Feminism and Attitudinal Transgenderism
Feminism is often portrayed as a liberation movement—a cultural exodus meant to free women from domestic captivity, legal oppression, and the perceived tyranny of male authority. It promises equality, dignity, and power. It parades itself as progress. But peel back the slogans, and something darker is revealed: feminism does not call women to become more gloriously feminine. It calls them to become more rebelliously masculine. It urges them not to cultivate godly strength but to imitate godless men. And while the rhetoric is cloaked in words like "empowerment" and "freedom," its fruit is often entitlement, rootlessness, sexual lawlessness, and disdain for biblical womanhood.
But this spirit—this boisterous, defiant, sexually unbridled woman—is not new. She didn’t rise from Seneca Falls. She didn’t erupt in the 1960s. She has been known and warned against for thousands of years. Long before gender theory, drag queens, and third-wave feminist manifestos, Solomon identified her in Proverbs 7. The woman who struts, who roars, who forsakes home and covenant and sacred duty—she is not a modern marvel. She is an ancient caution.
The Ancient Warning
Proverbs 7:11 describes her with surgical precision: “She is boisterous and rebellious; her feet do not remain at home.”
This is no throwaway line. This is Solomon's autopsy of a ruined soul. "Boisterous" in Hebrew denotes loudness, tumult, unruliness. It is the picture of ungoverned speech and unchecked passion. "Rebellious" reveals a defiant spirit, unwilling to submit, unwilling to be ruled—even by God. And her feet? They cannot stay put. She is restless. Itching. Wandering. She cannot be anchored to the place God ordained for her flourishing: the home. This is not a condemnation of errands or employment. It is a diagnosis of disdain. She despises domesticity. She disdains covenant stability. She flees the life of quiet influence and runs headlong into the chaos of self.
And here's the paradox: though she is a woman by biology, her behavior is masculine—not in the noble, virtuous sense of godly manhood, but in the carnal, unrestrained sense of a man ruled by lust. She is a woman behaving like a man at his worst. She is adopting a kind of attitudinal transgenderism, which is when a person rejects the design of their sex not by altering their body, but by adopting the rebellious attitudes of the opposite gender. This woman is wild, she is loud, she is sexually promiscuous, and she is boisterous. In that sense, Solomon is not merely describing bad behavior—he is putting before us a woman acting like the worst kind of man. This is attitudinal transgenderism.
The Feminist Icon
In our day, the Proverbs 7 woman is not only accepted—she is celebrated. She is held up by feminism as a paragon of power. She leaves her children to chase her career. She rejects submission to a husband. She sees monogamy as an outdated leash. She weaponizes beauty, mocks masculinity, and calls promiscuity "empowerment." She is lauded for being unshackled from patriarchy—yet she is shackled to her passions. She trades the glory of feminine virtue for the aggression of a wayward man.
What has feminism achieved, then, but to turn women into caricatures of the men it claims to oppose? What is its end goal, if not a generation of women who talk like rebellious men, walk like adulterous men, and sin like enslaved men? In its most grotesque form, feminism doesn’t liberate women from men—it makes them slaves to men’s worst traits, or forces them to imitate men’s most sinful tendencies.
Let us be clear: the goal of Scripture is not to mute women. It is to magnify their beauty, their strength, their dignity, their glory—not by rebellion, but by radiant submission to the Lord. Biblical femininity is not weakness. It is strength under God’s rule. It is the glory of quiet faithfulness, joyful submission, fruitful labor, and spiritual grace.
The Gospel for Rebels
To every woman who has believed the lie—that her power is found in shedding her femininity, scorning her home, and becoming louder, prouder, and more defiant—hear this: Christ came to redeem you from that curse.
He does not scorn you. He beckons you.
He offers you a better vision—not a return to barefoot slavery, but to Spirit-filled beauty. To be a woman shaped by the Word, satisfied in Christ, strengthened by grace, submitted to your Lord and your husband, and secure in your high and holy calling.
In Christ, you are not reduced to silence, but invited to sing. You are not erased by submission, but exalted through it. You are not diminished by nurturing, but crowned by it. Your beauty is not in the volume of your protest, but in the quiet power of godliness.
So let the false freedom of feminism die. Let the rebellion end. Let the masculine mask be laid down. And let the women of God rise—not in revolt, but in reverence.
There, and only there, will true feminine glory shine.
