(This post was originally published in 2021)
“asserts the right to enjoy a spanking without risk of subordination”
“the pleasures of sexual intercourse for hire”
Second wave feminism “doesn’t account for some women’s desires for…subordination, and (sometimes) sex that is subordinating”
All quotes cited in Bridget J. Crawford’s The Third Wave’s Break from Feminism
It is an undoubtably fact that the new feminists’ (3rd and 4th waves, i.e.) project is the destruction of the history of the radical movement of the 60s -70s. They may use more subtle expressions like “breaking away”, ‘doing away with’ or more optimistic phrases like ‘moving away from the past and into the future’, but the outcome is the same. And some of their phrases are more aggressive and violent in nature. I left a partial list at the end of this post.
When these new feminists speak about ‘breaking away” from the old feminism/feminists, they don’t mean breaking away from feminism as defined by the patriarchy. Nope. Read their descriptions of the deadly sins of the 1970s radical movement; it reads like a list handed down to them by the same patriarchy that back in the 70s used those same ‘sins’ against the radicals to weaken and defeat them. There is continuity in the patriarchy’s path of destruction of women who don’t submit to him.
This I find interesting, that the new feminists are oblivious of the fact that their complaints about the radicals are the same as those of the patriarchy. How can they possibly argue against the fact that they are doing the men’s job? Patriarchy can relax now; he doesn’t have to look bad when attacking defenseless women around the globe with his media propaganda. The new feminists are doing the work for him and protecting his image, to boot.
Talking about facts, again, one of the most important goals of the patriarchy back in the days was to cancel the radicals. Is there any doubt that the patriarchy considered them a threat or at least a major pain in their ass (sorry, I meant to say considered them annoying)? His Christmas wishes since the 80s has been to see the radicals’ names and existence totally removed from his book of his-tory. Do you think it possible that the patriarchy is interested in preserving the radical’s history? Is that possible in your young minds? How convenient it is for him that today’s new feminists are occupied in doing precisely that, cancelling the radicals from history.
By their actions, the new feminism is a conservative movement. Try denying that, go ahead. I wanna hear the words you use in your counter arguments to portray yourselves as something anywhere near to progressives feminists. Your focus and priority is not women, it’s anything else but women. Women in Congress? The vast majority are right wingers, so don’t tell me electing more women to Congress is progress. Patriarchy feels safe and protected with them there. He wins again.
Can you recall any people who want to destroy their own history because they are too ashamed of it? Not even the Germans are in agreement on doing this, neither the white supremacists want to hide their bloody history. Are the actions of the radical women of the 70s comparable to the history of these men? Were the W.I.T.C.H. women fascist; how many men did they kill? Tell me, what is so threatening about the radicals that you need to delete them from history? It can’t be that they were ‘anti-men’ because all you have to do is not be so; you don’t have to delete them. The truth is that you are afraid of retaliations by right-wing men in the form of physical violence and being labeled ‘crazy’, or even losing jobs in academia.
And that’s why you have to trash Shulamith Firestone and Airless Spaces.
How are these newbie feminists doing the work for the master? They are discrediting the women of the radical movement, especially Shulamith Firestone, and any woman today who dares to take a step to the left of the 70s or of Dialectic. They can only move to the right of those historical markers. They are also weaponizing the trans-civil-rights movement against women, seldom against men. And they are using the stigma of mental illness as one of their weapons. But of course, prejudiced people always deny they are being prejudiced.
I will discuss that and what will be the consequences of the victory of the alliance between the new feminists and the patriarchy to women in general in a new post to come soon.
The words patriarchy always wanted to say but was afraid to say them himself
“burgundy-lipstick bad-highlights second-wave-feminist has-been,”
“the Verge’s Laura Hudson suggested that it was time for older feminists “to listen, to learn, to step aside” because “age tends to correlate with not being on board with progress[.]”
Both quotes above in “It’s Not (All) the Second Wave’s Fault”
by Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
- dour and strident
- hidebound relics
- New feminism “it doesn’t mean man-hating or being humorless!” (Kristina Wong quoted in The third wave’s break from feminism) This is definitely a sin from patriarchy’s list of stereotypes.
- New feminism “asserts the right to enjoy a spanking without risk of subordination” That’s the type of women’s right I always wanted. Patriarchy is ‘down’ with this goal.
- “the pleasures she derives from dressing in a hyper-feminine style” is veiled lesbophobia and stereotyping. Basically, another sin: anti-men. We second wavers always wanted this, we were just waiting for you to grant us the right to admit it, not.
- Second wavers feminism “doesn’t account for some women’s desires for…subordination, and (sometimes) sex that is subordinating”. Um, sorry, I’m speechless.
- Third wavers want “the pleasures of sexual intercourse for hire”. Still speechless. Hey, I’ve got an idea: let’s all become prostitutes by choice, not because many women and children have been forced and abducted into it by men. These academics are not ashamed to say that they engage in prostitution.
- “Third wave feminists direct [their critique] explicitly and implicitly at the second-wave feminists…” Not at patriarchy but at other feminists. Is he happy or what?
All quotes on this list are from Bridget J. Crawford’s The Third Wave’s Break from Feminism
This is the gem in the patriarchy’s crown:
“[Third-wave feminism]…can handle the tools of patriarchy and don’t need to be shielded from them”.
Right. Don’t tell me you are not a ‘collaborator’. One day you will be ashamed of yourselves. Maybe.
Airless Spaces and mental illness 