It's a story of brainwashing on a massive scale
MCP
I'd like to tell you a story. It's based on my experiences, but really it's
about any girl who was born in the West in the era of the 1960's and later.
It's a story of betrayal, and lies, and fear, and pain. It's a story of
brainwashing on a massive scale, in a mad attempt to get us all to join the
cult of feminism.
Like all successful cults, feminism targeted the most vulnerable and
impressionable of us. They started on us young. And the messages delivered
were sweet and affirming, and unobjectionable:
*Girl, you can do anything you want to do. Just set your mind to it, and
it's
yours.
*My mom told me, "I wanted to be a doctor when I was growing up, but my mom
told me that girls can't be doctors. So I became a nurse. You can be
anything you want."
Cool! This is sure a great time to be a girl. I'm glad no one told me I
couldn't be a doctor if I wanted to.
Then the messages started changing. They became more about "being equal" and
less about working to achieve your goals.
*A woman can do anything a man can do.
*Hey, kids, look at this new set of books we have in the library. They're
biographies of famous Americans, and guess what? There are the same amount
of volumes about famous American women as famous American men.
I spent many many happy hours reading and learning about Amelia Earhart, and
Jane Addams, and Harriet Tubman, and Rosa Parks, and Susan B. Anthony. I
wasn't really interested in learning about the famous men. I mean, come on.
We were learning about them in class (not that famous women weren't
covered), and besides, look at all that those women accomplished despite
having far fewer rights and choices as men. GO SISTERS!!!
You can see how the mind set started to change. You can see how we learned
to ignore the evidence (we were covering all of these people in class, but
still thought it was sexist). Oh, we were starting to get a little
indignant.
Then, the messages became much more political and angry.
*Women have been victims of the Patriarchy for all of our history. We're not
gonna take it anymore. Get out of our way, men. We are women, hear us roar!
*Just a few generations before us, women had no choice but to get married
and live in servitude to their husbands, pushing out kid after kid after kid
until they died young and used up. No More!
*Just a few generations before us, women were only allowed to study home
economics at college, because we were considered to stupid to pick up
anything else. Besides, it was just something for us to do until we found
our master.er, I mean, husband. No More!
*A generation or two before us, women were not allowed to wear anything but
skirts. Oppression!!! No More!
*Boys and men want only one thing from us, and one thing alone. And they
will do anything to get it, the disgusting pigs.
*If we let them, men would have us barefoot, pregnant, and chained to the
kitchen stove, only to be unchained when he wanted *gag* sex.
*Women only have to get mammograms because we're second class citizens. If
men had to get their testicles squeezed, you can bet they'd come up with a
different test.
Now we were really ignoring our common sense. Did we think of how the men
felt, working to support all those children? Did we think of all those great
American women who had accomplished so much, supposedly without benefit of
education? Did we wonder why wearing a skirt = oppression, and about all
those pictures we'd seen of women in pants? Did we wonder how men managed to
accomplish what they did despite being completely preoccupied with getting
into our panties? Did we actually know of anyone who had ever been chained
to a stove? Were mammograms really that painful?
The answer to all of the above questions is a resounding, "NO". We did not.
Never entered our minds. We were programmed, and like good little robots, we
spouted what we had been taught.
And we were angry. Oh, so very angry. Stinking, misogynistic,
oppressive..MEN!
But we still wanted families. We wanted (sex). Even though we couldn't say
that, of course. But why couldn't we? Weren't we strong, liberated,
independent women? Well, yes, but, but, but, if we said we wanted men, that
would mean we needed them, and we don't need those stinking MEN! Oh, my. We
were confused.
But we still got married, and had children and fought and fought and fought
against our instincts. We were unhappy and angry, and didn't really know
why, but we were told it was MEN, so that's who we lashed out at.
And now that we were liberated and able to work, wages went down so far that
it became impossible to support our little family on one income, and we soon
had no choice but to get a job. Damn. Now we can't be full-time moms, and
that makes us feel guilty, but we don't have a choice, let's blame MEN.
And now the messages are:
*You are empowered!
*You can have it all!
*You are superwoman!
*Stinking men should do more housework! Oppressors. Everything bad is their
fault.
And the one thing that is above all in importance when it comes to love and
happy relationships was gone. We were unable to trust our men. We could
never fully let down our guard. God knows we couldn't let him run the
household. That would be submitting to oppression, and we didn't want that.
Right? Isn't that right???
So now, we come back to me. Eighteen years married. Having never fully
trusted my husband. Sex went from painful to a chore. Resentment grew and
grew and grew, because I couldn't tell him how I felt, because that might
hurt his ego. And everyone knows, we can't do that. But why not? Am I not a
strong, independent woman? Um.yes? I guess. I don't know. I just can't.
