By Joan Swirsky | Am Thinker | Oct 24, 2025
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Going back 250 years, the enemies of America thought long and hard about how to destroy the fledgling experiment of a democratic republic that our Founding Fathers had envisioned. It was and continues to be clear to them that America’s strength is a function of three phenomena:
- A fervent belief in the God Who makes miracles happen, for just one example the crushing defeat of the thunderously powerful English Empire’s armies by blazing patriots like General George Washington and his ragtag army of American heroes.
- An equally ardent belief in and passion for the concept of freedom. Men who knew they were going to die, and their wives who believed their deaths were for the noble cause of freedom, all sacrificed to bring about our victory over the monarchy that wanted to continue to rule us.
- The most passionate was the embrace, belief in, and allegiance to family — its sanctity, its strength, its ability to weather all storms and overcome all obstacles.
If they could destroy all three, our enemies reasoned, the masses they considered essentially stupid would be forced to rely exclusively on Big Government. And so, to this day, the socialists-cum-communists among us are employing — as their predecessors did — every malevolent, criminal, and vicious tactic they can muster to actualize that goal.
Astounding progress
The America-haters among us have already
- infiltrated our public schools and contaminated generations of students with anti-American propaganda, as well as explicit pornography and grooming, even in kindergarten!
- lured both Christians and Jews to abandon their faiths and to worship the new God of Social Justice.
- succeeded in the leftist — and, I believe, traitorous — infiltration of our military and intelligence services like the FBI and CIA…until, that is, the redemptive entrance of President Trump and his secretary of war, Pete Hegseth.
- rigged the 2020 presidential election, which political activist Dinesh D’Souza also proved in his explosive film, 2000 Mules.
- On and on and on.
Still, the family remains their most desired — yet maddeningly elusive — target.
Help along the way
That effort was generously helped — perhaps, at first, innocently — by the theories of Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), the Austrian neurologist-cum-psychiatrist who was wildly successful in convincing the relatively new and free-thinking American public that the genesis of neuroses, phobias, anxieties, obsessions, depression, psychosis, and general psychological malfunction not only took place in the first few years of life, but were to be blamed on the mothers. Later therapists, like the sadistic psychiatrist Bruno Bettelheim, blamed “cold” mothers for their children’s autism.
Mission #1 Accomplished: Mothers are not good for children.
These psychological theories prevailed throughout the 20th century and up to today, embraced by generations of psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and psychotherapists until 1998, when they were thoroughly debunked by Judith Rich Harris in The Nurture Assumption, where the Harvard-educated psychologist and editor of most of the psychology texts used in colleges and medical schools in America argued persuasively that a person’s peer group is the major influence of thought, feelings, and behavior throughout life.
The Next Step
In 1960, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the most world-changing medication in history, developed by Dr. John Rock, a Harvard professor and obstetrician-gynecologist with five children — along with Drs. Gregory Pincus, C.M. Phang, and Selzo Garcia. Their creation was the birth control pill, AKA The Pill. For the first time in world history, the narrative goes, women had control over their reproduction.
For millions of women, it was their own Declaration of Independence, and a huge relief not to have to worry every month about getting pregnant.
Mission #2 Accomplished: Now we can be just like men, some women reasoned, and have as much sex as we want without worrying about getting pregnant. Thus was the Free Sex movement born, ushering in a complete redefinition of traditional morality.
Get out of the house!
Three years after The Pill, in 1963, a book by Betty Friedan, a housewife with three children from Queens, N.Y., shot to the top of every bestseller list. In essence, The Feminine Mystique told women that they were simply too smart, too creative, too intrinsically or at least potentially powerful to be spending their time, actually wasting their time, changing diapers, folding laundry, and — the most colossal waste of time of all — raising children.
Friedan’s book resonated!
Mission #3 Accomplished: Multimillions of young women abandoned the once desired goal of early marriage and motherhood and instead enrolled in colleges and universities, where they pursued professional careers ranging from medicine and law and architecture to jobs like telephone linewomen to military combatants to firefighters to hedge fund managers to business executives, et al.
Coincidentally, ahem, an economy that once allowed men to work outside the home and support a wife and put children through college magically became an economy that only two working parents could afford. It’s kind of like an economy that was completely energy-independent in 2020 under President Trump but quite magically became one in which President Biden had to beg foreign countries to sell him oil in 2021.
Reality sets in
The ’60s also ushered in the historically unprecedented rash of violent assassinations — live on TV — of
- U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1963 (age 46),
- firebrand black activist Malcolm X in 1965 (age 39),
- Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968 (age 39), and
- former attorney general and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 (age 42).
