The NXR Podcast - American Glory - The Demonic Roots of Feminism

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00:00:24.760 Welcome to American Glory. This is Season 3 on The American Family.

00:00:29.160 I'm your host, Dale Partridge. This is episode three of season three, and it's titled

00:00:33.600 The Demonic Roots of Feminism. And I've been saying this for most of this season,

00:00:40.040 you cannot repair America without repairing the American family. So in episode one,

00:00:45.520 I discussed singleness and the necessity of Christian marriage. In episode two,

00:00:50.180 we looked at the patriarchy and why it's required to restore order, especially among young women.

00:00:56.900 But today, we discuss the cancer in our country, which is feminism. Feminism is quite possibly

00:01:04.020 the devil's most effective and insidious tool of civilizational destruction. Now, 1.00

00:01:10.300 the timing of this episode worked out perfectly. So today's content is basically the notes from

00:01:16.460 my chapter on the history of feminism in my forthcoming book, 19 Reasons to Repeal the

00:01:22.580 19th Amendment. It's going to be published in November of 2026. Now, I'm going to be working

00:01:27.760 extremely hard on this book to organize a concise argument against female voting, but you can't talk

00:01:35.200 about suffrage without first talking about the history of first-wave feminism. So you can pick

00:01:42.340 up a copy of 19 Reasons. You can actually pre-order it now at the NXR website. Now, if you didn't know,

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00:02:10.680 YouTube channel or at my personal YouTube channel at Dale Partridge TV. On that note, let's begin.

00:02:19.260 Now, you can tell a great deal about a movement by looking at its roots.

00:02:23.500 For Christianity, we look to Christ.

00:02:25.740 For feminism, we look to the devil.

00:02:28.200 Now, that might sound intense, but I believe this episode will help you understand what I mean.

00:02:32.640 In fact, one of the easiest ways to keep people from understanding a movement is to hide or to sanitize or reinterpret its roots.

00:02:40.280 and as you may know, feminism is usually presented as though it kind of sprang from

00:02:45.120 noble Christian women asking for fairness in an unjust world. See, but political movements

00:02:51.440 that stray from all of historical order and history are rarely that simple. Founders matter,

00:02:58.600 the beliefs they hold matter, alliances matter, motives and money and spiritual commitments

00:03:03.640 matter because roots eventually bear fruit. Seeds result in a harvest. And the harvest we

00:03:11.660 have today, the sexual chaos, the crumbling of marriage and birth rates, the feminization of 0.99

00:03:16.840 our institutions and government, the 75 million dead babies are all the direct result of first 1.00

00:03:23.620 wave feminism. Now, the ultimate root is not first wave feminism. In the 1800s, that was simply the 0.97

00:03:33.260 moment when society began permitting the curse of woman to express itself publicly in ways that 0.99

00:03:39.140 earlier generations had successfully restrained. Now, feminism reaches back to the curse in Genesis 0.99

00:03:47.020 3.16, where God says, quote, I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing. In pain, 1.00

00:03:54.000 you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband and he shall rule over you. 0.91

00:04:01.120 Now, this verse requires some pastoral context.

00:04:05.260 Most of what I offered last week would help, but I'll just offer a brief recap.

00:04:10.940 In Genesis, God creates man and woman, and it's in a perfect world before sin and death.

00:04:16.000 And yet, even in that unfallen world, there is already an order, which was patriarchy.

00:04:23.320 Again, last week, I offered a full defense of that claim.

00:04:25.760 I give you the five different examples of where you can see patriarchy before the fall.

00:04:31.680 Now, but what we do know is that God's design for the family was patriarchy because the serpent

00:04:39.560 inverts that order by the use of matriarchy. Okay. And what I mean by that is instead of,

00:04:46.460 instead of, um, God speaking to Adam and then Adam speaking faithfully and leading Eve,

00:04:52.960 The serpent speaks to Eve, and then Eve acts without Adam, and then Adam follows his wife

00:05:00.840 into sin. So the helper becomes autonomous. The head goes silent. This is the inverse order of

00:05:09.680 God's design, and that is ancient feminism. Now, the phrase in Genesis 3.16 to the woman, 0.69

00:05:16.840 quote, your desire shall be for your husband and he shall rule over you, is often read as though

00:05:23.560 male headship were some like introduced curse as a part of the fall. And that is that, you know,

00:05:30.840 it's almost like Eve, you sinned and now you must submit as a result of your sin. But again,

00:05:36.500 that misunderstands the passage and by the way, the rest of the Bible. So again, as I demonstrated

00:05:41.760 last week, headship already existed before the fall. What changes after the fall is not the

00:05:48.860 existence of male authority, but the sinful struggle surrounding it. So just for a moment,

00:05:56.280 okay, let's just talk about this phrase, your desire shall be for your husband. I think it's

00:06:01.620 important you understand this. This is, again, not talking about some romantic desire. It's

00:06:07.440 describing a disordered impulse in the woman toward control or rivalry or dominion over him.

