populistindependent wrote:Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:Women are being used as credibility props in an age of non-stop war propaganda.
Women are now the 'news' talking heads on network TV and the voices bringing bad news and lies from National Propaganda Radio.
Are there things that on the surface seem to advance the cause of gender equality - "we have women news anchors now!" - when the effect is actually the opposite of that?
Absolutely. Feminism was considered to be Communism and a threat to national security in 1963 when Betty Friedan's 'Feminine Mystique' cracked open this topic and
gender sociology researcher Carol Gilligan was contradicting male dominance theory at Harvard. (I'm sure you know that I've decided that 'Gilligan's Island' was named that in 1963 to prevent this Harvard researcher from becoming a household name like Betty Friedan's.)
The CIA promoted CIA asset Gloria Steinem to be the capitalism-safe feminist.
But then in 1970 or 1971 a San Francisco FBI memo notes that feminism makes a pretty good wedge issue to fracture the New Left which COINTELPRO was hammering at.
And it was. So as important to human justice as women's liberation is, it was weaponized by fascism.
The war against the middle class was assisted by having men angrily competing with women for jobs and wages. Children were more vulnerable to outside influences like TV and other kids... who were also influenced by TV.
And having the fundie right scream against women's liberation served to blind the left to what was going on. Not that any women's liberation shouldn't have happened. Just that the Cold War had us intentionally muddled and we didn't know we were being divided to be conquered.
To this day the 'Feminazi' catch phrase works on many people, another weapon to wield.
I am amazed, for example, by people who think that the election of Senator Clinton advances the cause of women merely because she is a woman and don't look beyond that.
Yup. I have older black friends (they were ex-military musicians who joined a band I knew) who tried to be encouraged by Colin Powell and Condi Rice for their skin color.
They only reluctantly admitted that, yes, those were war criminals used as credibility props.
Corporate America has embraced and absorbed women into the work force by creating many phony white collar jobs and positions, while cutting all of our incomes in half and leaving millions of women and children mired in poverty. The net income to each household is the same as it was when there was one person working outside of the home, but the corporations are getting twice as much in labor.
Yup. Economic opportunity channeled into economic COINTELPRO.
But it had to happen that way. Male chauvinism was HORRIBLE and needed to be changed with gender integration.
Now the challenge is to see what happened and learn so that we get past the offered false narratives and regain gender solidarity...against the Army Corps of Social Engineering that has attempted to dam up social evolution and channel it into enabling fascism.
