LET THE FEMINISTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES
Andrew E. Carlan
Never in the field of human endeavor has so little been owed by so
many to so few. Adapted from Churchill on Feminism
Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so
important no one can define it. ~ Caroline Bird, former justice
California Supreme Court, actiually dismissed before California went
over the bend on a recall petition ~
The bird is wrong.. I have the definition in front of me. Serious
mental illness or disorder impairing a person’s capacity to function
normally and safely.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
My own definition of Feminism is much more Hegelian. That is, it goes
on for pages and pages. Here is an excerpt.
There is nothing new about Feminism. It is not a theory. It is a recurring social disease. It is today's Witchcraft, Theosophy, Puritanism and the whole European peasantry during Black Plagues who went collectively beserk on psychotic roller-coaster rides.
I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful,
lazy, and driven Barbra Steissand.
I can attest to this. I saw her led into a limo by two men in white
coats. She drove herself mad drinking from the elixir of far-left
Democrats. Now she was being driven to an asylum for the wealthy, which
in California includes some well-known entertainers, professors,
politicians, churchmen, psychiatrists, children of psychiatrists,
lawyers, doctors, school board members and teachers, ethnic leaders,
university presidents and students, especially at Berkeley. In fact, The
whole state of California has been declared an emergency ward by
Governor Grey Davis, who also took time off for electro-shock R&R.
Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is
destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the
earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is
forbidden for her to do so.~ Andrea Dworkin ~
I didn’t realize Dworkin lived in California. Well we now know who
Barbra is sharing her room with.
However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism
must start with a belief in some group’s greater right to power,
whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all
four. However far it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on
unequal power and airtight roles within the family.
For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical
gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that
our real and diverse female bodies can’t possibly fit. Without these
visual references, each individual woman’s body demands to be accepted
on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t,
destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Over sixty years Steinem was able during lucid moments to write this
somewhat readable gibberish. As far as the bras and panties are
concerned more power and slippage to them. Gloria herself got in and out
of them fast with almost every powerful man in New York and Washington.
Remember she’s the only Feminist men can fantasize about. She didn’t
have to be a Feminist like the others. She could have made it as a
Playboy bunny.
Gloria Steinem shares with Freud the distinction that everything he
said that was true wasn’t new and everything he said that was new wasn’t
true.
The heaviness of these ideas could give you the bends if you come up
for air too quickly. On the other hand, if anything keeps alive the idea
that women are weightless from the neck up it is spongy and humdrum
ideas like these. What’s to disagree? They could mean everything,
which, naturally, means they don’t mean anything.
Gloria is a very sick person. She has a multiple father fixation. She
had affairs only with the richest and most powerful men including Henry
Kissenger. What she and Henry talked about defies imagination. He speaks
an English dialect which is a combination of throat cancer, intellectual
gibberish and a German accent even his mother couldn’t understand
although they lived in the same house together in Germany until he was
nine. Henry’s mother spoke English without an accent. His accent makes
him sound like a rural Bavarian secondary school teacher. But Gloria
never seemed particularly interested in dialogue.
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is
empowerment in itself.
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as
human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.- Ursula K. Le
Guin ~
Now you know why normal people, females as well as males make wide
detours around volcanoes. All that comes out of them is hot garbage like
this from inside the earth’s core. Besides most are dormant or
extinct.
The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the
cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet
and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the
young.~ Kate Millet
Kate, could you come with me when I represent a father in family
court? You could repeat this ranting to the thickheaded judge ready to
apply the "tender age doctrine." Just tell him in your own
inimitable and charming way that care of the young makes women nothing
more than teats. I’ve been telling judges for years that the Feminists
openly express hatred of motherhood. But family court judges are
functional illiterates. They assume their bathroom talk with other
judges is like Plato’s forum. How could it be otherwise? They know
more than anyone who happens into their courtroom.
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole
world.~ Virginia Woolf ~
I noticed. We saw for a few seconds after 9-11 NOW shut its big mouth
in the face of a sudden burst of patriotism. But Kim Handy Dandy Gandhi
quickly broke the spell. She demanded NOW get (the used most word
in NOW’s limited vocabulary) the same amount the government gave
widows and orphans of the heroic firemen, the unfortunates who burnt to
crisps inside the towers or smashed themselves to death hurtling out of
the 80th story. Only one of the over 400 firemen, yes men,
who gave their lives was a woman. Shows exactly where Kim Handy Dandy
Gandhi’s bedraggled mind lies in wait. This Big Mouth could really get
hurt. You don’t play word games with the grieving New York Police and
Fire Departments like you do with intellectuals and politicians. She
should be straightjacketed off wherever Streisand and Dworkin are locked
up for her own protection.
Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their
steps --Nathalie Sarraute
Anyone who can unlock the meaning of this sentence should see a
psychiatrist immediately. And the psychiatrist should see one too.
And to end this section on a serious note:
Folly is a more dangerous enemy to the good than evil. One can
protest against evil; it can be unmasked and, if need be, prevented by
force. Evil always carries the seeds of its own destruction... Against
folly we have no such defense. Neither protests nor force can touch it;
reasoning is no use...
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely
self-satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not
take much to make him aggressive. A fool must therefore be treated more
cautiously than a scoundrel.—Dietrich Bonhöffer,
Dietrich Bonhoffer was a Lutheran pastor who headed the underground
protestant church during the Third Reich. He paid for protesting the
Holocaust by being hung on meathooks until dead and filmed for Hitler’s
pleasure. He could have remained in the safety of America where he had
joined the faculty of Union Theological Seminary. His friends begged him
not to go back. But he did his duty.
NOW I GET MY CHANCE FOR A FEW MADEUP TEASERS AT THEIR
EXPENSE
"A landed immigrant from Saudi Arabia in smoking sneakers should
enjoy the same rights as a citizen" said Carol Gilligan, of
Gilligan’s Island. Since escaping that antediluvian paradise Gilligan
hooked up as Professor of Education at Harvard University in Cambridge.
Cambridge hasn’t had either a nuclear or Catholic mass in 40 years.
But it does have 55 mosques, many with feudal weaponry on the roof and
modern arms stockpiles in the basement. One adjacent to a Unitarian
Church blew up in 1999. The Unitarians believe everyone is basically
good as does most of Cambridge, except for men and Christians. The
Unitarians invited the Muslim congregation to use their church. It blew
up six months later. Six Unitarians now know whether or not there is a
hell.
Arguing with Feminists is about as useful as arguing with chickens
while on a stampede from ravenous wolves.
Lots of people think feminists are stupid. Affirmative action doesn’t
do much to refute this. Notice who vibrates skillfully and painfully to
the jackhammer and who holds the drooping red flag at construction
sites.
When Feminists claim they are liberals and humanists, I laugh. I know
they know they are pulling my leg.
There is much emptiness and little joy in the Feminist twilight of
our civilization.