Posted on 12/16/2018 6:48:19 AM PST by Louis Foxwell
The Future is Female – The Christine Ford Effect Breaking down the feminist code words in Sen. Gillibrand's tweet. December 14, 2018 Dawn Perlmutter
In an attempt to establish her feminist bona fides ahead of a likely run for president in 2020, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand tweeted on December 4th “Our future is: Female, Intersectional, Powered by our belief in one another. And we’re just getting started.” Gillibrand’s tweet is loaded with feminist code words. The tweet has three primary signifiers each targeting specific groups of voters. The first code “Our future is: Female” alludes to the phrase ‘The Future is Female’ a slogan that originated in 1972 by lesbian feminist activists who founded New York City’s first women’s bookstore, Labyris, in Greenwich Village. The catchphrase was printed on merchandise to fund their promotion of lesbian separatism, a school of feminist thought that advocates the complete isolation of lesbians from men and heterosexuals, either temporarily or permanently. The phrase didn’t become popular until it was co-opted by Clinton supporters during her campaign for president. The slogan started appearing on signs, t-shirts and buttons at Anti-Trump women’s marches. T-shirts with the phrase were advertised as a method to “support liberation, embrace our trans sisters and brothers, and call for the end of patriarchal ideology, domination, oppression and violence”. Once celebrities started wearing ‘The Future is Female’ shirts it became a very marketable symbol of sisterhood that grew into the latest feminist fashion fad. Senator Gillibrand’s use of the popular expression in her tweet was aimed at LGBTQ, feminist and Hillary voters.
The second code word in Gillibrand’s tweet is Intersectional, a reference to feminist theory and identity politics. Intersectionality describes how various systems of oppression intersect and overlap compounding the suffering of minority groups. For example, you can be the victim of multiple oppressions such as sexism and racism. The function of intersectionality is to create solidarity between oppressed groups to fight unrelated battles in the larger struggle for social justice. “Our future is Intersectional’ is a nod to the democratic left-wing base which is comprised of various identity victim classes.
The third sentence in her tweet “Powered by our belief in one another” is a reference to the controversial Kavanaugh hearings and the subsequent “I Believe Her” movement. The expression ‘I believe her’ is a direct reference to women believing Christine Ford’s allegations that she was sexually assaulted at a high school party by Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh three decades ago. Throughout the hearing process Senator Kirsten Gillibrand continually supported Fords allegations claiming that republicans bullied her into testifying. Gillibrand said, “I don’t know how they could hear her testimony and watch her testify so authentically, so honestly from the heart and not believe her”. Shortly after his confirmation the Senator spoke at a protest against Justice Kavanaugh’s confirmation sharing the stage with women’s march organizer and anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour. Christine Ford became the symbol of oppression among anti-Trump women activists and Gillibrand’s tweet was designed to position herself as their champion.
The #IBelieveHer movement is the descendant of the #MeToo movement that supports survivors of sexual assault. Both movements have inspired women to get involved in local politics. In small towns and cities across the country newly elected councilwomen with newly acquired female empowerment but no experience were elected to city councils in November 2017. Although there are many well qualified experienced women in politics this recent crop of candidates provides a glimpse into a future based on feminist victimhood and identity politics.
In April 2018 West University Place, Texas Councilwoman Kellye Burke berated a group of teenage girls because one was wearing a Trump T-shirt. While a group of girls waited outside a popular West University Place cookie shop, Burke, launched into a vulgar, profane-filled rant that included her screaming “Grab em by the pussy girls!” and repeatedly screamed “MAGA,” while proceeding to snap pictures of them. The father of one of the girls said "They were absolutely scared. My little girl essentially wanted to know if this woman was going to hurt her." After the incident Councilwoman Burke portrayed herself as the victim, claiming that the national media attention had caused a negative backlash that forced her to flee her home. Although residents called for her resignation, she refused to resign her post.
In June 2018 in Huron, Kansas, small-town city councilwoman Carol Fowler kicked, hit and scratched deputies who had to use tasers on her to take her into custody for an outstanding warrant. She was arrested for failure to show up at a court hearing on charges related to public drunkenness and for interference with and battery on a law enforcement officer in addition to the warrant. Fowler refused to cooperate during booking and bit one of the corrections officers on the thumb hard enough to break the bone. Fowler is still listed on the county website as a council member.
