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iedan and gloria steinem who coined the non sequitur a woman needs a men like a fish needs a bicycle a new feminism their movement is best described as a cold hearted conspiracy to destroy true feminism and alienate women not only from their families but from their own bodies professor jacques barzun once said to understand america one must know baseball i say to understand women one must read gramsci antonio gramsci the sardinian founder of the italian communist party knew women gramsci who wrote most of his important stuff while in prison said that the best way to destroy the west that is western civilization is through its women he observed that italian women were hermetically attached to their catholic faith and the only way to foment a long march through their culture was to separate them from their faith and the best way to that was through sex this idea was adopted by the marxist frankfurt institute for social research a group of sociologists and think tankers who left germany just before the onset of the pogroms and the death camps many emigrated to the united states where they joined university faculties the most prominent was herbert marcuse whose gave us the best quote of the 1960s make love not war betty was his protege his star pupil and marxist operative was mrs friedan it was her book the feminine mystique that launched a million divorces she sold women on the idea that they must compete with their husbands in order to have self esteem of course men had one very important weapon they could impregnate their wives to keep them down on the suburban farm there was a movie i saw in 1964 with polly bergen as the heroine who was just about to be elected president of the united states when she had to announce to the country that she was pregnant set the stage for hillary it was her unborn baby that had prevented her from being the hillary clinton of her generation their wombs now became the greatest obstacle to their new quest for power advance forward to 1973 and roe v wade when seven men on the supreme court found the mysterious right in the clouds of constitutional law that gave women the right privilege to eliminate the little interlopers who would thwart their wills to surpass men in their boardrooms they were promised that they could not only cleanse their wombs of an inconvenient child without a word from the father or a stain of guilt but also find existential validation in the process this was the message of the new feminists and millions of women bought it and western civilization has paid a steep price for it ever since the feminist movement also caused men to delay marriage or just shack up with their liberated girlfriends much to the harm of marriage stability don t get me started on their trophy wives who is behind this historic change in women s relation to their own culture why men of course alfred kinsey started it all with his book on sex but it was one of his early fans hugh hefner who launched a magazine empire based on the pristine naked flesh of the girl next door that gave it momentum and longevity big influence on hef hefner was a genius who not only legitimized prurient materials but gave us a cultural icon the sterile bunny one of the most profound oxymorons from the 1950s an oxymoronic icon hef s women were gorgeous and desirable not unlike the object of affection in the joke above but they were designed only for pleasure and not the reproductive responsibilities of the family my question then is this what smart women do has it really been worth to them given the unintended consequences of more frequent divorce irresponsible men rebellious and sexually active children as young as 10 11 rampant stds and epidemic sterility i saw a line of combat soldiers walking a patrol in afghanistan on the front page of the new york times at least two of them are women the times also had an article about service women with missing limbs last night i watched two women boxers pummel each other in a cage to the delight of men in the audience women at war women beating each other up even women playing football what do these women want that s what men do to each other women are supposed to be smarter than that contrary to the conventional wisdom men and women are not fungible if culture were left to the men we would all be back in the caves perhaps that s where these manly feminists are leading us is this the kind of equality women signed up for could this not be another throwback to roe v wade thanks to gramsci women who once would only kill to protect their children are now destroying the fruits of their womb at home while killing enemies overseas i saw a sign in a parking lot in falls church virginia in 1963 that said if women ever get equal rights with men it will be a step down for them i don t know who wrote that but it has remained with me for nearly a half century as the most profound statement i have ever read so are all women really stupid of course not but many who have bought the feminist message of the 21 st century and have sacrificed their innocence family and self respect on an altar of choice are certainly no smarter than the woman who said we have to pass it so we will know what is in it pass it first now that s really stupid check out this message about roe v wade http www youtube com watch v x_os0cwpcqe posted in uncategorized tags betty friedan bloomer girls death wish frankfurt school gloria steinem gramsci hand that rocks the cradle herbert marcuse nancy pelosi penumbra roe v wade sterile bunnies suburban farm why liberals hate horses october 19 2010 1 comment the competitive racing of horses is reputed to have originated among the prehistoric nomadic tribesmen of central asia who first domesticated the horse about 4500 bc for thousands of years horseracing flourished as the sport of kings and the nobility it is the second most widely attended u s spectator sport after baseball the interaction between horses and their owners as well as the notion of winning and losing has ordinarily resonated very well on the screen the jeff bridges 2003 movie about seabiscuit is a case in point after all who can hate a horse liberal can that s who according to rush limbaugh it appears that liberals or at least some liberals have expressed a profound hatred of a new movie about a winning horse and his owners my wife and i saw secretaria t the other night it is the dramatic presentation of the behind the scenes story of one of racing s greatest winners in 1973 big red won the sport s coveted triple crown the best horse of all time it is a feat that has been accomplished only eleven times since sir barton won the kentucky derby the preakness stakes and the belmont in 1919 it is composed of these three different races in five weeks and in three different states and at varying distances secretariat won all three races capping off his crown with an incredible 31 length victory at new york s belmont stakes it was a wonderful movie staring the demure dianne lane in an inspiring role as a strong willed woman who put winning and saving the family farm above her secure and cozy life in colorado how could anyone find fault with that then i started thinking about this movie being a paean to conservative values its protagonist penny chenery had a crisis in her family the mother of lane s character penny chenery dies early in the movie and her grief stricken father drifted into the deep recesses of his own mind penny valiantly tried to make a go of the farm