The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity

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ref:14.61,62, on why men don't stand up to feminazis:

Why is it, then, that men don’t fight back and defend themselves better against the matriarchy? […] fighting women goes against men’s better nature. […] women aren’t supposed to be the enemy. It shouldn’t surprise us that even Adam (before the fall!) was more inclined just to eat the fruit than to fight with Eve.

Timothy Gordon, The Case for Patriarchy criticizes this work, inter alia , for not criticizing "first-wave feminism" despite its relationship (or even equality) to 1960s "second-wave feminism", but this work seems overall clearer and more coherent than his.

ref:8.21:

As an exorcist attests, “The cooperation of Mary in the victory of God over the demons humiliates them more than if God defeated them alone. To be defeated by God through a cooperation of a human creature, inferior by nature yet Immaculate, greatly humiliates their bloated pride.”9 For this reason, during exorcisms, “demons are often angrier and more furious in Mary’s regard than that of God himself.”10

9 & 10. Bramonte, Virgin Mary and Exorcisms , 37.

ref:22.9,15: "The Disney film Moana offers an unexpected modern-day parable to help us love women who have been caught in the cultural snares. […] We, like Moana and Maui, are tasked with giving women their hearts back."

My KOReader notes:

Chapter 4: The Big Lie: Changing Human Nature

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In 1934, abortions outweighed live births by three to one.

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Vicki Thorn, founder of Project Rachel, reports that one woman admitted having eighty abortions.

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Both of these ideologies—radical feminism and homosexuality—are committing the same error of negating the necessity and goodness of the opposite sex.

cf Rom 1

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Her job, when done well, is to make herself all but obsolete.

fatherhood, too

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arms that are bent at the elbow (instead of straight like men’s

Chapter 5: The Anti-Marian Architects

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feminism’s source: the embattled relationship almost all of these women had with their parents, especially their mothers

Chapter 6: The New Matriarchy: Fashionable Dictators

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“America’s first large network of professional women was Catholic nuns.

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Gloria Steinem said, “Logic is in the eye of the logician.

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Keith Pariot, a member of the matriarchal Indian state of Meghalaya, speaks of the kind of demoralization that happens to him and other men in the tribe.

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his language, “[a] tree is masculine, but when it is turned into wood, it becomes feminine. The same is true of many of the nouns in our language. When something becomes useful, its gender becomes female.”

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matriliny tribe in China, “Men are little more than studs, sperm donors who inseminate women but have, more often than not, little involvement in their children’s upbringing.20

Chapter 7: The True Mother

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the female heart aches for some very specific things: to know the truth of who we are and secure a recognition of our dignity, a longing to be fruitful or to do what is good, and a desire to be beautiful. These desires run deep in a woman’s soul. They don’t just stem from a superficial place, but are gifted to us by God. The only way that they can truly be satisfied is to surrender them back to God

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(Monteverdi’s Vespers for the Blessed Virgin).

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When St. Paul preached in Ephesus, he was driven out of the temple by devotees of Artemis who were worried that Christianity might be bad for their souvenir sales. It seemed that, for a time, the virgin goddess had the upper hand over Christianity, but eventually the temple was destroyed in AD 401. Then just thirty years later, Our Lady was proclaimed the Mother of God in the same city at the Council of Ephesus.

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Few are willing to tell women to be obedient, humble, submissive, and meek,

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these virtues, like Mary’s Son, are “the stone the builders rejected”; they are the virtues we ignore at our own peril

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does not command or urge, she suggests: “they have no wine

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Gertrud von le Fort, who wrote deeply about what it means to be a woman, said, “Surrender to God is the only absolute power with which the creature is endowed.”11

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was always there, tormented by pain but most beautiful in her suffering

Chapter 8: Fruit and Content

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“I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been. Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she’ll give you a baby. If you give her a house, she’ll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she’ll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she’ll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her.”2

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Joel Salatin is a man that knows a lot about farming. Called the world’s most innovative farmer by Time magazine, Salatin has been featured in books and films like The Omnivore’s Dilemma and Food, Inc. for his practices that are changing the way people think about food. While his approach may seem radical (no antibiotics, no growth hormones), his farming practices are fundamentally about working with nature instead of against it. And it all starts with soil. Salatin, like most farmers, knows that soil health is crucial. “Stimulating soil biota is our first priority,” says Salatin. “Soil health creates healthy food.”3 Farmers like him are relearning how “to foster what nature grants.”

