Feminism will soon be exposed for the destructive ideology that it is.
That is the good news.
The bad news is that women are still being
heavily indoctrinated with the view
that the 70's feminists achieved great things for women.
And, as we know, they did not.
For example, one only has to look back over
the past few centuries to realise that when women wanted to go out to work, they
did!
If anything, 70s feminism retarded the
progress of women with their gender-divisive policies and their family-breaking
agendas.
Life is much more pleasant now for women both
at work and in the home because of the progress in science and technology -
which had nothing to do with feminism and everything to do with the natures and
obsessions mostly of clever men - and because ordinary people were gradually
able to loosen the grip over them exerted by the traditional sources of
authority e.g. the state, the church, psychoanalysts and employers.
Millions of individual people chipped away at
achieving these ends, in their own little way, and many other groups also took
significant parts in the battle - e.g. trades unions, students, gays, racial
groups, and, most influential of all, pop stars.
And yes, the feminists.
But their agenda was totally selfish and
divisive, as it still is today.
Indeed, if the west had not been forced to
spend so many billions upon billions of dollars having to cope with the negative
consequences of feminism, we would have made much more progress by now.
The streets are less safe for women than they
were fifty years ago. There is more violence against women. Women are just as
overworked now as they ever were. They are less likely to be able to hold on to
their marriages. They are less able to afford not to have to work if they are
married with children. And they are less likely to be cared for properly in old
age.
I was actually alive well before the arrival of the 70s
feminists
It is also the case that I was actually alive
well before the arrival of the 70s feminists. And there is absolutely no
question in my mind that, for example, gays and blacks were, at the
very least, often frowned
upon - to put it mildly - but the same was not true of women.
For example, here in the UK during my
childhood,
young boys of the 50s and 60s were being brought up to respect women (open doors
for them etc) to treat them kindly, and to take pains to look after their
interests. This was the message that was constantly relayed to the growing youth
from every quarter in the land - e.g. the media, the churches, the schools.
Nowadays, this might all sound rather silly,
but the point is that women in those pre-feminist days were not seen as inferior
beings to men, they were simply seen as different, more fragile, and worthy of
greater consideration than men - and with definite talents of their own.
But this is not the image of the past that the feminists
have ever wanted to portray.
For example, they would prefer to describe the
men of the 50s and 60s who brought up their youths in this
silly way as 'oppressors of women'!
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Think about it.
"Now you look here young AH. You open that
door for that Lady. Offer your seat to that one over there. Don't you ever raise
your hand against a woman. Go and help that woman carry her shopping bags."
And yet, according to feminists, these were
the men of the 50s and 60s who hated women and oppressed them!
This is nothing but a pretty disgusting slur -
and one that is still propagated throughout the west by feminists, women's
studies teachers and the politically correct, all of whom continue to do their
best to undermine and demonise men.
Can anyone really believe that women in those days were
seen, by men, as being of a lower status than men?
Can anyone really believe that women in those
days were seen, by men, as being of a lower status than men? Open the door for
her. Give up your seat to her. Pull the chair back for her so that she can
be seated properly at the table without any effort on her part.. Stand up when
she walks into the room. Rush over to the other side of the car and open the
door so that she can get out. Walk on the side nearer the (dangerous) cars when
walking together on the sidewalk. Raise your hat and bow slightly should you
accidentally meet in the street.
On and on it went.
Also, as a teenager during the late sixties, I, needless to say, made a great many friends - such was
my beguiling nature.
And I got to know many families.
In not one did I know of a father who ruled
the roost at home.
Not one!
This is not to say that this did not happen,
and that there were no homes wherein the fathers did, in fact, rule their
roosts. (Indeed, since that time, I
have met quite a few people for whom this was definitely the case.) But my point
is that this was clearly not the rule, by any means. And that, for every man who
might have terrorised his family, there were probably just as many women, if not more, who
did the same.
And so the notion that the husbands of the 50s
and 60s were happily oppressing their wives until the feminists came along in
the 70s is utter nonsense. It is pure fabrication.
Now, for all you youngsters out there who might
still have some doubts about this, take the following leaf out of my book and
do some research while sipping a beer.
Being something of an obsessive anti-feminist,
whenever, perchance, a bit of old film footage appears on the TV screen, for any
reason, my mind automatically disconnects from whatever topic happens to be
under scrutiny at the time, and I focus, instead, solely on examining the
faces and the demeanours of any men and women who appear in it, in order to
answer the following questions.
Who looks happier in these old pieces of film
- the men or the women?
