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By Dr. Donald DeMarco, Catholic Exchange, October 23, 2024

Dr. Donald DeMarco is Professor Emeritus, St. Jerome’s University and Adjunct Professor at Holy Apostles College. He is is the author of 42 books and a former corresponding member of the Pontifical Academy of Life.  …

Avatar photoIssues associated with secular feminism have a long history.  In 1848 at Seneca Falls, New York, in a Declaration of Sentiments, a group of feminists made the following statement:  “The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having as direct object the establishment of absolute tyranny over her.”

Women decided to fight back.  But their platform was defective.  Their narrow view of history was a travesty of justice.  Placing all men in a stereotype was exactly the kind of tactic that feminists abhorred.  They were launching a movement that was built on a contradiction.  By employing a strategy normally associated with men, they were seeking to imitate what they denounced.  Men were the enemies not the allies.  Feminists were called to arms, to throw off the yoke of tyranny. …

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