RISE OF THE FEMINIST PROPAGANDA STATE

October 19, 2004 | Carey Roberts

[CareyRoberts]

Remember that famous line from George Orwell’s Animal Farm: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”? Mr. Orwell, here are two more examples to add to your collection:

1. On April 20 last, sports pages around the country featured a picture of the Catherine Ndereba of Kenya with upraised arms, the “winner” of the Boston Marathon. She won not by virtue of being the fastest runner, but because the female runners had started the race 29 minutes before the men.

That day the Boston Globe ran an article carrying the headline, “New Rule Engenders Equal Footing.” (www.boston.com/sports/specials/marathon/articles/2004/04/20/new_rule_engenders_equal_footing/) If giving women a half hour head-start is an “equal footing,” then would someone please explain inequality to me?

2. Fox News ran an article in late August about American military women in Iraq (www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,130106,00.html). This was the lead sentence: “Today, equality of the sexes includes dying in combat.”

The article highlighted the statistic that 24 female soldiers had died in Iraq. As of that time, one thousand American troops had perished -- 24 female and 976 male. If we do a little math, it turns out that only 2.4% of combat deaths are female. That’s equality of the sexes?

In both stories, the reporter massacred the obvious meaning of “equality.” But where was the outrage? The fact that no one murmured a word of protest says something about the mental anesthesia that grips our collective awareness.

In his recent book The War Against Men, Professor Richard Rise of Texas A&M University notes, “the female propaganda machine is relentless.” My last four columns have traced the outlines of this machine:

First, erect an elaborate mythology that begins with the Great Myth of Patriarchy. Then embellish it with a series of urban legends that “men have all the power,” “marriage is a legalized form of slavery,” and so on. Remember that emotional impact, not historical accuracy is what counts (www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/r/roberts/2004/roberts100604.htm).

Then introduce a gender perspective to the mass media. Portray men as unworthy and women as entitled. Never allow men to be depicted as victims. There’s nothing subtle here -- the key is the sheer mind-numbing repetition of the Ms.-Information (www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/r/roberts/2004/roberts092204.htm).

Take the claim that women suffer from wage discrimination, for instance. On the average, women are paid 76 cents for every dollar that men earn. Groups such as the National Center for Policy Analysis have found that when differences in work hours and other factors are taken into account, the gender wage gap disappears (www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba392/).

But during last week's presidential debate, one of the candidates couldn’t resist the urge to dust off the old canard that women receive unequal pay for equal work. Score one for the rad-fem PR campaign.

Third is the tactic of inciting gender conflict. V.I. Lenin employed the concept of class consciousness to instigate class warfare. As an offshoot of Marxist-Leninist thought, it is no surprise that radical feminism now seeks to promote gender consciousness in order to drive a wedge between men and women. Women have been put upon all these years, so isn’t turn-about fair play? (www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/r/roberts/2004/roberts101304.htm)

In the final phase of the propaganda campaign, everyday speech becomes sprinkled with ideologically-loaded words like “gender.” Male-derivative words like “chairman” are banned, but female expressions like “Mother Earth” continue in use. Once persons internalize the terminology and logic of Fem-Speak, you could almost say they have become brainwashed (www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/r/roberts/2004/roberts092804.htm).

So when mainstream media outlets such as the Boston Globe and Fox News use the word “equality” to denote its exact opposite -- and nobody seems to mind -- you know that we’re in trouble.

Almost sixty years ago George Orwell wrote a prescient essay titled "Politics and the English Language." Deploring the way language was being used to manipulate and deceive, Orwell wrote: “Political language…is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

Who can doubt that the feminist propaganda campaign has now reached Orwellian proportions? Welcome to the world of Fem-Prop.

[WashingtonSource]

Thanks for posting this.

[swilhelm73]

because the female runners had started the race 29 minutes before the men.

This is news to me and I live just outside of Boston...

Unbelievable.

[An American In Dairyland]

I am a woman and rabidly Anti-feminist. I'm glad you posted this. The barriers Women Firsters have placed between men and women has hurt all of society and children perhaps the worst. Feminism is The Ladies Auxilliary of Socialism.

[listenhillary]

I've met many conservatives that are pissed because they were brainwashed by the communists infiltrating the feminist movement, anti-nuclear protests, anti-war protests.

