Feminism
Return to Common Sense
July 23, 2019
Section: Culture
– Feminism
“Sexual equality has
been achieved, but feminists try to justify further actions based on dis-proven studies, which has its own unintended
consequence of inability to achieve unrealistic expectations.”
“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we,
the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing
less.” Susan
B. Anthony
Philosophy
(Background, Issues, Objectives):
Feminism has achieved its goal of equal
opportunity
- The Secular Feminism movement progressed
through three stages:
o
First
Wave Feminism - Margaret
Walters in Feminism,
A Very Short Introduction, details the rise of
secular feminism. Philosopher John Stuart Mill published The Subjugation of
Women, an influential defense of women’s rights, in 1869, which
helped lead into the battle for suffragism, the
women’s vote which was not achieved till the First World War when
millions of women left the home to work and help with
the war effort.
o
Second
Wave Feminism - The
Second Wave emerged after WWII. Betty Freidan’s Feminine Mystique was
a scathing expose’ of the supposed mass of unhappy urban housewives
across America. The radical Friedan went on to help found the National
Organization of Women (NOW). Gloria Steinem founded Ms Magazine for an
increasingly radicalized feminist movement, which moved towards Marxist
concepts. Germaine Greer wrote The Female Eunuch in 1970, which
challenged the notion that women were inferior in any sense to men, whether
physically or psychologically.
- Lesbian
Separatist Feminists - After encountering the radicalizing effects of Marxism,
feminism began the complete demonization of anything masculine. Betty
Friedan was angered and alarmed at the lesbians, denouncing them as a
Lavender Menace. In response, famous American journalist Jill Johnston
authored Lesbian
Nation: The Feminist Solution. Feminism was increasingly
commandeered by radicals like Socialist, Anarchic, Black, Lesbian, Marxist
and other subcultures.
- There
have been two major schools of thought within the women’s movement: egalitarian
feminism and social feminism:
o Egalitarian feminists were radicals that held that men and women, although socialized to different roles, are identical in their essential natures. By appealing to principles of social justice and universal rights, egalitarians sought to liberate women from the private sphere of the home—into the public spheres of politics, business, and work.
o Social feminists were traditionalist, family-centered, embraced women’s roles as mothers or caregivers, and promoted women’s rights by redefining and strengthening those roles. Social feminists argued that an empowered femininity could be a force for good and made common cause with the egalitarians in promoting women’s education, suffrage, and participation in the culture and politics.
- For every 100
women who earn a bachelor’s degree, just 73 men get one.
o
Today’s colleges are 57% female.
o
Women are now fully represented in law, medicine,
and science.
- Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) studies gender equity in
academia.
- STEM has
threatened Title IX federal financial assistance sanctions to enforce
non-existent gender diversity requirements.
- Disciplines
where females are not proportionately represented are by personal choice.
- Women have
broken glass ceilings in industry and the public sector.
o
When pay is normalized for experience
and job conditions, women earn same or more than men.
o
Women are “off-ramping” to take time off for children, returning with
minimal career damage.
- In 1970’s the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was defeated as
unneeded and overkill.
o
ERA will be used to protect not only women, but
homosexuals and transgendered.
o In
2004 one in five women in their early 40s are childless, down from one in ten
in 1976.
o In
2004 67.2% of women were married, down from 88% in 1960.
- Women now suffer
depression at twice the rate of men as women are unable to achieve
unrealistic feminist dreams.
- If feminism were
genuine, it would have disappeared when discrimination against women
ended.
o
It continues as a tool of the elite agenda: depopulation,
destabilizing society, and dismantling Western Civilization.
There is a broad spectrum of types of
feminism:
- Equal-opportunity
feminism. This kind holds that
women (and girls) should have equal opportunities with men (and boys) in
all areas of work, play, education, etc.
- Career-first
feminism. This kind holds that a
woman’s first duty to herself is to find a career rather than to
find a husband.
- Sexual-liberation
feminism. According to this kind,
unmarried girls and women should feel morally free to go to bed with
whatever men (or women) they like.
- Man-hating
feminism. Our society,
says this kind of feminism, is a patriarchal society in which all men (and
boys) benefit from “male privilege” and are therefore, unless
they repent and take up the feminist banner, the enemies of all women.
