February 21, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Rina Mackereth wrote to misc@fathersforlife.org on the subject of “The definition of sexism”.

Rina stated:

To Fathers for Life,

The definition of feminism according to one of the great feminists, Bell Hooks, is:

“feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression”.

Is Fathers for Life pro sexism?  You want discrimination against men, women and all people to increase?  Do you want to increase sexist exploitation, such as lesbians tricking men into getting them pregnant and ten not telling him of the event?  Is Fathers for Life for oppression?  Racism, classism, ableism, slavery, governmental abuses and the continuing raping of countries and lands?

Feminists’ goal is to make life better for everybody.  Men and children included.

Rina Mackereth

Women’s Studies student at The Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Rina, I find it to be odd that you, while studying at The Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, rely on a definition by one feminist, Bell Hooks, to interpret the nature of the ideology that is being promoted at your school in the name of another feminist after whom your school is named.

You can do better than that.  In defining what feminism is, let’s not use the camouflage provided by Bell Hooks, but let’s use the raw, honest and unmistakeable language employed by the patron-saint of your school, Simone de Beauvoir, in trying to understand what socialism in the form of radical feminism is all about:

1. Many feminists are particularly host to the traditional family. Martha Nussbaum, a much-touted classical scholar, writes:

   It would be foolish to deny that there is some truth in Nussbaum’s argument, though it is inaccurate to depict the family as denying women equal opportunities to outside work and education. The question is what to do about the problems she describes, particularly those arising from the altruism of marriage.  Feminists have cooperated in creating the problem by establishing no-fault divorce, and, in their celebration of female autonomy, can hardly agree to make divorce difficult once more. This is one instance of many where feminists have done damage to women.  There is no apparent solution to the problems of divorce and widowhood other than denying women the right to choose a traditional family role.  The feminist solution is: All women must work.
   That was the position taken by the ur-feminist Simone de Beauvoir in her interview with Betty Friedan: “No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children.  Society should be totally different.  Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.” (17) Feminism is not about giving women freedom to choose; it is about taking away choices of which feminists disapprove. And one choice they disapprove is participation in a conventional family. (Robert H. Bork, in Slouching Towards Gomorrah, pp. 203 - 204)

2. ….At that time [during the pre-emergence of the 1960s student movement] we unruly and restless youth sat all night long in groups and grouplets, discussed and agitated. Some peacefully, others radically. Most «objected», even though they weren’t always clear on what they actually objected to. And those «revolootioners» that stemmed from the educated, well-situated high-society families of the medical professions, -jurists, -magnates of industry, -professors and teachers, or those whose grandfathers and fathers didn’t come to terms with rank and name acquired in the Second World War, kept pace most passionately.One of the compulsory subjects was the «feminist bible» by Simone de Beauvoir, the student and life partner of Jean-Paul Sartres, that had been published in Germany in 1951 under the global name of «The other sex». As if it were a written version of the Oswald-Kolle movies about man «the unknown being», some reached for it and hoped to find therein fundamental truths about «relationship boxes». Others devoured it as a new doctrine of healing and a sign-post to the true meaning of life, something that the doctrines of the Church seemed to guarantee no longer.Carried by the idea that every mensch is the product of his own achievements, Simone de Beauvoir announced the self-realization of the mensch through the total rejection of all constraints as well as [through] the total engagement in work based on performance. How that was to function she demonstrated by means of the example of men. They appeared to her as «complete human», because as absolute individuals they were in the position to liberate themselves from the constraints of fatherhood and family, by concentrating on their total performance and thereby «transcended» into a higher state of consciousness.

   It seemed to Simone de Beauvoir that women were on account of their role as mother and housewife estranged from this desirable state of «becoming human». Motherhood and family-work were deemed to be instruments of the oppression of woman. A woman who wanted to «transcend» and find self-realization had to extricate herself from such constraints, through abortion if necessary. In the ideal case she had to become like a man.