at great personal sacrifice and to the discomfort of her husband and four children the real drama occurred after the father s death from a stroke as penny s boorish brother the economics professor and her lawyer husband advised her they needed to sell secretariat to pay the six million dollar estate tax bill but penny would not quit penny would not quit she showed a deep seated american trait of intelligence and ingenuity to circumvent the intended destruction of her family run farm penny was the personification of economist julia simon s argument that man and woman with his ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit is the ultimate resource this is what created the drama of the movie and perhaps the real complaint behind the liberal angst penny was able to pay her taxes by establishing a consortium of investors in secretariat s projected winnings all on speculation the movie is also a vivid illustration of the innate harm of the estate tax or the death tax that has confiscated billions in family wealth what most people forget or never knew is that the estate tax is one of the most onerous planks in karl marx and frederick engels 1848 pamphlet the communist manifesto salon columnist andrew o hehir found some even darker things about american individualism and traditional values that upset his mental applecart he savagely attacked penny s character even demeaning she was dressed in a resplendent collection of period knitwear and steel magnolia tude to o hehir she is like a classed up version of sarah palin feminism this leftist critic was upset that lane s iron willed superwoman striking and magisterial but utterly nonsexual illuminated from within like a medieval saint does not have despicable characteristics that would make her his kind of gal i thought liberals liked strong women a strong woman liberals hate this is is by far the strongest character lane has ever played and she carried the role with a dignity and aplomb that hopefully will win her an oscar maybe they only love certain strong women who abort their children cheat on their husbands or sleep with other women lane does none of that she is june clever who just passed away this week without the pearls who will do anything to preserve her family s traditions and enjoy the thrill of the game o hehir was also disturbed by his perception that so many all right thinking americans are united in their adoration of a nietzschean überhorse the nazi implications of his thinking are as subtle as a train wreck to him secretariat is creepy half hilarious master race propaganda almost worthy of leni riefenstahl a symbolic window dressing for a quasi inspirational fantasia of american whiteness and power for o hehir to see this in nietzschean terms is as appetizing as a 300 pound woman trying to squeeze into a size 4 it just doesn t fit a nazi horse religion is also another problem for o hehir while director randall wallace references barely mentions the social context of the times o hehir is convinced that this movie was constructed and marketed with at least one eye on christian consevatives who flock to tea parties and embraced a movie of a similar vein from last year the blind side the film opens with a voice over passage from the book of job and ends with a hymn wallace also the director of we were warrior s and the writer of braveheart and both mel gibson movies and is one of mainstream hollywood s few prominent christians who has spoken openly about his faith and his desire to make movies that appeal to people with middle american values o hehir also finds a troubling racial subtext in secretariat in the groom eddie who is an african american groom belongs to a far more insidious tradition of movie stereotypes eddie dances and sings but can he dance and sing he loves jesus and that big ol horse he is loyal and deferential to miz penny and injects soul and spirit into her troubled life i guess o hehir prefers the gang banging rap spouting drug dealing nihilists whose stereotypical figures dominates in movies about black people today as being more reflective of african american culture he is upset by movies with strong family members with its moral values who support each other in the long run liberal criticism of this movie that does not have any scenes of gratuitous sex or violence and does not have any foul language is proof positive that liberalism is a mental illness it is probably unfair of me to say that all liberals hate horses i know that many are quite fond of the proletarian horse boxer barbara in george orwell s novel animal farm a liberal s kind of horse posted in uncategorized tags animal farm communist manifesto diane lane nazis rush limbaugh secretariat sport of kings triple crown the 54 conundrum october 17 2010 6 comments in the 1920s bruce barton was more just an advertising executive he was also a man determined to make business into something like an object of worship and the business executive into the truest spiritual descendant of jesus christ in the man nobody knows the two main characteristics jesus had were his blazing conviction and his wonderful power to pick men exactly the two attributes barton says a successful business executive has to have his book sold well and was also distributed free to managers and salesmen in business firms only strong men can lead and jesus had millions follow him over the years according to author og mandino st paul was the greatest salesman in the world knew how to sell it is interesting that these two movtivational speakers used christianitry to emphasize principles of salesmanship probably because of the great number of faithful and ardent catholics throughout history can we say that now look at the church teachings on life thou shalt not kill is the 5 th commandment and abortion is directly linked to the killing of innocent beings yet it can t sell its position even to its own people just look at the last election 54 of the american voters voted for barack obama the most pro abortion president in history when he was in the illinois state house he voted present many times which was the equivalent of a no vote to stop a bill that would have protected the nascent lives of abortion survivors who were often put into a waste can and sequestered in some closet to die now why is that how is it that the church has failed to sell this most blessed event to its own people are they only cultural catholic or what we may call cinos catholics in name only or is there something else going on what are the obstacles to the selling of the life of the unborn child many of them are cultural our flawed nature is clearly evident in the culture s vast saturation with sex thanks to the likes of alfred kinsey and hugh hefner sexual frequency and variety seem to be the rule instead of fidelity and quality another cultural obstacle is the narcissist nature of many of our opinion makers who stress the existential importance of making our own decisions independent of parents family church and ethics another important obstacle is the reigning mind set of many in the catholic church i am talking about church leaders themselves many of the actual pro life leaders who seem to undermine their own message i am basically talking about the principle of the seamless garmen t i call it the shroud of bernardin the metaphor of the seamless garment dates back to john s gospel 19 23 where the roman soldiers cast lots for jesus tunic which was seamless woven in one piece from 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