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Feminist Gloria Steinem: ‘Gender Was Invented in Order to Control Reproduction’
CNS News ^ | 10/3/17 | Melanie Arter

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: genderwars; radicalleft; steinem
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To: markomalley

>>are woke

Out of all the epic stupid in her statements, this new use of the word “woke” is by far the stupidest.


41 posted on 10/03/2017 6:02:50 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
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To: markomalley; All

“gender was invented” to control women and reproduction and that “race was invented … to justify colonialism and slavery.”


These people decide on their agenda.

Then they determine the history necessary to support that agenda.

Then they write the history.

It *is* that simple.


42 posted on 10/03/2017 6:06:20 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Bryanw92

It’s idiotic GHETTO-SPEAK and therefore gibberish crap.


43 posted on 10/03/2017 6:07:22 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: markomalley

I will take the Bible every time over any babbling liberal.


44 posted on 10/03/2017 6:08:09 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: markomalley
This woman is absolutely nuts.

The fact that there are two genders is most definitely not the act of man.

Why do these lunatics go out of their way to deny acts of God and attempt to justify their perversions?

A mystery for the ages...

45 posted on 10/03/2017 6:08:37 PM PDT by OldSmaj (The only thing washed on a filthy liberal is their damned brains.)
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To: markomalley

Gender was invented to make fun of ugly broads like you Steinem.


46 posted on 10/03/2017 6:08:51 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: Bryanw92

“Out of all the epic stupid in her statements, this new use of the word “woke” is by far the stupidest.”


I’ve seen it a lot in the past few months-——how on earth did it start?

It has been driving me NUTS !

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47 posted on 10/03/2017 6:10:40 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Tax-chick

True, but it wasn’t until relatively recent in history that we could see the whole picture, before we were only seeing different parts of the world. After the circumnavigation of the globe the larger picture became clear.

In my opinion there are 3 primary races (European, Asian, African) and then simply different percentage blends of the three establish the basis all of the others. ie. middle eastern people are a blend of all three, Mediterranean peoples are mostly white with a touch of African, SE Asians are mostly Asian with a touch of African, ect.


48 posted on 10/03/2017 6:11:36 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Make America Great Again !)
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To: fishtank
The stupid is strong in this one

You can say that again!!!!!

49 posted on 10/03/2017 6:13:37 PM PDT by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: markomalley

She is right, but not in the right way.

God “invented”/created two “genders” and both are to submit/reproduce together (Which Steinem neglects to point out/say).

In the end, Gloria Steinem just speaks and perverts good/natural “things” just like her spiritual father, Lucifer.


50 posted on 10/03/2017 6:15:09 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: SKI NOW
She should put the bunny ears back on. At least her life would have had purpose.

She could have done much better as a real whore, rather than just an attention whore.


51 posted on 10/03/2017 6:15:41 PM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: Right Wing Assault

Years ago at the Abilene Zoo I was in the gloss enclosed area opposite the Jaguar area. Wailer, the older brother of the two Jaguars, was a few inches away on the other side of the glass.

In a Fletch moment I barely pointed behind me, at an empty baby carriage, and said: “Look, a helpless baby!” whereupon Wailer jumped to attention to stare at the potential morsel.

So don’t dismiss the ability of animals to understand.

Now, that aside, there were other times you could tell that the animals at that zoo were really somebody’s little darlings. Once I made an ear scratching motion towards Wailer and he threw his whole shoulder against the glass as if to say: “Yes, please!” There was also a secretary bird that loved head scratches. But you didn’t eat peanuts in front of the elephant without sharing ... she knew how to use a piece of a tree to systematically tear down her enclosure if you didn’t share....


52 posted on 10/03/2017 6:16:35 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: All

Why did this headline make me laugh?

Kind of like saying “Stupidity was invented to control intelligence.”.


53 posted on 10/03/2017 6:18:58 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: markomalley
Unfortunately, she has hardened her heart and she will find herself in Hell soon. And it will be forever.

There is still time for her to seek Christ and be saved, but I doubt it.

54 posted on 10/03/2017 6:19:52 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: markomalley

Gee....all this time I thought the Birth control pill was invented to control reproduction. Stupid me....


55 posted on 10/03/2017 6:20:45 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Jim Robinson
Sheer lunacy.

My first thought.

56 posted on 10/03/2017 6:23:11 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Jim Robinson

Bimbo.


57 posted on 10/03/2017 6:25:34 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: markomalley
Genesis 1:27-28 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Sounds like it wasn't "invented" at all to me.....

58 posted on 10/03/2017 6:25:41 PM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: akalinin
She is/was a real whore, murdered another, "illegally" at the time to cement that fact. Also she is an attention whore and promotes whores.

Gloria Steinem is just a whore all around and she will most likely admit to that fact in the most vain way possible,
59 posted on 10/03/2017 6:31:11 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: Jim Robinson
[Re: Gloria Steinem's rant above] Sheer lunacy.

My thoughts exactly. There's so much self-contradiction in what she said, it's just mind-boggling.

Notice how Steinem talks about black women and abortion, and the supposed health risks which accrue for not having it subsidized (!), while completely ignoring the fact that black babies are disproportionately destroyed by it?

Why isn't that racist, Gloria? Why don't you tell us about eugenicist Margaret Sanger, Gloria, and why she was so gung ho on "reproductive rights"?

And also, Gloria Steinem expects America to subsidize abortions not only domestically, but overseas as well?

And Ms. Steinem probably still wonders why so many women reject her strident version of feminism!

And are we really supposed to believe that American Indians didn't have words for "mother", "father", "male", "female", "he", and "she"? I'd certainly like to learn more about that, because I think she's full of sh!t on that point.

And last time I checked, there were dozens and dozens of Native American tribes and languages. Is she really trying to tell us that none of them had words for "he" and "she"? What the heck has Gloria Steinem been smoking in her peace pipe? Because I think it's a lot stronger than weed...

60 posted on 10/03/2017 6:32:25 PM PDT by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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