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Originally posted by paganini
not only was this homophobic it is trying to claim the evil Illuminati has its hands in feminism?
the things people believe
Originally posted by paganini
not only was this homophobic it is trying to claim the evil Illuminati has its hands in feminism?
the things people believe
Originally posted by paganini
not only was this homophobic it is trying to claim the evil Illuminati has its hands in feminism?
the things people believe
In a new book, "Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique", Smith College professor Daniel Horowitz (no relation) establishes beyond doubt that the woman who has always presented herself as a typical suburban housewife until she began work on her groundbreaking book was in fact nothing of the kind. In fact, under her maiden name, Betty Goldstein, she was a political activist and professional propagandist for the Communist left for a quarter of a century before the publication of "The Feminist Mystique" launched the modern women's movement.
Although Horowitz, the author of the new biography, is a sympathetic leftist, Friedan refused to cooperate with him once she realized he was going to tell the truth about her life as Betty Goldstein. After he published an initial article about Friedan's youthful work as a "labor journalist," Friedan maligned him, saying to an American University audience, "Some historian recently wrote some attack on me in which he claimed that I was only pretending to be a suburban housewife, that I was supposed to be an agent."
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
This is also why Progressive feminists have scoffed so viciously at Sarah Palin, because she represents the true female who may not rely on men, but still has the love of a man, and she represents conservative values and not their favorite leftist themes.
Originally posted by petrus4
You are supposed to scoff at the very idea that you have been brainwashed by them since birth. That is exactly what they want you to do.
And yes, feminism is very much a product of the cabal. This can be easily verified by looking at how savagely some feminists treat people. As Christ said...you can know them by their fruits.
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
reply to post by petrus4
I just know the writings of Henry Makow and I know that he exposed the communist connection, not that he was the only one, of course, because David Horowitz also exposed it.
But look at how our economy has made it so that we require a two person paycheck now, unless someone is a lawyer or doctor or some high powered exec. But even then, baby goes to daycare, and goodness only knows what might happen there. The role of mother is not revered as it once was.
Originally posted by Biliverdin
reply to post by MagesticEsoteric
I really don't like Makow, that PhD is in English Literature by the way...he is very talented in taking a grain of truth and rolling it around in nicely worded bull-poo. At least he isn't pushing Holocaust Denial as much as he used to, but still, he has a very clear agenda which encompasses a very narrow world view.
Originally posted by Egyptia
reply to post by MagesticEsoteric
There is so much about that article that is disturbing. It is generalizing women as subservient slaves to the patriarch painting women as passive and completely dependent. Once again we see a play on 'power' where the women's natural disposition is supposed to be passivity and 'fear'.
We live in a world where men and women have lost their identities through the loss of family, nature and successfully demolished healthy relationships. We are now a people who need to survive on our own terms because there is no 'norm' anymore. Personally speaking I have deep issues with the patriarchal model that seems to diminish the strength and indepenance of women, only to make them subordinate slaves.
Women are unhappier than they have been in 35 years. So suggests a study released earlier this week by the National Bureau of Economics. Two economists at U Penn conducted an exhaustive study of happiness and found that women's "subjective well-being" has declined, "both absolutely and relatively to men," as they put it. In fact, though women have historically had higher self-reported levels of happiness than men, today women are "reporting happiness levels" that are "even lower than those of men." (Men's happiness has dropped, too, but not as much as women's.) Now, happiness is notoriously difficult to study - as I noted a few years back when I wrote about progressive women and unhappiness for Slate - but the findings are nonetheless noteworthy. Though women have made gains in every area over the past 35 years - from education to their place in the work force - these gains do not appear, by the study's measures, to translate into actual contentment. Nor do women's gains in the marketplace translate into zero-sum declines in happiness for men, as some have speculated.
University of Virginia published an exhaustive study of marital happiness among women that challenges this assumption. Stay-at-home wives, according to the authors, are more content than their working counterparts. And happiness, they found, has less to do with division of labor than with the level of commitment and "emotional work" men contribute (or are perceived to contribute)
The Cultural Thesis
The Myth of Female Oppression : All of us have been taught how women have supposedly been oppressed throughout human existence, and that this was pervasive, systematic, and endorsed by ordinary men who presumably had it much better than women. In reality, this narrative is entirely fabricated. The average man was forced to risk death on the battlefield, at sea, or in mines, while most women stayed indoors tending to children and household duties. Male life expectancy was always significantly lower than that of females, and still is.
