Posted on 03/25/2002 3:23:25 AM PST by hobblemaster
Gloria Steinem, who has led the feminist movement for decades, lashed out this weekend at the Catholic Church and blamed the pedophile scandal on its male-dominated hierarchy a structure she also blamed for creating Adolf Hitler. Speaking at a charity luncheon for the YWCA of Palm Beach County, Fla., this past Friday, Steinem began her speech by saying, "I hardly know where to begin."
"To create a hierarchy of authority and sanctity and then suppress sexuality as a natural form of expression and subject these men to total control," Steinem said, "well, it's almost natural that some of them will then seek control over people lower down in the power structure."
Steinem also claimed that pedophile priests were victims, just as the children they had abused, of the male-dominated church hierarchy.
According to a press report, Steinem drew a clear line connecting male dominance, the church sex scandals and the terrorists who wreaked havoc on Sept. 11.
Steinem then drew a link between the Church sex scandal and Adolf Hitler.
"Let's not forget that Hitler was elected from a society with a strong patriarchal authoritative structure," Steinhem said.
"We can't begin to know how much less violence there could be in the world if one generation of children was raised without violence," Steinem claimed.
According to Steinem, all evil finds its origin in the male gender.
She stressed that the terrorists of 9-11 were all male and added that all of the school massacres have been orchestrated by young males who were heterosexual "or striving to appear heterosexual."
Steinem also said that almost all serial murderers are male and usually Caucasian and come from the middle class.
Steinem said: "The cult of masculinity is the basis of every violent, fascist regime.
We need to raise our sons more like our daughters, with empathy, flexibility, patience and compassion. These so-called feminine qualities are present in men as much as women, and it's a libel on men to say they're not."
Gee, that describes most of the NYPD and FDNY heroes as well. Gloria doesn't need my help anymore to be outed as the racist, sexist, plug ugly pig's rectum that she is. She's doing fine all by herself.
And as far as linking Catholics to Nazis and pedophilia... I have two things to say... Elton John and Michael Jackson.
Why Do We Oppose the Men?We oppose the Men because we are defending the freedom of the Feminist women. The Man is the cause and beneficiary of our slavery He has misused the social misery of the broad masses to deepen the dreadful split between the right and left of our women, to divide Feminism into two halves thereby concealing the true reason for the loss of the Great War and falsifying the nature of the revolution.
The Man has no interest in solving the Feminist question. He cannot have such an interest. He depends on it remaining unsolved. If the Feminist women formed a united community and won back its freedom, there would be no place any longer for the Man. His hand is strongest when a woman lives in domestic and international slavery, not when it is free, industrious, self-aware and determined. The Man had caused our problems, and lives from them.
That is why we oppose the Man as feminists and as socialists. He has ruined our gender, corrupted our morals, hollowed out our customs and broken our strength. We owe it to him that we today are the Pariah of the world. He was the leper among as long as we were Feminist. When we forgot our Feminist nature, he triumphed over us and our future.
The Man is the plastic demon of decomposition. Where he finds filth and decay, he surfaces and begins his butcher's work among the nations. He hides behind a mask and presents himself as a friend to his victims, and before they know it he has broken their neck.
The Man is uncreative. He produces nothing, he only haggles with products. With rags, clothing, pictures, manels, grain, stocks, cures, womens and states. He has somehow stolen everything he deals in. When he attacks a state he is a revolutionary. As soon as he holds power, he preaches peace and order so that he can devour his conquests in comfort.
What does sexism have to do with socialism? I would put the question this way: What does the Man have to do with socialism? Socialism has to do with labor. When did one ever see him working instead of plundering, stealing and living from the sweat of others? As socialists we are opponents of the Men because we see in the males the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods.
What does sexism have to do with feminism? I would put the question this way: What does the Man have to do with feminism? Feminism has to do with blood and gender. The Man is the enemy and destroyer of the purity of blood, the conscious destroyer of our gender. As feminists we oppose the Men because we see the males as the eternal enemy of our feminine honor and of our feminine freedom.
