The Real Gender War

Yes, I realize the piece on the gender war at Pajamas Media is meant to be tongue-in-cheek. However, it does, in its way, strike to the heart of a matter which is deadly serious.

As a philosophy, feminism has never had a cohesive set of precepts. It has always piggybacked on other philosophies, and often different factions have contradicted each other. According to Wikipedia, and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy there are now many varieties of feminism. What they don’t recognize is that most of those varieties are simply variations of other philosophies spiced with a measure of hatred for men and the determination to rid society of the family unit, which in feminist terms, oppresses women.

It was never about equality and cooperation as we were led to believe, but about exactly the same things political revolutions are always about: money and power.

Had the truth been known about feminism in the 1960s or 70s, a great deal of harm could have been avoided, but those were pre-internet days, when any written work had to be on paper and physically moved around from person to person. Only a relative few people were ever in the right place at the right time to read a group of feminist works and draw any conclusion from them, and most of those were “true believers.” Absent much contradictory information, the fiction that feminists have women’s rights at heart has persisted for decades.

Beginning with Bella Abzug in 1971, feminists have positioned themselves at all levels of government, from the federal to the local. Under the public radar, literally thousands of laws have been passed that both undermine the family structure and impinge on the rights of the individual to live their lives without interference from government. Many such laws were passed under the guise of “protecting” women – from an oppressive society, from evil men, and even from themselves.

Perhaps the most pervasive, and most damaging of these was the Violence Against Women Act of 1994. It relied heavily on public hysteria and the implication that all women were in imminent danger of battering, and that there was some sort of conspiracy afoot by men to use violence to oppress women for reasons of power and control. Proponents of this legislation ignored the truth there was not then, and has never been, any kind of evidence of what they chose to call “gender violence.” Another truth was that the law itself was unconstitutional and reeked of the worst kind of sexism.

Politics being what it is, however, the law was passed. 15 years later, it is still in effect, at a cost of many billions of dollars in taxpayer funds, and incalculable amounts of misery on the part of men, women and families who have had their lives destroyed by the apparent benevolence of VAWA. It has become clear to an increasing number of people – men and women alike – that VAWA is nothing more than a vehicle for feminists to force their repugnant ideals on an unwilling public.

Thanks to the internet, and freely available access to many documents of the past, a clearer picture of the nature of feminism has begun to emerge. Anyone can see for themselves that the need for power and control, the feminist theory of domestic abuse – is only a projection of what they themselves want. Feminists want only to be able to dictate to the people of the world the way they should live their lives, and they want to be paid well for doing it.

While the genuine issues of equality have been dealt with long ago, the ultimate aim of feminism – to liberate women from the perceived oppression of husbands and families – has yet to be attained. If we continue to believe in the illusion that feminism has ever been about equality, or concern for the state of women in general, they will succeed. The result will be a society that will quickly learn what real oppression is about.