Tag: Feminism

Feminism In Afghanistan

There mis a subject that gets little air time these days…..Feminism.

A 2020 Dem candidate, Marianne Williamson, has made a comment about our stay in Afghanistan and wants to link it to the country’s grasp of feminism…..

Democrat 2020 presidential candidate, Marianne Williamson, says it is “unacceptable” for the Trump administration to consider pulling troops out of Afghanistan, because we need to ensure “the rights and protection of women” who were abused by the Taliban. Williamson referenced an article in the New York Times claiming the US is in Afghanistan to advance feminism. -GEG

Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Marianne Williamson said it’s “unacceptable” for the Trump administration to consider pulling troops out of Afghanistan because we need to ensure “the rights and protection of women” who were abused by the Taliban.

“The US withdrawing troops from Afghanistan without ensuring the rights and protection of women is is unacceptable,” Williamson tweeted on Saturday. “The Taliban’s history of brutality towards women must not be forgotten or ignored in these negotiations.”

Williamson linked to a propaganda piece from the New York Times justifying endless war to “woke” liberals by claiming the U.S. is in Afghanistan to advance feminism.

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=60626

Sorry but we have been there for 18+ years and women have some rights they did not have but for the most part women’s rights is in the toilet and a lengthy stay by American troops will do nothing to change their plight.

She is not the only politico that claims that we could do more for Afghan women if we continue to stay in country….

Howard Dean last year similarly said we need to continue the endless war in Afghanistan to advance feminism:

“By withdrawing our troops from Afghanistan you are condemning millions of women to the Stone Age. No education, no choice about who they marry. They will become property when the Taliban takes over. Is that what you really want Ro? “

But what about the US government….is there any concern for the women of Afghanistan?

rural Kandahar, Afghanistan—birthplace of the Taliban movement—I hardly even saw a solitary grown woman. There, in the backwater of a country full of backwaters, adult women were rarely seen outdoors and never without a male family member as an escort.

The U.S. Government Doesn’t Care About Afghan Women

Do these people seriously see any change in the situation for Afghan women if the US stays or not?

“Lego Ergo Scribo”

2017 Women’s History Month–Mary Edwards Walker

Have you ever heard the name Mary Edwards Walker before?

Of course you have not and why should you……after all she is only a medal of honor winner….not all that important in the grand scheme (sarcasm).  Not only the first woman to win this award but the ONLY woman to do so…..

Mary Edwards Walker, one of the nation’s 1.8 million women veterans, was the only woman to earn the Medal of Honor, for her service during the Civil War.

She was honored in several ways…. a World War II, Liberty ship, the SS Mary Walker, was named for her and in 1982, the U.S. Postal Service issued a 20 cent stamp in her honor, in April 2011 the residents of her hometown of Oswego, New York will honor her with a statue.

She was there in the early days of women fighting for their rights…..

But you can read more about this extraordinary woman…..

Source: The 1st and only woman Medal of Honor recipient: A statue in her honor – Medal of Honor News

Another woman forgotten by history…..but there will always be people like me that will not let their memory slide from the consciousness of the nation.

Abby Kelley–Radical Woman

College of Political Knowledge

Subject:  American History/Women’s History

I try to do my part to educate the people on things that they may not think about or realize…..it is March and Women’s History month…..I also try to find people that have contributed to the making of this country and have not been given the respect that they deserve……and Abby Kelley is such a person…….

Abigail (Abby) Kelley was born in 1811 into a strict Quaker family…..being a female her education was that in Quaker schools….after her education was complete, as much as any woman could hope to obtain, she taught school and her road to radical feminism….she lectured and wrote about temperance, pacifism and anti-slavery…..she became more and more progressive while involved with abolitionists, but she not only lectured about freedom for slaves but also a full civil equality…she not only opposed war but also all forms of government coercion, as well as calling for equality for slaves she lead the talk on equality for women……

Her radical abolitionist views continually garnered her recognition as well as hatred even among her male comrades…they especially distanced themselves from her when she began lecturing to “mixed gender” audiences….this promoting many to pull away for her and her endeavors…..she was ridiculed and hated by many within the movement….

In 1838, Kelley began her speaking career and over the years she was criticized over her lectures to men…..she continued to lecture and to be a  fundraiser for the cause of anti-slavery up until her death in 1887…her farm in Mass was labeled “Liberty Farm” and was a meeting place for reformers and radicals, as well as a stop on the Underground Railroad, a path for escape slaves to make it to safety and freedom…..she remained a staunch reformer and radical for equal rights for women as well as slaves until her death…

Abby Kelley was a cornerstone of radicalism in the US and she has not gotten as much respect as she deserved….for she played a major roll in the fight for equal rights…she like so many others, deserves more recognition that she has received….we Americans seem to forget that we owe radicals a large thank you for their work…for without them the country would not be the country it is today……

What Has Happened To Men?

