There’s reportedly a new trend among big city working women to throw themselves “career showers” or “success showers” to try and pretend their jobs are as fabulous and fulfilling as having a husband and kids. When a society goes from wedding and baby showers to career showers, that society is clearly committing ideological, demographic, and rational suicide.
When God created the first man and woman, His very first command to them was (Gen.1:28), “Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it.” Jesus performed His first miracle at a wedding feast (John 2), the Fourth Commandment orders honor of parents (Ex.20:12), and Proverbs 23:22, 25 blesses motherhood: “Hearken to thy father, that beget thee: and despise not thy mother when she is old…Let thy father, and thy mother be joyful, and let her rejoice that bore thee.” But as America becomes increasingly divorced from its Judeo-Christian roots, increasingly obsessed with the culture of death, women—and men—are encouraged to be sterile, selfish, and isolated.
So you got a job promotion? Good job—move on with your life. Or hold a fun party with your friends, but don’t render it ridiculous by calling it a “career shower.” For the overwhelming majority of healthy, sane people, their jobs are not the main source of fulfillment in their lives, their jobs are ways to make money and be productive for the sake of earning the time with family.
And if your job is your main source of meaning, especially as a woman, then it’s high time you reassess your life choices. In fact, I’d say these “career showers” are not just feminist propaganda—they’re unconscious admissions that these women want the love, fulfillment, and life-altering change that are marked with wedding and baby showers.
For instance, studies have found that married women are happier than dating/cohabiting women; women have become increasingly unhappier as society grows more feminist; and married moms are the happiest female demographic. It can be hard to find a husband in a society that lies just as much to men as to women, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t want to be married if you find the right spouse.