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.
>>I’ve seen it a lot in the past few months-——how on earth did it start?
Ghetto talk from the people who suddenly realized that they are oppressed after a lifetime of affirmative action, set-asides, easy college admission, handouts, and treatment with kid gloves.
There are three races with many subdivisons...Caucasoid, Negroid, and Asian ( as in Chinese, Japanese, Korean ) amnd mixing of races don't make other races!
There are WHITES who have ALWAYS lived in Africa....the Egyptians are but one such!
Semites are WHITE!
The Ancient Persians were WHITE and NOT the subdivision Semites!
The ancient Annu, of Japan were/are WHIR+TE/Caucasoid and NOT Asian!
Mediterraneans are NOT a mixture of Caucasoids and Negroids! Do you even know just WHO were/are considered to be peoples of the Mediterranean? It sure doesn't sound like it!
Your opinion utterly USELESS and uneducated!
“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.”
Poor Rosie...she didn’t get the email that aoortion was legalized in 1973.
“So she’s nuts, in other words”
She gives hags a bad name.
I’d like to “Self-Identify” as a 17 year old multi-millionaire High school student so I can have sex with a Hot 20 something Teacher.
That's fine. My opinion is that the native people of the South Pacific and Australia are sufficiently different that no combination of your categories really accounts for them.
However, what's the point? However we categorize people as "races," we do it for a reason, and usually the reason is to treat them differently under law.
Sex distinctions are obvious in biology and have an obvious purpose in the structure of society. In the most basic terms, females give birth to offspring, males don't. The correlation of this basic sexual dimorphism with "gender" is more complex. Whatever non-reproductive thing you can say about females in Culture A, you can say it about males in Culture B.
A woman needs a man like a feminist needs a brain.
Why can’t stupid be painful to the stupid person, rather than the rest of us?
well you are entitled to your opinion, and I am entitled to mine.
I don’t claim to be an expert, but to me it’s more than a coincidence that as you travel nearer to the central regions of each of the three primary races the people take on more and more of the defining characteristics of the race that dominates in that region.
Lets face it.. people mate with whoever is nearby. Heck we have evidence now that homosapians bred with Neanderthals. Are you trying to tell me that europeans didn’t mate with Africans in areas where there territories overlapped? and wouldn’t any resulting children take on the characteristics of both races just like the children of multiracial couples ? As you move closer to central Africa all the people get darker, as you move closer to central Asia all the peoples hair gets straighter, as you move closer to central Europe peoples skin gets lighter, ect.
If they don't "look like us" then we probably don't share culturally commonality and they are to be regarded with caution as they would have had to cross the territory of those that "look like us".
It is a survival concept.
Of course there is really only one human race but people get so upset if you use "breed" of human even though it is more accurate.
I agree that the people of the south pacific, Australia, and even the new world are distinct enough to almost be classified separately.
complete and unadulterated bullpuck. If white women are having less children, because they've been conned into aborting to 'save the planet', then it is white women, a world minority, who are not only dying out disproportionately, they are eliminating their genes.
Birth control was invented to control women and reproduction.
Talk about absurdly ignorant.
This woman is 83 years old. Why do all the liberals woman live forever........Dang Jane Fonda’s going to be 80 soon. So unfair.
I agree completely. Breed is a far better word choice.
There are two SEXES for species that reproduce in a way requiring two sexes.
There are often three (masculine, feminine, neuter) or more genders in a language. Sometimes there are fewer, but the language has complications that can't be described using the "gender" structure. (Let's not talk about the verbs in Navajo.)
We could all converse more easily - in English, a nice, easy language - if we stopped saying "gender" when we mean "sex."
Add Bahasa Indonesia and Malay to your list; there are around 300 millions who speak those languages.
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