Are you a feminist in the 21st century? Sucker!
Every once in a while, the curtain is momentarily pulled back and we catch a glimpse of the sordid underbelly of Leftist politics. Just this happened during the campaign for DNC chair.
Everybody understands First Wave Feminism. Women should have the vote, they should be
able to make contracts, inherit property, and so on. Adult female citizens should have all the
rights (and the obligations, with the possible exception of military service)
of adult male citizens. So,
"Yes" to First Wave Feminism.
Second Wave Feminism seemed like a fraud from the
start. It's the lies, you see. Betty Friedan was never the house-bound
house-frau she claimed to be. Feminists
still man the barricades for equal pay even though equal pay has been the lay
of the land for at least the past 30 years.
Or, how about domestic violence? Remember when Super Bowl Sunday was the most
dangerous day of the year to be a woman?
No? That's good, because it ain't
so. But feminists made up this lie and
successfully promoted it for years before it finally died a slow, painful, and
long delayed death.
My personal favorite is the Rule of Thumb. Legacy systems of weights and measures arose
organically. The inch is approximately
the width of a man's thumb at the first knuckle, a foot is a man’s foot, a yard
is his stride, a grain is actually a grain of wheat or barley, a stone is a
stone, and so on. To this day horses are
measured as so many "hands" high at the shoulder. So, a carpenter marking off wood might in
some cases naturally use his thumb for an approximate measure---the Rule of
Thumb.
So, the Rule of Thumb seemed an obvious, and innocuous,
concept until the feminists explained that Medieval Common Law allowed a man to
beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. According to the feminists, the Rule of Thumb
was a limiting concept, a first effort of a barbaric society to limit the
brutality of men (who are still brutal and something should be done about them,
like taking away their Super Bowl).
Except it ain't so.
The Rule of Thumb means exactly what you think it means, and nothing else. Feminists just made up the rest. (Really, they took a Medieval joke and
dressed it up as a modern truth.)
Why all the lies?
Because feminism, the Second Wave stuff, is not about women.
David Horowitz, author, publisher, founder of the David
Horowitz Freedom Center, and former far-Left radical, explains it this
way: “The cause is never the cause. The cause is always the revolution." Feminism is not about women, racial justice
and the BLM movement are not about Black people, gender dysphoria is not about
gender, immigration is not about foreigners, etc. All these seemingly disparate things are really
about one and the same thing. They are
about the revolution. The socialist
revolution. And to implement any
revolution, first you have to tear down the Existing Order. That is why the Bolsheviks shot dead the Tsar
and his entire family.
In the 21st century, the single greatest impediment to the
socialist revolution is the spectacular success of Western Civilization, so
that has to go. And to tear it down, you
have to undermine its foundations. That
is what Antonio Gramsci’s “Long March Through The Institutions” is about.
To undermine the West, you have to undermine democracy,
undermine the family, even cast doubt on the biological reality of men and
women. And, you have to find
allies. Here is an icon of Western
feminism finding an ally in a representative of the greatest oppressor of women
in the modern world, "Gloria Steinem Endorses Keith Ellison for Democratic national Committee Chair."
And here is a socialist finding an ally in a representative
of the greatest retrograde force in the modern world, "Join Bernie Sanders and Support Keith Ellison for DNC Chair."
