The war in Afghanistan could not possibly offer a chance to liberate women from their oppressors, since it would simply expose women to yet another set of oppressors, in the gender feminists’ view.
Sara Ruddick, author of Maternal Thinking, is perhaps one of the most influential spokeswomen for the position that women are instinctually peaceful.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
If that is true, then how do you explain the esctatic mothers of Palestinian homicide bombers, so proud of their sons for being martyrs to their cause?
Yep! Feminists can't acknowledge the real suffering of women in those countries. They would jeapordize their own chances to score petty points in the US.
Feminists know that mentioning the severe conditions of those women would expose the truth that they themselves are whiners, who make some pretty silly demands for themselves.
Feminism means you never have to say you're grateful.
Thank you for the ping, chance33_98!
As someone said after 9-11, "Where were the girls at the Towers? Every fire-fighter was a man, as was essentially every policeman, every rescure worker, and all the construction workers who showed-up to dig out the rubble. Manly men were suddenly back in fashion, while the latte-sipping, pour-the-wine New York Times, liberal, girly men were suddenly out of fashion."
the postcolonial notion that brown men, having been victimized by the West, can never be oppressors in their own right. If they give the appearance of treating women badly, the oppression they have suffered at the hands of Western colonial masters is to blame. In fact, the worse they treat women, the more they are expressing their own justifiable outrage.
The most appalling racism and hesperophobia on display.
I have developed a theory, that when any organization is built around a single concept (like NOW for women's rights), once the organization has been successful in achieving its objective, the mainstream members leave and the loonies take over. It gives them "meaning" in their wacked out lives.
They averted their eyes and remain silent becaused they're pissed. It was the despised patriarchy, in the form of U.S. troops, that effectively liberated the Afghan women, and not Gloria Steinem's speeches. How dare the patriarchy do such a thing!?
1) If you believe that the purpose of feminism is to fight for women's rights, then the limp response by NOW to the Taliban is nonsensical. But, if you understand that feminism is merely one disguise that the liberals use to advance their agenda, then things become a little clearer. Liberalism's mission statement is the destruction of Western Culture and Western Man. Socialism has been locked in a death struggle with traditional Western Culture for so long, that the lefties have become obsessed with our demise. They would sell their souls to the devil to destroy us. As such, they could care less what happens to women in Afghanistan, as their fate will not affect their main goal. (notice that they are so obsessed with hatred of us that they even make a few lame attempts to blame westerners for the sorry state of women in Afghanistan...talk about twisted logic). This phenomenon is similar to old world anti-semitism, where eveything imaginable was blamed on the Jews...often by the most tortured logic.
2) Notice how the adoption of a secular, relativistic worldview results in the elimination of the concept of "evil". If you come to believe that people who do bad things are "products of their environment" or are "following other, nonwestern cultures"....then the concept of evil has no meaning. When this happens, then all violence has an equal, negative standing regardless of the context. Thus, the violence that destroyed the Taliban is in the same category as the violence that destroyed the Twin Towers.
A healthy culture which understands the existence of evil will look upon its boys as a valuable asset. Their greater physical prowess (as opposed to girls) is vital to the survival of the culture and the struggle against evil that arises in the world. Such cultures carefully teach boys to master their physical natures and to channel their abilities in positive directions (often through simulated warfare such as contact sports and martial arts). This makes them more effective when evil comes knocking.
A relativistic culture which denies the reality of evil in the universe looks at the physical nature of boys as a pathology. They need "conflict resolution" training and "anger management". The proliferation of such attitudes alienates boys from their culture and reinforces in themselves that they are inherently defective.
liberalism = relativism = no evil = all violence is bad = boys are pathological = alienation = ritalin