Part 1: Death of the old feminist series
Feminism has long stood out as the champion of women’s causes. From the Suffragettes, to the emancipation of women and their right to vote, feminism fought for the equal dignity and opportunity of all women.
So how then, did this rather noble cause turn into a movement that today is anti men, anti father and anti religion? The answer lies in an ideology created by the infamous Karl Marx.
The first wave
During the Industrial Revolution work and lifestyle changed dramatically and as the labour force began to work in mills, factories and other more physically demanding occupations, women’s ability to work was questioned.
Indeed, as women were viewed as the weaker sex, society saw that it was no longer necessary for women to work outside the home in the duties of homemaker and mother.
This created a flow on effect as women were not required in the workforce of the mills and factories it soon eventuated that they need not be educated either. As uneducated members of society, it followed that they need not vote or even be considered as equal to men, as they were clearly inferior.
It was from this inferior treatment of the fairer sex that led to the creation of the Suffragette movement. They fought, through writing and protests, for equality for women, equal treatment under law, equal education, equal opportunity and equal dignity and respect.
That women enjoy the fruits of these labours is no small feat. Today women are considered equal to men, have the same education and opportunities as men and are treated with dignity and respect, for the most part.
So when the voice of feminism returned louder and more determined in the 1970s, what were they fighting for? Had our Suffragette sisters missed out on some basic human right that must now be taken back?
The truthful answer is no. The bra burning antics of the second wave of feminism championed much scarier ideologies that went far beyond the equality of the sexes.
The second wave
The 1960s were a time of dramatic revolution and rebellion. Among the more radical rebellions of the time was the Marxist (Communist) persuasion.
The general idea of Marxism is this: classes in society are constructed by that society and all of history is evidence of one group being oppressed by an oppressor. Take for instance the owner against the worker during the Industrial Revolution or man against woman.
Marxists believe that in the beginning, that is, in their own version of the Garden of Eden, men didn’t know they were fathers, sex wasn’t associated with childbirth and there was no inheritance of property through the male line. All goods in this society were passed from the mother to her children.
This Marxist paradise was shattered by the discovery that men were fathers. Indeed, men, upon discovering their paternity and the link between sexual intercourse and procreation, claimed their right to be fathers and enslaved women in marriage, dooming them to a life of servitude.
Women have continued to suffer ever since.
In order for the world to go back to the Marxist Garden of Eden, there must be a classless society where women don’t need men, there is no private property and all was owned and provided by the state. All women could work outside the home, 24 hour childcare would be provided by the state and religion would be eliminated because it promotes family. If all this happened, we would all be finally free!
Pardon my skepticism, but the obvious example of the ‘good’ of this classless society would have to be Communist China, and whilst all these ideas continue to flourish over there, basic human rights are ignored and people persecuted for having religious convictions. Sounds like paradise to me!
At any rate, a group of women who were a part of this Marxist revolution of the 1960s became disillusioned by their treatment by their male Marxist counterparts who denied them a voice, and began the second wave of feminism which took on some of these Marxist ideas.
They were led by a woman whose name you have probably never heard of. No its not Germaine Greer or Simone de Beauvior, rather its Shulamith Firestone and you’ve never heard of her because she was just so radical.
Even the feminist recognized that she was too radical and were the wider society aware of her ideas they would receive no support at all. They buried her work and carried on, subtly infiltrating colleges and universities and eventually politics.
Perhaps this is all beginning to sound like a conspiracy theory, but here are the facts. Shulamith Firestone’s ideas were: the destruction of family and marriage, total sexual liberation which includes homosexuality, incest and sex with minors and finding a technological replacement for reproduction.
The driving force behind these ideas is that the first oppressor of women was marriage and childbirth, and the means necessary to create a genderless society where the family was no longer necessary was to have a sexual revolution.
Thus the sexual revolution of the 1970s takes on a much darker light. And whilst this may still seem rather far fetched I beg you to consider the following.
As a result of the second wave of feminism and the sexual revolution, today we have: easily accessible contraception, legalized abortion, IVF technology, legalized homosexual unions and marriages, high divorce rates, scores of illegitimate children, single parents families and religion has become an optional extra.
Read part 2 here.
Originally posted 2013-11-09 05:59:37.