- Quasi-religious
feminism. If
you’re a leftwing feminist, you almost certainly despise traditional
religion, which you regard as profoundly patriarchal and anti-woman; and
you are very probably an atheist.
Feminist movement has become out of
touch: anti-male, anti-child, anti-family, and anti-feminine.
- National
Organization of Women (NOW) has become an ideological dinosaur that has
divided:
o
One faction is radical “gender feminists” who are anti-male and pro-socialist.
o
One faction is equity feminists who embrace
equality and individual rights.
o NOW
is not focused on the problems of the mainstream woman and jobs and family.
o NOW
is mesmerized by lesbian rights, radical chic, and the politics of
victimization.
o Friedan,
Smeal, Steinem etc. have made a living fanning the
perception of feminism.
- Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Mafia has banded together to
suppress politically incorrect evidence that does not support women as
victims:
o
University of New Hampshire Dr. Murray Straus found
in 1975 that wives are equally likely to abuse their spouses.
§
Follow- up surveys conducted over the next 20 years
confirmed the gender-equal results in his original research.
§ When other researchers studied homosexual relationships,
lesbians were found to have the highest rates of partner aggression.
o
University of Delaware Professor Suzanne Steinmetz
published her survey on domestic violence, showing women are often as violent
as their husbands.
o
University of British Columbia Dr. Donald Dutton
debunked the feminist propaganda on partner abuse.
o
Erin Pizzey’s book
“Prone to Violence”
revealed women are often as physically aggressive as their mates.
- Casual sex has
resulted in a number of unintended consequences:
o
Casual sex impairs the ability to establish a
lasting emotional bond.
o
Casual sex leaves young people alone and lonely.
o
The so-called “sexual revolution” has produced dramatic increases in
sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
College Women’s Studies
programs have degenerated into a victimology program.
- Program content
favors consciousness raising exercises and self exploration.
o
Women’s Studies programs are unabashedly
political and intermingled with the feminist movement.
- Women’s
Studies focus on convincing women they are victims, under an oppressive
societal structure.
o
Programs tend to be anti-marriage, anti-family,
anti-male in content.
o
Equal pay statistics are quoted, despite the
underlying life style choice variations.
o
Vagina Monologue
is an ultra-feminist play that has stirred controversy wherever it is shown.
- Ms Magazine
commissioned a study to prove high incidence of campus rape.
o
University of Arizona Mary Koss redefined sexual
interactions to be reclassified as rape.
o
Rape victimization was computed to be 25%, which is
refuted by study participants.
Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) was adopted in 1979 by the UN
General Assembly and initiated in 1981 after ratification by 20 member states.
- CEDAW contains many points that mirror America's
efforts to promote equal opportunity for women.
o
It
poses many problems for America's federalist system of government and the
rights established in the U.S. Constitution.
o
Many
of the issues with which CEDAW concerns itself, such as access to health care
and education, belong under the purview of state or local jurisdiction in the
U.S. constitutional order.
- CEDAW requires national governments to work
toward eliminating gender-based discrimination in every area of life,
using this expansive definition of discrimination against women:
o
Furthermore,
countries that have ratified CEDAW are evaluated based on their compliance with
CEDAW by the CEDAW Committee, which meets at the UN several times a year.
o
The
committee consistently oversteps its mandate, acting as a quasi-judicial body
issuing forceful instructions to countries that often do not share its radical social
agenda, and committee meetings inevitably serve as a forum for
reinterpreting the terms agreed upon by the treaty members.
- CEDAW is an ineffective and inappropriate
instrument for advancing women's rights around the world.
o
In the case
of American women, their freedom and personal dignity are best protected by the
U.S. Constitution and the rule of law it establishes.
Principles:
Sexual equality has basically been
achieved, and any exceptions can be prosecuted.
- Discrimination
in all its variations is an abomination, and must be prosecuted.
- Refuse to be a
victim, take responsibility for yourself.
Recommendations:
Declare Victory in the War on Equality,
having delivered equal opportunity regardless of sex.
- Enforce existing equal rights laws with all resources at our
disposal.
o
Eliminate all sexual classifications not justified
by a compelling government interest.
o
Rewrite Violence Against
Women Act and Victims of Crime Act to be gender-neutral.
- Eliminate feminist programs in colleges as an anachronism and a
waste of academic rigor.
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