00:06:17.440 Now, it actually talks about this in the next chapter. In chapter four, it says that sin

00:06:27.000 is crouching at the door, God speaking to Cain, and its desire is for you. It's to pounce and

00:06:33.920 to take dominion over you. Now, again, some people will say that this curse to Eve is limited just to

00:06:41.460 her, but I think that's foolish. I think it's also inconsistent with the interpretation because

00:06:46.180 the preceding judgment, which is pain and childbearing, is clearly directed towards all

00:06:51.880 women, not merely to just Eve as like an isolated individual. So there's no obvious reason to treat

00:06:58.260 one part of the judgment as limited to Eve while the second part is clearly universal. Now, I want

00:07:05.420 you to notice that both judgments carry a degree of poetic justice, and you're going to see this

00:07:11.400 theme in this episode today. So Eve stepped outside of the order that she was given, and now

00:07:18.180 disorder will be her struggle. Now, Adam refused to take responsibility for his wife. Now he must

00:07:25.880 lead in a world where leadership is constantly contested. So when a woman shows this impulse 1.00

00:07:33.840 that we now describe as feministic, basically the instinct to resist male authority,

00:07:39.880 don't imagine that this began with Wollstonecraft or Seneca Falls or Susan B. Anthony. This is a

00:07:47.640 much older problem. Now, when it comes to what we know as feminism today, the movement is 1.00

00:07:55.500 structured in waves, okay? The first wave was the mid-19th century, 1800s, all the way up through 0.97

00:08:04.680 the 19th Amendment in 1920. The second wave was the sexual revolution of the 1960s all the way

00:08:11.980 through the mid-1980s. The third wave was the 1990s through basically today and is centered on

00:08:20.640 the institutionalization of the rebellions of the first two waves. Now, some conservatives and even

00:08:29.200 some Christians have believed that the first wave feminism was essentially good, and later waves

00:08:38.400 were the real corruption. But again, you're going to see today that is flat out wrong.

00:08:43.580 And my hope in this episode is to demonstrate that from the beginning, feminism was built on

00:08:51.120 anti-Christian views of sex, anti-Christian views of marriage and family and authority 0.94

00:08:56.580 and social order. And it was steeped in the occult, heterodox religions, lesbianism,

00:09:05.060 seances and witchcraft basically the rot was in the root and later waves just expanded and

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00:11:26.700 begins with Mary Wollstonecraft. Now, she's widely regarded as the mother of modern feminism. Now,

00:11:35.440 she was born in London, 1759, and she became internationally known for her 1792 treatise,

00:11:42.680 A Vindication of the Rights of Women, which was one of the foundational books of this early

00:11:51.200 feminist movement. Now, what kind of mother is she? This is a very important question. If she's 1.00

00:11:57.340 the mother of the feminist movement, what kind of mother was she? Well, she was the kind of woman 1.00

00:12:04.160 who fell in love with a married man, Henry Fuseli, and then asked his wife, Sophia, to let her into

00:12:12.500 their bed and live as a menage a trois. And Sophia refused. She then moved in with a man named

00:12:19.920 Gilbert Imlay. Without marrying him, of course, that was her doctrine and practice, right? Christian

00:12:25.120 marriage was beneath her and a marriage vow was basically viewed as a chain that she didn't want. 0.82

00:12:30.900 And she lived with Gilbert as basically a faux wife and became pregnant with a daughter that

00:12:36.480 they named Fanny. When their arrangement failed, she was left with the fruit of her own experiment

00:12:44.220 and also this illegitimate daughter with no husband. Now, in the loss of Gilbert, as he ran

00:12:50.760 off, Mary tried twice to commit suicide, once by overdosing on opium and the other on an attempt

00:12:58.720 at drowning. Now, later, she lived with a man named William Godwin, and again, unmarried until

00:13:05.020 the scandal of another pregnancy made a ceremony more convenient, and that child was named Mary

00:13:11.580 Shelley. However, Ms. Wollstonecraft died after her daughter's delivery in 1797, which to me,

00:13:20.960 there's kind of a grim symmetry in that story. So she spends 38 years teaching women to unmake 1.00

00:13:28.040 the household and making the household, having a daughter, unmakes her, right? Again, God is a God 0.99

00:13:38.440 of poetic justice. You see this all throughout Genesis, even through the Old Testament and some

00:13:43.940 even in Revelation. But again, God is a God of poetic justice, and he often answers a war against

00:13:52.340 the family with the family itself. You ruin the house, and the house will ruin you. But her

00:13:59.080 feminist philosophy continued to bear tragedies even after her death. So on the 9th of October,

00:14:07.120 1816, at the age of 22, Fanny, which is Mary's first daughter, killed herself at the inn at

00:14:14.320 Swansea. Now, the note that she left said, quote, my birth was unfortunate and that her life

00:14:23.080 essentially had caused pain. She basically asked to be forgotten. Her second daughter, Mary Shelley,

00:14:30.540 ran off at the age of 16 with another married man. He was a poet named Percy Bish. And his wife,

00:14:39.900 Harriet, was driven by that sorrow and later drowned herself. And then Mary and Percy got

00:14:47.280 married shortly after. So at the age of 19, Mary Shelley wrote the famous horror novel,

00:14:54.800 Frankenstein. Now, this is wild for me to find out because I believe that her novel

00:15:00.240 was a reflection of her own tragic life. See, most of her children died young. In 1822,

00:15:08.340 Percy died the same way his wife committed suicide, another form of poetic justice.

