When Liz Wheeler first heard about wildly popular subsistence farmer Hannah Neeleman, better known as Ballerina Farm, she didn’t pay much attention to the fuss, which seemed to revolve around inconsequential matters, like Neeleman competing in a beauty pageant 12 days after giving birth.
But following a recent smear campaign in The Sunday Times “Meet the Queen of ‘Traditional Wives’ (and her eight kids)” Liz was happy to jump on the ballerina farm bandwagon.
“I’m totally with this woman,” she said, slamming the author of the Times piece, Megan Agnew, as a “mean-spirited, agenda-driven, man-hating, disrespectful, contemptuous feminist.”
Even reading just a few of Agnew’s comments about Neeleman and his family, it’s easy to see that Liz’s anger is justified.
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The author “deliberately portrayed Hannah as unhappy, falsely portrayed her marriage as unequal, falsely portrayed her children as troublesome, falsely portrayed her life as unfulfilling, falsely portrayed her life as a sham. Because Hannah’s life was teeth “Family. There’s nothing feminists hate more than family,” says Liz.
In the article, Agnew takes a number of critical digs at Hannah’s husband, Daniel Neeleman, portraying him as a dominant, alpha-male type. Liz cites the following excerpt as an example:
“The first few years of our marriage were really hard and we made a lot of sacrifices,” she says. “But we had a vision, a dream…” Daniel interjects. “And we still do.” What sacrifices? I ask her. “Well, I gave up dancing. It was hard. You give up parts of yourself. Daniel gave up his career ambitions.”
With sweeping views, I couldn’t agree more. Danielle wanted to live in the wilderness out West, so they did, she wanted to farm, so they farm, and they like date night once a week, so they go out on a date (they hire a babysitter for that night). He didn’t want a nanny in the house, so there is no nanny. The only space that remained set aside on the Neeleman property, a small barn that she wanted to convert into a ballet studio, ended up becoming a classroom for the children.”
This sentence captures the tone of the entire article.
What Liz sees when she reads Agnew’s insults is “cultural hegemony.”
Cultural hegemony is a term first coined by Antonio Gramsci, the Marxist founder of the Italian Communist Party, to refer to the way in which a ruling body seizes control of various institutions in order to shape and control culture, with the ultimate goal of making the ruling class’s worldview the cultural norm.
“The Marxist Left cannot accept that a man and a woman can be happily married, that they can fulfill traditional gender roles where the woman has children and the husband provides for the household and runs the business, that they homeschool the kids, and they’re happy,” Liz says.
If further evidence was needed, look no further than Agnew’s brazen admission of frustration at not being able to be alone with Hannah Neeleman.
“Apparently, the only way I can get an answer out of Neeleman is to be corrected, interrupted or answered by her husband or kids. Normally I’m up against ruthless Hollywood publicists; today I’m up against an army of toddlers who want their mother and a husband who thinks he’s smarter than them.”
“This is such a horrible article,” Liz said indignantly, adding that it proves that “feminism is a harmful woman-hating scam.”
“When a woman chooses to be feminine, like Hannah Nereman does, chooses to be a wife, chooses to be a mother, and actually likes it, feminists’ heads explode.”
“No one is more cruel to slander happily married, happy mothers who are content with their choices than feminists who believe no one should be fulfilled by fulfilling the mission God has given women,” Liz says.
To hear more of her analysis, check out the clip above.
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