   Whether Simone de Beauvoir, who passed away in Paris in 1986, considered herself to be a pioneer in a merciless war of the sexes with the goal of the oppression of men or more likely interested in true equalization is open to debate. It is a fact that she defended the liberation of women from the constraints of motherhood as one of it’s strongest champions and actively participated in abortion campaigns together with ladies from high society who were inspired by her.

   Many women of the generation of ‘68 let themselves be convinced through the lectures in her work «The other sex» and from thereon divided the world, here into liberated men who had found self-realization, and there into women who are oppressed by men and hampered in their self-realization through their children and families. Particularly into women whose life-goal it had to be to shake off that yoke and to experience the true meaning of existence by self-realization through achievement. The most important mile stones on this path that were proclaimed were the right of the woman to her own belly, to a career, and to the upbringing of the children by the State.

   The second compulsory subject of ‘68 was deemed to be Friedrich Engels’ 1884 paper in which «The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State» is rolled out.

   Hardly anyone from the younger generations still knows Friedrich Engels. Even the older ones almost forgot or never knew him…. (Karin Jaeckel, Ph.D., in Germany devours its children — Families today: Exploited and burned out, pp. 137 - 138

Rina, there is a simple means by which to test the validity of any social hypothesis.  One only needs to ask what would happen if everyone were to follow and adopt the proposition.  The self-realization of all women through casting off the chains of motherhood, as proposed by Simone de Beauvoir would within one generation bring about the extinction of humanity.

It is hardly a practical solution to humanity’s troubles to equalize everyone by depriving them of children, the only real means of survival for humanity.

As to the barrage of questions you asked about Fathers for Life (…is it pro sexism?…  You want discrimination against men, women and all people to increase?…Do you want to increase sexist exploitation, such as lesbians tricking men into getting them pregnant and ten not telling him of the event?…Is Fathers for Life for oppression? Racism, classism, ableism, slavery, governmental abuses and the continuing raping of countries and lands?), you obviously got your mind already made up about all of those questions.  I won’t bother to answer them, other than to observe that their English grammar is sub-standard, but I will respond with another question:

Why is it that, when anyone does not toe their party line,  feminists accuse them of long litanies of invented transgressions?

Let’s face it Rina, Canadian women, with their so-much-greater average life expectancies are not the oppressed sex in Canada.  Why don’t you just stay in your corner of the sandbox and leave men and women alone?  Both do quite well without you.

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February 19, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

By way of background, in the morning of last Saturday I became rudely interrupted by a serious heart attack, was transported to the University of Alberta Hospital, underwent coronary angioplasty, had a blockage removed in one of my coronary arteries, a stent inserted, and am now back home.

I will be writing up a few observations about the experience as time goes by.

Before I do that, Ruth and I would  like to thank all of you for your concern and the real help you all provided.  Beyond any doubts, even though we are not necessarily physically close to one another, we are connected in heart and in spirit.

For me, the first new thing and application of one the rules I now must be careful about:  DO NOT drink “FiveAliveCitrusFruit”.  It contains grapefruit juice.  That interferes with one of the medications I must take on a daily basis from now on.

Ruth and I both woke up just after 2 a.m..  Ruth gave me some of that citrus-fruit juice but then came back to tell me about the dangers posed by grape-fruit juice.  Sure enough the juice did contain grape-fruit juice, and I am not allowed to drink even a drop of that.

At any rate, in spite of all the technological features, bells and whistles that the hospital bed I occupied for the last five days was equipped with, my own bed at home provides a far superior aspect: comfort, to which I shall now return.

Until later

Walter (and Ruth)
Bruderheim, Canada.
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Deaths from Heart- and Cardiovascular Diseases — The Hype and the Truth, by Walter Schneider, 2002 02 25 —The article debunks some misperceptions about incidence rates for heart disease (alleged to be the #1 killer of women but in reality a far more prolific killer of men.)

