Among the sweeping political and social events of your lifetime, the deprecation of homemakers — the marginalizing of mothers in the home — has been the seminal devastating force in America’s cultural decline. Any grownup can connect the dots. Militant feminists, backed by university academia and vigorously enabled by an equally militant media, begin their relentless campaign — to demean and belittle unlettered, domestic drudges — the dreaded “housewife.” With derision, they target these witless females who evidently have marginal brains, or they would reject brutish, repetitive labor — cooking, scrubbing, dusting, mopping, washing and the myriad child-rearing burdens. Women of substance would never choose to sacrifice themselves to mindless, meaningless, menial grinds. This relentless propaganda subtly and not so subtly enters secondary education curriculum and overtly finds its strident voice on college campuses. Movies and television programming gleefully follow suit, making fun of facile housewives, while extolling the courage of heroines stubbornly resolved to batter down the doors of discrimination — at the hands of, who else, autocratic males. These feminine idols, almost always young and alluring, begin to show up disproportionately as police chiefs, nuclear engineers and astrophysicists. Generation by generation, women begin to accept the notion that they are at war with men — that, in fact, their self worth hinges on meeting or exceeding male performance in any occupation at any level. As more women leave the home place for the workplace, more children swell the populations of day care centers, a fact applauded by social scientists who claim institutional socialization is preferable to parental direction. In direct correlation to feminist triumphs, 40% of all children are born outside of marriage. One in three children — that’s more than 20 million — live without a father; therefore, you shouldn’t flinch to learn that only 46% of U. S. households have a traditional two-parent, heterosexual family. To be fair, you might consider that these statistics have nothing to do with organized feminism. Perhaps, just perhaps, there is no correlation. It’s possible the assault on marriage is just a cyclical anomaly. It’s possible over 600.000* abortions annually have no relation to women’s lib and teen promiscuity. It’s possible the growing disintegration of the family has no impact on the drug epidemic and record numbers of teenage overdose deaths. It’s possible the feminine-led assault on white males has no connection to the continuous drop in male enrollment in colleges and universities. It’s also possible Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a closet capitalist who secretly covets a sexual relationship with Donald Trump.

But, then, there is something called stark reality.

In the material world, females aspire to careers, status, wealth, recognition and power — alongside males. They take pride in their accomplishments, leadership qualities and successes — alongside males. They travel to stimulating places, meet stimulating peers and enjoy stimulating relationships — alongside males. Their talents, their achievements, make the world a better place and prove a woman’s place is not relegated to the home. In stark reality, men and feminists in the workplace — primarily the white collar workplace — are just alike. They drive the wheels of commerce — cogs in a machine. Lose a cog and another takes its place. Males and females alike believe their contributions cradle a nation. In stark reality, they forget one thing: they forget the hand that rocks the cradle. They forget the true heroines — the drudges, the laborers, the homemakers.  These are the real women — women of real power whose creative skills, management abilities and sheer stamina, command the most valued institution on earth — the Home. The Feminist Movement will continue to motivate young girls to think of themselves as victims, to compete and displace males in the workplace. Already, more females are in the workforce than males. You already see the fallout — identity politics and cultural degradation. But you can only speak for yourself. As a Husband, as a Father, as a Family — if anyone on this Earth, anyone in this life — earns and deserves the civilian Congressional Medal of Honor — it’s the authentic Feminist — the undervalued Housewife. May God bless her — every one.

*2015 stat