00:15:14.900 And Mary spent basically the rest of her life as a widow, and she was a motherless writer

00:15:21.940 of a creature with no proper parent. Again, more poetic justice. So Mary's first daughter 0.88

00:15:29.980 named her birth a curse and murdered herself. Her second daughter wrote the curse into literature.

00:15:38.740 And so the mother of the feminist movement became, in a symbolic sense, the creator of her own 0.77

00:15:46.100 Frankensteins, right? A rebellion that eventually devoured the very household from which it came. 1.00

00:15:53.060 Now, you have a woman here essentially who preached liberation from Christian marriage. 0.77

00:15:59.980 She lived the consequences of that creed and left behind what? 0.92

00:16:05.460 Well, two daughters marked by abandonment, scandal, suicide, widowhood, and death.

00:16:12.100 And so the movement that calls her mother has now inherited her curse and, like her 0.58

00:16:19.000 own household, has been destroying households ever since.

00:16:23.000 Now, Mary Wollstonecraft was the mother of feminist philosophy in England, but there were 0.98

00:16:31.920 five additional women who were influential in organizing and advancing the first wave of

00:16:37.700 feminism in America. Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Jocelyn

00:16:46.200 Gage and Victoria Woodhull. You cannot really understand feminism without understanding these

00:16:53.820 women's stories. Now, you also can't understand feminism without making the connection to the 0.57

00:17:01.800 rise of individualism. See, feminism did not appear in a vacuum, right? It emerged from a 0.80

00:17:08.040 broader cultural shift that increasingly placed the autonomous individual above inherited authority

00:17:15.320 or covenant or hierarchy or national obligations. So any society that progressively weakens those

00:17:22.260 types of structures will eventually produce a thousand different expressions of autonomy.

00:17:28.200 G.K. Chesterton once observed, quote, to have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to

00:17:36.120 be right in doing it, end quote. And that's a key distinction. Once individual rights are detached

00:17:43.440 from duty or virtue or rightful authority, the individual becomes the basic unit of society.

00:17:51.120 It's what we're living through right now. And once that happens, every inherited relationship

00:17:56.680 begins to look negotiable, right? So king and subject, get rid of the distinctions.

00:18:02.380 Pastor and congregation, we don't need those distinctions. Husband and wife, parent and child,

00:18:08.120 even male and female. So under individualism, all of these distinctions mean nothing.

00:18:15.460 And that is very much what we have seen. And this was the very start of that movement here in the

00:18:21.220 1800s. Now, over several centuries, the West was moving further in that direction toward

00:18:28.320 individualism, right? We had the, you know, the Renaissance elevated the individual mind and

00:18:32.960 achievements. The Enlightenment pushed kind of this logic further by making reason and liberty

00:18:39.380 and individual rights, you know, like kind of center political categories. We even see that

00:18:44.800 in the Declaration of Independence. The American Revolution, we saw, rejected the monarchy.

00:18:50.680 The established kind of Anglican order of the English world gave way to this competitive

00:18:57.860 religious landscape of multiple denominations. The Industrial Revolution pulled production out

00:19:06.720 of the household and reorganized kind of this economic life around the individual career

00:19:11.320 rather than multi-generational families or multi-generational family businesses. So

00:19:17.180 none of those developments by themselves created feminism, but together they helped create a 0.65

00:19:22.920 culture that was suspicious of inherited authority and increasingly comfortable with the language of

00:19:29.680 personal autonomy and rebellion. And that was the soil in which these women were born and which this 0.99

00:19:36.420 movement was able to spring forth. So the feminist impulse toward insubordination, again, did not 1.00

00:19:44.880 appear just out of thin air. Feminism was the female manifestation of a broader rebellion 1.00

00:19:54.120 against order and this push towards individualism that was already brewing in the West for some 0.93

00:20:00.360 time. All right, next we have Lucretia Mott. Her middle name is actually Coffin, C-O-F-F-I-N, 1.00

00:20:09.660 right? So wild. She was born in 1793. She was a Quaker, but Quakerism already stood outside of 0.93

00:20:18.720 the historic church order. It rejected the Anglican, the Roman, the Orthodox clergy. It

00:20:24.580 preached this heresy of inner light and it put women in the pulpit. So Mott became a minister 0.94

00:20:31.440 in that sect and she followed the even greater schismatic heretic, Elias Hicks. In 1827,

00:20:38.860 there was a Quaker split, and this guy put basically private illumination over all the

00:20:45.120 historic creeds. Again, this kind of individualism. And she said that the biblical doctrines of

00:20:51.840 depravity, the vicarious atonement of Christ, she said that those things did, quote, so much harm