Which gender appears to be the more relaxed,
the more comfortable, the less harassed, the less worn, the better cared for?
For years the feminists were squawking about
the 'fact' that women received harsher sentences than men when it came to
sentencing in the courts.
it turned out that they were lying, as usual
And, of course, it turned out that they were lying,
as usual. The objective research showed the complete opposite.
The trick that they usually employ is this one.
The women's groups come up with a load of
hocus-pocus that makes men out to be better treated than women, or that they are
far more abusive than is currently recognised. They base these lies on virtually
anything that they can get their hands on.
Air will do.
Their feminist cronies in the media wet
themselves with delight and publish the falsehoods with large headlines
accompanied by exaggerated tales of female misery and woe. (See Spin
Sisters by Paige McKenzie to see how feminists purposely and continually
orchestrated such things right across the media.)
The public is outraged. The politicians are
blackmailed (literally) into supporting their malicious causes both vocally and
with funding. If they refuse, they are publicly and vociferously castigated as
being closet supporters of violence against women and child abuse etc.
In the meantime, the men's groups have no
funding to test or to counteract the 'research' and they do not have very much
access to willing accomplices in the mainstream media. So there is no protest, and no public outrage
at the feminist lies.
A few years later, with any luck, someone,
somewhere, manages to prove that the feminist groups were lying all
along, but
it hardly gets a mention in the media. Besides which, it's too late. The
damage has
been done. The female population has been enraged successfully against
men for a
few years over the matter (and over all the other slanders against men
that are
running concurrently) the laws have quickly been changed to disadvantage
men, and the feminists just keep coming up with other lies to
replace them.
"Women get short shrift in the court
system" ?
Hogwash!
Here is another example of the little tricks that feminists use to turn up the hatred
towards men.
In certain parts of the Middle East (e.g.
Iran) if you kill someone, you might have to pay blood money to your victim's
family, as a form of compensation. Typically, the compensation for the death of a
man is about twice the amount for the death of a woman.
This is outrageous, say the feminists. It just
goes to show you how little valued are women.
A man is worth twice as much!
A man is worth twice as much!
But the truth of the matter is this.
In areas of mayhem and poverty
today, a man is worth far more to the progress and survival of a family
- or, indeed, of a nation - than is a woman. His greater strength, his greater
mobility (e.g. his relative freedom from harassment and rape) his freedom from
childbearing and a host of other advantages give him far greater power than does
a woman have when negotiating with the world that exists outside of the
family. And, of course, he will more likely have a job
that brings in some money.
His loss will therefore put the family at a
greater disadvantage - financially - than would the loss of a woman.
Financially, the man is worth more.
Rightly or wrongly, this is the case.
And so it is absolutely proper to adjust any
compensation so that it better reflects the needs and the circumstances of the
bereaved families.
And this means paying out more in compensation
when a man in the family dies.
Furthermore, of course, it means that when the
spouse of a man is killed, he only gets his hands on half the amount that a
woman would get if her spouse was killed.
In other words, a bereaved woman gets paid more than a
bereaved man.
But feminists would rather that nobody noticed
this. And they do their best to discredit this well-meaning system by portraying
it as something which devalues women.
And only malicious fraudsters who are out to deceive and to stir up hatred
towards men could actually describe a mechanism which pays out more money to
women than to men as an example of devaluing women.
And if you read more articles on this website
you will discover that it does not matter what the facts and figures show,
feminists will always twist them in such a way as to stir up hatred and antagonism
towards men.
a hatred of men is the very core of
feminism.
Indeed, a hatred of men is the
very core of feminism. And it is only when you really begin to understand this
that the various pronouncements and behaviours of the feminists begin to make
sense.
19/02/04
I came across this photo
taken in 1904 of a long time married couple.
And whenever I see old photos or films of a documentary nature,
I always scrutinise the faces and the demeanours of any human subjects that might
be contained therein - especially if both the genders are present.
And I can tell you quite categorically that they usually do not portray
anything that remotely suggests that women were any more oppressed than men.
If anything, the opposite seems to be true. And the above photo is quite a good example of this.
Just look at their faces.
Of course, in the above photograph, the subjects were clearly posing, but if
you look at old photographs or films wherein the subjects were not even aware that
they were being visually recorded in some way (often to be found in 'crowded'
scenes) you will see that the very same sorts of characteristics apply.
And women from the past, on the whole, look far happier and relaxed than do the men - who,
in fact, often look fearful, stiff and downtrodden.
This is not to say that every picture reveals a similar profile. There are
certainly photos that give the impression of men domineering their women and
their families. But there seem to be far more that reveal women to be holding the
upper hand.
