April 01, 2006 by Christene Erenoglu, from www.savethemales.ca. I can’t see a permanent link available so I will have to quote the whole short essay here. Do pay a visit to Mr. Henry Makow’s website at www.savethemales.ca to understand the basics of feminism.

I’m a white American woman, thirty years old, educated in the American university system, and a former feminist. I grew up in the anti-family culture that you describe. I was never encouraged to be a real woman, wife or mother. This makes me feel really angry, cheated, and lied to. When I got married I was totally confused about my female identity and my role as a wife. Since I married a Turkish man and moved to Turkey with him to live, I felt especially confused and threatened, at least at first.

Turkish culture is totally based on the stability and integrity of family life, with women at the center of it all. Turkish women are respected and admired when they take care of the home, husband and children. Turkish women are not frumpy boring housewives either, they are sexy in the home, wearing nice clothes, jewelry and makeup. In contrast, they are generally modest out on the streets. A woman’s role as supportive wife and mother is seen (as it should be) as a noble, respectable, and natural destiny in Turkey. Bees make honey…women take care of husbands and children….men protect and provide… god gave his creatures roles and duties…it’s so obvious to me now. But, this new cultural ideal came as a big shock to me at first and I instantly tried to reject it and run back to the lie of American feminism. I had been conditioned to reject to obvious, a typcial American white girl, with a university degree and “priceless independence”. As I’m sure you can imagine, the first year of my marriage in Turkey was like torture for me and for husband. My husband had to explain to me countless times that marriage isn’t about competition and pointed out many happily married couples around us where the woman took care of her house and husband without complaint. I agreed with him that these women were not oppressed in the least, infact they seemed to glow with happiness, feminine charm, and most of them had careers and graduate level educations. My husband strongly insisted that marriage is the opposite of independence, and told me straight that if I ever wanted to be happy in life, I would need to drop the bitchy “independent feminist woman act”. He said I was free to leave him and go back to the US at any time, but that he knew I could be happy with him if I would just try to adapt to the new culture. His wise words hit my ears painfully, they sounded so oppressive to my poor brainwashed feminist ears. I felt threatened and attacked. I almost left. I acted defensive and angry. But I knew he was right about everything, I could feel the difference in my soul.

Turkish marriages and families are like solid rocks. This fact affected me and transformed my mind. No weird family problems or divorce can be seen anywhere, except in the new “modern” marriages in Istanbul which model after American like dis-functionality. Learning to be a wife who’s dependent on my husband was so incredibly difficult for me to accept that I almost lost my mind trying to change all my deep rooted feminist goals and dreams. It wasn’t easy to reverse the effects of feminist brainwashing. God had mercy on me and blessed me with the strength I needed overcome the brainwash and heal my mind and soul. I am so grateful for this miracle in my life. The best thing that ever happened to me was reclaiming my womanhood, it created in me a sense of enlightenment, so feminine, so real, so beautiful, peaceful and finally HAPPY. Now all I want to do is spend time creating a beautiful and peaceful marriage relationship and home. I was disabled before, but now I can run! I am free. Feminism was a horrible cage, a wound, a disfigurement. Now I finally feel ready to become (God willing) a mother. A mature and happy woman!!

My girlfriends back home in America can’t understand the new me. I agree with you, Sir, that most American women are incapable of being wives and mothers, and it’s so tragic that I want to cry for them all. American women are suffering. Feminism has stolen any chance they may have to enjoy living lives as happy, feminine, mature women. It reminds me of forced sterilization, horrible torment. Nazis. Yuck! Men are suffering too. Children are suffering the most. American women would be so ready to jump off the bandwagon and reject feminism if they only knew how badly they’re being cheated out of their human rights. The right to simply be what they are…WOMEN! I wish there could be a counter revolution But how? It seems hopeless. People are so isolated and full of fear now in America, the universities are filled with feminist propaganda, so what could possibly get women’s attention at this juncture? May God help us.