00:20:58.580 that they should be viewed as a mistaken and paralyzing dogma, end quote. So Christians, 0.74

00:21:06.100 by God's grace, treated her as a heretic. English Quakers in the 1840s at the World 0.94

00:21:14.360 Anti-Slavery Convention, they wouldn't even recognize her or her husband in their denomination. 1.00

00:21:18.980 So they were very much outside of this world. Philadelphia ministers were shutting meetings

00:21:24.920 against her. Pastors were telling her not to speak and preach. Elders rebuked her for both

00:21:30.140 preaching and for taking her messages to these Unitarian churches. So Mott was in subordination

00:21:38.160 with a Quaker bonnet on her head. Okay. In her book, Discourse on Woman, she taught that male 0.98

00:21:46.020 scholars and translators had perverted the Bible, that patriarchy was basically a false doctrine 0.93

00:21:52.820 and that the church's 2000 year ordering of the sexes was the entire engine of female oppression. 0.78

00:22:00.140 Now, in 1840, Mott met Elizabeth Cady Stanton in London at the World Anti-Slavery Convention.

00:22:08.440 Now, her husband, Henry Stanton, was a seated delegate, and Mott had basically been sent by

00:22:16.220 another group, the Female Anti-Slavery Society, and was put in the gallery with all of these

00:22:21.660 other women. So they were there, and they were meeting, and they were both furious that women

00:22:27.840 were not permitted equal delegate status as women or as men. And so, uh, that was the founding of

00:22:33.780 their friendship to women that were basically bonding over being refused a man's position.

00:22:40.280 Now, eight years later in July, 1848, Mott was visiting her sister, Martha Wright in Western

00:22:48.920 New York's, uh, what they called the burned over district, which is basically a region saturated

00:22:55.820 with this like spiritual revivalism, religious experimentation, abolitionism, communism,

00:23:02.280 earlier forms of like the new age movements. And a few months earlier, the famous Hydesdale

00:23:07.660 wrappings had begun nearby, which were basically a series of like, I don't know, mysterious like

00:23:13.820 table knocking, tapping noises heard all around certain homes in 1848, specifically at a farmhouse

00:23:23.580 in Hydesville, New York. Now, this kind of helped launch this modern spiritualist movement in this

00:23:30.000 region, which soon developed into kind of other things like seances and satanic stuff and mediums

00:23:36.840 and spirit communication and psychics and clairvoyance and occult practices, all this stuff.

00:23:42.900 Now, at Jane Hunt's home, it's about 20 miles away from this Hydesville situation, Mott and Wright

00:23:50.380 and Stanton and Mary Ann McClintock, they organized what became known as the Seneca Falls

00:23:57.840 Convention. Now, Stanton took Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, and she basically

00:24:04.740 reframed the structure to go against the entire American Christian order. It's not aiming at the 0.86

00:24:10.500 crown this time, right? This time, she's aiming at the husband, the law, the church, right? So, 0.52

00:24:16.220 the rebellions in this document were not small. The declaration claimed that man had sinfully

00:24:23.900 denied woman the vote, that he had wrongfully made the wife one flesh with her husband,

00:24:30.180 that he had robbed her of property and wages, that he dared to name himself the head of the house,

00:24:36.820 that he locked up the pulpit against her. It was basically a full-blown feminist revolt against 1.00

00:24:42.020 the biblical and Christian order of Western civilization. Now, so this declaration was 0.88

00:24:48.820 basically a declaration of independence from father and husband and magistrate and minister.

00:24:55.900 And this was kind of par for the course for Stanton's life. She lived this type of revolt,

00:25:02.780 even in her own home. She married Henry after a short courtship, but she actually had the word 0.97

00:25:10.220 obey taken out of her own wedding vows, which should have been enough warning for Henry to

00:25:16.360 just leave the altar right there. But he was gone for politics often, right? It makes me think the

00:25:23.340 kind of Proverbs nagging wife, you just kind of, it's better to be away than to be in the presence 0.97

00:25:28.180 of a nagging wife. And so resentment filled their house. And she later said that she would pace

00:25:35.320 around the rooms like a caged lioness. And she called her marriage a form of slavery and pushed 1.00

00:25:42.220 actually at this point for early forms of no fault divorce. She did birth seven children,

00:25:47.840 but they were quickly outsourced to various servants while she toured around the country

00:25:54.460 and wrote against men. Now in 1895, she began doing the devil's work. And with a committee of

00:26:00.820 26 other women, they wrote what was called the Women's Bible or the Woman's Bible. And it was

00:26:08.680 a revision of scripture to challenge the biblical doctrines of female submission. So it treated 0.99

00:26:14.420 Genesis and Paul as male satanic tools to degrade women, right? In the book, Stanton denied that any

00:26:22.040 man had ever saw or talked with God. She denied that God inspired the Mosaic teachings on women.