In July 2018 in Waterloo, Iowa Councilwoman Margaret Klein was accused of threatening to stab Councilman Pat Morrissey during a weekend auction. The incident was brought up at the public comments session of a Waterloo City Council meeting where three people said they overheard her say, “If I was in a dark room with Pat Morrissey with a knife, I would stab him.” Klein denied making any threats. Klein did not face criminal charges because the Black Hawk County Attorney decided that the accusations did not rise to the level of a crime.
In an October 2017 city council meeting in New Brighton, Minnesota councilwoman Mary Burg lectured her fellow council members on white privilege. Councilwoman Gina Bauman challenged her assertions and the confrontation escalated when Mayor Val Johnson accused Councilwoman Bauman of being racist for refusing to accept that white privilege exists. An argument ensued ending with the Mayor in tears. A video of the meeting went viral with headlines “New Brighton Council meeting turns into 'white privilege' catfight” and “Mayor Cries After City Council Member Denies Her 'White Privilege”.
In October 2018 it was discovered that Deborah Reno, a candidate for city council in Evanston, Wyoming sold her used panties on a website catering to fetishists. Reno, who works as a massage therapist and yoga instructor, ran an online storefront under the alias Mystee Crockett where she stripped in videos and sold her soiled panties. Reno lost by a vote of 626 to 388 for the first ward seat.
In September 2018 during the national debate over the Kavanaugh hearings Seaside City, California Councilwoman and mayoral candidate Kayla Jones requested an independent investigation into allegations of sexual harassment she made against her fellow council members. Jones who is the only female member on the City Council said she received inappropriate comments regarding her hair, make-up and overall appearance behind closed doors and in public session. Her claims of sexual harassment lost all validity when it was revealed that Jones spent more than $20,000 of city money on travel, food, and childcare expenses while supposedly conducting city business and attending leadership conferences. Approximately $12,000 was paid to Jones' grandmother for child care services.
In October 2018 several women including two councilwomen in Providence, RI criticized the Providence City Council President for being abusive, a bully and failing to support issues important to women. Councilwoman Carmen Castillo and Councilwoman Jo-Ann Ryan claimed that he screamed and intimidated them for not agreeing to vote the same way he wanted. Ironically, he was advocating for a vote that supports women and minorities. The Council President said that the incident was political, a power grab and that members of the City Council support a culture of corruption including Council members playing shell games with their financial accounting.
In October 2018 in Yardley Borough, PA first year Councilwoman Sandi Brady, who regularly and inexplicably breaks into tears during council meetings, claimed she was repeatedly bullied and verbally abused by one of the councilmen. Brady was so distraught that she introduced a “Safe Council Meeting Resolution” providing a safe and bully free environment in council meetings. The resolution provided for special expenditures so that whenever councilwoman Brady imagines she is being threatened the local police will be paid to personally protect her at the taxpayers expense. The resolution passed although there were no details of how it would be enforced or its effect on free speech at public meetings. The accused long-term councilman said that Brady’s public accusations were to deflect attention from his inquiries into the illegitimate search process and hiring of the town borough manager. Although there were several qualified male candidates longtime secretary Paula Johnson was given the position and provided funds for training, so she could eventually acquire the proper borough manager job credentials.
A combination of the #MeToo campaign, feminist movement and identity politics has resulted in a distorted interpretation of female empowerment that is based on victimhood. These new councilwomen envision themselves as female heroines fighting the corrupt patriarchy and making the world a safer place for women. Once they claim that they are being bullied, sexually harassed or in fear for their lives they inevitably prevail. Their false allegations stigmatize their targets regardless of lack of any evidence and small towns are forced to acquiesce to ridiculous demands and investigations for fear of law suits. This is the Christine Ford Effect, a legacy of the worst stereotypes of women as fragile, defenseless, erratic, unstable, irrational, emotional hysterics. In reality they are infantile, inexperienced, spoiled and privileged women who have no conception of politics or the world. The unintended consequences of feminist identity politics are that women politicians will not be taken seriously, real victims of harassment will not be believed, and companies will not want to hire women for fear of false accusations and lawsuits. This is a preview of Senator Gillibrand’s female future and as her tweet reads, they are just getting started.
