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."
That is because we are responsible for everything.
Bridges? Men. Cars? Men. Roads? Men. Airplanes, Electricity, Radio, Television, Cosmetics, Farming, Domestication of Animals? Men.
I give women ONE accomplishment: Madam Curie discovered radioactivity -- which lead to the atomic bomb. So I will credit them with some certain weapons of mass destruction.
If they insist.
My favorite's always been Grace Hopper.
I've always heard that Germany in the 20s had an extremely liberal permissive society.
--Boris
Penis Envy.
Roger that. :o)
Dr. Rihab Rashida Taha aka Dr. Germ A woman, Dr. Rihab Rashida Taha, may rank as the deadliest person on earth if rumors of her exploits can be sustained.
In an amazing 1998 article by Robert Windrem, NBC news investigative producer, he holds Dr. Rihab Rashida Taha personally responsible for the creation of Iraq's biological weapons while claiming she is both a marginal scientist and a poor administrator who gets (woman-like) hysterics in meetings.
Tagged "Dr. Germ" by U.N. inspectors, the claim is she heads Iraq's manufacture and testing of biological weapons as anthrax and botulinum toxin. Writer Windrem calls her one of the "new breed of Third world weapons designers - highly nationalistic, Western-educated and willing to violate any international norms or scientific ethics." He goes on to note several times in his exposee that she would turn hysterical in meetings. He makes it a point to quote those who say she was a marginal student and would not have received her British Ph.D. if she was not a foreign national.
That Dr. Taha is responsible for the highly dangerous, inhuman germ weapons constructs in Iraq is beyond a doubt, although "Gen. Amer Rashid al-Ubaidi, her husband of three years, has long been the man the U.N. inspectors deal with on the most sensitive superweapons issues, since he oversaw many of them." The mother of one girl, Dr. Taha is undoubtedly on a war crimes list as a criminal of horrible proportions - and deserves it. And yet, she based everything she's doing on programs in the U.S. and Britain. Both nations have done extensive studies on germ warfare, and though the programs were supposed to be shut down, no one really believes it.
Windrem wrote, "[Dr.] Taha has been held up as an example to Iraqi women interested in science in spite of a career devoid of any accomplishment other than the development of germ warfare." Windrem's one-sided and very anti-woman writing makes one wonder what "the rest of the story" is. However, if Irag's military government ever falls, one can be certain that Dr. Taha will be held personally responsible for the germ warfare crimes. One must always remember that the war crimes of Dr. Braun, the German inventor of the silent rockets that rained death on London during World War II, was never prosecuted. Instead, he was brought to the U.S., treated like royalty to help the U.S. in its rocket program. And a woman whose only crime was directing a couple of movies is still villified.
Can't speak for OPH, but my wife enjoys seeing what I have to say from time to time. Given my posts, perhaps that is the first sign of insanity? For whatever reason she likes learning what I think about things, so she sometimes checks to see what I'm discussing. I do the same with her, I'm curious to know what she finds interesting here as well. Sometimes we wind up talking about it at home. It's nothing sinister or distrustful.
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Since my wife and I have similar interests, it sometimes happens that we post on the same thread at the same time. Because of that (and self-preservation) I have a powerful incentive to behave.
Hey Gloria, ever heard of Eve, Andrea Yates or Susan Smith?
Yeah, and make them wear dresses and play with Barbie dolls too.
It's normal for women to blame men for things because men are the doers and women are the complainers....excuse me, I gotta go doo doo.
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