Posted on 10/03/2017 5:38:52 PM PDT by markomalley
In a speech Sunday at the March for Racial Justice rally on the National Mall, feminist Gloria Steinem said “gender was invented” to control women and reproduction and that “race was invented … to justify colonialism and slavery.”
“So all the women in the world are in some degree of trouble, because it’s all about controlling reproduction. It’s the why of it. Did you ever wonder why? Yeah I mean, the first step in every hierarchy is patriarchy in order to control reproductive,” Steinem said.
“So, and racism, caste in India, class. It all makes it much worse, because to maintain those divisions, you have to control women even more. So these things have always been intertwined. It is just not possible to disentangle these deep caste systems. It is absolutely impossible. They can only be uprooted together,” she said.
“So let’s just remember folks, okay that gender was invented in order to control reproduction, and we’re now disinventing it, right? That race was invented in fact in order to justify colonialism and slavery, and we have not done a good job in this country of uprooting the racism that justified slavery. We got rid of slavery, but not this,” Steinem added.
She also said that we “should learn from Germany and the Holocaust lessons that every child in German schools learns.”
Steinem also held native Americans up as an example, saying that they didn’t have the words “he” and “she” in their language.
“Was the people who lived here for you know 99 percent, the native Americans, the indian country still didn’t have he and she in their language. The idea of society was a circle, not a hierarchy, not a pyramid. It’s relatively recent that all this has happened, and I find it helpful - I don’t know about you - to understand that it wasn’t always that way,” she said.
Steinem also said that black women are dying disproportionately because of the Hyde Amendment, which bans the use of federal funds to pay for abortion, and placed the blame on President Donald Trump for “punishing” women in Africa.
She talked about the bracelets she was wearing - one for Rosie Jimenez, who died in 1977 because of complications from an illegal abortion - and another for lack of funding for abortions overseas.
“They’re like POW bracelets, right? And one is for Rosie Jimenez who was the first woman to die because of the Hyde Amendment, because of no funded abortions at 1977. She was 27 years old, and this one is the lack of funding for Medicaid for abortions in other countries,” Steinem said, as she explained showing the bracelets to a man on the train while visiting the nation’s capital.
“So I showed these to him, and I said, who is dying are not white women. Yes, some white women are dying, but disproportionately, Rosie Jimenez was not a white woman, and it’s the women in the countries in Africa who are being punished by this policy that Trump, who is not the president. He lost by 10 million votes. Let’s just remember - 3 for Hillary and 7 for other people. … I have yet to call him the president,” she said.
“And to the spirits of Rosie Jimenez and all those in Africa who have left us because of the policies, the killing policies of this country, I just have one note of news, which is that the Republican Governor of Illinois just overturned the entire Hyde Amendment so that abortions are now available to everybody, not just to women who can afford them,” Steinem said.
“And this is big, because this is the state where Jesse Helms came from, so Trump is so bad that even some Republicans are woke,” she added.
Steinem closed by saying what she believes to be true about emotions, saying that “laughter is the only free emotion,” because “you can compel fear, obviously, but you can also compel love if people are kept dependent for long enough.”
“But you can’t compel laughter. It happens when two things come together and suddenly make a third. It happens when you understand something. It’s when you learn something, so I give that to you as a measure,” she said.
Then she warned: “Do not hang out any place where they won’t let you laugh, including churches and temples.”
The March for Racial Justice is described on its website as “is a multi-community movement led by a coalition united in our demands for racial equity and justice. We march because as long as U.S. laws, policies, and practices remain steeped in white supremacy, we will never see our basic human rights and civil rights fully realized.”
“It is our duty to dismantle this system of racist laws, policies, and practices that dehumanize people of color. Our mission is to harness the national unrest and help focus it into a national mobilization of people committed to working in local and nationwide efforts to undo racism until justice is won for us all,” the website added.
Be quiet, you pointless nitwit.
Fine. Go exctinct. Let you family line die, there are 3 billion other women on the planet and they have got to be a hell of a lot easier to enjoy than your old, sour @!
Also like most liberals do, lets group all Native Americans as one people instead of the dozens of tribes with their own unique cultural.
She’s a vile -itch. Gender enables reproduction.
CRAZY is the most important attribute on a feminist's resume! Gloria is their leader for a reason.
Yes, that’s right. Ancient societies divided people by appearance, origin, language, culture. Then, generally, they used those divisions to establish separate legal categories.
In many ancient cultures, including American ones, the key division was “us” and “everyone else.” You’re either Hellenes or barbaroi. You’re either “real human beings” - most Native Americans’ term for their tribe - or you’re not.
The idea of “race” as something determined by DNA, however, is modern.
Additionally, there was more than one Native American language. Did not a single one differentiate between sexes?
That’s funny right there.
That hag is still alive?
Not to mention turtles, Gloria. Female gender turtles are oppressed and UNDER a male for reproduction.
Dizzy b@TCH.
Loris Steinem was invented to make lesbianism a little less Roller Derby.
We need a better word for stupid.
Really.
This bimbo cannot be described without it.
“Steinem also held native Americans up as an example, saying that they didn’t have the words “he” and “she” in their language.”
Feminist paradises, native Americans society were, yes? Japanese and Turkish also has no gendered pronouns. More bastions of feminine equality. No patriarchy there. Maybe Gloria should considered emigrating.
Is she going to tattoo her eyeballs next?
A quick pass through Wikipedia confirms that many of the hundreds of native languages of the Americas had gendered structures. Ms. Steinem was simply repeating a false fact.
Wow! Just like biology.
Who’d a thunk it?
The caste system was invented, in India, long BEFORE any "whites" ever got there; let alone colonized it!
There were abortificants as well as infanticides done in ancient times and in most cultures in the ancient world, which was PATERNALISTIC/male ruled!
Steinem is a mental midget, lacking in the basic of knowledge and obviously you don't know much history either.
The feminists in Europe are controlling reproduction pretty well...
Feminism was invented to guilt mothers into the workforce, the better to make their hardwork TAXABLE.
And to force their kids more into the “Hail Dear Leader!”-public screw-el system.
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