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February 14, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

news.bbc.co.uk

2009 02 10

‘She’d put cigarettes out on me’

By Jim Reed
Newsbeat reporter

Men in England and Wales aged between 20 and 24 are just as likely to be abused by their partners as women in the same age group. Campaigners claim not enough is being done by the police, social services and the government to tackle the problem. Read one victim’s story….

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February 14, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

cnew.canoe.com

February 10, 2009

No-contact order with girlfriend keeps man out of his own house

By TONY BLAIS, SUN MEDIA

EDMONTON — In a bizarre case before the courts, an Edmonton man has been forbidden from going to his own home while his girlfriend - whom he has told to get out - is still living there.

Todd Shandro, 36, went before a judge yesterday to try to resolve the situation, but he was told there were jurisdictional issues and he has to take the matter to civil court.

“It’s very sick what is happening here,” said a frustrated Shandro. “I am the sole owner of the house. The mortgage and title are in my name and she is essentially a squatter….(Full Story)

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February 13, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

onenewsnow.com

2009 02 13

By Pete Chagnon and Jody Brown

Central Michigan University is being sued after one of their women’s basketball players said she was kicked off the team due to her heterosexuality.

Brooke Heike was a high school basketball star who was aggressively sought after by several colleges that wanted the league MVP from Washington Township, Michigan, to continue her record-breaking rebounding and shot-blocking skills on their campus. After leading her team to its first conference title in 18 years as a high school senior, the 6-foot-2 forward decided to attend Central Michigan University, which offered her a full scholarship.

But Heike says she fell out of favor in 2007 with CMU’s new women’s basketball head coach, Sue Guevara, and was eventually kicked off the team. She claims the coach, who is allegedly lesbian, took issue with her heterosexuality….(Full Story)

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February 13, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

From: GOPUSA CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST

2009 02 13

Sometime this year, taxpayers will receive an Economic Stimulus Payment.
This is a very exciting new program that I will explain using the Q and A format:

Q. What is an Economic Stimulus Payment?
A. It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers.

Q. Where will the government get this money?
A. From taxpayers.

Q. So the government is giving me back my own money?
A. No, they are borrowing it from China. Your children are expected to repay the Chinese.

Q. What is the purpose of this payment?
A. The plan is that you will use the money to purchase a high-definition TV set, thus stimulating the economy.

Q. But isn’t that stimulating the economy of China?
A. Shut up.

http://gopusa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41157

GOPUSA CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST WEBSITE

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February 13, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

LifeSiteNews.com

Left Wing of the Catholic Church Destroying the Faith Says Orthodox RabbiBy Hilary White, Rome correspondent

ROME, February 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The dissident, leftist movement in the Catholic Church over the last forty years has severely undermined the teaching of the Catholic Church on the moral teachings on life and family, a prominent US Orthodox rabbi told LifeSiteNews.com. Rabbi Yehuda Levin, the head of a group of 800 Orthodox rabbis in the US and Canada, also dismissed the accusations that the Holy See had not sufficiently distanced itself from the comments made by Bishop Richard Williamson of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) on the Holocaust.

“I support this move” to reconcile the traditionalist faction in the Church, he said, “because I understand the big picture, which is that the Catholic Church has a problem. There is a strong left wing of the Church that is doing immeasurable harm to the faith.”….(Full Story)

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February 12, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

HELP IS NEEDED! [for a man and loving father who is a victim of an epidemic of rape hysteria in Ellsworth, Maine]

When you think it could not get any worse for a man and his children I assure you it can!

In the Bar Harbor area of Maine, a decent, loving, and dedicated father who decided to leave his 16 year relationship with his wife, and save their children from her mental insanity and physical abuse was charged and convicted on 2 counts of assault and 1 count of Gross Sexual Assault for allegedly splashing water in his wife’s face 3 years ago, for allegedly sexually assaulting his wife 2 years ago, and for allegedly pushing her on a chair 2 years ago.

There was NO evidence, NO investigation, and nothing more than an angry and coached wife’s testimony along with prosecutorial misconduct that resulted in a conviction.