00:26:30.900 She said that every religion on earth basically degrades women, and it all stemmed from this

00:26:35.960 false biblical account of Moses' work and Paul's words. And so the fall of man in the garden and

00:26:43.860 her telling was not history, but a way for man to blame woman for sin and death, then sentence her

00:26:51.360 to basically a marriage, or sentence her to a punishment of marriage and maternity. And she

00:26:56.980 wanted scripture and prayer books and all the ecclesiastical documents purged of sexual

00:27:05.580 pronouns, right? So she wanted to bring this to this androgynous church state. Now, Anglican and 1.00

00:27:13.820 Presbyterian ministers called this book that she wrote Satan's work. And ultimately, she responded

00:27:22.400 to the authority of scripture in the same way that the serpent in Genesis did, which is

00:27:26.940 did God really say that? And here's why it's so evil. She called women to place their own

00:27:35.060 judgment over the text of scripture and basically to decide for themselves which passages were

00:27:41.080 truly authoritative and which could be dismissed. And the passages that were discarded were those

00:27:47.080 that commanded what? Well, female submission, the ones that upheld male headship, the ones that 0.62

00:27:52.140 placed limits on any sort of, you know, female authority. And so the question I would have is

00:27:57.220 basically this, if we can't trust Genesis or Paul on women, like why should we trust those books on

00:28:03.840 creation or the flood or the gospel? I mean, Paul writes basically the magnum opus of the New

00:28:10.020 Testament on the exposition of the gospel. If we can't trust Paul in these areas, why should we

00:28:14.200 trust him in Romans 13 when we define love? So basically Stanton did not keep the revolt in her

00:28:22.120 own house either. She wrote it into a false Bible, and then she tried to drag millions of

00:28:30.840 women to hell with her. And I mean that quite literally, okay? Seneca Falls, it was a satanic 0.99

00:28:37.360 movement. In fact, Stanton admitted that she sat at seances. She documented that the committee

00:28:44.700 around her women's Bible included theosophists, women interested in witchcraft, such as Ursula

00:28:50.400 Gestefeld and Matilda Joslyn Gage. In fact, the kind of wooden McClintock table on which the

00:29:00.680 Declaration of Sentiments were written, that table was later used for seances, right? Stanton

00:29:06.320 even said that he heard kind of the same ghost knocking from the Hydesville farmhouse around her

00:29:13.980 own home. And so even today, that table, it's actually at the Smithsonian. It's treated as

00:29:19.580 some sort of like, I don't know, suffrage relic or occult. Actually, other people claim it as an

00:29:26.080 occult table. And so all of this is very interesting, dark stuff. And then we have

00:29:33.080 the introduction of Susan B. Anthony, who wanted the spirits to make her some sort of trance

00:29:40.660 speaker for the female cause. She actually wrote Stanton in 1855 and said that she had, quote,

00:29:46.820 prayed to be made a speaking medium for the female cause. In fact, Stanton, Anthony, and Gage

00:29:55.800 later put it in print, quote, the only religious sect in the world that has recognized the equality

00:30:03.240 of woman is the spiritualists, end quote. Now, the spiritualists were basically New Agers

00:30:09.580 dabbling in different forms of heterodox religion and witchcraft and different random weird stuff. 1.00

00:30:16.700 And so these first wave feminists mocked the church for believing Moses and Paul, but then 1.00

00:30:23.080 went and engaged with mediums who practiced divination and necromancy. So very strange

00:30:30.860 story. Now, Susan B. Anthony, the woman your public school textbooks treated as a saint and

00:30:37.380 was later put on American money and stamps and all across museums, wasn't any quieter or saintly

00:30:45.520 than Stanton or any of these previous women. Now, she was a woman. She never married. She

00:30:52.540 never bore any children. Newspapers called her, quote, unsexed, androgynous, and grim,

00:31:00.960 end quote. And she was basically a heretic by every standard. By the end of her life, 0.81

00:31:08.440 She was agnostic at best, and she rejoiced to see the biblical Christianity basically crumble. 0.90

00:31:17.260 In 1872, she broke the law by voting in an election. She refused to pay the fine. 0.80

00:31:23.300 Her deepest attachments were not to a husband, of course, not to even men, but to other women. 0.77

00:31:28.960 And so almost everybody agrees that she was a closeted lesbian. She wrote to Anna Dickinson

00:31:35.640 and asked her to come into her bed at night. She made erotic statements regarding Emily Gross,

00:31:41.560 calling Emily her, quote, her new lover. Stead Mays, I actually looked this up recently. Stead

00:31:47.120 Mays from the Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage said of Susan B. Anthony, quote, Anthony talked

00:31:53.080 in interviews about not wanting to be trapped in a male-dominated relationship. But the real reason

00:31:59.220 she never had a serious relationship with a man was that her passions were directed toward other

00:32:05.200 women. For example, her writings make it quite clear that in the 1860s, Anthony became enamored

00:32:12.260 of abolitionist orator Anna Dickinson, who was undoubtedly a lesbian, end quote.

00:32:18.720 So next on this scene, you have, you know, you have Mott, you have Stanton, you have Anthony.

00:32:26.280 Now next on the scene was a woman who made the rebellion even more explicit, right? So 1852,

00:32:33.620 Matilda Joslyn Gage. She joined Stanton and Anthony as kind of the more radical of the three.