All of a sudden, the idealized world of the newly emancipated women was shattered. The world is out of control, they realized. Is it any wonder that so many of them enthusiastically embraced (or attended) the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival, with not only free sex, but a geyser of drugs for the smoking and snorting and injecting?
Mission #4 Accomplished: Many of these college-educated women congratulated themselves on avoiding marriage and especially motherhood, asking themselves, “Who wants to bring a child into this world?”
Only a few years later
In 1971, Gloria Steinem — “We are becoming the men we wanted to marry” — and editor Letty Cottin Pogrebin founded the first national feminist magazine, Ms.
Mission #5 Accomplished: The traditional nuclear family was being dismantled by a new generation of women who bought in to the notion that making money is infinitely more satisfying, meaningful, and important than raising children.
Marriage out — now babies out!
On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court issued a 7–2 decision in Roe v. Wade that all women have a “right” to an abortion. To this day, that decision is the Holy Grail of millions of women who believe that “my body, my choice” starts after they’ve had sex and gotten pregnant with a baby they don’t want.
In 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and sent the decision for abortion back to each individual state. Today, every woman in the United States who wants an abortion can get one, although some may have to endure the inconvenience of traveling to another state. Forget about the inconvenience their embryos face of a death sentence!
Mission #6 Accomplished: The once most cherished accomplishment of both men and women — to be the parent of a newborn baby — was effectively reduced to ending that baby’s life in utero. Today, in some states, abortion exists right up to the moment a full-term baby is delivered — and in California, believe it or not, even up to the time a healthy thriving baby is 28 days old! I believe that is called infanticide!
The ticking clock
Uh-oh. After graduating from college and laboring in the workforce for over a decade, millions of women realized that this money-making thing wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. But looking for a good man — after stepping on their necks on the way up the ladder — was even more problematic.
Nevertheless, the new social phenomenon of women marrying in their mid-thirties and older took hold, and not coincidentally gave rise to a booming in vitro fertilization industry, as millions of these new brides learned that conceiving and carrying a child after the age of 35 is both a “high-risk” and extremely pricey enterprise.
Mission #7 Accomplished: Take the joy out of intimacy and sex, make it a mechanical act, and further erode both marriage and the family at the same time.
But what about my career?
Modern women have been told by the influencers of the day that they can “have it all” — marriage, children, and career. Since they wanted it all, they bought it!
Some women were lucky to have their mothers or mothers-in-law or even young grandmothers volunteer to raise their children, and a rare few could afford expensive nannies.
But most women had to rely on another industry that boomed like no other: the daycare business, where mothers dropped off their infants, babies, toddlers, and preschoolers to paid workers who tended up to 20 or more children at a time, making sure those children were safe and fed, but not necessarily held, loved, comforted, taught, or nurtured.
This allowed the mothers to brag that the hour or so they spent with their child at the end of a day — in which both mother and child were exhausted — was, ahem, “quality time.”
Mission #8 Accomplished: Women out of the home, children being raised by strangers, the American family being dismantled piece by piece.
The genius Steve factor
There were two geniuses: Steve Case, the founding CEO of America Online (AOL) in 1983 (which really took off in the ’90s), and Steve Jobs, who invented, created, introduced the iPhone in 2007 and the iPad in 2010.
No need to elaborate on the degree to which these geniuses eliminated face-to-face communication and succeeded in riveting both parents and children to all the tantalizing distractions on these electronic devices that separate people and depersonalize intimate relationships, especially meaningful communication between parents and children.
Mission #9 Accomplished: Family concerns take a backseat to beeping texts, sexy emojis, Facebook invitations, Instagram images, Hollywood gossip, and horrifically graphic porn sites, which even savvy eight-year-olds can access with ease.
Worse, this has given rise to an entire generation of sociopaths who, understandably, have little or no human empathy, given the largely robotic care they’ve received.
And now we have an ad — since removed and eliminated from every search engine — that shows a child laughing and sharing an experience with her clearly delighted mother. Both are on iPads communicating long distance. The ad ends with a voice telling the mother, “You don’t have to be there.”
Right. The mother doesn’t have to be there to raise and love and comfort and teach and tuck her child in at night, and the father doesn’t have to be there, either. Only Big Government should raise their child to be a good little obedient communist. That’s the message!
Mission #10 Accomplished: Father never mentioned, mother out of the picture, the actual premeditated murder of the American family.