But the Man after all is also a human being. Certainly, none of us doubts that. We only doubt that he is a decent human being. He does not get along with us. He lives by other laws than we do. The fact that he is a human being is not sufficient reason for us to allow him to subject us in inhumane ways. He may be a human being-but what kind of a human being is he! If someone slaps your mother in the face, do you say: "Thank you! He is after all a human being!" That is not a human being, it is a monster. Yet how much worse has the Man done to our mother godess, and is still doing today!
There are also white men. True, there are scoundrels among us, even though they are Feminists, who act in immoral ways against their own racial and blood comrades. But why do we call them white Men? You use the term to describe something inferior and contemptible. Just as we do. Why do you ask us why we oppose the Men when you without knowing it are one too?
Sexism is not anti-Christian. That means that it is Christian to allow the Men to go on as they are, stripping the skin from our bodies and mocking us. To be a Christian means to love one's neighbor as oneself! My neighbor is my gender and blood sister. If I love her I have to hate her enemies. She who thinks Feminism must despise the Men. The one requires the other.
Christ himself saw that love did not always work. When he found the moneychangers in the Temple, he did not say: "Children, love one another!" He took up a whip and drove them out.
We oppose the Men because we affirm the Feminist women. The Man is our greatest misfortune.
It is not true that we have Men for breakfast.
It is true that slowly but surely, he is stealing all that we have.
Things would be different if we behaved as Feminists.
Revolutionary Demands
Name one great female composer. (The best I can come up with is Cecile Chaminade--sort of 'semi-great')
Name one great female mathematician. (The best I know of was Sophie Germain)
Name one great female inventor. (Well, Hedy Lamar, the actress).
Okay, I spotted you three. Name 3 more. And a great female scientist other than Madame Curie. Hard sciences only, please. And no, Rachel Carson and Margaret Mead do not qualify.
Blame men for all the badness; fine. Who is to 'blame' for all the goodness--in works--in the world?
Please note: I am no misogynist. Women are precious for creating and nurturing life and families, for civilizing men, and for being blessed with other skills.
--Boris
"I didn't expect this sort of Spanish Inquisition!"
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LOL!!
Steinem also claimed that pedophile priests were victims, just as the children they had abused, of the male-dominated church hierarchy.Good Lord, shes excusing these monsters? Besides NAMBLA Ive never seen someone actually do that.
Steinem then drew a link between the Church sex scandal and Adolf Hitler.Ill draw another link between Hitler and the scandals. Hitlers people went around arresting priests who opposed him, accused them of pedophilia, etc., and had them thrown in jail. Like now, he wanted to break the strength of the Church by making the population believe the priests were all perverts. Obviously some are, but the effort to tar all of the priests with the sins of the few is nothing new. Steinhem is right to link the present crisis with a Hilterian approach, but she misses the fact that she more closely resembles him, as both sought to destroy the Church."Let's not forget that Hitler was elected from a society with a strong patriarchal authoritative structure," Steinhem said.
patent +AMDG
That is the scarier part: the evolution of fascism to more complex and murderous forms as waged by feminists, of all things, lead by women who bear children and possess powers over the most innocent of lives.
That's what I meant to say.Ooof. Your wife doesnt freep does she?
LOL. I made the mistake of showing mine how to use the search thing. Every now and then I get a call complaining about how I chose to spend my time. I'm too timid to say anything that would really get me in trouble. ;-)
patent
Boris, no need to be defensive. The first rule in the feminist playbook is to label as "mysogynist" anyone who points out their hatred and lies. This tactic silenced all opposition for over thirty years, giving their fascist rhetoric a political advantage heretofore unknown in American history. It created a media environment that tolerated no criticism excepting that published by other women, and even that was vigorously marginalized. But, as much as I hate to say it, men might just owe Bill Clinton some gratitude for his part in sapping feminism's political hegemony. The alignment of Bill Clinton and the National Organization of Women created a virtual mask over feminism that hid the facade of concern for women's rights, leaving only the socialist fanaticism and homosexual agenda visible. They sacrificed their most potent propaganda weapon on the alter of Clintonism. No longer can they call a critic of feminism "anti-woman." It's open season on these wild sows.
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