Posted on 01/25/2014 10:06:17 AM PST by usalady
In spite of their advances in education and the workforce anxiety disorders are replacing happiness for American women. Sexual liberation was supposed to bring equality for females that expected fulfillment with the freedom to pursue lust without expecting committed relationships.
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“Forget’’? Please! With a name like “marmelstein’’ who can forget? :-)
typo; meant to say ‘’isn’t countered’’.
Uh oh. I didn’t. Now I’m in trouble, aren’t i? :)
I don’t believe a word Steinem says, she changes her tune on a dime (or for her next “story”) which just happens to fit her lifestyle at the time. Why anyone would follow that nut job is a mystery.
She is not for “women’s rights”, she is for LIBERAL women’s rights. She is a political hack!
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In 2005, Steinem worked alongside Jane Fonda and Robin Morgan to co-found the Women’s Media Center, an organization that works to amplify the voices of women in the media through advocacy, media and leadership training.
When Steinem was three years old, her mother Ruth, then aged 34, had a “nervous breakdown” that left her an invalid, trapped in delusional fantasies that occasionally turned violent. She changed “from an energetic, fun-loving, book-loving” woman into “someone who was afraid to be alone, who could not hang on to reality long enough to hold a job, and who could rarely concentrate enough to read a book.”[6] Ruth spent long periods in and out of sanatoriums for the mentally disabled. Steinem was ten years old when her parents finally separated in 1944. Her father went to California to find work, while she and her mother continued to live together in Toledo.
Steinem interpreted her mother’s inability to hold on to a job as evidence of general hostility towards working women.[8] She also interpreted the general apathy of doctors towards her mother as emerging from a similar anti-woman animus. Years later, Steinem described her mother’s experiences as having been pivotal to her understanding of social injustices.
In the late 1950s, Steinem spent two years in India as a Chester Bowles Asian Fellow. After returning to the U.S., she served as director of the Independent Research Service, an organization funded in secret by a donor which turned out to be the CIA. She worked to send non-Communist American students to the 1959 World Youth Festival.
In 1963, while working on an article for Huntington Hartford’s Show magazine, Steinem was employed as a Playboy Bunny at the New York Playboy Club.[14] The article featured a photo of Steinem in Bunny uniform and detailed how women were treated at those clubs.
In 1969, she covered an abortion speak-out for New York Magazine, which was held in a church basement in the Village.[20][21] Steinem had had an abortion herself in London at the age of 22.[22] She felt what she called a “big click” at the speak-out, and later said she didn’t “begin my life as an active feminist” until that day.
As she recalled, “It [abortion] is supposed to make us a bad person. But I must say, I never felt that. I used to sit and try and figure out how old the child would be, trying to make myself feel guilty.
In later years, Steinem became an outspoken supporter of animal rights, writing letters to the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health urging the office director to end the “cruelty, fraud, and waste” of NIH-funded experiments on animals purportedly conducted in the name of advancing women’s health.
During the Clarence Thomas sexual harassment scandal, Steinem voiced strong support for Anita Hill and suggested that one day Hill herself would sit on the Supreme Court.
Steinem defended Clinton against allegations of sexual impropriety that had been made by White House volunteer Kathleen Willey.
On September 3, 2000, at age 66, Steinem married David Bale, father of actor Christian Bale. The wedding was performed at the home of her friend Wilma Mankiller, the first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Steinem and Bale were married for only three years before he died of brain lymphoma on December 30, 2003, at age 62
On June 1, 2013 Steinem performed on stage at the “Chime For Change: The Sound Of Change Live” Concert at Twickenham Stadium in London, England. Chime For Change is a global campaign for girls’ and women’s empowerment founded by Gucci.
In the run-up to the 2004 election, Steinem voiced fierce criticism of the Bush administration, asserting, “There has never been an administration that has been more hostile to women’s equality, to reproductive freedom as a fundamental human right, and has acted on that hostility.” She went on to claim, “If he is elected in 2004, abortion will be criminalized in this country.” At a Planned Parenthood event in Boston, Steinem declared Bush “a danger to health and safety,” citing his antagonism to the Clean Water Act, reproductive freedom, sex education, and AIDS relief.