And then there's Kerry....

[farmfriend]

Masculinist ping.

[Pearls Before Swine]

because the female runners had started the race 29 minutes before the men.

The wheel chair racers get an early start, too. Everybody's a winner!

[Balto_Boy]

That day the Boston Globe ran an article carrying the headline, “New Rule Engenders Equal Footing.” (www.boston.com/sports/specials/marathon/articles/2004/04/20/new_rule_engenders_equal_footing/) If giving women a half hour head-start is an “equal footing,” then would someone please explain inequality to me?

Inequality is what you're forced to swallow when you don't have the willingness to stand up for your rights.

[speedy]

Feminism is The Ladies Auxilliary of Socialism.

Oh man, I like that one. Is that yours? Whoever coined it, I hope you don't mind if I steal it from time to time.

[tacticalogic]

May not be all bad. Now when it's time to spend a Saturday on a joint effort to do some spring cleaning, yard work, painting, etc., I can tell my wife that, just to be fair, I'm going to have to give her a half hour head start.

[jcb8199]

Thanks for the post!

[Age of Reason]

If women are equal to men, why do women need government to help them be equal?

[An American In Dairyland]

I did not coin it, a good friend did but please feel free to use it. I'm sure he wouldn't mind.

[Skooz]

Feminism is The Ladies Auxilliary of Socialism.

That's so good I had to add it to the quotes on my profile page.

[DMZFrank]

"Reproductive Rights" is one of those public issues where the inequality between the sexes is rarely discussed.
Reproductive rights does not exist as a legal concept for men, and men are regularly told that they have responsibilities and not rights. A man has no "reproductive rights" that a woman is bound to respect, whether in nor out of marriage, to keep the baby or not. The only right that men have is to keep their pants zipped up, as the course of their lives and their hope for posterity is entirely dependent on the woman's "choice".

I remember hearing a feminazi screeching about how vital "reproductive rights " were for all human beings, insofar as their ability to determine the course of their lives is concerned. It got me to wondering how it is that no comparable "reproductive right" exists for men other than the right to keep your trousers zipped up. A man's income can involuntarily be confiscated to care for children that he does not want, affecting the course of his life. Under the law, he is utterly responsible to support any children with his DNA, and often even for those without it. In many states, women are allowed to ABANDON newborn children that they do not want at hospitals or firehouses, no questions asked. Men don't even have any "reproductive rights" in marriage, because his wife retains her "reproductive rights" if she "chooses" to exercise them.

I don't think either sex should have these "reproductive rights", and should deal with the concequences of a pregnancy, wanted or not. But if as the feminazi says, these rights are vital to human beings, than I wish to suggest the following remedies. An unmarried man, upon being promptly notified of an unwanted pregnacy by his mate, should have the option of a paternal veto (abortion) absolving him of financial and legal responsibility for the child. A married man who discovers that his wife has had an abortion against his wishes should recieve presumptive grounds for a divorce or annullment of the marriage, with the same holding true for one who concieves against his wishes.

Than again maybe the feminazi thinks that men shouldn't qualify for "reproductive rights" since she probably thinks men aren't human anyway.

[Southack]

"Then introduce a gender perspective to the mass media."

Here's the gender perspective in the news media:

All of the network news anchors are men.

Now you'd think that this fact would set of howls of protest and rage from feminist organizations, but you'd be wrong.

Because feminist organizations really aren't about "women," no, they are about promoting socialism.

...And the existing male network news anchors promote socialism better than any new female anchor could because the male anchors have already established "trust" and bonding with their TV audiences.

So for that reason alone (i.e. that the male anchors can better peddal subtle socialist propaganda), the various feminist organizations pretend to ignore that all of their nightly network TV news comes from men, and only from men.

[BobS]

"I can tell my wife that, just to be fair, I'm going to have to give her a half hour head start."

I think she'll figure you out pretty fast and YOU will get the head start.

[tacticalogic]

I think she'll figure you out pretty fast and YOU will get the head start.

Somehow I get the feeling she had me figured out 20 years ago.

[FreedomSurge]

"Feminism is The Ladies Auxilliary of Socialism" I like this. I am going to use it as my own.