Written by Joseph Spurgeon

In my pastoral experience, many church and family conflicts are not caused by men. They are caused by active female rebellion baptized in feminist assumptions.

Gossip. Division. Manipulation. Resistance to legitimate authority. Weaponizing children. Recruiting an audience instead of seeking reconciliation.

Feminism has discipled generations of women to equate defiance with courage and submission with oppression.

It is a most bitter and poisonous fruit.

Women are taught to interpret resistance to authority as authenticity—and restraint as the death of self.

So when her sin is confronted:
• Repentance feels like losing
• Submission feels like betrayal of self
• Stubbornness feels like courage
• Public accusation feels like righteousness

And eventually, rebellion can feel so virtuous that she believes disobedience itself is proof that she is standing for truth.

Thank God for godly women who recognize this temptation and wage war against it rather than baptizing it as “finding their voice.”

And thank God for godly husbands and fathers who keep loving, leading, correcting, forgiving, and standing firm when our culture tells them that merely exercising faithful authority is abuse.

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