It is the week-end and I feel I need to cleanse my soul from the week of politics….I just feel dirty!

And now…for something completely different!

From time to time there are things that just make me think that civilization is in dire straits….things that are seemingly unexplainable….recently I saw a thing on the tube that made me think that men, as a whole, are in trouble….deep trouble……when did men stop being men?

In the early days, the 70’s and 80’s, men started wearing loud smelling cologne and then it was hair gel and spray….and just when I thought men had finished with the woosie stuff and new list was about to happen…..and then……

First, men started shaving or otherwise removing hair from their bodies…..I understand a porn star wanting some goodies more visible but most men?  What purpose does that accomplished?

Second, men started using facial scrubs, hand lotions and such….when did that become a norm?

And now……there is a vitamin for men that are “gummies”…..you know….gummies?  That childish little candy that is similar to chewy jelly…..is swallowing a pill that difficult for men?

When and why did men become so feminine?  Or put it another way….when did they become such p*ssies?

It is NO longer manly to have hair on your chest or wash their hands with lava soap or for that matter swallow a damn pill……when did men become such woosies?  And why?

God!  We are a shallow people!

Who Was Fanny Wright?

College of Political Knowledge

Subject:  American History/Women’s History/

March is “Women’s History Month” where we celebrate women and their accomplishments through the history of our country….and today is the International Woman’s Day…….I try to find people that do not get the credit they deserve….last year it was Thomas Paine and his stance on women’s rights……This year is the little known radical feminist, Frances Wright…..

Most of us have heard of Harriet Tubman or Sojourner Truth or Amelia Erhart or Susan B. Anthony or Mother Jones to mention only a few of the courageous women of American history….but who has heard of Fanny Wright?

Fanny Wright was born Frances Wright in Scotland in 1795…her father was a wealthy linen merchant and political radical, who knew Adam Smith and corresponded with many French republicans.  In 1818, Fanny visited the United States for the first time and moved here in 1820’s where she established herself as a social reformer and in 1825 became an American citizen.  She became a radical feminist and lectured extensively on sexual freedom for women, emancipation of slaves, free public schooling of ALL children, and the issue of birth control.  She was an outspoken critic of capitalism, greed and organized religion.

Outside of Memphis, Tennessee she founded Nashoba Commune which was a place set up to educate slaves for their eventual freedom…she hoped to build a community that was self-sustaining community of slaves, free blacks and whites   a true multi-racial commune.  Unfortunately the community lasted only three years and in 1830, Wright freed all the slaves that were there and got them to Haiti which had won its independence in 1804, where the people could live the lives as free men and women…..

In the 1830’s and 1840’s Wright involved herself in the movement to get women into medicine and health care…she became an activist in the American popular Health Movement…she continued to work for women’s rights in most all fields of society and in 1852 she died from complications she had from a fall on icy stairs.

She was a true radical and deserves more attention than she has gotten in the past….she worked tirelessly for the women’s movement as it was and the United States is better off for her involvement in the struggles of women.

Is It Gender Specific?

Inkwell Institute

Professor’s Classroom

Subject:  Political Theory/Feminism/

Paper #19

It would be difficult to try and teach political theory without injecting gender into the mix…..in today’s world gender and politics is as important as any other issue and if one looks at the most recent primaries then you can understand why I make such a statement……women are coming of age, especially in the GOP which in the past had been a cultural wasteland for women candidates….all that is changing and we need to see what it will mean in the future…..

In the US the Democratic Party has long held that women are very viable candidates, but it has not been so with the GOP in the past…but today’s political climate is giving conservative women an outlet for their political ambitions….especially on the shirt tails of the Tea Party…..this can only increase the democrat process…but in today’s political sphere there are a few philosophies about gender….personally, I like the idea of more gender diversification in politics….

But different philosophies view gender in very different lights……not all view it in a positive way….and some even see it a the hue of the Cro-Magnon man…..

I will begin with Liberals (I know I also begin with Liberals) who have traditionally viewed differences between man and woman as being a personal and private  significance.  In politics, all people, regardless of gender, are equal….gender is irrelevant as is race and social class.

Conservatives have emphasized the social and political significance of gender divisions and argue that the sexual division of labor between men and women is natural and hierarchical.

And now the Socialists…..like liberals have seldom treated gender as politically significant….they view the divisions between men and women as a reflection of deeper problems with economic and class inequalities.

Everybody’s a/hole the Fascists who see gender as a fundamental division of mankind, where men are naturally the leaders, while women are more suited for domestic, supportive and subordinate roles.  (No wonder these guys have little success)

Feminists also see gender as a political and social distinction, but see these divisions are manifestations of male power, otherwise there is NO distinction….

