The Cultural Playbook Targeting Your Daughter—and How to Counter It
Here’s how certain ideologies aim to influence your young daughter and how to respond with grace and truth.
Their Playbook:
Highlight Life’s Hardships: Emphasize that life is unfair and full of pain.
Point to a Single Cause: Claim all suffering stems from one source—men.
Create a Divisive Identity: Frame fighting men as a noble cause, i.e, feminism.
Perpetuate the Cycle: Enlist them in the army to take the next generation of women through steps 1-3.
The Solution: A Gospel-Centered Response
The antidote to harmful ideology is always biblical theology.
Here’s how to disarm this narrative:
Acknowledge Life’s Brokenness: Life is hard because of the Fall, where both men and women share responsibility for humanity’s brokenness. We all contribute to the mess, and we all need redemption.
Address the True Cause: Pain and injustice flow from the sin in every human heart, not from one group. Instead of blaming others, we repent of our own sin and trust in Christ’s forgiveness, which frees us from guilt and division.
Embrace a Redemptive Identity: Make sharing the Gospel your daughter’s mission. The good news of Jesus transforms lives and offers true hope for a hurting world.
Raise Disciple-Makers: Equip your daughter to become a spiritual leader who invests in others. By making disciples, she can bring healing and hope to future generations.
Choose Truth Over Division: Let’s guide our daughters to live out the Gospel, fostering unity and restoration instead of deepening the gender divide.
If your daughter isn’t saturated in these truths by the time she becomes a teenager, it may be too late.