It takes dedicated effort to remove these sorts of fiery speeches from the history of women. Oratory like this somehow doesn’t make it into the classrooms, or history lectures. So the lessons need to be discovered, theorized, and fought for in each generation of women making progress glacially slow. Yet we have helpful mnemonics for the British Monarchy, US presidents and Canadian PM’s that we teach to children. Yet nothing for the bold female speakers of the 60’s and 70’s who set their minds to one of the most important projects facing humankind – the dismantling of patriarchy.
Unless you seek information like this out, you won’t be told about it by your choice of news station, you most likely won’t hear it on the radio and I’m almost certain you wont get this in secondary school. The exclusion of feminist history in the mainstream is not an accidental omission, but a tactical choice.
– [Source:Notes from the Third Year]
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April 28, 2016 at 7:23 pm
Sha'Tara
Quote: “Yet we have helpful mnemonics for the British Monarchy, US presidents and Canadian PM’s that we teach to children. Yet nothing for the bold female speakers of the 60’s and 70’s who set their minds to one of the most important projects facing humankind – the dismantling of patriarchy.
Well you just gave the reason why women change agents are ignored by the System: the System can only be maintained through patriarchy, so it’s not about to help its own downfall, is it? These aren’t stupid people. They “own” organized Religion, Governments, Banking and the Military Industrial Complex. With real woman power (ignoring those that are either male clones or gold diggers) that System would find itself with decreasing support and means of livelihood. Wouldn’t it? If not, then woman power is pointless.
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April 29, 2016 at 3:03 am
VR Kaine
“These aren’t stupid people. They “own” organized Religion, Governments, Banking and the Military Industrial Complex.”
In your opinion, who exactly owns all this? The Vatican? The Rothschild’s? George Soros? I’m not disagreeing with your conclusion that it’s a “man’s world” in some respects, or that prostitution is kept alive and that the women are more vilified in that profession than men because of men. The active, thought-out plot thing though is interesting.
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