Both Senators Clinton and Obama are civil rights advocates, feminists, environmentalists, and critics of the war in Iraq.... Both have resisted pandering to the right, something that sets them apart from any Republican candidate, including John McCain. Both have Washington and foreign policy experience; George W. Bush did not when he first ran for president.
Steinem endorsed Senator Clinton, citing her broader experience, saying that the nation was in such bad shape it might require two terms of Clinton and two of Obama to fix it.
Steinem again drew attention for, according to the New York Observer, seeming “to denigrate the importance of John McCain’s time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam”. Steinem’s broader argument “was that the media and the political world are too admiring of militarism in all its guises.”
Steinem was vocal in criticising the media treatment of the Clinton campaign as sexist. Following McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate, Steinem penned an op-ed in which she labeled Palin an “unqualified woman” who “opposes everything most other women want and need.” Steinem described her nomination speech as “divisive and deceptive”, called for a more inclusive Republican Party and concluded that Palin resembled “Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.”
Steinem’s social and political views overlap into multiple schools of feminism. This problem is compounded by the evolution of her views over five decades of activism. Although most frequently considered a liberal feminist, Steinem has repeatedly characterized herself as a radical feminist.
In 2005 Steinem characterized her abortion as a “pivotal and constructive experience.”
Steinem has been a vehement critic of pornography (she was a Playboy Bunny).
In a 2,200-word essay published in Time magazine on August 31, 1970, “What Would It Be Like If Women Win”, Steinem wrote about gay marriage in the context of the “Utopian” future she envisioned:
She said feminists are right to feel uncomfortable about the need for and uses of transsexualism.” The article concluded with what became one of Steinem’s most famous quotes: “If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?”
She said, “Nobody cares about feminist academic writing. That’s careerism. These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted.
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Steinem is a NUT case who can’t keep her story straight.
Gloria’s ex- boyfriends & husband...
Husband: David Bale (m. 3-Sep-2000, d. 30-Dec-2003 lymphoma)
Boyfriend: Mike Nichols
Boyfriend: Mort Zuckerman
Boyfriend: Mort Sahl
Boyfriend: Jim Brown
Boyfriend: Rafer Johnson
Boyfriend: Frederick Exley
University: Smith College (1956)
Playboy Bunny
Ms.
Help!
Democratic Socialists of America Honorary Chair
Emerge America Advisory Board
Equality Now Advisory Council
Hillary Clinton for President
Women Against Pornography
Steinem was seen as a disgruntled bunny, a privileged journalist, and a snitch.
It was the stigma of being a Playboy bunny, she believes, that stalled her journalistic career.
Ms. Was one of the must successful magazine start ups of the times. Sure, she had help from her male friends at New York Magazine but Steinem continued to finance the venture for the next twenty years through creative means. This system of patriarchal government and money-driven media is something Steinem still rallies against. She continues to help with the editing of Ms. Magazine.
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/nationalcurriculum/units/2013/3/13.03.12.x.html
“Steinem was seen as a disgruntled bunny, a privileged journalist, and a snitch.
It was the stigma of being a Playboy bunny, she believes, that stalled her journalistic career.”
If she was a bunny, this means she used her body to get what she wanted and get her start in life.
I wonder how different things would have been if Steinhem’s father hadn’t left her with her crazy mother.
This is just a thought, but I think the liberation movement was run by a bunch of sluts who have tried to tear down decent women so they (the sluts) don’t feel bad about themselves anymore.
Sluts used to be a marginalized part of society (however it is that they became a slut) and decided to encourage men to rut like animals in heat without bothering to commit (something that didn’t take much encouragement) and made it clear to chaste women that only sluts will get the men as husbands.
Hence, formerly decent women becoming sluts.
I think that at a certain point, past a certain number of men, a woman becomes completely shut down emotionally and psychologically and decides to live only for themselves alone and loses any sense of moral compass. No one can take being used and discarded for so much until the last pieces of belief in the good of humanity are drained out.