And the crashing failure of the feminist movement.
I rest my case.
Joan Swirsky is a New York-based journalist and author. Her website is www.joanswirsky.com, and she can be reached at joanswirsky@gmail.com.
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Query: Was susan B. Anthony Feminist and Antisemitic
Google AI Overview: “Susan B. Anthony was a foundational American feminist, but unlike her close collaborator Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she was not personally antisemitic.
While the early suffrage movement was heavily compromised by racism, nativism, and structural biases, historical and archival records show that Anthony explicitly rejected the anti-Jewish prejudices harbored by her contemporaries. Instead, she routinely defended Jewish women and incorporated them into her universal vision for human rights. [1, 2, 3, 4]
The distinction between Anthony’s record and the broader antisemitism of early feminism can be seen in three distinct ways:
1. Defending Ernestine Rose from Antisemitic Attacks
The clearest evidence of Anthony’s personal stance comes from her relationship with Ernestine Rose, a Polish-born rabbi’s daughter who became a pioneering, atheist, anti-slavery, and women’s rights activist in the United States. [1, 2]
* Rose faced immense prejudice within the suffrage movement for being both Jewish and an atheist. [1, 2]
* In 1854, fellow high-profile suffragist Lucy Stone wrote a letter directly to Anthony, explicitly arguing that because Rose’s face was “so essentially Jewish” and alleging she was “avaricious” (a classic antisemitic trope), Rose should not be allowed to publicly represent the women’s rights movement. [1]
* Anthony’s Response: Anthony completely ignored Stone’s antisemitic demands. She maintained her deep friendship and political alliance with Rose, later naming Rose alongside Mary Wollstonecraft as one of the ultimate pioneers of global feminism. [1, 2, 3]
2. Embracing Jewish Communities on Tour
When Anthony traveled across the United States to advocate for the 19th Amendment, she frequently sought out and was embraced by Jewish communities. [1]
* She spoke at synagogues, including the prominent Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco, and routinely accepted honors and flowers from local Jewish women’s organizations. [1]
* In her speeches, she frequently cited the plight of Jewish women under ancient laws—such as the unilateral right of a husband to grant a divorce—not to attack the Jewish people, but to argue that all religious frameworks historically suffered from a lack of female representation in lawmaking. [1]
3. Divergence from Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Anthony’s political partnership with Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the engine of the early movement, but they diverged sharply on religion. When Stanton published her highly controversial and overtly antisemitic text, The Woman’s Bible (1895), which scapegoated Jewish scripture and the “God of the Hebrews” for the degradation of women, the mainstream suffrage movement fractured. [1, 2]
* Anthony did not share Stanton’s fixation on attacking the Hebrew Bible.
* As the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), Anthony focused strictly on the secular constitutional right to vote, steering the broader organization away from Stanton’s anti-clerical, anti-Jewish theological critiques. [1, 2]
The Caveat: Structural Racism vs. Personal Antisemitism
While Anthony defended Jewish individuals, she is not without serious blemish regarding other forms of prejudice. Following the Civil War, she grew deeply embittered that the 15th Amendment granted voting rights to Black men but excluded all women. In her single-minded focus to pass women’s suffrage, she made highly problematic tactical choices: she deployed racially charged rhetoric regarding Black men and white women, and she willingly accommodated southern, white-supremacist suffragists to build a larger voting coalition. [1, 2, 3]
Summary
Susan B. Anthony shared many of the flaws of her era’s white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant leadership, particularly regarding race. However, when confronted with the overt antisemitism of her peers—whether from Lucy Stone or Elizabeth Cady Stanton—Anthony consistently pushed back, protected her Jewish colleagues, and viewed Jewish women as equal sisters in the fight for the ballot. [1, 2, 3, 4]”
Query: “Did third and Fourth Wave Antisemitism/Antizionism find fertile soil in in first, second, and third wave antisemitism”
Google AI Overview:
“Yes, Third- and Fourth-Wave feminist antisemitism and anti-Zionism found highly fertile soil in the structural, ideological, and historical precedents set by the first and second waves.[1, 2]
The hostility toward Jewish women or the Jewish state seen in contemporary movements—such as the exclusion of Jewish symbols from the Chicago Dyke March or statements declaring feminism and Zionism to be mutually exclusive—did not appear out of nowhere. Instead, they represent an evolution of two specific historical patterns: the theological/structural scapegoating of the First Wave, and the geopolitical identity politics of the Second Wave. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Historians and sociologists (such as Kara Jesella and Karin Stögner) trace this ideological continuity across the waves through three main conduits: [1, 2]
1. From “The Hebrew Bible as Patriarchal Root” to “Israel as White Supremacist Oppressor”
In the First Wave, figures like Elizabeth Cady Stanton used a “feminist logic” to blame ancient Judaism and the Hebrew Bible for codifying the patriarchy that degraded Western women.
