If only feminism was as cute and lovable as Rachel McAdams.  But in the movies it can be.  In the movies we can make whatever reality we want become real.  And so it has.  This movie, Morning Glory, is ten years old, but the ethos has become mainstream.  A recent study somewhere, put into numbers the reality that thinking people can see all around us.  Women are more obsessed with their careers than ever.  And men seem to think it’s cute.  While everyone mocks Millennials, including many millennials, no one seems to wonder how this happened.  Why can’t our society raise kids successfully anymore?  Whose fault is this?  Who has dropped the ball?

This is a pretty typical rom-com.  Girl gets dumped, then finally finds a new guy and they fall in love.  They go through some rocky times and live happily ever after.  Only she isn’t dating a guy, she is dating a career.  And she doesn’t get dumped she gets fired.  And she doesn’t fall in love she finds a new job.  It’s really quite insane.  Her boyfriend is really just a sex toy, fading into the background of her career success.  She even has a triumph over the patriarchy as she finally brings Harrison Ford to his knees.  More unfortunate still, this triumph is a triumph of kitschy, pop garbage culture over the erudite.  Of course Hollywood ever in bed with elite journalism, has to maintain this contradiction, playing both sides.  The respectable news anchor, saving the world, speaking truth to power and the new girl on the block, flexing her feminist muscles smacking him down, with a sugar high of vapid nothings.

This whole mess would be somewhat true to life if it were a man, playing the lead role.  But as it stands a pretty young actress is just used to sell the ugly lies of feminism.  And Hollywood has made that sale.  Barren lonely women married to their careers are everywhere.  Each generation of children is a bigger disaster than the last.  Suicide is up.  People don’t get married anymore.  This doesn’t work, we need to try something else.

Why review an old movie?  Beside the fact that I am scraping the bottom of the free barrel, we are the result of our past.  What we sow we reap.  It is also an “I told you so”.  But unfortunately people rarely get that message no matter how blatant.  We are an arrogant people, slow to admit fault.  But rather than move on to the next evil we should learn from our mistakes and try not to repeat them.  That’s what makes us human, we can communicate to one another and warn one another.   Time and again Christian thinkers warn of current and upcoming dangers.  As a category they have been right about a lot of things including most of the modern isms.  Biblical wisdom has the answer to the problems of our age, because it has the answer to the problems of every age.  But first we must humble ourselves and admit where we went wrong.  Only then can Biblical wisdom penetrate our thick heads.    It’s not just about getting saved, it’s about saving everything.  Think about the messages in the movies and music that go into your head, take every thought captive.  Seek to apply the Bible to everything.  God’s word is a blessing.  He doesn’t want us to have these problems as a Family, Church, Nation.  He wants to bless us and make us fruitful. That’s why he hates feminism, it kills the fruit.