Warfare has been a near constant feature of human society before the modern era, and whenever two tribes or kingdoms went to war with each other, the losing side saw many of its fighting-age men exterminated, while the women were assimilated into the invading society. Now, becoming a concubine or a housekeeper is an unfortunate fate, but not nearly as bad as being slaughtered in battle as the men were. To anyone who disagrees, would you like for the men and women to trade outcomes?
Most of this narrative stems from 'feminists' comparing the plight of average women to the topmost men (the monarch and other aristocrats), rather than to the average man. This practice is known as apex fallacy, and whether accidental or deliberate, entirely misrepresents reality. To approximate the conditions of the average woman to the average man (the key word being 'average') in the Western world of a century ago, simply observe the lives of the poorest peasants in poor countries today. Both men and women have to perform tedious work, have insufficient food and clothing, and limited opportunities for upliftment.
As far as selective anecdotes like voting rights go, in the vast majority of cases, men could not vote either. In fact, if one compares every nation state from every century, virtually all of them extended exactly the same voting rights (or lack thereof) to men and women. Even today, out of 200 sovereign states, there are exactly zero that have a different class of voting rights to men and women. Any claim that women were being denied rights than men were given in even 0.1% of historical instances, falls flat.
This is not to deny that genuine atrocities like genital mutilation have been perpetrated against women; they have and still are. But men also experienced atrocities of comparable horror at the same time, which is simply not mentioned. In fact, when a man is genitally mutilated by a woman, other women actually find this humorous, and are proud to say so publicly.
Originally posted by FriedBabelBroccoli
Well if one takes a historical look at homosexuality and heterosexuality they will discover that ALL major civilizations employed the practice of heterosexual marriage.
This is because of the desire of women for Alpha-males and Beta-males then not being motivated to work to better society because they do not have a chance to propagate. Women seek alphas and have historically had little problem being part of that alpha's harem.
Modern societies have provided women the ability to leave any man that does not meet her standards to pursue all the alphas she pleases and leave the any alphas that are no longer alpha enough for that woman.
With the rise of feminism one would think women would be more happy than ever as they can support themselves and pursue their own interests and sleep around all they like.
However, . . .
Women more unhappy than ever
www.slate.com...
Women by empowering themselves and demonstrating that they will leave any man when they are no longer alpha enough for her liking have merely allowed men to pursue sex only relationships.
Originally posted by petrus4
That way, both parents would have time to give adequate attention and care to their children. A woman could get home in time to cook, and Makow or a similarly conservative husband would have ample time to play the conservative Father Knows Best routine with brandy, pipe, and slippers in the evenings as well.
Originally posted by FriedBabelBroccoli
Well if one takes a historical look at homosexuality and heterosexuality they will discover that ALL major civilizations employed the practice of heterosexual marriage.
This is because of the desire of women for Alpha-males and Beta-males then not being motivated to work to better society because they do not have a chance to propagate. Women seek alphas and have historically had little problem being part of that alpha's harem.
Modern societies have provided women the ability to leave any man that does not meet her standards to pursue all the alphas she pleases and leave the any alphas that are no longer alpha enough for that woman.
With the rise of feminism one would think women would be more happy than ever as they can support themselves and pursue their own interests and sleep around all they like.
However, . . .
Women more unhappy than ever
www.slate.com...
Women by empowering themselves and demonstrating that they will leave any man when they are no longer alpha enough for her liking have merely allowed men to pursue sex only relationships.
They have destroyed the whole point of men committing to women.
The vast majority of homosexuals I have met are quite promiscuous which extends to other areas of life outside of relationships as well.
To be blunt I have never seen a gay civilization go beyond a single generation for the simple fact that they cannot reproduce which should be a big hint from mother nature that it is a dead end (no pun intended).
The Myth of Female Oppression : All of us have been taught how women have supposedly been oppressed throughout human existence, and that this was pervasive, systematic, and endorsed by ordinary men who presumably had it much better than women. In reality, this narrative is entirely fabricated. The average man was forced to risk death on the battlefield, at sea, or in mines, while most women stayed indoors tending to children and household duties. Male life expectancy was always significantly lower than that of females, and still is.