During the trial no evidence or any mention was allowed of the wife’s history of false allegations against other men in her life, the use of restraining orders against the fathers of her children for custody, her psychiatric history, years of powerful medication use, the details of her outrageous and violent abuse of her partners and her children, or even the mention of her current divorce and custody battle with this man.

During the trial, the prosecutor violated this man’s basic Constitutional Rights when she told the jury that “there was no evidence that the sexual acts did not occur,” implying that a man was guilty unless he proved otherwise. Asst. DA prosecutor’s misconduct extended to making many inadmissible and prejudicial statements while stating statistics in her closing arguments in order to get a conviction and publicity regardless of the evidence, of the facts, or the truth in this case!

She even implied to the jury that no custody battle exists between the accuser and the accused.

During and after the trial, the defense attorney Motioned for Acquittal and a New Trial citing prosecutorial misconduct, inappropriate court rulings, and violations of this innocent man’s Constitutional Rights.

He [the man wrongly accused] is currently free on bail pending his sentencing in March 2009.

For the past 1 ½ years this innocent man has had custody of his two sons granted by the state of Maine while for almost 2 years his accuser has not been allowed contact with the children by Maine authorities.

If the conviction is not overturned and/or a new trial granted by March 5th, this innocent man could go to jail for 30 years while his two sons (12 and 3) will be taken by the State of Maine because their mother (the accuser) is considered a danger to them.

Please visit www.FillerFund.com for more details about this outrageous case, and PLEASE HELP!

Letters of support, donations, and legal help is DESPERATLY needed!

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February 12, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

The following are excerpts from and links to a few articles on the subject of violent women.

Quote 1:

…Miss Laframboise neatly turns the MacKinnon ravings (such as “Compare victim’s reports of rape with women’s reports of sex. They are a lot alike”) upside down by comparing them with “flesh and blood” reports in the Landers column. The latter run the behavioral gamut. Some men behave badly; some are criminal abusers; others behave honourably. Still others write to praise their mothers, wives and daughters, and are praised by them. Since Miss Dworkin has stated that any woman who enjoys sexual relations with a man is a “collaborator,” and Miss Faludi believes that any man who wants to be a “good provider for his family” really intends only to oppress his wife, it’s doubtful they will accept such testimony.

The book takes aim at the studies NACSOW and other government agencies use to “prove” that Canadian men are engaged in a “war against women.” To back the claim that 29% of women have been assaulted by spouses, Statistics Canada included those who have been “grabbed” during an argument (a deplorable action but hardly a vicious one). The Panel on Violence went StatsCan several steps better by discovering that 98% of women have been assaulted. “Since obscene phone calls qualified as ‘violence’,” Miss Laframboise comments, “it’s surprising that the total wasn’t 100 percent.”

The results have been skewed, she charges, by such techniques as surveying unrepresentative populations (residents of battered women’s shelters), and extrapolating to the general population. Moreover, for the data to mean anything, women’s experiences had to be set beside men’s. Therefore StatsCan conducted a two-part study, but then refused to publish the figures on male victims of female violence. A shocking 17.8% of men “admitted to behaving in a ‘violent’ manner toward their spouses.” But so did 23.3% of women, and 6.2% acknowledged actually “beating up their partner” - compared to 2.5% for men….

Source: Alberta Report, 29 April 1996, p. 38
Review by: Nathan M. Greenfield
Title: “The distorted view of radical feminists: can Sunera Thobani, et. al, like the fabled princess, ever escape the tower?”

Additional excerpts from Donna Laframboise’s book The Princess at the Window

Quote 2:

REFERENCES EXAMINING ASSAULTS BY WOMEN ON THEIR SPOUSES OR MALE PARTNERS:

AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Martin S. Fiebert
Department of Psychology
California State University, Long Beach
Last updated: September 2008

SUMMARY:  This bibliography examines 246 scholarly investigations: 187 empirical studies and 59 reviews and/or analyses, which demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners.  The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 237,750.

