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A couple days back, Newsweek reports:
Feminist activists on Sunday are planning to commemorate last year's Women's March, the response to the election of President Donald Trump that was widely regarded as the biggest demonstration in U.S. history.
As they do so, the so-called alt-right—an anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic movement that has struggled to recruit women—is aiming to co-opt this political moment with a series of stunts, including spreading propaganda and a counterdemonstration in Knoxville, Tennessee. This targeting of a feminist event is part of an ongoing pattern of misogynistic behavior in the movement, according to activists and a rights group that spoke to Newsweek.
[...] Trolls from 4chan, an imageboard website that is popular with the alt-right, are planning to post signs at women's studies departments on college campuses Sunday with the hashtag #mybordermychoice, a deliberate perversion of the abortion-rights slogan "my body my choice," according to a series of posts on the site and research conducted by antifascist activists.
[...] Lecia Brooks of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a rights group, told Newsweek that Heimbach [Leader of the Traditionalist Workers' Party] is "no defender of women," referring to altercations involving the opposite sex he has had at demonstrations.
Heimbach replied to that notion by saying legal abortion and illegal immigration were victimizing the unborn and women, and that "women have had their femininity put under attack by a culture that treats them as either sex objects or as mere economic cogs in the capitalist system." Heimbach is a critic of the capitalist system while also being a critic of socialism, and views a "national socialism" system that includes only white non-Jews as an alternative to both. He said the policies of his group were structured to "empower women to their God given honorable place as true equals to men in society through their unique role as mothers and wives." To be clear, he is an ardent critic of contemporary feminism.
Message received, very clear.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday January 27 2018, @04:29AM (2 children)
I've been looking for news sources lately. Which sources covered this?
Yes. I'm familiar with the type. More than you can imagine….
I believe a libertarian framework will help out here. A woman has the right to withdraw life support at any time from the being growing within her (and also the right to modify her reproductive cycle with medical treatment if she does not like the way it works out of the box). These are both 9th Amendment rights in my analysis, but the Supreme Court apparently doesn't believe in that amendment, so instead we get Roe v. Wade. Either way, I don't believe our favorite “violently imposed monopoly” in the USA has the power to compel a person to provide life support to another person.
I would recommend further research into artificial wombs. Even better! It would be ideal to advance the state of medical technology such that a womb can be grown from stem cells or harvested from a donor and implanted into a man. I believe there is already the capability to perform fully-capable womb transplants into womyn-born-womyn. Advance that technology a bit, and then you will be able to have all the white babies you want without needing a violently imposed monopoly to deny women fundamental rights.
Uh… just one thing. I'm pontificating within a libertarian context, so like hell I'm going to pay for your babies.
I'd also like to rebut TFS.
Oh fuck you, Heimbach. [ ] War is peace! [x] Freedom is slavery! [x] Ignorance is strength!
Also, I'd like to point one more thing out, because the nature of the AC's comment here raises an important point.
Well, Michael Edison Hayden of Newsweek, do you ever present criticism of feminism that isn't cartoonishly evil? World Socialist Web Site, while I'm not certain if I'm missing a hidden message without knowing a lot more about ICFI, has had continuing coverage of #MeToo with far more cogent criticisms. You want the public nice and conditioned that only evil people would ever oppose feminism, don't cha?
Makes this whole questionable business with #MeToo all the more suspicious. It'll be fun to see how some of the allegations that have been denied will pan out when the wrongful termination lawsuits begin….
(Score: 4, Informative) by bradley13 on Saturday January 27 2018, @06:05AM
Have the Iranian protests really not been reported in the US? They have been pretty constant for the past two months. Certain, the European media has covered them. Wikipedia keeps something of a list. [wikipedia.org]
The protests are not about women and head-scarves, or not only. They are really about the religious authoritarianism in the country, of which that is only one small part.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday January 28 2018, @03:39AM
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11779/hijab-sharia-law-police [gatestoneinstitute.org]
A later report stated that this woman has since disappeared.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5297849/Iran-lawyer-raises-concern-missing-hijab-protester.html [dailymail.co.uk]
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.