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When it came to vocations, then, what exactly was the soil?
Mothers.

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Confucius is known to have said, “Where the woman is faithful, no evil can befall. The woman is the root and the man is the tree. The tree grows only as high as the root is strong

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180 when St. Irenaeus of Lyons wrote, “If Adam was created with the help of a virgin soil, not yet tilled, by the virtue and power of God (Gn 2:4–7), the new Adam also must draw his origin from a virgin soil, by the same power and virtue of God. Mary is this virgin soil from whom Christ became the ‘first-born.’”6

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women generally have a fundamental desire to nurture. Sadly, we can also be remarkably misguided in what we choose to nurture. Instead of nurturing children or spiritual children, our nurturing can embrace something intangible, such as a grudge, anger, victimization, resentment, or pain

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half a billion dollars on pet costumes for Halloween

Chapter 9: Understanding Mary’s Beauty

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Dostoevsky trope that says, “beauty will save the world

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smallest girl will tell you she wants to be as beautiful as a princess. This isn’t just cultural conditioning; it is something universal that sits squarely in the feminine heart.

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impression that human nature can change. Since women have changed, the argument goes, men must also have changed their desires and interests, or simply have adapted to the new version of women, which look a lot more like them, or are dripping with superficial sensuality

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women that inspired the likes of poets Dante and Petrarch—Beatrice and Laura

laura?

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wife’s job is, in fact, to make her husband happy. She explains, “Too often these women—even the strongest, smartest, most independent of them—weirdly believe that if they inflict enough pain back onto their partners or exact enough control of them, they’ll suddenly get with the program. Instead, the opposite usually happens. Their partners—not feeling loved enough and tired of feeling nagged, controlled, and criticized—do the opposite. They withdraw and tune out. And the cycle of drama and dysfunction only becomes more vicious and protracted

Chapter 11: Six Ways to Combat the Anti-Mary

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popular appeal of Jordan Peterson, particularly for men, is that he tells them to grow up, to do things that adults have always done in the past, instead of coddling them and allowing them to remain adolescents for the rest of their lives

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Grace builds upon nature,

gratia elevans

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Hospitality, hosting others and creating community through good meals and great conversation, is also an important way to build up your own family and bring community together.

Appendix: Important Prayers to Combat the Anti-Mary

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Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks of me,

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The Demonic Influence on Women Today

In the late '60s, a small group of elite American women convinced an overwhelming majority of the country that destroying the most fundamental of relationships--that of mother and child--was necessary for women to have productive and happy lives. From the spoiling of this relationship followed the decay of the entire family, and almost overnight, our once pro-life culture became pro-lifestyle, embracing everything that felt good. Sixty million abortions later, women aren't showing signs of health, happiness, and fulfillment. Increased numbers of divorce, depression, anxiety, sexually transmitted disease, and drug abuse all point to the reality that women aren't happier, just more medicated. Huge cultural shifts led to a rethinking of womanhood, but could there be more behind it than just culture, politics, and rhetoric? Building off the scriptural foundations of the anti-Christ, Carrie Gress makes an in-depth investigation into the idea of an anti-Mary--as a spirit, not an individual--that has plagued the West since the '60s. Misleading generations of women, this anti-Marian spirit has led to the toxic femininity that has destroyed the lives of countless men, women, and children. Also in The Anti-Mary Exposed: How radical feminism is connected to the errors of Russia, spoken of by Our Lady of Fatima.The involvement and influence of the goddess movement and the occult. The influence of "female" demons, such as Lilith and Jezebel. The repulsive underbelly of radical feminism's chief architects. A look at the matriarchy, a cabal of elite women committed to abortion, who control the thinking of most women through media, politics, Hollywood, fashion, and universities. The antidote to the anti-Mary is, of course, Mary, the Mother of God, known widely as the most powerful woman in the world and the source of the belief that women ought to be treated with dignity. She is a beacon of all the virtues and qualities--purity, humility, kindness, beauty--that oppose this sinister force that has cast its spell upon so many women. Mary's influence is unparalleled by any woman in history. She is the perfect model of Christian femininity, who desires to be a spiritual mother to us all, leading us to her Son, and to the fulfillment of our heart's deepest desires.