* The Evolution: In the Third and Fourth Waves, this concept of the “Jewish root of oppression” was secularized and politicalized.
* The Result: Modern radical feminism relies heavily on a strict binary of the oppressor vs. the oppressed. Because contemporary frameworks often flatten Jewish identity into “whiteness” and view Israel strictly through the lens of European colonialism, the Jewish state is rhetorically transformed into the ultimate manifestation of “manly, aggressive, patriarchal power”. Thus, the First-Wave tradition of scapegoating Jews for systemic oppression continues, but the target has shifted from Jewish scripture to the Jewish state. [1, 2]
2. The Late Second-Wave Pivot (1975–1982)
The most direct “fertile soil” for modern anti-Zionism was laid during the transition from the Second Wave to the Third Wave. [1]
* The UN Women’s Conferences (1975, 1980): At the UN World Conferences on Women in Mexico City (1975) and Copenhagen (1980), Soviet- and Arab-backed blocs successfully introduced the “Zionism is Racism” resolution into the feminist agenda. This forced Western second-wave icons like Betty Friedan and Letty Cottin Pogrebin into defensive positions, effectively drawing a line that made Palestine a litmus test for “global sisterhood”. [1, 2, 3, 4]
* The 1982 Lebanon War: When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, it catalyzed a massive shift in alternative and radical feminist publications (such as Spare Rib in the UK). Anti-Zionism became formalized as a core tenet of anti-colonial feminism, establishing the rule that to be a “good feminist,” one had to denounce Israel. [1]
3. The Flattening of Intersectionality in the Third Wave
In the 1980s and 1990s, the Third Wave revolutionized feminism by introducing intersectionality(coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw), which correctly noted that women experience overlapping layers of oppression based on race, class, and gender. However, as this theory was institutionalized in academia, it created an unintended blind spot for antisemitism: [1, 2, 3, 4]
* The Erasure of Jewish Marginalization: Within the intersectional matrix, Jews were categorized purely as “white, privileged, and powerful”. [1, 2]
* The Exclusion: Because intersectionality was designed to protect the powerless from the powerful, antisemitism was discarded as a secondary concern or outright ignored. This created the “fertile soil” where Fourth-Wave movements (like the organizers of the 2017–2019 Women’s March) could explicitly omit Jewish women from lists of marginalized groups while welcoming anti-Zionist rhetoric, viewing Jews not as historical victims of prejudice, but as beneficiaries of white supremacy. [1, 2, 3]
Summary
Third- and Fourth-Wave feminist anti-Zionism is a direct beneficiary of early feminist biases. The First Wave provided a historical precedent for blaming Jews for patriarchal harms. The Second Wave institutionalized anti-Zionism into international women’s politics. The Third and Fourth Waves packaged these ideas into modern academic language, weaponizing structural concepts of privilege to justify the exclusion of Jewish and Zionist voices from the modern feminist umbrella. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]”
Query: Was Mary Woostonecraft feminist but antisemitic?
Google AI Overview:
“Yes, Mary Wollstonecraft was a trailblazing proto-feminist who frequently used antisemitic tropes in her writing. While she is celebrated as the mother of Western feminism for her 1792 landmark text, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, her work reflects the deep-seated, casual anti-Jewish prejudices common among 18th-century English Enlightenment thinkers.
Wollstonecraft did not write a systemic tract against Jewish people, but her antisemitism manifests in how she used “the Jew” as a rhetorical device to symbolize greed, moral degradation, and the worst impulses of capitalism.
1. “The Jew” as a Symbol of Greed and Materialism
In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Wollstonecraft’s primary goal was to argue that women should be rational, independent human beings rather than superficial objects obsessed with beauty, wealth, and status. To illustrate what she viewed as a vulgar, soul-crushing obsession with money, she repeatedly relied on anti-Jewish stereotypes: [1, 2]
* She used the word “Jewish” as a synonym for sharp, deceitful financial practices and a preoccupation with trade over virtue.
* She argued that a society obsessed with hereditary property and financial gain was becoming “Judaized,” weaponizing the centuries-old trope of the Jewish money-lender to critique the British aristocracy and emerging merchant class.
