The New World Order and its War on Women

[shance]

Interesting, to say the least.

The New World Order and the War on Women


"Within the pages of this book lie the reasons that explain why men and women now inhabit different worlds, for the reasons are not biologically determined but most definately ideological in origin but because their roots are buried in the hidden history of the rise of capitalism some five hundred years ago, the reality of today appears as something natural."

"Piercing the veil of something so deeply rooted in Western culture as to obliterate any other interpretation of the causes of events is no mean feat, made all the more difficult because of the power that men have over virtually every aspect of inquiry; history, science, economics, psychology, sexuality, medicine and of course, politics."

"For without questioning/understanding what it is to be a man or a woman in a world shaped by capital for the past 500 or so years, it is impossible to comprehend just how devastating the triumph of capital was for humanity but especially for women and for people of colour and of course, ultimately, for men also. For Federici demonstrates that the rise of (wage) slavery upon which capitalism depended, needed first to destroy the world of women and in very specific ways."

http://wagnews.blogspot.com/2005/03/new-world-order-and-war-on-women.html

[BrklynLiberal]

1. At the heart of everything that this administration represents is a deep

rooted misogynistic vein. The Fundamentalist, Dominionist, Right Wing, Patriarchal, NeoCon Philosphophies all have at their hearts the domination and subjugation of women, and the denial of their freedom and rights. Calling them the American Taliban is no mere semantic trick. It is a valid comparison in philosophy and goals.
Women are merely one of the many minorities that will suffer at the hands of these Theocratic, Fascist, Rightwing, Dominionist, Reconstructionists.

"First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out.
And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me."
Martin Niemoller

[G_j]

2. I completely agree n/t

[shance]

3. Yes, there is a need for some males to essentially dominate everyone

namely women.

The article I thought was fascinating and it explains alot about the economic system and the oppession of women and individuals of color.

I would bet the book is very good.

[NervousRex]

5. Woman are NOT a minority

Don't let the misogynists frame the debate. Labeling women as a minority is part of the debasement process.

[shance]

6. Great point. Nobody is a "minority". The term seems to debase everyone

who is not an white male.

Labels can be divisive little critters and its easy to get thrown back in to using them from time to time.

[BrklynLiberal]

10. I meant they are a minority in all the groups that govern and

make the rules, and totally excluded in some...like many churches, for instance.

[K-W]

12. Actually, except in total population, yes they are.

Go look in congress, in corporate america, in the media, in organized religion... the list goes on.

The only place women arent a minority is the spheres they are accepted in (some jobs and homemaking) and the overall population.

Thier minority status is even more heinous than other minorities, because they arent a numerical minority but are still given minority status in our society.

[minerva50]

34. I agree

I think that's also what inspires their visceral, vicious hatred of Hillary Clinton.

[SpiralHawk]

4. Here She Comes

Another point of view

Here She Comes
http://www.chiron-communications.com/communique%208-4.html

[scarletlib]

7. well we need Mother Earth and the feminine goddess now

more than ever. I pray she comes soon.

Edit to add that my soul cries out for her. My soul cries out for peace and reconcilation. My soul cries out for an end to war and violence. My soul cries out for mercy and justice. My soul cries.

[shance]

9. She's here right now. She's within us.

It's up to us to help her expand and heal the planet.

[scarletlib]

11. how I wish that were true

I have never harbored ill will for anyone in my whole life. but what is going on now makes me so very angry. it borders on hate. i know that is wrong. will evil triumph over good. it seems that is what is happening in this country today.

i am sitting here at my computer typing and crying.

[Karenina]

19. It is incumbent on us stop the abuse...

A snip from SpiralHawk's link:

An Astonishing Level of Abuse


"The women of this world have put up with disrespect for centuries," Margaret told me, "not just in my land but around the world." By way of example, she cited a personal thread of women’s history. "I’m coming from my own place, which is Ireland. We women have been denied the right to speak and to use our gifts to support ourselves over centuries. When we did use our gifts we were either burned at the stake, or our families were ostracized.


"In my country women are not allowed to be priests. We got churched when we had babies because we were claimed to be soiled. My mother, for example, after giving birth to a baby had to go through a Catholic service called churching before she was allowed back to receive the sacraments. She had to endure this humiliation because she became pregnant and had a child. Now mind you, this was within a church-sanctioned marriage to my father. This is but one wee example of the kind of thing they have been doing to women all over the world to try and control the feminine sprit.


"It is shocking to realize that in the context of the repression of the feminine, priests have meanwhile abused a vast number of boys and girls. One in six children in my land have been abused, either physically, mentally, or spiritually. That’s an astonishing level of abuse. It’s got to stop."