And below are two further photographs for which the subjects clearly posed.
Notice how the men are shoved to the back of the picture as if they did not
count for very much.
And this was clearly the 'convention'.
How would such a convention have arisen if
women were genuinely seen as inferior to men?
How would such a convention have arisen if
women were genuinely seen as inferior to men?
1905
1910
Feminist-inspired deceits have also attempted to give the
impression that until the 1970s the advertising industry put down women by the
manner in which they portrayed them. But, as usual, an inspection of their claims shows them to be
highly deceptive.
The truth of the matter is that women were not portrayed in any
manner of which most women at the time would have disapproved and, further, men
were not portrayed with any greater favours awarded to them.
There is nothing in them that would have been considered by
women at the time to be remotely insulting, but feminists would later claim that
such adverts were insulting to women - because, apparently, and for example,
they 'associated'
women with domestic chores, and that this was done to demean them in some way.
The truth of the matter, of course, is that the advertisers were
simply targeting their products at women who had families and who did, in fact,
spend much of their time doing domestic chores.
What a crime!
And, while on the subject of the past, the missus and I were watching
a programme on the development of the domestic electricity supply in
the USA during the 1920's (LOL! - What a really sad pair we must be,
eh?) and we saw a cinema advert from the 1920s that tried to sell
electricity to women - housewives. The idea was to make them realise how
electricity in the home could really help them out.
Well, as you know, one of the ubiquitous lies perpetrated by the
feminists is that women rather than men were portrayed negatively in
adverts during the past. And this electricity advert is just another
example demonstrating that even in those days it was, in fact, men who
were
being portrayed in a derogatory manner.
the men were described
as 'animals'.
In this case, the men were described
as 'animals'.
I quote from the advert, ...
"Come on now, get him to sign up to the thing [i.e. sign up to get
electricity]. It'll cost him [her husband] far less than all those
doctors bills for his indigestion [mocking tones]. That's not
salesmanship, it's just kindness to
animals!"
Another area in which men should
take the trouble to make themselves consciously aware of gender issues
is when they happen to be watching serious documentaries where
gender is not, in fact, one of the issues under discussion.
For example, if you watch the
various Science, Art and History channels, it should not be long before it
becomes blatantly obvious that men outnumber women overwhelmingly
in all areas involved in the process of progressing and bettering
the human condition (even when it comes to cooking!) and, also, that they have
been mistreated and victimised far more badly than have women.
Keep your eyes open.
You will see that I am not
exaggerating.
...
End Note:
Remember the Titanic?
Remember the Titanic?
"Women and children
first."
How come, eh?
How is it that the lives of the women
and children were given priority over the lives of the men if, in those times, they
were being oppressed by men, and if they were also viewed by men as their inferiors?
Well. The answer is very simple.
It is just not credible that when
their very lives are at stake human beings will choose to sacrifice those whom
they consider to be superior and more deserving but save those whom they
consider to be inferior and less deserving.
It is just not credible.
It is quite clear
from the way in which this disaster was handled that women were considered to be
superior and more deserving than men in those days.
There can surely be no doubt
about this.
the feminists and the politically correct have been
perpetrating downright lies
But the feminists and the politically
correct have been perpetrating downright lies throughout the past three decades
and, by using the various weapons of political correctness, they have managed to
bamboozle, blackmail or bludgeon most people into believing their lies.
The real truth of
the matter is this. When it comes to oppression and
being treated pretty much as fourth class citizens, the evidence shows quite
clearly that men are mostly the ones who have endured the
worst of such things.
And, if you get to know your
history, you will also discover that in times of conflict and war, the men
usually get killed - and even massacred following a victory - whereas the women
are usually spared. This has been the norm across the planet for as far back as
recorded history.
But, yes, some women from the
defeated groups are also badly mistreated by unruly victorious soldiers, but
their suffering is nowhere on the same scale as that experienced
by the men. Indeed, it is usually not very long before these women are happily
fraternising with the very men who have killed off their supposed loved ones;
e.g.
Annemarie Lauenstein may have been the first German-born bride to
be allowed entry to the United States after World War II, but soon
thousands of other German-American couples were heading to the U.S. Some
of their stories are told at the Allied Museum.
You still don't believe me, eh?
Then look for yourselves.
Whenever you see pictures -
particularly photographs and film footage of the past - just take notice of
which gender seems to be the more downtrodden, the more worn out, the more
overworked, the more tired, the more demeaned, the more insulted, the more
regimented, the more disfigured, and/or the more dead.