I find your argument compelling; my description of men as dogs meant that basically, if men could have their way with women, at no cost, (i.e., non-emotional, non-commital)then the majority would most likely prefer that behavior (assuming they eschewed any sense of morality and conscience in the process), however empty they felt later. Cheap thrills, teenagers who never grew up. My less than scientific observation was that women provided the domestication of men to be husbands and fathers,further enforced by societal norms and laws. Women also provided the moral guidance to the children (as fathers did, but on a lesser scale; they were brought in as the “muscle” to enforce discipline and punishment, either physical or verbal, or both). Hence the women being, in reality, the stronger and more virtuous, albeit kept in the background and expected to be subservient. Both of my parents were college educated, with my father completing graduate school, but neither of my parents exhibited a “sophisticated” outlook on life, but rather a traditional practice. I think the sexual revolution, combined with the economic independence for women occurring pretty much at the same time, may have provided the authority to women, at least in the sense that they were given “freedom” to choose their lifestyle and behavior, however, weak men (in the traditional sense, those who can’t control their libido) further allowed it, given their enslavement to sexual desires could be further advanced. With the loss of the moral code and the de-evolution as you put it, men and women were allowed to revert back to their true nature; selfish, immature and uncaring for others,that is, the loss of the basic societal structure of Judeo-Christian Western Civilization, for lack of a better description. An ugly price is being paid, and will for decades to come. Generations will suffer, indeed. Yes, I did grow up in a different, perhaps a more naive time in America, but not unaware of worldly ways. Currently, it doesn’t resemble the U.S. of my youth at all, and I grew up in one of the largest cities in the U.S. I don’t expect it to return to those times either. There will always be bad behavior, by both men and women, but I never thought I’d see what’s transpired in my life time. I appreciate your commentary greatly, and respect your observations in these troubled times. Thank you.
Ashley M is nothing.
There are sites like “seeking arrangement” where women go into relationships with rich men for a cash exchange. Most of the men are married so it is basically a site to buy a mistress by the month. Something like 5% of female NYU students have at least made a profile on it.
It was deemed legal as long as the exchange is for a “relationship”, not purely for hourly sex.
There is also a recent new site where women auction themselves off like eBay. Don’t recall the name.
Liberation has come!
Being abused is one matter. Being demeaning and abusive, willfully harming others for the sake of “fun”, is another. The sociopaths I refer to are the women that had been enabled when they were 13 year-old “mean girls”, simply by not having the “inner spoiled brat” thrashed out of them with daddy’s belt.
They wind up going through a detached life of hook-ups and a failure to have any sort of respect for themselves or others.
Well, to be fair, call girls and others who wanted relationships based on monetary favors have used personal ads for years. Before online personals, it was the old-fashioned pen and paper kind. It was one of the biggest complaints men had about personals. Dating and matchmaking services have had the same problem, though the reputable ones do their best to screen them out. The sugar -daddy outfits have just decided to capitalize on that specialty. Then there are the “alternatives” personal sections in alternative city papers. They cater to a demographic looking for sexual experiences that would have been illegal or grounds for divorce in grandfathers day.
Predators using personals has a long colorful history. Belle Gunness, probably Americas first female serial killer, used personals to get hired men who sometimes became lovers, husbands or key figures in her insurance fraud schemes. Men, like Ray Fernandez, who was executed in New York in the fifties, have also been Lonely Hearts predators. In these cases, the victims were looking for what they thought would be regular relationship with regular people, of course. But it is one of the reasons that the personal ad business has had such a bad reputation for so long and only with the advent of the Internet has it become really mainstream and respectable.
I’m a true crime buff, and just as an aside, I would say avoid insurance fraudsters. It seem to be a gateway crime for a lot of spouse killers and other nasty types.
yeah that too.
I’m tired by all of this. I wish fathers (if they were present in the life of the kid) had indeed taken a belt to Daddy’s Little Demon and gotten that cruelty out of their systems.
Imagine if Steinhems mother had exercised her ‘’choice’’ and snuffed out little Gloria in the womb.
There's hardly anyone left who remembers the roaring 20's. Even the youngest WWII vets still alive are close to 90.
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