About Dawn Perlmutter
Dawn Perlmutter is the Director of the Symbol Intelligence Group and one of the leading subject matter experts (SME) in symbols, symbolic methodologies, unfamiliar customs and ritualistic crimes. She designed and developed Jihad-ID, a symbolic database of the signs, symbols and identifiers of global jihad.
Pretty sure that Ford was one promiscuous teenager...and a gd liar....otherwise she would have been home...not parading around in a bathing suit.
Even the bathing suit doesn't make sense...so she went swimming nearby and wore her wet suit to the party??
Then there is no future, because they are generally nuts.
Yep
Sounds sexist to me. But hypocrisy is not something liberals ever notice.
Excellent post, and that’s exactly what the problem is.
I have a couple friends who are down and out right now. And yet they are still conservatives. So they are not looking for free handouts or sympathy, they have faith that they will persevere and things will get better. And they are most likely to make that happen, over the perpetual victimhood of liberals who are looking for government to save them.
“Not saying there are not great and brilliant female scientists and engineers, but those are the ones who naturally gravitate to those kinds of pursuits and do not need special groups, clubs, programs and artificial recognition for accomplishing the most mundane tasks for it.”
Exactly! And pushing women who are not capable into those fields just makes those of us that are capable look bad. Much like the Supreme Court decision upholding quotas makes me question the abilities of doctors that are anything but white males.
When I got my engineering degree, I had the second highest GPA, behind a man of course. Same thing with high school :-( but he worked harder than I did obviously so that’s all right. But there were a couple women in my class that could barely make it, and the men joked that they were just there for their Mrs degree. I imagine it is much worse these days. Sometimes I was the only woman in the class, but the men and professors respected me because I could actually do the work.
Or until needing to be chauffeured to some dumb waste of time events with no parking.
Another, the gadget doesn’t work.
Change a tire.
Add as you wish.
Her choice of wearing a bathing suit under her normal street garments has been explained elsewhere. Specifically, it has been pointed out that many girls in that age bracket did that so as to be able to willingly engage in "playful" behavior, but still be able to prevent (if she wanted) the boy from getting from third base to home plate.
Regards,
If the future was female, then men wouldn’t be winning female sporting events and beauty contests.
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A sure sign that this absurd movement has reached its end game. Can’t wait for the next Olympics where men win everything. Just like the original Ancient Greek olympics. Sweet.
As a guy with his junk cut off and pumped full of hormones is being put on a pedestal in the Miss Universe Pageant. Female is now a meaningless term when a man can call himself female and females who call themselves male. Feminism has been hijacked like most grievance groups by the cunning leftists. Part of our society is clinically insane. How is the future female when the biological female takes a back seat to the term “equality” which is another bastardized word that also has zero meaning?
These are the words of a looter - reminding her fellow looters that as long as they stick together, they can loot it all.
Future is female is a sexist supremacist slogan.
Feminazis never wanted equality, certifiably crazy dyke Kate Millett said her goal was to “take away his power”. That isn’t democracy with shared respect or power. I have no tolerance for intolerant bigots.
While teaching, I was aghast at the number of White girls that only wanted to date non-Whites.
Most of the women I know well are accomplished in the business world but have few to no children (this includes my wife at zero).
Isn’t this a blatant and formal declaration of war on men?
Yes. She is listed as such. I noted this was a post to the KNISH ping list, typically articles written by Greenfield. It is of sufficient significance to warrant bring brought to the attention of the Greenfield readers.
Liberal female tribalism
“The human race needs both male and female to survive. along with that, the secondary characteristics of each gender are also necessary to flourish as a species. Amen.”
The above is why these snowflake/haters of Trump and his voters will be history in 2-3 decades.
Throw in abortion on demand, AIDs, fatal drug/alcohol abuse and other terminal factors which will make them history.
“BTW, these ferocious feminists do not even consider me to be a woman.”
My wife her SIL’s, nieces and my sister, nieces consider that to be a positive in their lives.
“”And we’re just getting started.”””
GOD help us all. We’ve already seen more than we care to. What are the sensible folks supposed to do? Leave the planet so these people can have everything they want? They make me sick. This critter is from my home state that I left over 60 years ago for CA which for a lot of years made more sense in all ways than most but then came a day ————. When my husband and I looked for a place to retire to, NY State was out of the question...
No different than their relatives were in the sixties...Our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren need our prayers!
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