“You see, Mary is truly the freest person in the world because she knows how to obey… You should tell this to some feminists.”
Over Christmas it seemed that every mainstream newspaper, media outlet, and social media page under the sun reported this remark, as though it were some authoritative magisterial comment time-travelled from the medieval period into the modern progressive era. This is hardly surprising, however, as anything that sits uneasily within the Enlightenment framework of flattened progressive equality is immediately framed as reactionary or Luddite. The comment was not merely reported; it was moralised, packaged, and delivered to the masses as yet another example of religion lagging behind history.