[Pachamama]

17. That's why my name on DU is PACHAMAMA....its means Mother Earth in Quechua

It's what the natives in the Amazon call our her...."She" is our essence, she is God, she is what we come from and where we go when we pass on....

She is within all of us....and we need to care for her.... :hi:

[shance]

24. Very cool Pachamama***Is Quechua a Native American nation?

Im glad you posted.

Thank you :)

[Pachamama]

26. No, "Quechua" or "Quichua" is actually the Incan Language used by the Inca

and is the base of the language of all the tribes throughout the former Incan empire (ie. Colombia, Equador, Peru, Chile)...

I love that word "Pacha-mama"(pronounced PAH-CHA MAMA)....if you say it again and again, it resonates sort of like the buddhist sound of the earth "Ohm"....

I have Pachababies too :hi:

[shance]

27. Thank you so much for explaining PCM!*

No doubt 'pachamama' truly resonates!

I bet you have very cute pachababies!!

:toast:

[zanne]

40. Isn't "Quichua" an egg dish?

Sorry. It's been a long day.

[shance]

8. Thank you Spiral Hawk***

More enlightening information!

[Desertrose]

31. Thanks SH.....this world/society is all so out of balance

My sense is it really got started bigtime when they (church) eliminated and refused to accept MM as an equal partner to JC. Went downhill quickly from there.

The Burning Times really eliminated and drove underground all the teachings of the sacred feminine and now, here we are with all this unbalanced male YANG energy running things.

What would you think can balance it all out?? Yup...feminine YIN.(Not the strident feminists as their energy basically comes across as male Yang) We are talking true feminine energy...

...and it is time..OK make that long overdue.

:hi: SH
:loveya:
DR

[DarleenMB]

13. Margaret Atwood ...

The Handmaid's Tale.

here it comes. And I don't want to be here when the sh*t hits the fan. I don't want to wake up one day and discover I have been disenfranchised and can no longer own property or have my own money.

[shance]

14. Darlene, that's why we need to bring more women and men together

who want to stop the extremism taking over our country and our world.

We have to, through our communities and our daily world, raise the consciousness of all Americans.

We need to do it through churches, through the Chambers of Commerce (they really need us!), through our hobbies and extracurricular activities, through our SCHOOLBOARDS.

We have to keep connecting to one another and building our relationships and our communities that will fight this extremist/power grabbing mentality.

[omega minimo]

15. Today an old Chinese man with a machete was hacking

at a tree outside my workplace. I asked him what he would use the bark for and he smiled and pointed at his head. These trees have purple flowers in spring and "garbanzo beans" in winter. A man I work with is from Mexico, where these trees grow. He started talking about healing in his home town-- how people use plants. He describes a plant they make a tea from, to drink when they have a wound. The Chinese culture, the Mexican culture, know plants and have traditional healers.

I told him, "Yeah, the white people burned their healers at the stake a long time ago."

The film "The Burning Times" tells of the history of wise women in Europe, who had homes and property, stature and power in the community. Women who didn't want the folks to start using refined sugar when the commodity came along. Women who were demonized and destroyed as "witches" when the newly minted medical profession wanted them out of the way.

Any connections to today's world? (As Mike Malloy talks about Dupedya's proposed EPA head wanting to test pesticides on infants in poor, AfricanAmerican communities-- offering $900, a calendar and videocam to diary the damage to the tots, whose parents are told there are no risks...)

:smoke:

and to Dear ScarletLib:
Don't cry and don't hate. Don't give your energy away. The current regime of slime are beyond hating. It's insane. You can heal through your meditation and the peace you spread, the ripple in the pond. Your tears are cleansing. Despair feeds their evil.

[chlamor]

16. Great Post

A friend once said "Beware of anything that is refined and white" He left it open for interpretation. Women have historically done 2/3rds of worlds work. Women are the hardest hit victims of war. Ginko trees are good for getting blood to the brain and circulation. Peace.

[omega minimo]

18. LOL "Refined and white" leads to constipation

That pyramid is INTENSE! Puts the current insanity and unification of elements on the "We fool you" level in perspective.

These trees aren't gingkos. He was collecting the bark, not the "berries." My friend from Mexico doesn't know what they would be called here. I've never seen them anywhere else. The purple flowers resemble tiny sprays of --maybe like black locust, but much smaller.

Another great line like "never trust..."
An Amerindian woman said she doesn't like TV. (I forget the source):
"I don't trust anything that has to be watched."



:evilgrin:

[scarletlib]

20. Great poster

even better message

[shance]

21. Wow. Thanks for such an enlightening post.

Very wise words.

And how true on despair. Easy to do at times and yet it only allows the wrongdoing to grow and spread!

Thanks so much for posting.