2. Contempt for the Old Testament / Hebrew Scripture
Like the later 19th-century feminists (such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton), Wollstonecraft’s brand of Enlightenment rationality made her highly critical of orthodox religious structures. In her critiques of religious tyranny, she frequently targeted ancient Hebrew scripture and laws. She viewed the Old Testament as a record of a primitive, patriarchal, and “cruel” culture, contrasting it unfavorably against a more idealized, rationalized version of Christian morality.
3. The 18th-Century Context
Wollstonecraft’s views were not unique; they mirrored the biases of her radical, intellectual circle in London (which included figures like Thomas Paine and William Godwin). Enlightenment thinkers of the era frequently championed universal “human rights,” but their definition of “human” was often narrow. They viewed Jews through a deeply biased lens: either as a backwards religious group that refused to assimilate into “rational” modern society, or as the embodiment of capitalist greed. [1]
Summary
Wollstonecraft’s feminism was groundbreaking because she applied republican principles of liberty and equality to women. However, her vision of emancipation was fundamentally bound to a white, Christian, European framework—one that used antisemitic caricatures to define what “irrational” and “corrupt” behavior looked like. [1, 2]”
Gadi interviews author of New Book, “Feminist Antisemitism, an Intellectual History“ by Kara Jisella dating its origin in the 1960’s but it goes all the way back.
https://youtu.be/sWWvvJ4NHwY?is=NuMEUhktAPai0lkx
Query: “antisemitic feminism Virginia Gildersleeve, Annie Nathan Meyer any others earlier?”
https://youtu.be/4Kwh3R0YjuQ?si=uLhadurCKWrkpPK_
“Slam Frank began as a parody video posted to Instagram by Andrew Fox, who is Jewish; online, he played the part of a theater director trying to create a chance for “Latinx girlies to feel seen, to feel included, to feel like they’re a part of the Holocaust.” Despite — or, perhaps, because — of how edgy the concept was, the social media account went so viral that it birthed a full-fledged show. Or, arguably, two; the conceit is a play within a play, a production of Anne Frank staged by a theater troupe working to “decolonize” the Holocaust… Fox was inspired by a viral Twitter thread from 2021 that accused Anne Frank of white privilege, calling her a “colonizer.” I wrote about this discourse at the time; ahistorical discussions of Anne Frank’s purported whiteness were cropping up every few months during that period, as the Black Lives Matter protests and the pandemic brought identity politics to the main stage.
This discourse, while obviously absurd — Jews in the 1930s were not considered white — was nevertheless taken somewhat seriously in some circles. So, to make Anne Frank more unambiguously sympathetic, Fox assigned her and her compatriots in the Annex every extra identity she might need to qualify for victimhood..”
https://forward.com/culture/theater/776224/slam-frank-anne-frank-woke-play-identity-politics/
My comment: It’s Mel Brooks The Producers, part 2 except I have no desire, sublimated, subluxated, or otherwise, to see it. Still it’s good to seethese antisemitic leftist morons made fun of with humor as absurdist as their concept of reality is absurd. I’m reminded of the Jane Austen and Zombies series.
“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Official Trailer (Feb. 2016) from the best selling novel
https://youtu.be/syjfmdvLu9c?si=3QP4j7QYs69U3nmf
If you have had the opportunity to listen to the tapes of Dr. Day, you would realize that all the events listed in the article above were planned efforts.
There was an ostensible goal-the goal that they would publicize, and a real goal, that they would not let the public know about. These were efforts made by extremely wealthy individuals, we now call them globalists, but back then they were people wealthy beyond what most people can even imagine. The goal was the New World Order, in which people would have no rights at all, it would be a totalitarian trans-national government over the entire world. One major goal was cutting the population of the earth down considerably. (They were eugenicists). They began with encouraging women to work outside the home, and put the children in childcare. Next they began to encourage the use of the pill and normalize abortion. Next they normalized divorce. Following this they normalized homosexuality. All of these measures were supposedly to “free women up” and liberate homosexuals, but the real reason for all these efforts was to prevent births from occurring, and decrease the time mothers spent with children, as this would ultimately have the effect of the children not wanting to have children, when they came of age.
It is true that many women were happy to go to work outside the home, but many women were not interested in doing so. However, after a time, in order to manage financially, it became necessary for both fathers and mothers to work.
Whether these plans were based upon a New World Order totalitarianism or Communism, doesn’t really matter, as both roads lead to the same end a totalitarian system in which the individual must give way to the collective.
