Jusnaturalist (@jusnaturalist)

Natural law and feminism By definition, feminism is the doctrine that promotes equal rights for men and women. In essence, this statement is already opposed to what nature shows us. Men and women are similar in many ways, but fundamentally different in others. In their similar aspects, it is consistent that they should enjoy the same rights. But when they are different, it makes sense that they should enjoy different rights. For example, women have the same rights as men to food, clothing, health care, protection, housing, the right to decide their own destiny, to choose their representatives, to choose their relationships, etc. Compared with certain ancient traditions that reduced women to objects, natural law therefore seems very feminist. However, the differences between men and women are significant: men are physically twice as strong as women, they have a more enterprising side, a natural dominance, they are better able to focus on a single task, they are more rational and less sentimental. Conversely, women have a natural beauty that men don't have, they give pride of place to feelings, they prefer to reconcile rather than direct, they are more capable than men of managing several tasks at the same time, because of their ability to give birth, they are more interested in family life, because of their ability to breast-feed, they also have a greater need to look after children, to feed their family, to have a welcoming place to live. When feminism dictates that only a woman can represent a woman, it violates women's natural right to choose their representatives. A man's specific characteristics mean that he is often the most qualified to defend a woman's interests. For example, if a woman is attacked, it's better for her to have a man of normal standing by her side, than to rely on his own strength or the strength of another woman, even if she's a feminist activist. Equal representation is therefore contrary to natural law, and not even in women's interests. The same goes for equal pay: if companies decide to pay men better wages, it's strictly the natural right of the company owners to dispose of their money. All the more so as a woman's sentimental side makes her more unpredictable than a man, and this unpredictability has a cost for the employer, which means that a woman will never be the exact equivalent of a man for the same job. It is therefore unnatural to try to force total equality between men and women, and in the end this only results in violating the natural rights of men and women and creating divisions between them, instead of simply noting that nature has made them complementary.