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Text Box: The following excepts/quotes illustrate the messages being delivered by Feminists in academia. In the limited space available, they do not reflect the shrewd communications style typically employed most study materials and textbooks. Hence most of the intellectual “dancing-around” and “fluff” designed to create an impression of evenhandedness has been removed. The only way to see this is aspect of most Feminist activist-expert’s writing is to vigilantly review almost any of their original documents. ST. LOUIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE’S TEXTBOOK: Crisis Intervention Strategies, James & Gilliland (2001). StLCC is an entry-level two-year junior college. It is the second largest institution of higher education in Missouri, with 35,000 students. The following very represents they basic thrust of two chapters. This only a sample from 96-pages of approximately 50,000 words dedicated to spouse abuse and sexual assault in that textbook. Another, somewhat longer, set of excerpts submitted in the male-discrimination case are the bold blue sections of 2nd StLCC Grievance toward the middle of the page. …physical abuse… is not limited to husband-and-wife… single, separated, and divorced women are…at greater risk of battering… the concepts in this chapter apply to any… cohabiting relationships… Because women form the major target group of severe domestic violence this chapter focuses on women… and the men who batter them… The history of spouse beating… goes back as far as the patriarchal system... domestic violence injures more women than automobile accidents, muggings, and rapes… every 15 seconds… a woman is beaten… Straus and Gelles reported… about 4 million women are abused every year… (our) cultural norms tolerate… and condone family violence… (and) gender roles based on power differentials… are still sanctioned and keep… domestic violence cases out of the legal system… a history of abuse… is (now) a valid… legal defense for battered women who kill their husbands. Clearly a great deal of violence by women is retaliatory or in self-defense… (Note: Straus & Gelles report 4 million men are just as often and severely abused by women. The abuse cases kept out of the legal system are those perpetrated by women, not men. The law does not give abused husbands the same protection.) The overarching dynamic... (justifying) the battering of women is the belief in male supremacy… (which is) the natural result of a long-term sexist paternalistic social order that rewards oppressive behavior in men, but expects women to be submissive… the woman’s position is to obey, conciliate, perform traditional domestic duties… be subservient… conjugal terrorism is used to break the victims resistance and bend her to the will of the terrorist/batterer… (and) brainwashing… isolation, torture, sleep deprivation, malnourishment… bondage… belittling… are all standard (male) procedures… Force is the major resource for maintaining the… social structure. This notion has been extended to the family… by permission of the state… Sexual inequality in regard to size, financial resources, and social status allow batterers to become violent without retribution. … 683,000 women were raped in 1990, and 12.1 million women… at least once in their lives… FBI estimates show that one in four women will be raped in their lifetime… 250,000 children, most(ly) girls, are sexually molested in their homes each year… the majority of (sexual) assaults are perpetrated on children and females under the age of 30… Most reported rapes of men occur in penal institutions… sexual assault and abuse/misuse... are predominantly male crimes… the culture of male dominance constitutes the driving force in rape… the vast majority of rapes… (are due to) power relationships between men and women… Because most survivors are females and children, rape is largely an act based on male supremacy... (which) has its roots in deep in… history… Indeed… rape and sexual assault... (are) widely used to ensure continued domination and control of women. In the West... aggression… power and domination are… accepted male characteristics, whereas peacefulness, compliance, and submission are deemed appropriate for females… (Note: Objective research indicates women sexually assault and rape boys/men and girls/women just as often men. Males are not socialized to see they comparable forms of aggression employed by women as crimes, and therefore don’t report incidents as often as females.) Additional Comments: Objective research overwhelmingly finds single, separated, and divorced men are equally battered by women. The above references to patriarchy, male dominance, and power structure existing in modern times are unsubstantiated nonsense. [See: Sexes Different & Equal.] Where all the referenced passive, obedient, and subservient American women are is an unsolved mystery. FOUR-YEAR COLLEGE TEXTBOOK: Question of Gender (1998), Dina Anselmi and Anne Law. Examples of two admitted Feminist “activist-experts.” Selected excerpts, starting with the Preface: The purpose of this book is… to help you develop a critical attitude toward understanding questions of gender... to… recognize that discrimination has unfairly affected women. We strongly believe that psychology... has often neglected or misrepresented the lives and experiences of… women. (Note: Their minds are closed to any male-discrimination.) We are… Feminists, which means we recognize the existence of biases in the way women are treated… we will present you with areas in which change may be beneficial… (so that) you will come to see that social change inevitably influences the experiences of women and men and that… (it) is not a win-lose proposition… (Note: Admission of their activism.) We must recognize that differences among people are of interest only if they are correlated with differences in power… One inescapable explanation for… violence toward children in the family… is linked to misogyny and to power and control over women. (Notes: Who says human differences are only of important if they relate to power? Politics, not psychosocial studies is about the distribution of power. Women physically abuse children twice as often/severely as men.) Egalitarian (a definition): … both men and women have equal access to the means of production and have equal opportunities for prestigious social roles and that children are socialized toward highly valued traits such as assertiveness and autonomy. (Note: