Feminists Tout “Reimagined” Genders – There Are Now Five

[Reprinted from American family association Journal, October 1995]

                                                                                                                                                    Vol. IX, No. 4, April 1996

If you have had a hard time in the past understanding their rhetoric, find a soft place to land before you tackle this insight from the radical feminists.

Included in discussions at the Fourth world Conference on Women held recently in Beijing – and emerging in “diversity” issues in many areas – is the notion that there are more than two genders, five to be exact.

Depending on which radical feminist is preaching, the five “reimagined” genders are, in addition to male and female, hermaphrodites (those who have both sets of reproductive organs), merms – or male pseudo-hermaphrodites – and ferms – or female pseudo-hermaphrodites. Other feminists teach that the five genders are male, female, homosexual, bisexual, and transsexual.

“My working assumption in this course is that gender is already imaginary in the first place, meaning it’s a construction – a fiction that we all live and work with in our daily lives,” said Loma Smedman, an adjunct instructor at City University of New York’s Hunter College. Smedman teaches an English course called “Reimagining Gender.”

“This idea of ‘reimagining’ is cropping up all sorts of places,” says Diane Knippers, president of the Institute for Religion and Democracy. “It plays into a controversy that has ripped through many U. S. churches called the ‘reimagining movement.’ It’s a radical agenda in which the movement is reimagining theology, God, the church. These radical feminists worship Sophia, the Greek word for wisdom, and argue that wisdom is an attribute of God, but the liturgy is designed to exalt women’s anatomy and some of it is pretty erotic.”

Reimagining proponents also want to reimagine sexual relations as something to be expressed with friends, a way to show friendship, Knippers said. The emphasis is on pleasure.

[Editor’s Note: Feminists not only want to reimagine genders, but also reimagine God Himself. (Oops! Herself???). As noted in the next to the last paragraph above, they reject what the Bible says and are attempting to replace Christianity with paganism, though for public relations reasons they may retain some Christian vocabulary. We are instructed to be innocent as doves and wise as serpents. However, innocence does not equate with gullibility, and wisdom requires discernment. Any assault on biblical standards is a rejection of God Himself, for He wrote the Book. And we see the tendrils of hedonism slithering into Southern Baptist churches. The acceptance of casual divorce, abortion, female deacons, female pastors ... are symptoms of a serious underlying infection that calls for biblical, loving, prayerful but firm and consistent application of biblical standards and discipline.  (This is NOT to imply that men are without fault, but only to address the subject of the article reprinted above.  Men, your turn will come another time.) TCP]