Columnist Terry Mattingly looks at the state of women on contemporary college and university campuses. Mattingly writes:
“They are the campus rebels, the young women who refuse to play by the rules laid down by a male-dominated culture.
“They wish that more young men would focus on their minds and souls, instead of their bodies. They are tired of crude social games that serve the desires of men rather than the dreams of young women.
“They are rebels, the religious women who struggle with the frat-boy patriarchy that rules the modern university campus on nights and weekends.”
Mattingly quotes Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, co-director of the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University, asserting that Chrisian women are the “new countercultural revolutionaries” at secular universities, sparking a “mini-revolt” against the sexual objectification of women.
Let’s pray for genuine, protective, self-sacrificial, woman-affirming, children-welcoming patriarchy in our homes and churches; and for the downfall of the frat-boy patriarchy, wherever it is found.