[omega minimo]

22. Job #1 apparently is maintaining our own individual equlibrium

...as it has been since things started getting really crazy-- oh, a decade or two or three ago...as we sort thru all the doublethink of the day and seek sanity at DU.

One of today's common DU themes was humor (and which forum to post it in!) and whether its "okay" to riducule the Schiavo farce. Reality has gone over the edge. These people are insane. Must laugh.

If depression is anger without motivation, is despair the flip side of democracy in action?

DON'T LET THE BASTARDS HIJACK YOUR IMAGINATION OF THE FUTURE. That is our power. If we despair of democracy's survival, we are realistic, but resigned to a future we don't want to live in. Kinda schizoid, isn't it?

Pleased to meet you, shance, on this great thread.

[shance]

23. Omega, wherever you are,,,,,

I hope you are either running for office or IN office somewhere!!

We need more like you out there spreading such valuable words.

Thank you for the humor tip, along with everything else you said. Whew boy its difficult at times these days. However a touch of humor is essential, along with the determination (*anger*) to move forward.

I know it's also important not to focus on what others are doing or not doing, but to focus on what I am doing and do it well.

Very pleased to meet you Omega*** Looking forward to reading more of your posts!

[omega minimo]

32. Very kind of you

The personal is political.
The political has become VERY personal.

My understanding of democracy is that we stand for it or we don't. If we don't stand for it, it will not stand for us.

Divided, we fall.
United we :kick:

[shance]

49. Amen Omega. Imagine our force and power when we finally unite.

It will be nothing short of earth moving.

[omega minimo]

51. Belief in that power is the only real challenge we face

:evilgrin:

[scarletlib]

28. thanks for the inspiration

[Swamp Rat]

25. Put on your burkas and shut the HELL up!

[omega minimo]

33. Burq you

:hi:

[Swamp Rat]

39. How's the weather over there?

We have "California weather" in New Orleans today. :)

"... and I think to myself, what a wonderful world!" ;)

[omega minimo]

41. Gorgeous. After late-winter storms, world washed clean, sun shining

clouds clouding. Trying to get out for a walk around the park. If not fer DU and some rippin college radio.

Maybe I'll see Ahnalt and his Humma.

California Uber Alles, indeed.

Love that scary graphic-- did you make that?

:smoke:

[Swamp Rat]

42. Yes, here's the latest:

[omega minimo]

44. Brilliant! Why is it so damn FUNNY?

The scariness of your art work (kudos) reveals the Stan Laurelesque nature of W's lameness. "Nother fine mess you've gottnus into, Ollie/Rummy/Cheney/Wolfey/Condi."

Nice Warhol-ish offkilter mouth color goin on, too. Are there swastickas in his eyes? This is the expression of someone who found a finger in the chili.

Where may we partake of your most excellent images? and music?

Didn't see Ahnalt today. Did see a scruffy homeless (bout the right age to be a Viet Nam vet) man buying a weather almanac "Weather Wise" at the newsstand.

Yep, he was doing his patriotic duty to keep the economy humming along.

[Swamp Rat]

45. Oh, you mean Herr GropenFührer?

:D



I have no website of my own, nor even a computer. I make my pics exclusively for my own catharsis and entertainment... and the DU community. You can download any image you want.

[omega minimo]

46. Ah'm mighty impresstimicated

with your work. Thanks for sharing it.

It's funny here in CA to see people react to the Governator's blunt force bully-style public and political outreach-- as if they're surprised. WHAT DID THEY think would happen WHEN THEY VOTED for the TERMINATOR!?!

SD, you have provided here an answer to a question that Longgrain started a thread with on Wednesday: What is the purpose of art in society these days?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3336237&mesg_id=3336237&page=

Good stuff.

[Swamp Rat]

47. I saw your "pronoun" post in that thread.

It's funny, all the women in my family are talanted artists. We men try to keep up. :D

[omega minimo]

48. LOQ

Laughing out quiet.

Swamp Rat, do you see the world thru 3-d glasses?

[shance]

29. late morning *kick*

:)

[kaitykaity]

30. Thanks for the kick.

I'm glad I got a chance to see this.

:)

[omega minimo]

35. KICK This week a thread was all about why don't Democrats "kick ass"

and macho, fired up, blustering, fuckyeah hilarity ensued.

Maybe the men could take off the fight-vision goggles and grok that they live under the same constipated, abusive, insanely-out-of-balance, dominance regime as we do.


I got yer "pink tutu" right here............

:smoke:

[chlamor]

36. Kick-Afghanistan, Iraq and Women's Rights

I never liked the term 'Women's rights' i assumed it should have been a foregone conclusion. Also it generally means you have a right to fully participate in a patriarchal culture if it meant anything at all. Success as a woman being defined by the strictures of that omnicidal framework. How about 'women's lives' and their right to define themselves as they wish?


