Over the past few weeks since the Columbine High massacre, we've broken through some denial about violence as a teaching tool. It's pretty clear that boys are literally learning how to hate and harm others.
- Ellen Goodman, Globe Columnist, The Boston Globe, May 27, 1999
After more than 30 years of changing America's public education to conform to the pop feminist and Progressivist agenda, now we learn they're teaching boys to hate and harm? Unless that was their intention, the pop feminists and Progressivists have failed.
It is a march against the champions of patriarchy, who deny the human, democratic and social rights of women.
- Françoise David, the President of the Fédération des Femmes du Québec, N.O.W. National Times, Spring 1999, on the planned Woman's Day World March of Women scheduled for March 8, 2000.
The term "tilting at windmills" comes to mind. While Corporate oligarchs of both sexes strive to concentrate more riches into fewer hands, the pop feminist flakes continue to rail against the social arrangement that carried us chrysalis-like from the stone age Neolithic revolution to the Industrial revolution. Today, only the poorest nations and communities can be called patriarchal because patriarchy is incompatible with high tech economies. Rather than tilt at windmills, the pop feminists would do better to focus their efforts on justice and fairness for everybody regardless of sex.
As people who call yourselves "pro-life," you have a moral obligation to call upon your members and supporters to turn-in those among you who have committed or are planning violence.
- Patricia Ireland, An Open Letter to Pro-Life Leaders, N.O.W., January 22, 1999
When it's pro-life, the extreme beliefs, behaviors and belligerence of one epitomize all in the eyes of Ms. Ireland, but when it's the extreme beliefs, behaviors and belligerence of many N.O.W. members and chapters, that's different.
For the past several years, but especially during the Clinton presidency, the leaders of N.O.W. have demonstrated a consistent hypocrisy which fewer and fewer feminists of any persuasion are willing to defend.
(Alanis Morrissette) is thinking about writing a book called, Women Are from Venus, Men are Pieces of Crap.
- Rosie O'Donnell, 1999 Grammy Awards, CBS, February 24, 1999
How sad for Rosie to sully a fine artist like Morrissette with a vulgar sexist slur.
(S)lavery is not some obscure wrongdoing of the past, not only a blight on our history, but a legacy of hate that will continue unless we dismantle the racism that caused it.
- Patricia Ireland, And the Oscar goes to..., Ms., April/May 1999
Like the "racism" behind the genocide in Yugoslavia (Serbs vs. Kosovars) and Rwanda (Hutus vs. Tutsis)?
The growing hatred of white men aside, simple fact is America is among the most enlightened, least racist nations in the world.
Smoke Signals was the only film that made me have some new thoughts about the world. Although the movie had plenty of feminist subtext, there was no major women-character action. It was like a men's movie that has been significantly affected by feminist and gay consciousness.
- Susie Bright, And the Oscar goes to..., Ms., April/May 1999
Or perhaps it's the other way around: America's social movements have been significantly affected by the Native American consciousness.
(T)hey should organize intramural sports for the cast of Saving Private Ryan. I've never seen so many men in the same place all at once. ... I'd nominate Sonja Sohn for Slam. There's this amazing scene where she verbally holds her own in an argument with a man. It's so good to see a woman do this rather than become hysterical.
- Wendy Wasserstein, And the Oscar goes to..., Ms., April/May 1999
Reality distortion alert! On the one hand Ms. Wasserstein expresses a sad lack of sensitivity toward Spielberg's portrayal of how men really experience war (which is completely contrary to how pop feminists portray it), while on the other she demonstrates a perception of reality that is the exact opposite of how most men experience verbal confrontations with women (i.e., as most men know, they are rarely able to hold their own in an argument with a woman).
Adultery is needed and accepted because today's couples, young and old alike, are cynical about love and more convinced than ever that relationships are primarily about passion and power. As a culture we no longer believe in the power of love.
- Bell Hooks, Subversive Desire, Ms., April/May 1999
Gosh, and who do you suppose could be responsible for these now-prevalent attitudes? Could it be the androphobes, who told us all men are rapists? Or the new rage women, who told us all women ought to feel rage toward men? The misandrists who told us all women ought to fear men? Or the pop feminist proponents of sexual prejudice?
In a condition of full-blown lust, judgment may get suspended or, as the president's woes illustrate, utterly lost.
- Blanche McCrary Boyd, Outside the Box, Ms., April/May 1999
Unless you believe the rape and sexual harassment crisis pop feminists, such as Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin, in which case rape and sexual harassment are only about hate and power, and never about lust.
