Michael McCaffrey has an interesting op-ed on the RT Question More
website entitled, “Toxic femininity: ‘Badass’ US women demand right to torture and kill for Empire… just like men.”
McCaffrey provides a good analysis of where and how mainstream feminism has gone wrong through its blind endorsement of America’s cultural/economic status quo.
I have copied an excerpt below and encourage you to read the entire piece.
First, however, I want to add what I believe is a more fundamental problem that has always dogged the heels of secular feminism — the Biblical doctrine of original sin.
Yes, woman are and always have been as sinful as men.
That means that women are as prone to selfishness, violence and destruction as men continually show themselves to be. They may pursue their goals by different means, at times. But the corrupted ends remain the same.
The oft repeated refrain, “If only women were in control of the world, THEN we would see the end of war, famine, and all manner of evil!” has always been a patronizing Utopian dream, as ignorant as it is blind.
Didn’t these feminist champions pay attention to the presidencies of Golda Meir in Israel, or Indira Gandhi in India? How about Hillary Clinton’s gleeful laughter over the brutal murder of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi at the hands of an angry mob?
Have they willfully ignored the current debacle of president Aung San Suu
Kyi in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) as she blesses her military’s Rohingya genocide?
Below is the excerpt of McCaffrey:
“As sincere as these women are in their outrage, in their quest for power they are inadvertently reinforcing the immoral and unethical system that they claim to detest. This is most glaringly apparent when this new feminism boldly embraces the worst traits of the patriarchy in the form of militarism and empire.
“The rise of #MeToo, Time’s Up and the anti-Trump Women’s Movement, has brought forth a new wave of politically and culturally active neo-feminists. This modern women’s movement and its adherents demand that “boys not be boys”, and in fact claim that the statement “boys will be boys” is in and of itself an act of patriarchal privilege and male aggression. The irony is that these neo-feminists don’t want boys to be boys, but they do want girls to be like boys…
“…Other toxically-masculine women in government are also being hailed as great signs of women’s empowerment.
“Gina Haspel is the first female director of the CIA and women now also hold the three top directorates in that agency. Ms. Haspel proved herself more than capable of being just as deplorable as any man when she was an active participant in the Bush-era torture program. No doubt the pussy-hat wearing brigade would cheer her “competitiveness, dominance and aggression” when torturing prisoners… most especially the traditionally masculine ones.”
