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Marxist Feminism’s Ruined Lives
Frontpagemag.com ^ | 9-2-2014 | Mallory Millett (sister of NOW’s founder)
“When women go wrong men go right after them.” – Mae West
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” Winston Churchill wrote this over a century ago.
During my junior year in high school, the nuns asked about our plans for after we graduated. When I said I was going to attend State University, I noticed their disappointment. I asked my favorite nun, “Why?” She answered, “That means you’ll leave four years later a communist and an atheist!”
What a giggle we girls had over that. “How ridiculously unsophisticated these nuns are,” we thought. Then I went to the university and four years later walked out a communist and an atheist, just as my sister Katie had six years before me.
Sometime later, I was a young divorcee with a small child. At the urging of my sister, I relocated to NYC after spending years married to an American executive stationed in Southeast Asia. The marriage over, I was making a new life for my daughter and me. Katie said, “Come to New York. We’re making revolution! Some of us are starting the National Organization of Women and you can be part of it.”
I hadn’t seen her for years. Although she had tormented me when we were youngsters, those memories were faint after my Asian traumas and the break-up of my marriage. I foolishly mistook her for sanctuary in a storm. With so much time and distance between us, I had forgotten her emotional instability.
And so began my period as an unwitting witness to history. I stayed with Kate and her lovable Japanese husband, Fumio, in a dilapidated loft on The Bowery as she finished her first book, a PhD thesis for Columbia University, “Sexual Politics.”
It was 1969. Kate invited me to join her for a gathering at the home of her friend, Lila Karp. They called the assemblage a “consciousness-raising-group,” a typical communist exercise, something practiced in Maoist China. We gathered at a large table as the chairperson opened the meeting with a back-and-forth recitation, like a Litany, a type of prayer done in Catholic Church. But now it was Marxism, the Church of the Left, mimicking religious practice:
“Why are we here today?” she asked.
“To make revolution,” they answered.
“What kind of revolution?” she replied.
“The Cultural Revolution,” they chanted.
“And how do we make Cultural Revolution?” she demanded.
“By destroying the American family!” they answered.
“How do we destroy the family?” she came back.
“By destroying the American Patriarch,” they cried exuberantly.
“And how do we destroy the American Patriarch?” she replied.
“By taking away his power!”
“How do we do that?”
“By destroying monogamy!” they shouted.
“How can we destroy monogamy?”
Their answer left me dumbstruck, breathless, disbelieving my ears. Was I on planet earth? Who were these people?
“By promoting promiscuity, eroticism, prostitution and homosexuality!” they resounded.
They proceeded with a long discussion on how to advance these goals by establishing The National Organization of Women. It was clear they desired nothing less than the utter deconstruction of Western society. The upshot was that the only way to do this was “to invade every American institution. Every one must be permeated with ‘The Revolution’”: The media, the educational system, universities, high schools, K-12, school boards, etc.; then, the judiciary, the legislatures, the executive branches and even the library system.
It fell on my ears as a ludicrous scheme, as if they were a band of highly imaginative children planning a Brinks robbery; a lark trumped up on a snowy night amongst a group of spoiled brats over booze and hashish.
To me, this sounded silly. I was enduring culture shock after having been cut-off from my homeland, living in Third-World countries for years with not one trip back to the United States. I was one of those people who, upon returning to American soil, fell out of the plane blubbering with ecstasy at being home in the USA. I knelt on the ground covering it with kisses. I had learned just exactly how delicious was the land of my birth and didn’t care what anyone thought because they just hadn’t seen what I had or been where I had been. I had seen factory workers and sex-slaves chained to walls.
How could they know? Asia is beyond our ken and, as they say, utterly inscrutable, and a kind of hell I never intended to revisit. I lived there, not junketed, not visited like sweet little tourists — I’d conducted households and tried to raise a child. I had outgrown the communism of my university days and was clumsily groping my way back to God.
How could twelve American women who were the most respectable types imaginable — clean and privileged graduates of esteemed institutions: Columbia, Radcliffe, Smith, Wellesley, Vassar; the uncle of one was Secretary of War under Franklin Roosevelt — plot such a thing? Most had advanced degrees and appeared cogent, bright, reasonable and good. How did these people rationally believe they could succeed with such vicious grandiosity? And why?
I dismissed it as academic-lounge air-castle-building. I continued with my new life in New York while my sister became famous publishing her books, featured on the cover of “Time Magazine.” “Time” called her “the Karl Marx of the Women’s Movement.” This was because her book laid out a course in Marxism 101 for women. Her thesis: The family is a den of slavery with the man as the Bourgeoisie and the woman and children as the Proletariat. The only hope for women’s “liberation” (communism’s favorite word for leading minions into inextricable slavery; “liberation,” and much like “collective” – please run from it, run for your life) was this new “Women’s Movement.” Her books captivated the academic classes and soon “Women’s Studies” courses were installed in colleges in a steady wave across the nation with Kate Millett books as required reading.