Now my fav, the Religious Right who regard gender as a God-given division and as such is critical to social and political organization.  So with that said, they tend to see the leadership by men as natural and desirable.  (Silly people that they are)

We could carry on with this discussion of gender and politics, but that would take a whole semester and then we would be where we were when I began this  post.  I realize that my definitions are short, sweet and overly simple but unfortunately that is the way people think and I try to be accurate as I can and as informative as I can in the least amount of space……enjoy…..

Who Was America’s First Feminist?

Professor’s Classroom

Subject:  Women’s Studies/American History

It is March and that would make it Women’s History Month…..what better time than now to try and right a historical wrong?  I do not want to take anything away from the people that worked long and hard as suffragist  and feminists, they tolled long and hard to help women get their deserved place in history and in society.  Women like Clara Barton, Susan B. Anthony, Helen Keller, all women that gave their all for the cause…..

Almost every timeline that I see about women’s rights there seems to be a consensus that Abigail Adams, wife of Founder Father John Adams, told her husband while he and the others were working on the Declaration of Independence  in 1776 to, “Remember the Ladies”….she is usually the first entry in the timeline on the fight for women rights…….

Actually, there was another about two years before Abigail’s now famous line……in 1774,  a man, not a normal man but rather an idealists that led the charge to independence as well as the fight against slavery and the first person in the Colonies that called for the rights that women truly deserved….that man was Thomas Paine…..

He wrote an essay entitled:  “An Occasional Letter On The Female Sex”:

Society, instead of alleviating their condition, is to them the source of new miseries. More than one half of the globe is covered with savages; and among all these people women are completely wretched. Man, in a state of barbarity, equally cruel and indolent, active by necessity, but naturally inclined to repose, is acquainted with little more than the physical effects of love; and, having none of those moral ideas which only can soften the empire of force, he is led to consider it as his supreme law, subjecting to his despotism those whom reason had made his equal, but whose imbecility betrayed them to his strength. “Nothing” (says Professor Miller, speaking of the women of barbarous nations) “can exceed the dependence and subjection in which they are kept, or the toil and drudgery which they are obliged to undergo. The husband, when he is not engaged in some warlike exercise, indulges himself in idleness, and devolves upon his wife the whole burden of his domestic affairs. He disdains to assist her in any of those servile employments. She sleeps in a different bed, and is seldom permitted to have any conversation or correspondence with him.”

The above is a portion of the essay that Paine wrote in 1774 for the Pennsylvania Magazine…..

Paine was a staunch supporter of human rights…..he opposed slavery in ALL forms…..and he especially found that women were treated more like property than equals….that they had NO voice and NO station other than arm candy and as a baby factory….he deplored the treatment of women and was one of the first, if not the first, to speak out in women’s defense…….

We as a country owe Thomas Paine a great deal….more than we could ever repay him for….his service to this country goes almost totally ignored….a sad fact that I attempt to rectify……I take every opportunity to point out the accomplishments of Thomas Paine because the US owes him a large debt that we have yet to pay….

When we celebrate Women’s History Month…let us look to Thomas Paine as the First feminist, who took on the establishment on the behalf of women….GIVE THE MAN HIS DUE!

A New Woman’s Movement?

The Boston Globe is reporting there is the beginnings of a new movement.

Clinton’s presidential bid galvanized women as no other campaign in recent history has. While many younger women supported Barack Obama, among Clinton’s most passionate supporters were older women who saw the former first lady as their best chance of having a woman in the White House in their lifetimes – and who saw the demise of her campaign as evidence of lingering sexism in America. In Denver this week, many of these women have been talking about the emergence of a new movement that would unite women across the generational divide to combat discrimination, unequal pay, and other concerns.

Several dozen of Clinton’s strongest female supporters met three weeks ago in New York to organize The New Agenda, a nonpartisan group focused on women’s issues and electing women candidates. Amy Siskind, a major Democratic donor and activist from New York who helped start it, said in a phone interview yesterday that she has received e-mails and calls of support from around the country.

But it is not at all clear a new movement would benefit the organizations that have long been at the forefront, such as EMILY’s List and NARAL. Now, they are calling for unity, saying that some of the most important women’s issues, especially abortion rights, are at stake in November and that Clinton supporters have a duty to stand up for them.Many Clinton loyalists, though, are angry with the leaders of the party and women’s groups, saying they did too little to confront rampant sexism and allowed an unfair primary process. They are divided over whether to support Obama or Republican John McCain – a troubling turn for the Democratic Party and for the feminist establishment, whose credibility depends on keeping Clinton supporters in the fold.