Originally, civil rights programs were enacted to help African Americans become full citizens of the United States. ... Much of the opposition to affirmative action is framed on the grounds of so-called "reverse discrimination and unwarranted preferences." In fact, less than 2 percent of the 91,000 employment discrimination cases pending before the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission are reverse discrimination cases. Under the law as written in Executive Orders and interpreted by the courts, anyone benefiting from affirmative action must have relevant and valid job or educational qualifications.
- Marquita Sykes, The Origins of Affirmative Action, N.O.W., August, 1995
Interesting, how it was all about African Americans.
Before the issue of black slavery, Abraham Lincoln tried to build his presidential platform upon American citizenship for the American aborigines. Not that he was unmindful of the slavery issue, but it was only after he discovered Americans were unprepared to embrace as citizens those whose lands and lives they were in the process of stealing that he turned to black slavery as the galvanizing issue in his campaign to enforce Federal sovereignty.
Since then, the rights of my people have always taken a back seat to the interlopers and invaders, whether they be White, Black or Asian.
Don't get me wrong; personally, I'm not big on special rights for minority populations. Though I do believe it is only logical and ethical, not to mention legal, to observe and enforce the many treaties made between the Federal government and the various Indian tribes. But we are humans first, Americans second, and hyphenated last.
It is nonetheless educational to note how little pop feminists and many African Americans regard the rights and issues affecting Native Americans. For them, we are inconvenient at best, a body of issues for which they must pay lip-service. At worst, they see us as competitors for Federal goodies, and one thing I am very proud of is how very few American Indian individuals and organizations have joined the whiners squealing for a place at the public trough, and how many are engaged in service...to their respective tribe and community, the country and humanity.
Personal sentiment about my people aside, what of Native American "feminists" such as those featured in Ms. magazine? By and large, there are a few Indian women and white women with Indian-sounding names who, in any other context would be quickly dismissed by the rank and file of pop feminism as tokens.
When white men do not eagerly embrace pop feminist and African American issues, it's called sexism and racism. When white men are hostile toward women and African American's we call it sexism and racism. So, what should we call pop feminist and African American indifference or hostility toward American Indians? Racism? And if their indifference or hostility extends to embrace men (of any color), what should we call that? Sexism and racism?
Recently, respected PBS host Tony Brown said black people need to focus on issues like education and employment. With respect to African Americans, the only thing whites should be doing, he said, is striving to reduce racism among their own people.
My experiences incline me to agree.
Throughout public school, and socially, during my first twenty years, the racism of my white teachers and peers, their presumed superiority over a "dumb injun" like me defined who I was within that community, but not who I could be. Ironically, as unpleasant and, given the almost daily beatings I endured from white boys making a good show for the white girls, injurious as my childhood was, it wasn't until I moved out into the world that I discovered real bigotry.
Not the racism of white 1960s suburbanites toward a peer who was, by blood quantum, only 83% white, but the bigotry of women and "minorities" toward someone who is only 17% Indian and 100% male.
Whether it's the racism of whites, the sexism of patriarchal throwbacks and pop feminists, or the bigotry of blacks, prejudice in all its kinds and colors is a sad, sorry thing which is made worse when virtually all of it is pinned on white men alone.
Being sexy meant waiting and not doing, being watched rather than watching. ... We had learned that to become successfully sexual, we must not seek and initiate but wait and yield. ... The culture that surrounds girls signals to them that they must, sexually, forget themselves.
- Naomi Wolf, Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood, pp 25-27
This would explain why American women of all ages are always so shy and demure around famous entertainers, sports figures, rich men and men of high status.
Cow droppings.
Since the sixties, pop feminists have prattled endlessly about how oppressed the female sex is because society frowns on women being sexual. "Boys get to sow their wild oats while girls are expected to remain chaste and demure." But while the "boys will be boys" refrain has been chanted many times in defense of rock stars, sports stars, and other males subject to the groupie phenomenon, seldom has it been applied to or said by men who treat women with respect.
The unfortunate fact, as is well-documented by writers such as R. Don Steele, publisher of Men of Steel Balls, and Jama Clark, author of What the Hell Do Women Really Want, is that many women pant after men who treat them like fuck objects. They play coy around men with high standards of behavior, drop trou and spread legs for the guys who "only want one thing," then whiners like power feminist Wolf try to shirk responsibility for this by complaining (the male-dominated) society stifles female sexual desire.
What a crock.
Look, ladies, if you're going to sleep around with male sluts, that's your business, but at least have the 'nads to take responsibility for your choices. Stop trying to blame your antipathy toward virtuous men on, as Wolf puts it, operant conditioning. (Next, she will tell us we are beyond freedom and dignity.)
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