The Real War Against Women: Feminism

There is a deeply unsettling irony buried beneath modern discourse about female empowerment. Women are told they are strong, capable, and deserving of equal opportunity—but they are also conditioned to outsource responsibility for their lives to systems that can never truly protect them.

They are warned about men, encouraged to seek institutional solutions to personal problems, and taught to distrust the very tools that would make them independent. The bitter truth is this: the most persistent obstacle to female empowerment is not some grand patriarchal conspiracy. It is other women—and the belief systems they promote, police, and perpetuate.

The modern woman has been sold two contradictory ideas. First, that she is autonomous and powerful. Second, that she must rely on external systems—government, corporate protections, or cultural pity—to protect that power. The result? A growing population of women who demand respect but forfeit responsibility, who speak of strength but embrace dependence, and who undermine one another with far more enthusiasm than any man ever could.

Part I: The Second Amendment and the Weaponized Rejection of Self-Defense

Nowhere is this contradiction more dangerous than in the rejection of the Second Amendment. Gun ownership is not about violence. It is about agency. It is the great equalizer in the face of physical disparity. A 120-pound woman does not need to match a 220-pound male attacker in brute strength. She only needs a 9mm pistol, steady training, and the moral clarity to use it when necessary.

And yet, gun ownership among women remains staggeringly low—especially among the very demographic most at risk: young, urban, single women. Instead of embracing the means to defend themselves, they are told that guns are instruments of toxic masculinity, that wanting one is paranoid, and that carrying one makes them complicit in a culture of violence.

These ideas do not come from men. They come from other women—often the same women who speak at marches and panels claiming to fight for female empowerment. The mere image of a woman carrying a weapon offends their sensibilities. Why? Because it punctures the narrative that women are perpetual victims. It demands they take personal responsibility for their own security, rather than outsource it to a police force that may or may not arrive on time—or care.

What is more feminist than a woman who refuses to be a victim? A woman who takes the power to defend her life into her own hands? That is not aggression. That is liberation. But instead of celebrating such women, our culture shames them. The truth is that many women do not fear guns. They fear what guns symbolize: independence, discipline, and moral clarity. They would rather live within systems that promise security than take the responsibility of providing it for themselves.

Part II: Pregnancy, the State, and the Illusion of Safety

This dependence on external authority surfaces again in how women approach the subject of unwanted pregnancy. Feminism once argued that control over reproduction was essential to equality. That is true. But what has followed is not a culture of empowered decision-making—it is a culture of deflection.

Women have been taught to treat abortion as a safety net, rather than a tragedy. Instead of confronting their choices with dignity and foresight, they rely on government-subsidized clinics, activist judges, and federal mandates to clean up the wreckage of poor decisions. They chant “my body, my choice” while denying the reality that choice begins before conception, not after.

• Abortions due to rape or incest are exceedingly rare. According to a comprehensive study by the Guttmacher Institute, fewer than 0.5% of abortions are performed because of rape, and less than 0.01% are due to incest. Similarly, the CDC’s Abortion Surveillance reports confirm that over 96% of abortions are elective, not the result of violent circumstances or medical emergencies. Together, these findings underscore that over 99% of abortions in the United States are not related to rape or incest, but are instead chosen for social, economic, or personal reasons.

And when questioned about this moral blind spot, they do not reflect. They deflect. They blame men. They blame politics. They blame religion. But they do not look inward.

Worse still, this ideology trains women to view motherhood as a burden, fertility as a liability, and natural consequence as injustice. Pregnancy becomes a pathology rather than a privilege. And any woman who embraces motherhood—or speaks candidly about the value of life—is dismissed as brainwashed, backward, or anti-feminist.

This creates a class of women who, rather than embracing the full spectrum of their reproductive power, use the state to minimize its consequences. What kind of strength is that? True empowerment is not found in escaping responsibility but in owning it. In accepting the power to create life, and with it, the responsibility to protect it.

Abortion is not empowerment. It is abdication. And the fact that women so often demand the government uphold their right to kill their own children, but not their right to carry a firearm to defend them, says everything you need to know about the broken moral compass modern feminism has handed them.

Part III: Emotional Warfare—When Women Turn on Women

The most toxic force in female social dynamics is not male aggression. It is female aggression. It is not the fist—it is the whisper.

While men have long resolved disputes through hierarchy, competition, and the threat (or reality) of physical confrontation—methods that, for all their primitive qualities, establish resolution and clarity—women often operate in the shadows of plausible deniability. There is no punch. There is only insinuation. There is no battle. Only sabotage.

Disagreement among men may spark a fight. Disagreement among women often sparks a rumor. It might begin with a sly joke. A look. A tone. But it metastasizes. Friend groups fracture. Professional reputations unravel. The target is left to bleed in the court of public opinion, tried not by evidence but by vibes.

This is not conflict resolution. It is reputational assassination.

The worst part? It works. And it is accepted. While a man might lose a fistfight and shake hands the next day, a woman who becomes the subject of social defamation may never recover. Her name becomes a curse, her motives suspect, her presence uncomfortable. There is no confrontation. There is only exile.

This dynamic, which often masquerades as “protecting women,” is anything but protective. It breeds paranoia. It rewards cowardice. And it teaches women that the path to influence is not through achievement or character but through control of narrative—regardless of truth.

Part IV: The Sisterhood Myth

Modern feminism leans heavily on the mythology of the “sisterhood.” We are told that all women support each other. That women have each other’s backs. That female unity is sacred and enduring. But in reality, the sisterhood is often a velvet lie wrapped around a dagger.

In practice, what many women experience is not unity, but uniformity. Step outside the dogma—whether about guns, gender, abortion, beauty, or ambition—and the sisterhood quickly becomes a firing squad.

The stay-at-home mother is shamed for wasting her potential. The career woman is mocked for abandoning her children. The conservative woman is ridiculed as a traitor. The religious woman is pitied as brainwashed. The gun-owning woman is deemed paranoid. The woman who refuses abortion is called oppressive. The trans-critical feminist is canceled entirely.

What remains is not empowerment but coercion. Not diversity of thought, but ideological conformity.

This toxic monoculture is enforced not by law, not by men, but by women themselves. The sisterhood becomes the surveillance state. And heaven help the woman who deviates.

Part V: The Path Forward—Responsibility Over Rhetoric

If women are to reclaim true empowerment, the path is not paved through louder slogans or more legislation. It is found in radical responsibility. Women must begin by asking themselves one simple question:

Am I seeking power, or am I seeking protection?

If it is the former, then carry the tools of protection in your own hands—a Glock, a conscience, a backbone. If it is the latter, admit it. Stop pretending victimhood is power. Stop pretending your choices have no consequences. Stop demanding the state save you from the weight of your own agency.

Female empowerment is not found in echo chambers or victim narratives. It is found in courage. It is found in clarity. It is found in the woman who trains at the range instead of calling 911. The woman who raises her children and defends life, even when it is inconvenient. The woman who confronts other women with truth instead of innuendo.

Women are not weak. But if they continue to police, punish, and poison each other, they will become something worse than weak—they will become enemies of their own cause.

There is no man who can fix that. There is no state that can legislate it away. And there is no hashtag powerful enough to cover it up.

Only women can liberate women.

And they must start by stopping the war on themselves.