On Oct. 23, headlines flashed with the long-awaited verdict of a legal saga that kept the public in great anticipation since 2023: Laura Owens was sentenced to 30 days in county jail and seven years of probation following her three-and-a-half-year legal battle with former star of “The Bachelor,” Clayton Echard.

Owens faced 14 felony charges after fabricating multiple pregnancies, falsifying medical records, and misrepresenting paternity in an effort to manipulate various men, including Echard, into committed relationships. Owens pleaded guilty to four felony charges, while Arizona’s Maricopa County Superior Court dismissed the remaining 10.

Over a decade of repeat criminal offenses that plagued the lives of at least three men through defamation, public scrutiny, legal battles, and insufferable stress ultimately ended with an insultingly minimal verdict that offers little consequence for her crimes. Despite the insurmountable evidence presented to establish Owens’ criminal responsibility, she was let off nearly scot-free.

While Owens will serve this measly sentence, the men involved will live on with little closure or justice for the pain they endured at her hands.

July to September witnessed the case of Lindsay Clancy, a postpartum mother who murdered her three young children before attempting to kill herself. The jury reached a nearly unanimous decision in favor of a “not guilty by reason of insanity” verdict, only for the case to end in a mistrial due to one holdout juror.

Women on the internet went wild over the case, using it as the poster child for greater postpartum mental health care and postpartum psychosis awareness. Many committed to supporting Clancy through the trial, chanting, “We are all Lindsay Clancy,” in efforts to sympathize with Clancy’s struggle while minimizing her crime and overlooking the need for justice for the true victims: her children.

Clancy’s case slid behind the curtain in mid-September after a high-profile civil lawsuit called “The Cornell 7” hit the scene. Former Cornell University student “Jane Doe” alleged that she was drugged and raped by seven former members of the Chi Phi fraternity at Cornell University in 2024. Their punishment? A combination of expulsions, suspensions, campus bans, and apology essays.

The lack of justice for Jane Doe, coupled with fears about predatory men and women’s safety, took the internet by storm, only for evidence to emerge clarifying a different story. Jane Doe agreed to the sexual encounter, and some reports allege that she even initiated contact, only to later change her mind upon reflection.

Ignoring the released facts of the case, women across the internet adopted the motto, “We are all Jane Doe,” to stand with the student despite her apparently changing claims.

This series of headlines culminates in a viral trend that has exploded across social media recently when the internet was flooded with women celebrating the abortions of their baby boys.

One woman wrote, “I got an abortion with each boy. told my husband I had a miscarriage and go[t] to spend a week at the spa after,” garnering over 36,000 likes and several hundred replies in agreement. When a woman posted a photo of her with her one-year-old son in disagreement with the mob, comments such as “future rapist btw” circulated in response.

While this roundup of events opens several discussions surrounding mental health, postpartum care, consent, sexual integrity, abortion laws, and more, there is one underlying theme quietly following each case that must not be ignored.

Women are no longer hiding their shifting views on men. An ever-growing population of women believe men to be inherently evil and women to be ultimately superior.

The new feminist agenda? Women can get away with whatever they choose, while men are disgusting and always at fault.

Feminism began as a movement of equality. Now it seems to have turned into a movement of superiority as feminists have silently changed their tune to a song of female dominance where rules don’t apply. Portraying men as the sole clowns and criminals of society, propaganda against them is spreading like wildfire as women yearn for superior power in the culture.

We are witnessing the snowballing implications of feminism, a lie women have bought into under the guise of equal rights, but one that ultimately results in the collapse of an equal society.

If we took a step back and recognized the implications of this mentality, would the rights and protections of men remain? Or could feminism infringe upon justice and the equal value of all people that America was founded upon?

When our culture goes against the foundation that “all men are created equal” established by both our government and God in Genesis 1:27, the implications are dark. This agenda begins by subtly influencing the minds of individual women, then continues by bleeding into the broader culture and ultimately seeps into our political system, as seen in the cases of Owens, Clancy, and Jane Doe.

For the protection of all people, these ideas must be corrected. And the only way to correct this view is to shift our eyes to the ultimate truth: the value of all people, men and women.

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This article was made possible by The Fred & Rheta Skelton Center for Cultural Renewal. 

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