The bear or the man: Feminism is destroying women.

Feminism is destroying women.

Not women as in *females.* Women as in the idea of womanhood. The role. The purpose. The meaning. All of it. Smashed to hell by a movement that was supposed to help.

And yeah, before someone starts frothing at the mouth, I’m not talking about voting rights, or the "don’t hit your wife" laws or the basic radical notion that women are people too. That’s just baseline decency. I'm talking about the modern mutation; The Instagram TED Talk version of feminism that replaced hard-won equality with a sugar-coated cocktail of narcissism, victimhood, and corporate branding.

This thing that used to say "women are just as capable as men" has morphed into "women shouldn't need anyone, ever, for anything." Independence cranked up so far it snapped the dial. Relationships? That's oppression. Motherhood? That's weakness. Femininity? A betrayal.

It’s like if you aren’t a total boss bitch CEO making six figures, freezing your eggs, and ghosting every guy who texts you, you're failing at womanhood. And if you do want a husband and kids and a quiet life? Well... Congrats, you’re now a handmaid cosplaying 1953.

And then there’s the latest level of insanity… where women are proudly posting that they’d rather run into a grizzly bear in the woods than a man on the sidewalk. Like that’s some kind of feminist mic drop.

Think about how far we’ve drifted for that to sound empowering. We’ve raised a generation of women to believe men are so dangerous, so useless, so irredeemably awful that their best option in a survival scenario is the apex predator of North America. The one animal wildlife experts literally tell you to play dead for because fighting back will get you eaten.

And people clap. Like that’s normal. What the hell happened?

Somewhere along the way, feminism stopped being about balance and started being about resentment. Not "we want a seat at the table" but "burn the damn table down." Cool. Problem is, turns out most women don’t actually want to sit on ashes.

The movement of the few is affecting the many, and they many? They're tired. Lonely. Medicated. Working jobs they hate for companies that don't care, while being told that "career = fulfillment" and "love = weakness." They were promised empowerment. They got anxiety and SSRIs.

Here's the thing; Corporations LOVE it. Keep you single, keep you working, keep you buying products to fill the hole in your soul. Swipe, spend, scroll, repeat. It’s not liberation. It’s just better marketing.

And don’t even get me started on how feminism talks about men now. Or doesn’t. Unless it’s to say how awful we are. That whole "toxic masculinity" thing? Guess what... masculinity isn’t toxic. Lack of it is. Men bailing on commitment, ghosting their kids, sitting in basements playing video games until they rot? That’s not too much masculinity. That’s a society that told them they're worthless and disposable and then acted surprised when they stopped showing up.

But this was never supposed to be a man vs woman thing. That’s the biggest con of all. Convince men and women to hate each other, so nobody notices the institutions draining the life out of both.

Feminism *used to* be a response to real injustice. It used to be about the radical notion that "women are people too." Now it’s a cudgel. Now it's a a brand. Now it's a lifestyle influencer on social media with a chip on her shoulder. And women are suffering for it. Not because they’re not strong enough. But because they were sold a lie and told it was gospel.

You want to really empower women? Tell them the truth. That they can be soft and strong. Fierce and feminine. Nurturing and ambitious. That you don’t have to reject everything natural to be free.

Womanhood doesn’t need a rebrand. It needs a rescue.

And maybe, just maybe, we stop celebrating when women say they’d rather face down a grizzly than trust a man. Because here’s the radical, dangerous, canceled truth: it’s okay to choose the man over the bear.

In fact, it might just save us all.