my little family, in our season, may look like the 1950's where the man works outside the home and the woman stays home taking care of the children, barefoot as they say, but in reality while I was in Physician Assistant school my husband worked to support us. Then the roles changed a bit and while he got his masters in engineering I worked to support us. We have both been the bread winners at different times in our marriage, and we were and still are a team in both scenarios.

As a mom to three boys I want my boys to understand the importance of treating all humans as equals, but to recognize that women uniquely reflect something of God's character and who He is in a way men can't. Likewise, men uniquely reflect God's image and likeness. How we were made is one thing, but how we treat others is another thing. I want them to treat everyone as they would want to be treated.

As a woman I understand feminism to be about equality, to be about women lifting each other up and supporting each other as women do. I do not understand the extreme feminism where boys and men are put down for their gender. I don't understand the hate that comes with it all and as a mom to three boys it leaves me wondering what this will do for our young boys as they grow up in this big world.

When the song "Girls, who run the world" came out I cringed just a bit. It was really the first time I felt a shift in the feminism world. I felt like wow this is something completely different than women lifting up other women. Don't get me wrong, I like the singer of this song, I like most of her songs and I understand this song may be lifting up other women, but it was just a weird shift in how I saw the feminism movement.

Now if you know me you know I grew up in a family with two big brothers that are my heroes. They lifted me up, they helped make me who I am today and really they showed me just how important female beings are, while living out the importance of boys becoming men with morals, manners and God at the center of their lives.

When I started this blog my drive for it was and still is to inspire the people reading it to be their best self, to see the good in themselves and in others, but never to change one's mind. Just showing different perspectives on things while keeping a positive outlook on subjects while keeping it in the reality that we live in.

Feminism is equality without hate, but an understanding that we were all created differently with equal value in the image of God. As I raise three boys in this day and age, I will go back to the beginning. I will go back to the foundation that we were all created on and I pray that my boys feel the feminism movement as a positive movement full of love for other human beings, equality for all, and lifting up others no matter the gender. Mainly I will teach them who really runs the world, God.

Hope you all have a great day.

XX - Ash