Post by Brad Nelson on Apr 12, 2024 7:03:29 GMT -8
But of course, these are small matters when compared to an adult’s whims. Self expression and gratification are the be and end all of an ever growing number of people so, get used to it!
Truer words have never been spoken. Although I haven't quite gotten used to it yet.
"The worker-mother must learn not to differentiate between yours and mine; she must remember that there are only our children, the children of Russia’s communist workers."
At least in the guise of shuffling off one's children to "day care," that has been achieved in the West.
As Kollontai makes perfectly clear, the Left’s goal is for the State to be our parent. Procreation will simply become a political duty to the all powerful state. Children will belong to society not their parents.
The actions and attitudes of the public school systems make this abundantly clear.
It should be clear to anyone with a bit of common sense or an ounce of honesty that the destruction of our traditional society is the real goal behind such madness as same sex marriage.
Thus I reject the idea that feminism started out with good intentions but only recently warped into something rotten. This is still a minority opinion, but the correct one.
Note how quickly our society has degenerated since the imposition of queer marriage. Now the perverts, deviants, malcontents, self-loathing humanity haters have brought us to the point of many accepting the mental illness called transgenderism. This should not surprise anyone who has been paying attention.
I was paying attention and yet admit to being surprised at how quickly the idea of "transgender" caught on as a social contagion.
And here's what I think is a striking paragraph from Gress' article:
Scutts explains that Heterodoxy’s founder, unitarian minister Marie Jenney Howe, saw feminism as a quest to become “not just our little female selves, but our whole, big, human selves.” This overarching humanness meant “a changed psychology, the creation of a new consciousness in women.” This idea of changing or raising consciousness had already been used for several decades by socialists to fundamentally reshape society through women. Tinkering with the notion of woman has had diverse negative effects, such as jettisoning an understanding of human nature’s male-female complementarity and opening the door to today’s dizzying variety of genders. It also removes from women the reality of motherhood (physical, psychological, and spiritual) as the natural way in which we engage with the world. In short, and quite ironically, it has led to the prioritization of the male mode of life over a female one and a blurring of gender to the point that today most cannot even define “woman.”
We shorten that to "man-hate." But it's also clearly "woman-hate" as well. All things, normal, biological, or maternal are to be hated and rejected. Only one specific kind of "woman" is allowed for a feminist, much like Clarence Thomas is the wrong kind of black. Diversity schmersity.
And I do think that Gress is right in that this rejection of womanhood combined with adopting the "male mode of life" (a nice characterization) opened the door to the entire rejection of the idea that sex is real and sexual differences are real. And if one accepts that, then of course the "blurring of gender" is a natural outcome. I just find that she packed a lot of summary truths into that paragraph.
Notice that all the critics of feminism are women. I would love to engage her in a conversation and ask her opinion of the ways men have been bought off or bullied into silence. But surely they have.
I am more convinced than ever that Marxists, communists, progressives.... whatever you want to call them are virtually all sociopaths, psychopaths, paranoids, sadists or megalomaniacs.
I said much the same thing the other day. It's not the only ingredient in play, but it is a quite active and central one.
They just want to lord over and control everyone, plus leech off of the labor of others.
I've said for years that what is driving most of this grievance stuff is "the last child picked on the playground when choosing up teams" syndrome. I can't find a good acronym for that though. But we're talking about people, perhaps through no fault of their own, who are bent or misshapen in some way. Rather than accept their limitations or faults (or trying to improve themselves), they lash out at society and try to normalize their faults, shortcomings, perversions, etc.
Note how the Democrat Party in many places is even trying to normalize thievery. And I would say the one element that can correct for this (men) has been marginalized. I love how these chicks are writing books and giving speeches about the harms of feminism. And that's good and needed. But equally needed are good, righteous men who will, for instance, bar the way physically of men trying to shower with their wives or daughters in the locker room. There is no substitute for going beyond merely talking about something and instead defending a line.
Feminism's greatest victory was neutering the male. And I'll guran-damn-tee you that most conservatives have no idea what I'm talking about or are aware of their own complicity with all this junk. And don't ask me about Libertarians who are far worse in this regard.