They're Saying The QUIET PART Out Loud... | PoliticsGirl

The ultimate goal of the Christian nationalist movement is to restrict women to the home, strip them of civil rights, including the right to vote, and re-establish 'headship voting.' This aims to create a society where women's survival depends solely on marriage and a husband's absolute authority, making it impossible to leave abusive situations.

Monty Mater states, 'The ultimate goal is to restrict women to the home, to strip them of their civil rights, their right to vote, to reestablish headship voting, create a society where women have no recourse, where a woman's only means of survival is marriage, family, husband, that she can't leave regardless of how terrible he is because it's an institution built on hierarchy where the male headship is absolute and god-given.'

The argument that women's 'natural state' is submission and childbearing is flawed because if it were truly natural, it wouldn't require violence, force, indoctrination, or legal enforcement. This belief system denies women's individuality, viewing them merely as 'vessels' whose wombs are 'weapons of this ongoing Christian war.'

Mater argues, 'If it was natural, it wouldn't require violence, force, indoctrination, or a legal system to enforce it. It's not natural. It's natural for some women. But the only way that you can believe that all women are meant to be in the home with kids, this is all of their natural state, is if you do not believe that women are unique people. They're just vessels.'

The notion of women being solely homemakers is a relatively recent construct, largely a 1950s propaganda campaign to push women who joined the workforce during WWII back into the home. Historically, poor women always worked outside the home, and multi-family living arrangements meant women were not solely responsible for household and childcare duties.

Mater explains, 'This idea of this being the norm, no, it wasn't the norm until the 50s through a propaganda campaign, heavily medicated women that started to fracture because women were so miserable that they started telling their daughters, "Don't do this."'

The conservative movement employs sophisticated indoctrination, teaching individuals they are inherently sinful and cannot trust their own intuition, only male leaders. For women, this is compounded by the 'original sin' narrative (Eve's sin of gaining knowledge) to justify subjugation. This allows them to blame women for societal problems while ignoring male leadership's historical control and economic policies that benefit the wealthy.

Mater states, 'The foundation of especially fundamentalism and Christian nationalism is... they lay a foundation of you not being good enough. You're sinful. You can't trust your own intuition... Then there's an added layer for women based around original sin... Eve's first sin was eating and gaining knowledge.'