00:32:41.360 And in 1869, she helped found the National Woman Suffrage Association. And she was an early

00:32:49.240 abolitionist. She was an early abortionist. She was pro-abortion and was openly hostile to 1.00

00:32:59.920 Christianity and praised like the pagan American Indian social order. And here's why. In many of 0.91

00:33:06.820 these Indian tribes that were still remaining in America at this time, descent followed the woman,

00:33:11.720 right? They were matrilineal. And tribal life basically ran through what is called the long 0.96

00:33:18.520 house. And the clan mother of these long houses, they were basically the heads of the household

00:33:25.220 and they had this kind of matriarchal authority. And so they were thoroughly feministic in their 1.00

00:33:31.700 social structure, but they were also cannibals in their warfare. They were sexual degenerates 1.00

00:33:37.100 and they were demon worshipers. But Gaged loved their culture because those tribes were modeling 1.00

00:33:43.240 her antichrist ideals and her feminist desires, right? So Gaged argued in her work, she had 0.68

00:33:52.240 a written work called Woman, Church, and the State. Basically that the church had been the 1.00

00:34:00.500 woman's great historic oppressor. And so she treated the witch as some healer and resistor 0.86

00:34:07.900 of evil and the church as some kind of author of like femicide. Like the church was the author of 0.71

00:34:16.220 all things that oppressed women. Now, in March 1885, she joined the Theosophical Society in

00:34:23.460 Rochester, which was co-founded by Helena Blavatsky, I think it's Blavatsky, who was a

00:34:31.460 major objector to the Salem witch trials of the previous generations. Now, Gage, she called

00:34:38.360 theosophy, which is, again, just weird, spiritualist, heterodox religion-type stuff.

00:34:43.460 she called theosophy the crown blessing of her life and pushed that teaching on her children,

00:34:50.280 which was a system that made women the supreme spiritual authority and basically a gateway to 0.73

00:34:57.000 witchcraft. And that matters because her daughter, Maude Gage, married L. Frank Baum, who through

00:35:05.800 his mother-in-law's influence also joined the Theosophical Society himself. And that's very

00:35:15.760 important because this is the man who later wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Now, if you remember,

00:35:23.200 Baum put a beautiful witch in his novel and called her good. Now, that is not a small edit

00:35:32.660 to Western literature. For nearly 2,000 years, Christendom had taught children that a witch

00:35:39.660 was an enemy of God. And all of the stories made her ugly and evil and the wicked, you know, 0.54

00:35:47.040 so that the child would not want to go near witches. But Gage recasts the woman, this woman

00:35:54.480 that should be burned at the stake, as a sage and a martyr, right? And Baum gave the witch of his 0.98

00:36:01.440 mother-in-law's imagination, if you've seen the movie or read the books, gave her a crown and a 0.64

00:36:09.420 smile and a pink dress, and then sent her into the nurseries of the English-speaking world.

00:36:17.140 So millions of children learned to adore the woman their Bibles told them to flee. 0.91

00:36:24.940 Now, the wicked witch and his story still got the green skin and the Jewish nose, 0.68

00:36:30.760 but the trick was not to glorify all witches, but to question the claim that all witchcraft

00:36:39.780 was evil, right?

00:36:40.780 It was an act of sanitizing sin.

00:36:43.480 In fact, many claim that bombs Glinda, that's the good witch, not the wicked witch of the 0.99

00:36:50.680 West. But Glinda is Matilda in literary form. And so while history tries to portray her as

00:37:00.940 some noble key feature of first wave feminism, oh, Matilda Jocelyn Gage, she's this great person. 0.68

00:37:07.640 She was really an evangelist for modern witchcraft. So Mott denied the cross in a bonnet. 0.73

00:37:16.620 Stanton denied it in print. Anthony was a closeted lesbian, and Gage taught a nation 0.92

00:37:26.380 that the witch could be good. Now, this brought us to basically January 1871. Now, this is 0.93

00:37:36.540 the National Woman Suffrage Association that they formed earlier was preparing to open its annual

00:37:44.940 convention in Washington, D.C. So Stanton, Anthony, and Gage, and the other kind of established

00:37:51.820 leaders expected to gather to be at the kind of center of government influence for the suffrage

00:37:59.240 campaign. And then Victoria Woodhull stole the attention. Now, Woodhull had been working kind of 1.00

00:38:06.740 a different route. Rather than rising through the established suffrage organizations, she used her 1.00

00:38:12.700 political connections, especially she had a relationship with Congressman Benjamin Butler 0.83

00:38:16.080 to secure a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee. So on January 18th or January 11th,

00:38:23.780 1871, she became the first woman to address a House committee. Now, her argument was that

00:38:31.160 women did not need to wait for a new constitutional amendment because she claimed the 14th and the 1.00

00:38:38.080 15th amendments had already made them voting citizens. Now the NWSA convention that these 0.99

00:38:45.540 women were set up to have was the same day as the hearing. So the word spread that Woodhull 0.98

00:38:51.800 was about to make this suffrage case inside the Capitol. And so the conventions was basically

