Feminism did not free women. It enslaved both sexes to the same material machine and called the addition of a second pair of hands progress.
Role-abandonment is the departure of men and women from the divinely-assigned functions that traditional gender roles encode within the household and community. It is not a modern discovery but a recurring civilisational failure, the pattern Ibn Khaldun documented as the dissolution of asabiyyah when comfort erodes the cohesion that hardship forges. What distinguishes the contemporary variant is its ideological packaging: the abandonment is presented as emancipation.
The mechanism operates in both directions simultaneously. Men who abdicate their role as providers (qawwamun) and protectors do not become more virtuous. They become passive, directionless, and vulnerable to the purposelessness that the Lexicon already identifies as nihilism. Women who abandon motherhood and domestic stewardship for career advancement do not escape the material world. They enter its most extractive layers on different terms, trading one form of servitude for another while the family unit collapses behind them.
Traditional gender roles are not arbitrary constraints imposed by oppression. They are a framework for building families, raising children with moral coherence, and orienting the household toward divine purpose. Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) encodes these roles not as preferences but as obligations: men bear financial responsibility (nafaqah), women bear custodianship of children and domestic authority. The abandoner does not transcend the system. She or he merely disconnects from the divine architecture that gave the system its meaning.