Communication is a no no.
And then, I discovered something that changed my life. I discovered that I
had been lied to from the very beginning. And suddenly, it all made sense.
SON OF A BITCH! Those pigs had lied to me! From the beginning!! Oh, you want
to talk about angry? Disoriented? It was like I had been having a nightmare
all those years, and I finally woke up.
I became, as they say, "unplugged from the fematrix".
I'll be 41 years old in two months. I've been married for 18 years. And my
life has been a lie. I'm getting my equilibrium back. I'm learning to listen
to myself and say what I have to say and let people be who they have to be.
I am no longer part of the cult. Oh, but the aftermath is painful.
I'll survive it. I'll move on. I still have part of my life left to live,
and I can finally do so with a clear head.
But I'll never get those 40 years back. They're gone forever.
That's what feminism has done for me.
Posted by KellyMac at 9/12/2006 01:14:00 PM
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> http://awomanagainstfeminism.blogspot.com/2006/09/what-feminism-has-done-for-me.html
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> I'd like to tell you a story [...] of brainwashing
> on a massive scale, in a mad attempt to get us all
> to join the cult of feminism.
>
> Like all successful cults, feminism targeted
> the most vulnerable and impressionable of us.
Feminism targeted females. Got it.
> [...] Posted by KellyMac at 9/12/2006 01:14:00 PM
I noticed that KellyMac never apologized to men
for all the hatred she spewed at them over the years.
Yet we're treated to a long whine from her that
is a riff on the stereotypical liberated woman's
cry of "I'm a victim" -- in this case of "brainwashing".
These women who whine that they were helpless
victims of feminism when they were actually
participants in the feminist movement, either
consciously active participants or reality-denying
passive "Good German" sorts, disgust me. These
women want the people of good will toward men
to pretend that these women have nothing to atone
or apologize for. Until these women can admit
"I was wrong" and say "I apologize to all the men
and boys I wounded in the name of the feminism
I embraced", these women remain unwilling
to bear adult responsibility for their actions.
Instead, these women continue to cling to the
moral status of children: irresponsible.
--
Feminists do not care about women.
The only reason why they came after women
is because it is easier to make women
hate men than it is to make men hate women.
Amber Pawlik, "Gender Healing: Seeing Bees,
Not the Swarm"
http://mensnewsdaily.com/archive/p/pawlik/03/pawlik092803.htm
Masculist
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> >http://awomanagainstfeminism.blogspot.com/2006/09/what-feminism-has-d...
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> > I'd like to tell you astory[...] ofbrainwashing
> > to join the cult of feminism.
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> > Like all successful cults, feminism targeted
> > the most vulnerable and impressionable of us.
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> Feminism targeted females. Gotit.
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> > [...] Posted by KellyMac at 9/12/2006 01:14:00 PM
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> I noticed that KellyMac never apologized to men
> for all the hatred she spewed at them over the years.
> Yet we're treated to a long whine from her that
> is a riff on the stereotypical liberated woman's
> cry of "I'm a victim" -- in this case of "brainwashing".
>
> These women who whine that they were helpless
> victims of feminism when they were actually
> participants in the feminist movement, either
> consciously active participants or reality-denying
> passive "Good German" sorts, disgust me. These
> women want the people of good will toward men
> to pretend that these women have nothing to atone
> or apologize for. Until these women can admit
> "I was wrong" and say "I apologize to all the men
> and boys I wounded in the name of the feminism
> I embraced", these women remain unwilling
> to bear adult responsibility for their actions.
> Instead, these women continue to cling to the
> moral status of children: irresponsible.
Why should they apologize Society? They were being used by the
patriarchy for political purposes, most of which were the intentional
oppression of poor and middle class men.
Tom
> --
> Feminists do not care about women.
> The only reason why they came after women
> is becauseitis easier to make women
> hate men thanitis to make men hate women.
Stephen Morgan
They should repent, which isn't about apologising. It's about mending
your ways.
patrick...@standardregister.com
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> I noticed that KellyMac never apologized to men
> for all the hatred she spewed at them over the years.
> Yet we're treated to a long whine from her that
> is a riff on the stereotypical liberated woman's
> cry of "I'm a victim" -- in this case of "brainwashing".
>
Yes, it's amazing isn't it? It doesn't matter that men were unfairly
demonized. It doesn't matter that men were lied about. What matters
is that believing the lies and thinking men to be demons made
KellyMac's life less fufilling than she'd have liked it to be. That's
what's important.
In a way, it's almost funny.