00:38:58.460 postponed and Anthony and Isabella Beecher Hooker and Polina Wright Davis and other suffragists,

00:39:04.880 they went out to go hear her speech. Now, Woodhull's performance immediately changed the standing of

00:39:12.180 the movement. Now, until then, she had kind of been an outsider, but she had just done what the

00:39:17.560 established leaders had not. So she carried her cause directly to the Congress. And so the

00:39:22.840 suffrage leaders brought her in and embraced her. And within months, she's like appearing alongside

00:39:27.960 Anthony and Stanton and Gage and everybody else. But who was Victoria Woodhull? Well,

00:39:34.800 she was born in 1838, and she was raised by Reuben Buck Claflin, who was a con man whose

00:39:45.620 family was eventually driven out from multiple different towns. Now, Victoria and her sister,

00:39:51.080 Tennessee, which has a nickname of Tenny, they worked as clairvoyants or psychics or healers

00:39:57.860 and spiritual mediums. Now at 15, Victoria married Canning Woodhull, who he was an alcoholic

00:40:05.240 physician. Now the marriage eventually collapsed, but she kept his name. Now later she married

00:40:11.500 Colonel James Harvey Blood and became an outspoken advocate of fornication through what she called 0.67

00:40:18.980 free love. Now she even claimed the right that she had the right to change who she loved 0.99

00:40:24.720 every single day, if she pleased. And so she was a promiscuous woman. Now her notoriety 1.00

00:40:31.440 became so great that the famous illustrator, Thomas Nast, drew her as Mrs. Satan in his 1872

00:40:41.120 cartoon, Get Thee Behind Me, Mrs. Satan. And so this is just all fascinating, dark stuff.

00:40:49.780 Victoria's paths crossed with the Vanderbilt family, who, as you know, were probably the

00:40:55.840 richest and most powerful dynasty in the United States at that time. Now, Cornelius Vanderbilt

00:40:59.800 became an important financial patron of Victoria because he believed her to be a legitimate

00:41:06.520 fortune teller who also had, so Cornelius also had an affair with Victoria's sister, Tenny,

00:41:15.500 who was also a medium and a psychic. Now in 1870, Vanderbilt helped finance Victoria and Tenney's

00:41:24.200 Wall Street brokerage firm that they started, Woodhull and Claflin and co. And their sudden

00:41:30.760 success attracted a ton of public attention. So the newspapers titled them, quote, the bewitching

00:41:37.620 brokers, which basically was a play on the reputations as mediums and psychics. And they,

00:41:43.520 you know, were thought maybe they are real fortune tellers, right? So they eventually launched

00:41:48.880 a newspaper, Woodhull and Claflin Weekly or something like that, where they promoted a wide

00:41:56.520 range of all these gross immoralities, you know, swinging, sex stories, no-fault divorce, legalized 0.99

00:42:03.340 prostitution, immodesty, and of course, women's suffrage. Now, to this day, she is celebrated among 0.96

00:42:10.020 witches. Uh, when I was researching her, I actually found, uh, there's a podcast called

00:42:15.640 the hidden history of magic podcast, which is a podcast, a podcast for, uh, practicing psychics

00:42:21.680 and mediums and witches. And they recently published a celebrity, um, or sorry, um, a, uh,

00:42:27.540 celebratory episode, uh, claiming that Victoria Woodhull was like one of the greatest women ever

00:42:33.960 to live. And so even to this day, witches recognize this woman as a witch. And so on the 0.91

00:42:40.820 Mount Rushmore of first wave feminism is not some group of mostly noble women. It's a group 1.00

00:42:47.660 of antichrist insubordinates, heretics, spirit seekers, lesbians, witches who denied scripture, 0.98

00:42:54.360 who practice what the church and the law forbid and hated God's order for humanity. 0.92

00:43:00.820 And so we must eliminate this perspective that first wave feminism was good. It only went bad 0.99

00:43:07.720 later. No, no, it was always bad. Okay. The later waves did not invent feminism's kind of greater

00:43:15.300 rebellion against Christian order. They inherited it and they intensified it. And so what's so 1.00

00:43:22.300 wild is not only what each woman taught, but how tightly they locked together. And to me,

00:43:31.300 it reads more like, it's not just networking. It reads more like demonic orchestration.