(Full Text)

Quote 3:

Debunking Domestic Violence Statistics

The following is a copy of a letter written by Eeva Sodhi in response to a Globe and Mail article, 2002 02 23:

The Globe and Mail: Child-welfare time lost on paperwork, report says
By SIMON COOPER INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
[A summary of the article is appended —WHS]

The article bemoans the lack of social services workers in Ontario, for which reason violence against women, so it is alleged, cannot receive the full attention it deserves from the government of Ontario.

Sir,

The problem is not that there are insufficient numbers of social workers. Rather, it is the allocation of those resources. What is needed is to re-educate social workers and reassign their priorities.

It is of grave concern that the entire, and I mean entire, emphasis now is on the so-called family/domestic, etc. violence, which in the social worker lingo means “violence against women”. Children are linked as appendices to women and only receive attention when they can be used as propaganda tools.

Though the scientific community now has to admit that females are at least as violent as males, even if they may express it in a slightly different manner, often perpetrating their acts of aggression by proxy, all counselling is based on William Glasser’s Reality Therapy.

    Men’s therapy groups - to stop the violence that exists in relationships between men and women. Therapists use a discussion format to explore men’s violence in relationships and to propose non-violent alternatives for solving problems. Responsibility for one’s actions and consequence of choice are emphasized.

Women’s therapy groups - to increase women’s understanding of violence between partners and to provide them with strategies for protecting themselves against that violence. Therapists encourage open and frank discussion about past violence and explore methods of avoiding violence in the future.

The Ontario government spends $145 million [a year] in direct contributions to combat violence against women, yet there is no evidence to support the hypothesis that we are in the grips of an all out epidemic of wife beatings and homicides. Rather, all the available data point to the other direction: women are the aggressors, not the aggrieved, especially when it comes to child abuse, often fatal.

Health Canada is currently compiling ER data on injury admissions….(Full Story)

Quote 4:

Male and Female Domestic Violence Rates

The implications of the report from which the excerpt shown below was copied are mind-boggling….(Full Story)

Quote 5:

Last but not least,

Violent women

It is a good thing that not all women are violent, but many women are.

It is a good thing that not all men fight back when women attack them, but some men do. They sometimes live to fight back. If men do fight back, they will live to regret that they did.

In our society it is alright for a woman to attack a man. It is never alright for a man to defend himself against an attacking woman.

If it does not sit right with you that there is never an excuse for men to fight back against a woman, you better have a look at the video accessible a bit farther down….(Full Story)

Make sure that you see the video on violent women identified in that article.

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February 12, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

SPECTATOR.com, U.K.
2009 02 11

Britain capitulates to terror

By Melanie Phillips

If anyone had doubted the extent to which Britain has capitulated to Islamic terror, the banning of Geert Wilders a few hours ago should surely open their eyes. Wilders, the Dutch member of parliament who had made an uncompromising stand against the Koranic sources of Islamist extremism and violence, was due to give a screening of Fitna, his film on this subject, at the House of Lords on Thursday. This meeting had been postponed after Lord Ahmed had previously threatened the House of Lords authorities that he would bring a force of 10,000 Muslims to lay siege to the Lords if Wilders was allowed to speak. To their credit, the Lords authorities had stood firm and said extra police would be drafted in to meet this threat and the Wilders meeting should go ahead.

But now the government has announced that it is banning Wilders from the country. A letter from the Home Secretary’s office to Wilders, delivered via the British embassy in the Hague, said:

…the Secretary of State is of the view that your presence in the UK would pose a genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat to one of the fundamental interests of society. The Secretary of State is satisfied that your statements about Muslims and their beliefs, as expressed in your film Fitna and elsewhere would threaten community harmony and therefore public security in the UK.

(Full Story)

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F4L: Geert Wilder’s movie “Fitna” can be accessed via this blog entry.

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