Feminism as Rebellion Against the Father

In the depths of the soul the Mother stands for the great nurturing yet also devouring principle. The “mother’s breast” is not merely an image of infantile nourishment, but the symbol of the symbiotic phase in which the son remains one with maternal life. As long as this bond is not dissolved, he remains stuck in the mama’s-boy state: passive, conflict-avoidant, inwardly eunuch-like. The Anima – the inner feminine image – stays immature, fixated on the personal mother, instead of maturing into the soul-guiding power of wholeness. Woe to the one who touches this breast! Then panic breaks out, regression, or righteous outrage.

The Eunuch Age and the Dethroned Father

We live in an age in which the paternal principle is systematically darkened. The father, who loosens the son from the maternal embrace and leads him into the world of responsibility, reason, and courage, is branded the “evil dad.” Without him, the necessary initiation is missing. The man remains spiritually sterile, incapable of true creative action, incapable of the holy marriage of Animus and Anima. A culture that exalts the maternal and portrays the paternal as threatening produces entire generations of inner eunuchs – dependent, conflict-incapable, fleeing from the hard beauty of reality.

Cancel Culture as the Collective Cry of the Mama’s Boy

“Wolf! Wolf!” they all shout as soon as a paternal voice sets boundaries, names truth, or disturbs the symbiotic bubble. The outrage is great, loud, viral. Yet it is not the voice of justice, but the panicked cry of the unredeemed mother complex that experiences every separation as an existential threat. Cancel Culture is the ritual of the devouring mother in the shadow: everything that demands individuation – clear words, objective norms, the God-given order of man and woman, father and mother – is branded “hate” and “violence” and erased. The mama’s boys rush forward, not as protectors of the Good, but as guardians of eternal childhood. They do not defend the holy mother; they defend the breast.

The Real Wolf and the Devouring Mother

The real wolf is not the father who separates so that the child may grow. The true wolf is the Devourer, the devouring mother who draws everything strong, generative, and individual into herself and leaves only soft, dependent souls behind. In this regression, reason is called cold, boundaries are called violence, responsibility is called oppression. The digital world only intensifies the symbiotic bubble and feeds the collective mother complex with endless confirmation. Yet every false outrage is like the cry of the boy in the fable: someday the real wolf will come – the spiritual and societal destruction brought by godlessness and fatherlessness.

The Turning to the Symbolic Father – the Path of Healing

In Christian mysticism and Catholic tradition lies the answer: “Call no one on earth your father, for one is your Father, who is in heaven” (Mt 23:9). The heavenly Father is the source of all true authority, love, and order. In Him the son finds the strength to loosen himself from the maternal embrace without rejecting the mother. Mary remains holy – nurturing and sheltering – yet she is not the final reality. Wholeness lies in the Holy Family: the father who leads, the mother who releases, the child who matures into completeness.

This path demands courage:

Courage for the truth that separates and at the same time heals.
Courage to build healthy families in which mother and father work together as an image of the divine Trinity.
Courage for individuation, for the holy wedding of Animus and Anima, for sacrificial love that unites and fulfills.

Feminism as Rebellion Against the Father

All of feminism, the women’s movement, and the sexual revolution – the so-called emancipation – is not truly for the woman, nor is it merely against the man. In its deepest spiritual root it is against the father. For it is the father who educates the daughter. He is the first man in her life who shows her what true authority, protection, boundary, and honorable love are. Through him the daughter learns to live her own Anima in a healthy way, without falling into the devouring mother or the eternal helpless daughter.

The father leads the daughter out of symbiotic childhood, teaches her discernment, teaches her not to bind herself to false substitute fathers (ideologies, the state, collective feelings). It is precisely this paternal function that feminism systematically attacks and devalues. In place of the father steps the collective mother: the state as provider, ideology as the new breast, “liberation” as an endless right to regression. The daughter is not led to become a mature woman who continues the order of creation in holy marriage with a strong man; instead she remains in a state of eternal adolescence, in which she either despises man or turns him herself into a mama’s boy.

Thus the woman is not liberated but robbed – robbed of the paternal love that could lead her to wholeness. And the man is simultaneously emasculated, because he lacks the daughter whom he may educate in dignity and to whom he may pass on life in a healthy way. Both sexes lose when the father is dethroned.

Hope Amid the Outcry

The outrage may be great, the “Wolf! Wolf!” may rage. Yet the grace of the Father is greater. The mother’s breast was necessary for the beginning, but now the time has come to rise and walk toward the heavenly Father. Whoever dares this step will not be orphaned but made whole. He will become the man who begets, protects, and leads; the woman who longs for strong, paternal love; the family that once more becomes the sacred place of beauty, goodness, and truth.

May the heavenly Father grant us all the grace of this turning. May He lead us out of the Eunuch Age – toward the rediscovery of the Divine, toward the beauty of the created order, and toward completeness in Him.

Let us go forward with courage. The false outcry will fall silent. The voice of the Father remains forever.