00:43:40.620 There were only like so many women this rebellious in that generation. And they had 1.00

00:43:47.100 like they had no internet, they had no modern media, yet they all found one another. And they

00:43:52.720 shared the same tables and the same hatreds. And they took the same money from the same pagan 0.90

00:43:58.120 donors. And that doesn't look like a string of accidents to me. I left out so many different

00:44:04.260 details that'll be in the book that you'll be able to see. But it doesn't look like a string

00:44:10.020 of accidents. It looks like a coordinated work of the devil. Now, I think it becomes even more

00:44:14.640 obvious when you see it against the rest of the 19th century. So, you know, Mormonism is born, 0.99

00:44:21.180 Seventh-day Adventism, Jehovah's Witnesses, tent meetings, the aftershocks of the Second Great

00:44:26.480 Awakening, Christian science, theosophy, spiritualism, New Age prophets, and new books,

00:44:31.980 and priesthoods, and individualism, all this stuff was rising at the same time. So the cults were

00:44:37.260 rising, individualism was rising, feminism rose with them. And this is important to understand

00:44:44.660 So demons are not merely like voices in your head or in your bedroom, okay? They are powers

00:44:52.260 that generate rival forms of worship. And they attach themselves to false tables, right? It's

00:45:01.240 not the table of the Lord. It's a different table. False words, not the word of God,

00:45:05.920 but the word of the demonic. You know, false orders, not the order of scripture,

00:45:11.560 but the order of something else. False visions, right? Visions that don't align with scripture,

00:45:16.660 false structures of man and woman. And so when a people loosen their grip on the true 0.56

00:45:24.480 altar, the true structure of Christianity, the historic interpretations, the old gods,

00:45:32.680 they don't just disappear. These demons, right? They change the clothes and they produce a

00:45:38.700 counterfeit church, a new liturgy, a new priesthood, a new scripture, a new law for the body. You need

00:45:45.160 to see that this is not just material. This is spiritual warfare that's happening behind the

00:45:51.620 scenes at a grandiose level. And that is what we're looking at here, right? Stanton's Bible

00:45:59.200 gauges witchcraft, Woodhull's seances and free love pulpit ideas, right? 0.65

00:46:08.140 The McClintock table, right, that held the declaration and kind of the knockings of the

00:46:14.460 dead, right? Watch the table. Like who sits there? Who speaks there? What's blessed there?

00:46:22.220 That is where the war is being fought. It's a spiritual warfare behind the actions of these

00:46:30.000 women. So feminism did not merely ask for the ballot, right? It's built on, it's basically a 1.00

00:46:38.540 rival religion with women as the priest, priestesses, and the household is basically the enemy 0.97

00:46:46.540 to be overthrown. And the sacraments are divorce and abortion and chaos. And so the 19th century 0.98

00:46:55.140 was not merely an age of new ideas.

00:46:58.540 It was an age of rival liturgies and rival authorities.

00:47:02.680 And any generation unwilling to sit under father or husband

00:47:07.800 or pastor or scripture or church is basically,

00:47:13.620 when you're not willing to do that,

00:47:14.940 that's the devil's garden.

00:47:16.300 And he's gonna fertilize that work.

00:47:18.280 So the meetings, the money, the people,

00:47:22.060 they're all gonna come together

00:47:23.560 and they're all going to recognize one another even in the dark because they've been orchestrated

00:47:27.560 together by the demons. And so individualism and the cults and feminism were not three unrelated

00:47:34.160 storms. They moved kind of across the same ground, fed by many of the same rebellions and struck

00:47:39.600 at many of the same authorities. And so the solution is to return to historic Christianity, 0.95

00:47:50.200 to restore patriarchy and repeal the 19th Amendment. In other words, as I have been saying 0.91

00:47:57.740 this season, an American recovery must begin with a recovery of the church,

00:48:05.480 which is the conscience of the state, and the family, the recovery of the family,

00:48:11.500 which is the immune system of the state. And so we have to remember only trees can outgrow the weeds.

00:48:19.020 And so this is the lesson. What we have today in harvest form of wickedness and evil really did

00:48:29.080 begin as seeds about 150, 160 years ago. So that's a wrap for this episode on American Glory. I hope

00:48:37.660 that was helpful to give you just a little brief background on first wave feminism. Now, if you 0.73

00:48:44.200 don't already, you could follow me on X or Instagram, YouTube. I'm posting new content

00:48:49.560 every single day. Would love to have you on that journey. I'd love to have your comments on this

00:48:55.120 video, comments on social media. I get attacked constantly. And so it's really nice to have

00:49:00.080 some positive comments fighting back in the comments. That is truly where the battle

00:49:05.460 is fought. At least the ideological warfare is definitely fought on social media. So my

00:49:10.000 featured books for this episode, Manliness of Christ, and A Cover for Glory. This is basically

00:49:17.960 my books dealing with patriarchy and feminism from a biblical perspective. Would love you to

00:49:26.240 check those out. You can pick them up on Amazon. You can pick them up at relearn.org. You can also

00:49:29.980 listen to them in the ReLearn app. You can just download the ReLearn app at the App Store, and

00:49:34.440 the audio books are available for you in there as well. Now, last week I said that this week I would

00:49:40.620 be discussing marriage from the wife's perspective, but I felt that feminism kind of needed to come 1.00

00:49:45.760 after the discussion on patriarchy. So next week I'm going to be answering those questions around

00:49:51.180 the wife and marriage. What does it mean to be a submissive wife or to have a gentle and quiet

00:49:54.860 spirit? What does it mean for a woman to be feminine and glorious? And how more feminine 0.98

00:50:02.660 women will help recover the Christian American civilization. So my name is Dale Partridge.

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The NXR Podcast - September 22, 2026

American Glory - The Demonic Roots of Feminism

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