Any encouragement to accept or submit to a collective system is encouragement to accept becoming a slave. Our history from the time of our founding in America, stands absolutely against the ideals of collectivist societies.
And the reference in the article above to porn is about the encouragement of and normalization of sexual perversions, which function to prevent heterosexuality and the creation of families.
In regard to the reference to Sigmund Freud, I think there is a great deal of misunderstanding about Freud’s work. He was a pioneer in attempting to understand how the mind works. He pioneered an in-depth study of dream analysis, and pioneered a method of helping people with serious emotional problems that involved listening to the person and learning together with the person what their emotional pain was about. He had no one before him from whom he could learn. Most people think everything that Freud studied and wrote about has been debunked. But that is not true. People discard whatever Freud wrote that they don’t agree with, but that doesn’t mean that Freud was completely incorrect.
He pioneered respect for his female patients, many of whom were not taken seriously by other doctors. His respect for them and willingness to learn from them helped him develop a deep understanding of how girls grow emotionally from childhood to adulthood.
Every “therapist” that practices any kind of psychotherapy, regardless of their training or qualifications, has benefitted from discoveries that Freud made. They may not realize it, but his many discoveries serve as a basis for many different kinds of treatment, some more effective than others. There basically would not be any “therapy” at all today if it were not for Sigmund Freud.
As a psychologist, I have mixed opinions about Freud. He did open up a field of study that previously was left to rabbis, poets, and dramatists, that of deep, buried emotions. The unconscious was known before him, but not studied with scientific intent as he did.
On the other hand, what is not as well known about Freud, is his betrayal of the very girls and women he purported to help. He realized at first that their emotional problems came from being sexually abused, usually by a close family member. But people didn’t want to hear that. He was challenged and faced professional ostracism, so he backed down. To cover his tracks (and maybe this was partly unconscious on his part) he came up with the Electra theory; he said that the girls craved sex with their fathers so they fantasized having it.
I will tell you that in my long practice as a therapist, I have seen many, many women hurt by this cowardly and false accusation thrown at them. The victim is blamed and the perp gets off scot free. Can you imagine the hurt and confusion not only in the girl’s mind, but the entire family?
Ever wonder why so many women wander around left wing causes, confused and angry? This could be one of them. Girls and women have been messed with, big time.
My mother’s sister got married and came back home a few months later crying to her mother about her new husband like to get drunk and knock her around on the weekends. Edna, said he was a good man all week but after getting paid for the week, he like to get a bottle and get drunk. That’s when the beating started. My Grandmother told her daughter the next time he comes in drinking just make your way into the kitchen and have a good size cask iron skillet laid out ready on the stove and when he starts you take that skillet and lay it upside of his head just as hard as you can swing it,
Friday night came and Edna got prepared cause she knew what lay in store, well Oscar started and she reached and grabbed that skillet after the first smack and laid his ass out stone cold. I understood they had a little conversation after he came to and he decided he would be doing his drinking somewhere else. After 5 kids and about 60 years they lived happy thereafter.
My grandmothers Irish blood screamed, don’t start no s…….., there want be none!
How nice that the drunk went after a grown woman, and not a child, as often happens, including rape. And also nice that he accepted the swat on his head and didn’t beat her up worse for revenge, as happens.
Men ARE bigger and stronger and have been known (like throughout history) to use that against women, who are smaller. I’m talking about a trend. You are talking about one fortunate incident. The women’s movement of the 19th and 20th centuries was necessary.
On a lighter note, look at the photo accompanying this article. Would you like to have to dress like that, with your ankles delicately crossed – or else get yelled at for not being “a lady”?
Not me. I say let women define themselves, and let it be for life for themselves and others, including children.
The problem is that the communist movement took advantage of the real injustices of a male overly respected society which demeaned women. There were real problems with girls and women being disrespected in myriad ways, and beatings and rapes doled out with females just expected to take it.
Marriages can continue, children can be loved and protected, but the issue of mistreatment of women under the old way has to be resolved. This is a good contribution of feminism, as well as giving women the right to vote.
So don’t go too far and condemn all the efforts women have made to have a safer and more productive life in society. If these legitimate complaints had been listened to and addressed, the hostility, marriage breakkdown and anti child things this article talks about, might have been avoided.
It’s like any other relationship. If someone has a complaint about unfairness, they should be listened to and respected. If they are ridiculed (as happened to women’s complaints) they may retaliate with destruction.