Equal child custody/abortion rights, access to joys of childrearing/home building, protection against discrimination, prosecution/sentencing, and equal fatherhood to motherhood status for men?) … because men control a disproportionate share of outcomes valued in society... men have power. It is common knowledge that this is so, supported by… statistics, such as… women comprise a mere 3% of top executive positions… and earn 72 cents for every dollar earned by men… Because men have more status and power, their... traits are viewed as deserving of more respect… (which) explains the prescription that women, the… less competent group, should limit themselves to their… less valued domains… (Note: These statistics are meaningless. Where is the legitimate proof men are more culturally empowered than women? Don’t women basically choose their own status?) [See: Equal Pay=Equal Jobs.] … females and femininity (are) relatively powerless and devalued… institutionalized sexism… entails systemic, organized differences in power that disadvantage women… the mere perception of an individual as a women positions that women at a lower level in the social organization… girls are socialized for powerlessness… men are privileged members of our society… (with greater) social and institutional power. (Note: Where is the proof?) Sexual terrorism is supported by… (an) ideology of patriarchy in which... violence against women is indiscriminant and amoral… and provided by… socialization that encourages male violence and female self-blame… violence is rooted in the nature of masculinity… for many men, all emotion is channeled into various forms of aggression… The subordination of women in all other spheres of society rests on the power of men to intimidate and punish women sexually… (sexual) terrorism… sustain(s) the power relationship of patriarchy, where as maleness is glorified and femaleness denigrated. (Note: Where is the proof?) … a complex historical process (exists) whereby women are transformed into private property… all aspects of the male supremacist ideology… justif(y)… sexual terrorism as a means of keeping women in their place… pornography is terrorism… it embodies… rape, battery, incest, bondage, torture… gun, knife, fist, whip… (Note: Pornography is overwhelmingly nonviolent. Female “actresses” are typically paid 5-10 times more “per shoot” then male “actors.”) We are the products of societies led by men in which violence (is) institutionalized… Violence is the preferred means to settle international and individual disputes among men… violence is (part of) sports, and sport… a metaphor for large scale violence. The starting point… is the boy’s unknowing acceptance of the dominant creed of manhood; to… control and dominate… Men become pressure cookers… expression means… emotions are transformed into aggression and hostility… When their emotional dam breaks, the flood pours out—mostly on women and children… (Note: Isn’t this misandry—i.e. hatred of men.) The following quotes reflect the intellectual and public manifestations of Feminism. They are both an extension of and source of feed back into academia in the form of classroom study materials. SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR: The Second Sex (1953), Sorbonne PhD. The initial “thinker” for Modern Feminism. A socialist/Marxist. Never married. No children. Bi-sexual. Wealthy family. Ideas largely derived from the French and European culture. Ms. de Beauvior was more of a social critic than a philosopher. Basic Message: In a godless world, one must have absolute personal freedom, and live authentically, autonomously, and primarily for one’s self. Lesbianism and homosexuality are natural and healthy human conditions. Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior: she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority. For him she is sex—absolute sex, no less. She is defined and differentiated with reference to man and not he with reference to her; she is the incidental, the inessential as opposed to the essential. He is the Subject, he is the Absolute—she is the Other. In America in 1918 a woman got only half a man’s wage… the most oppressed minorities… are readily used by the oppressors (men) as a weapon against the whole... Her wages... are lower than (his); her tasks… less specialized and... not so well paid as (his); and for equal work she does not get equal pay. Refusal to make herself the object is not always what turns women to homosexuality; most lesbians… seek to cultivate the treasures of their femininity. Between women love is contemplative. There is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality becomes mutuality – i.e. love between women is superior to that between the sexes. In 1900 5,000,000 women worked in the United States, including a large number in business and the learned professions… (like) lawyers, doctors, professors, and as many as 3,373 woman pastors… Women’s clubs flourished, with about 2,000,000 members... Author’s Comments: Beauvoir fails to recognize many fundamental truths about humankind. For example she does not see that: [1] a lone person on earth would die from lack of human interaction as well as most likely starve to death; and [2] two or more people working together voluntarily in pursuit of common ends are far more effective than an equal number of separate individuals—i.e. that the whole of a cooperative group is often greater than the sum of its parts; and [3] humans are not only motivated by self-interest and sexual gratification, but by love, altruism, empathy, spirituality, and so forth as well. Critics Comments: The 1952 British edition: [1] Scholar Terry Keefe: “... one of the most important and far reaching books on women ever published….While almost every section contains fertile ideas and valuable insights, argument of the highest quality is rarely sustained for long.”; [2] Scholar C. B. Radford: “… so distorted by autobiographical influences that the individual problems of the writer... assume an exaggerated importance in her discussion… her image of women may be distorted; it is never the less sincere… (then when) she is motivated by the honest conviction that her solution is the best… (which) accounts for the exaggeration and even violence in her work; and [3] Novelist Stevie Smith: “… an enormous book about women… (but) it is soon clear that she does not like them, nor does she like being a woman”. The 1953 U.S. edition: Critic Elizabeth Hardwick: “… madly sensible and brilliantly confused.” BETTY