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."
As for a patriarchial society producing Adolph Hitler? A matriarchial family produced Bill Clinton, who successfully employed Hitler's tactics to get elected in America. (Hitler succeeded by the skilled use of the Big Lie, and by scape-goating a target, to appear to be other than he was. Clinton was also a master of the bold lie, and viciously scape-goated Conservative traditionalists. That Hitler's demons were the Jews and Clinton's Christian Fundamentalists and those determined to preserve their heritage, are hardly significant differences. Their approaches were functionally terribly similar.)
For where the Nazis fit in the whole sick panoply of the Left, see The Lies Of Socialism.
William Flax
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