After almost 30 years of U.S. manipulation and the 2001 invasion of their country, what is the fate of women in Afghanistan today?

On March 21, Afghan women leaders announced at a press conference in Washing ton, D.C, that gender inequality was rising in their country. The delegation of non-profit leaders told of a dramatic increase in the trafficking of women, rape, forced marriage, domestic abuse, illiteracy and lack of health care. Their fear? That so-called economic “reforms” brought by imperialism will actually undermine women’s rights in the country.


Economic reforms under imperialist control invariably mean enhancing the extraction of profits by transnational corporations. Any benefits gained from this kind of “modernization” accrue only to a thin layer of collaborators and administrators on the top.
Human rights advocates say from 60 percent to 80 percent of marriages in Afghanistan are still forced on women sold for their “bride price.” The 2004 Human Development Index from the United Nations shows one Afghan woman dying from pregnancy-related causes every 30 minutes. The bride price had been abolished over a quarter century ago by the young revolutionary government, which had also sent medical teams of women into the countryside to improve rural health.

<snip>

Similarly, in Iraq, under the secular nationalist governments that followed the expulsion of British colonialism in 1958, women benefited from redistribution of some of the country’s oil wealth to the people. There was free education through the university level for all, encouraging families to keep daughters in school and not pull them out for early marriage. The Iraqi government guaranteed jobs for women who wanted to work, equal pay for equal work and free health care, including pre- and post-natal care for mothers. Working women were guaranteed six months paid maternity leave, with subsidized daycare available in most workplaces. Basic food and housing were subsidized.

The 12 years of U.S.-led sanctions followed by invasion obliterated this system of support for women, while it murdered thousands of women along with their families. Now, under the current U.S. puppet government in Iraq, women are actually losing legal rights that had been theirs since the late 1950s.

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=10652&hd=0&size=1&l=x

[libodem]

37. this is right up my alley

I was just reading the Sonia Johnson, From housewife to Heretic, out of Women Without Superstition...and remembering trying to get the Equal Rights Amendment ratified in '78...."I finally went to the leaders of the church in my area and said to them that the problem was not just that they were doing it, but they were doing it covertly, not telling any body who they were, going in massive numbers to the legislatures and lobbying. Nobody knew where these people were coming from; they thought they were ordinary citizens, just coming out of their own private consciences. Well, there's nothing private, consciously, about those folks at all. If the president of the Mormon church changed his mind about the Equal Rights Amendment to night, the whole Mormon church would be pro-ERA by morning."

[omega minimo]

38. The Equal Rights Amendment has been reintroduced.

Women's rights = human rights
And the fanatic men currently runnin things have got it all wrong
BTW why are WOMEN'S BODIES their favorite battleground?
Bastards

www.now.org/press/03.05/03-15a.html

NOW Cheers Introduction of Equal Rights Amendment; New Opportunity to Gain Constitutional Equality for Women
Statement of NOW President Kim Gandy

March 15, 2005

NOW President Kim Gandy joined members of Congress at a March 15 event announcing the reintroduction of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Properly interpreted, an equal rights amendment will be a permanent guarantee of basic human rights for women—not subjecting our fundamental rights and liberties to changing political cycles. Women were not included in the Constitution at the founding of our country, and for the entire history of the United States women have been purposely disadvantaged by the lack of a Constitutional guarantee of equality...

There are decades of evidence—documented discriminatory patterns in employment, education, insurance, health care, Social Security and pensions, military service, the justice system and numerous other areas...

Women need a constitutional equality amendment to effectively counter what is already a full-blown campaign to weaken and limit civil rights and to diminish women's rights. As we look to federal courts where conservative ideologues now dominate judicial thought and action, progressive leaders must stimulate debate among our elected representatives, women's rights advocates and the public-at-large on the meaning of equal protection for the sexes under the law.

[scarletlib]

43. yes!

[NashVegas]

50. Without Reading the Book

It's difficult to respond to this. But I'll try to add a thought or two the brew.

Capitalism** has brought about a great deal of political and economic empowerment for women, I'd think, rather than oppression. In the 1800s, when women became merchants, they demanded and received a host of legal options never previously recorded in history.

How much of a coincidence is it that some five hundred years ago, the time this writing gives, we saw the Western World's first truly powerful female ruler: QE1?

Capitalism relies on an enterpreneur's brains as much as, in most cases more than, brawn.

Before capitalism, a woman's choices were limited to: physically assisting their husband in his work; keeping their husbands' homes; serving wench (of many varieties).

Given the choice of existing now in the post-capitalism world or pre-1500s, I'll take now, thanks. Panniers must have been difficult to get around in.



** small "c" capitalism, not corporatism.