FRIEDAN: The Feminine Mystique (1963). Smith College. Founder NOW. Basic Message: A male conspiracy exists that prevents women from competing with men by forcing them to remain in their traditional females roles of wives and mothers. A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle... The false division of human nature into ‘feminine’ and ‘masculine’ is the root of all divisions (throughout nature)... and the beginning of (all forms of social) hierarchy. … the problem… stirring in the minds of so many American women are not a... loss of femininity, or too much education, or the demands of domesticity. It is far more important… it is the key to… (what) has been torturing women… for years… to our future as a nation and a culture. We can no longer ignore the voice within women that says: I want something more than my husband, my children and my home. Women are often driven embittered from their chosen fields when, ready and able to handle a better job, they were passed over for a man. In some jobs a woman has to be content to do the work while man got the credit. … in the first fifty years of the twentieth century the portion of American women working outside the home increased very little… while the portion… in the professions actually declined. From nearly half of the nation’s professional force in 1930, women dropped to only 35 percent in 1960, despite the fact that the number of women college graduates nearly tripled… [Note: Doesn’t this indicate almost no female-discrimination in 1930? This is also a false explanation for the percentage decline. See Equal Pay=Equal Jobs—p2.) GERMAINE GREER: The Female Eunuch (1970). Cambridge PhD. Basic Message: Women must be liberated from oppression; their egos are damaged by a male dominated society; the mechanisms of the traditional family are harmful to women; and women will only be empowered by revolution and drastic culture change. Wherever you see nail varnish, lipstick, brassieres, and high heels, the Eunuch has set up her camp… Mother is the dead heart of the family, spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches TV. For all the pseudo-sophistication of 20th century sex theory, it is still assumed that a man should make love as if his principal intention was to people the wilderness. Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release. KATE MILLETT: Sexual Politics (1970) BA, Minnesota. 1st class degree, Oxford. PhD, Colombia: Basic Message: Criticisms of patriarchy in society and literature, in particular, the sexism and heterosexism on the part of modern novelists. (Women)… constitute a large and underpaid factory population… do not participate… in technology or in production. What they customarily produce has no market value... Nor… do they own or control or even comprehend the process in which they participate… Women’s distance from higher technology is even greater… If knowledge is power, power is… knowledge, and a large factor in (women’s) subordinat(ion) is… the systematic ignorance patriarchy imposes... Women have always worked… generally… (for) longer hours… smaller rewards and at less agreeable tasks than have men… often at the most routine or strenuous tasks, what is at issue here is not labor but economic reward. In modern patriarchal societies… ‘women’s’ work in which some two-thirds of females… are engaged is… not paid for…. the position of women… is a… function of their economic dependence… their social position is vicarious and achieved through males... (their) relation to the economy is typically vicarious and tangential. Women who are employed have two jobs since the burden of domestic service and childcare is unrelieved either by day care… or by cooperative husbands. The invention of labor-saving devices has had no appreciable affect on the duration, even if it has affected the quality of their drudgery. GLORIA STEINEM: Journalist and publisher (Ms. Magazine). Smith and Oberlin College and attended Delhi & Calcutta Universities. Helped found the National Organization for Women (NOW). Former Playboy bunny and member of the Democratic Socialist of America: If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a ‘spinster of arts’ degree they would see how important this (language) is.” Some of us (feminists) are becoming the men we wanted to marry... (referring to her own abortion:) a pivotal and constructive experience (referring to her own abortion). This is the year of Women’s Liberation… what some call ‘feminist,’ but should more accurately be called humanist; a movement that is an integral part of rescuing this country from its old, expensive patterns of elitism, racism, and violence. We are filled with popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior; these are preconceptions imbedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there. (Note: A reoccurring theme of Feminism is the socialist/Marxist “workers of the world unit against capitalist oppression” type message: “Blacks, Hispanics, homosexuals, disabled, and all other exploited minority groups join with women to oppose the white male dominated patriarchy in America.”) … histories… have generally been written for and about white men… (indicating) that the vote was ‘given’ to women in some whimsical and benevolent fashion. We never learned about the long desperation of the women’s struggle. We knew a great deal more about the outdated, male supremacist theories of Sigmund Freud than we did about societies where women had equal responsibility, or even ruled. "Erotica is as different from pornography as love is from rape, as dignity is from humiliation, as partnership is from slavery, as pleasure is from pain. Authors Comments: The above is an astonishing misinterpretation of Freud. He certainly reflected Germanic and Victorian attitudes, but Freud also advocated the primacy and virtual exclusivity of the mother-child relationship that now serves as the legal system’s justification for fathers being denied equal rights to mothers. He offered the Electra as well as the Oedipus complex as well. Most of all Freud established the important role the sex-drive, and, indirectly, the role power/control play in human behavior. These ideas dominate much of the theoretical thinking in the social sciences and culture today, and are central to many Feminist positions. Beauvoir dedicated considerable space to a basically erroneous diatribe against Freud’s work in her book—a lead followed by other leading Modern Feminist writers.

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