Not too long ago, people knew the difference between truth and
falsehood. Truth was based on verifiable facts and rational logic. And
falsehood was the opposite of truth.
But then radical feminism came along. The High Priestesses decreed that
truth was a cynical ploy designed to dupe women to submit to male
hegemony.
Feminist philosopher Joyce Trebilcot once ridiculed the "apparatuses of
'truth,' 'knowledge,' 'science.'" And feminist theorist Elizabeth Fee
stated bluntly: "Knowledge was created as an act of aggression."
Not even Cartesian logic was safe from the onslaught. "We might begin to
question the import of Descartes' stress on logic and mathematics as the
ideal types of rationality," explained Linda Gardiner, editor of the
Women's Review of Books.
Told to ignore reason and common sense, women found themselves
vulnerable to the machinations of the mischievous matriarchs. Under the
guise of female liberation, these feminist Pooh Bahs set out to
indoctrinate women into a three-tiered mythology.
It all begins with the Mother of all Myths: the belief that a cabal of
men, termed the Patriarchy, has been scheming all these years to keep
women down. We won't dwell on the fact that history
fails
to support such a sweeping indictment.
Suffice it to say, in the feminist worldview all the ills of the world
can be traced back to the dreaded Patriarchy.
The Great Myth of Patriarchy in turn spawned the Four Lesser Myths.
First is the claim that men "have all the power." Must be nice to have
the whole world waiting at your beck and call.
Next is Gloria Steinem's doozy: "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a
bicycle." Steinem was telling a generation of American women that barren
spinsterhood would be good enough. Of course, Steinem later found her
bicycle and married airline pilot David Bale - but let's not worry about
minor details.
Third, there's the feminist belief in the
moral
superiority of women. That
concept is captured in the chauvinistic expression, "A woman can do
anything a man can do, only better." To the Sisterhood, that statement
is not a joke, it is a central tenet of the gender catechism.
But here's the biggest whopper of all: the claim that feminism seeks to
bring about gender equality. Let's look at the record. What have
feminists done to rectify the fact that men have shorter lifespans? Or
are victims in 93% of all workplace deaths? To the radical feminist,
gender equality is only a one-way street.
The Four Lesser Myths of male omnipotence, female autonomy, feminine
superiority, and gender equality create the foundation. Upon that base,
feminists have constructed an ever-expanding superstructure of
equivocations, half-truths, and outright falsehoods.
The list is much too long to recount, but encompasses the full range
gamut of issues including health care, education, the law, family
relationships, and domestic violence. Like the Super Bowl hoax - the
myth that domestic violence rises 40% on Super Bowl Sunday. Even though
that hoary chestnut was refuted long ago by the Washington Post, the
alarming statistic continues to be recycled.
So exactly how do the feminist fables victimize women?
Precisely because so many intelligent, caring women have come to accept
the lies. They now believe they are victims. You might say they've been
brainwashed. These women walk around with an attitude of entitlement,
wondering why men aren't interested in them any more. They are lonely
people.
And as long as women remain in the victim mode, they will always be
vulnerable to the argument that they need more legal protections and
services. Thanks to the Sisterhood, female dependence on men has shifted
to female reliance on government largesse. Is that progress?
But for a number of women's groups, the feminist misrepresentations have
reached the point of outright embarrassment. So they have launched
campaigns to tell the world, "Look! The Empress has no clothes!"
The Concerned Women for America sponsors extensive grass-roots
activities that counter the feminist doctrine. And the
Independent Women's Forum has launched a
national
campaign to alert students to
widespread liberal bias on college campuses. The program is appropriately
dubbed, "She Thinks."
A feminist who thinks - what a thought!