Imagine this: a girl of seventeen or eighteen at the kitchen table with Mom studying the syllabus for her first year of college and there’s a class called “Women’s Studies.” “Hmmm, this could be interesting,” says Mom. “Maybe you could get something out of this.”
Seems innocuous to her. How could she suspect this is a class in which her innocent daughter will be taught that her father is a villain? Her mother is a fool who allowed a man to enslave her into barbaric practices like monogamy and family life and motherhood, which is a waste of her talents. She mustn’t follow in her mother’s footsteps. That would be submitting to life as a mindless drone for some domineering man, the oppressor, who has mesmerized her with tricks like romantic love. Never be lured into this chicanery, she will be taught. Although men are no damned good, she should use them for her own orgasmic gratification; sleep with as many men as possible in order to keep herself unattached and free. There’s hardly a seventeen-year-old girl without a grudge from high school against a Jimmy or Jason who broke her heart. Boys are learning, too, and they can be careless during high school, that torment of courting dances for both sexes.
By the time Women’s Studies professors finish with your daughter, she will be a shell of the innocent girl you knew, who’s soon convinced that although she should be flopping down with every boy she fancies, she should not, by any means, get pregnant. And so, as a practitioner of promiscuity, she becomes a wizard of prevention techniques, especially abortion...
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I take it FATHER KNOWS BEST shows are no longer seen or filmed.
““Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” Winston Churchill wrote this over a century ago.”
Truer and wiser words were never spoken... especially “the gospel of envy”... possibly the most destructive of all the cardinal sins.
https://mises.org/library/appeasing-envy
A smart man would want serious guarantees before placing his wealth under duress. Of course, they aren't always easily given.
All I can say to young men, don't be an easy mark.
L8r
My grandson is suing for divorce. The wife “has a glass of wine now and then” then crashes into bed. Every night, like clockwork. The truth is, besides the wine, she guzzles vodka while hubby is bathing the kids after dinner.
During the day, she can fool anyone. She’s forty one, thin and pretty, and well spoken.
They have two little ones, five and seven. She tells them the smell on her is “onion breath”, because mommy has been eating onions.
He set up a nanny cam and has three months of video showing where she hides the large vodka bottles, how she transfers it to other bottles, then drinking it out of a sippy cup. She goes through at least a bottle a week, plus the wine.
Her attorney filed a motion prohibiting the judge from looking at or considering the videos.
They are in Minnesota, which is NOT a two party state for recording.
The judge ruled she gets temporary custody of the kids, but she must pass a breathalyzer test three times a day for thirty days or he gets the kids.
We are praying she slips up.
Great post!
Yep. For instance, the movie, “Sully”. Heroic character, played by someone who used to be one of my favorites, whom I thought was level headed. Now we find Tom Hanks has shown himself to be one among many Hollywood celebrities who want to do anything and everything to delegitimize Trump.
Do not ignore this phenomenon don’t try to blame it on young men. Realize that in large part it has come to be because the deck is stacked against young men by the Leftist feminization of family law. Women have all the power when kids come into play, and MGTOW is one of the adverse results.
There’s definitely a great deal of contrast between the actors and the roles. However, I also noticed that the author’s movies featuring admirable men - and I agree they are very admirable - are basically disaster movies. I think decent men are great, but I don’t like disaster movies, which leaves me not “supporting” this concept, commercially.
Don't forget Electra from the Daredevil series. I call it the "Kill Bill" meme, where one woman lays waste to dozens of men who don't have a chance. Even my 9 yr old boy knows how idiotic this recurring theme is.
“I realize how galling this must have been to generations of women”
Not sure you’re right about that. Cultural Marxism hasn’t been around that long.
BS. Why are you threatened by men reclaiming their independence?
It's OK to enjoy the 1 or 2 originals. The problem is with the hundreds of copycats.
I’m not sure what you mean.
I feel for you and your Grandson. Of course for most men, it is the loss, and pain and suffering, that his children go through that far out weigh financial considerations.
The judge is a lady. She did not award the wife spousal support or alimony. :)
Wow.
A woman coming up with rules for men on who they should have sex with? Fitting in a feminazi world.
Understood. I still find irony in using Marvel movie characters (ostensibly, comic book characters) as an example in an argument pointing out the folly of the “You Go, Girl” culture.
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