The Superheroes we Need
Mothers Matter
A woman’s ability to give birth to the next generation is the most under appreciated and devalued aspect of humanity. Certainly in feminist circles, and even in society at large, motherhood is considered just one of many things a woman can do, and is not given its proper place as the most crucial role in the survival of our species.
We have been inculturated to believe that pregnancy and birth are interruptions from our work, inconveniences to be endured, or something that we might even want to farm out to other people. For generations, women have been treating fertility like a disease to be treated with shots, daily pills, or even surgery. Instead of appreciating our fertility as the superpower it truly is, we have literally been consuming our own kryptonite.
This, of course, is a great tragedy, but one that we aren’t even allowed to talk about for fear of offending. After all, as they age, all women eventually can’t become pregnant anymore, and some women experience infertility their whole lives. These exceptions are always brought up when motherhood and pregnancy are mentioned as critical aspects of womanhood. Can we acknowledge the difficulty and pain of these situations at the same time we celebrate the amazing privilege that women who do become pregnant enjoy?
And what about the men? We don’t want to leave them out. Nonsensical language like “we are pregnant,” is bandied about as if men somehow share in this most specialized sex-specific role that women alone have the privilege to experience. We ought to be able to talk about the awesomeness of pregnancy and motherhood without constantly apologizing for all those who aren’t able to be pregnant.
Pregnancy and motherhood are amazing and awesome gifts. I am filled with gratitude for the 9 children we have on Earth and the 3 other eternal souls who are waiting for us on the other side. Motherhood is a great power and a great responsibility. Through it, women literally have the future of our civilization in our bodies, and then our hands.
Nothing I ever do will be as important as being the means by which my children entered the world. The tendency to diminish or undervalue motherhood strikes at the foundation of society, and is evidence of a nihilistic, self-hating culture that is not long for this world. Birth rates are declining throughout Western Civilization - our distorted values are literally destroying us.
We must completely reject and repent of our anti-natalist philosophy if there is to be any hope of cultural renewal. Nothing matters more than getting this right. We can argue about economics, politics, and legislative matters, but if we aren’t making more of us, none of those arguments amounts to anything.
Unless we place mothers at the very center of our society, support them in their crucial role, and honor them as the gifts they are to our society, we will weaken, die off, and be replaced. Consumerism, materialism, and nihilism are all ultimately death cults, and the Western world is in a death spiral. The time to recognize and turn away from these ideologies is right now. Our world needs another generation of (super)heroic mothers. The future of humanity depends on it.