Christian Post Says Gender Equality is Madness, Cites “Transgenderism”

F. LaGard Smith claims women in leadership caused “transgenderism”

Esther Spurrill-Jones
Prism & Pen
Published in
4 min readJul 29, 2022

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A vintage Rosie the Riveter poster. A woman wearing a blue shirt and a red and white polka dot headscarf is flexing her bicep and saying, “We can do it!”
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“Gender madness”

F. LaGard Smith, writing for the Christian Post, is very upset that Lia Thomas won something, and he thinks “you might be surprised at all the unlikely contributing factors” to “all the hoo-ha over gender fluidity, preferred pronouns, and transgenderism.”

So what is the “surprising roots of gender madness,” according to Smith?

It’s… Rosie the Riveter:

…depicted in WWII recruitment posters flexing her muscles, Popeye-like, with the defiant words, “We Can Do It!”. And do it they did! Millions of women abandoned their traditional roles in the home to “man” the munitions factories and shipyards while the men were off fighting. Having exchanged skirts for work trousers, many post-war “Rosies” took a liking to wearing slacks, complete with bobbed hair, eventually at “unisex” hair salons. In both careers and fashion, gender…

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Esther Spurrill-Jones
Prism & Pen

Poet, lover, thinker, human. Poetry editor at Prism & Pen.