I Am Against Radical Feminism
Erin Pizzey is the British woman who started the first shelter for battered women. In the UK, this became the Refuge movement. It was soon blatant to her that domestic violence is reciprocal. The link is to a transcript of a long interview hosted by Dean Esmay.
http://www.avoiceformen.com/mens-rights/domestic-violence-industry/refuting-40-years-of-lies-about-violence/
Pizzey asserts that both Betty Friedan and Susan Brownmiller recanted the radical feminism they preached earlier in their lives. As for Brownmiller, this is new news to me and to several commenters in the link. As for Friedan, however, I can clearly recall an article in Time or Newsweek in the 1980s that reported that she was having second thoughts about the direction feminism had taken. She could not agree with the female supremacist and anti-male views of the radfems. Nor was she comfortable with the tendency for positions of power in feminism to gravitate to radical lesbians holding the family in contempt.
Last year I reached Pizzey's conclusion that radfem is a totalitarian movement, quite similar to communism in its methods and psychological basis. George Orwell warned us about this in his novel 1984. So did Eric Hoffer in his
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer
I am not convinced that the fundamental problem is the money that feminists have been able to raise under the banner of overcoming domestic violence. I submit that what is really at stake is the deep personal satisfaction of knowing that one is a victim. Nothing is more addictive than self-pity, than the elated discovery that one's unhappiness can be blamed on villains, on the members of a social group. Marxism tapped into this psychological vein with its demonization of private property, entrepreneurship, and the market economy.
The trouble with Erin Pizzey is that she is too honest, too willing to face facts.
http://www.avoiceformen.com/mens-rights/domestic-violence-industry/refuting-40-years-of-lies-about-violence/
Pizzey asserts that both Betty Friedan and Susan Brownmiller recanted the radical feminism they preached earlier in their lives. As for Brownmiller, this is new news to me and to several commenters in the link. As for Friedan, however, I can clearly recall an article in Time or Newsweek in the 1980s that reported that she was having second thoughts about the direction feminism had taken. She could not agree with the female supremacist and anti-male views of the radfems. Nor was she comfortable with the tendency for positions of power in feminism to gravitate to radical lesbians holding the family in contempt.
Last year I reached Pizzey's conclusion that radfem is a totalitarian movement, quite similar to communism in its methods and psychological basis. George Orwell warned us about this in his novel 1984. So did Eric Hoffer in his
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer
I am not convinced that the fundamental problem is the money that feminists have been able to raise under the banner of overcoming domestic violence. I submit that what is really at stake is the deep personal satisfaction of knowing that one is a victim. Nothing is more addictive than self-pity, than the elated discovery that one's unhappiness can be blamed on villains, on the members of a social group. Marxism tapped into this psychological vein with its demonization of private property, entrepreneurship, and the market economy.
The trouble with Erin Pizzey is that she is too honest, too willing to face facts.
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consa
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61-65
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