Why I will eventually say, "Adios" to GC feminist activism...

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[–]BEB[S] 11 insightful - 4 fun11 insightful - 3 fun12 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

I never thought that the fabulous, fierce women pushing back on gender ideology were naive or prone to fads, but the constant retweeting of neo-conservative propagandists Masih Alinejad, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Bari Weiss, each softening us up for a US/Israel-pushed attack on Iran, or any other country that Israel wants out of the way, makes me rethink that assumption.

I get that very few lay people understand the nuances of global politics, whereas I spent years in the thick of it for my job.

I get that many if not most GC feminists are younger than I am, often considerably younger than I am, and do not remember all the other times the US (and other countries) have started a war under the partial justification that it would better the lot of the women of the country it was about to bomb to shreds (Afghanistan, Iraq, part of the propaganda before WW I...)

I understand that most GC feminists don't remember Iraq I, much less Vietnam. And most of you haven't been in a war, while I have, and the horrors of that, and other horrors meted out to women that I witnessed firsthand, have stayed with me to this day.

But can't these amazingly smart GC feminists figure out that the women of Iran have way bigger problems than being forced to wear fucking head scarves? US sanctions are crippling the lives, and often ending the lives, of ordinary Iranians. Females, as always, are disproportionately affected.

Why have so many GC women unquestioningly embraced these neo-conservative issues/ activists instead of lobbying for say, the young girls kept in cages in Thailand, only let out to have sex with disgusting European men?

Baby girls in Africa, raped because, in some places, sex with a virgin is thought to be a cure for AIDs?

There are so many women, and groups of women, around the world who face horrors daily who could use the help of smart, passionate women like us, but instead the GC movement seems to being hijacked by neo-conservatives and the US-Israel war machine. Who will use us, I guarantee.

It's really disappointing.

[–]Doe_aFemaleDeer 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Thank you for this post. It's the cold truth. The U.S. (a.k.a. the Pentagonian Empire / Fourth Reich) and its 'Western Civilisation' / Anglo-sphere vassals/allies like the UK Elite don't give two hecks about "women's rights" in the East / in Asia (Iran) - they just desperately want an 'excuse" to b0mb Iran (and thereby kill thousands, if not millions, of Iranian women). Because there are only ca. 3 big countries in Asia that still have a spine & stand up to the Pentagonian Empire - Russia, Iran and China. That's it - almost everyone else subserviently bowed down on their knees to the Pentagonian Empire. Uncle Sam and Britain are desperately hoping for a (military & cultural) war against Iran (and provoking the latter at every opportunity) - because, after annihilating Iran, the U.S. Empire will get absolute dominance in oil-rich West Asia. The most urgent problem facing most Iranian women is indeed not "headscarfs" - but the fact that they won't have any "heads" at all when the Pentagonian Empire b0mbs them all into oblivion. And, as demonstrated time and time again, the Western-Supremacist Pentagonian Empire shows ZERO mercy to women that it air-b0mbs, in countries that it invades & occupies.