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Editorial
Mass. Women Unknowingly
Hurting Their Families
It's Foolish to Laugh at
Feminists When They
Are Such a Threat to Mothers and
Their Children
Many of our generation who lived through the
Depression, World War II and Korea were born shortly after women
obtained the right to vote in 1920.
So it's natural for us to wonder why it doesn't
appear that things have gotten better for women, or the country.
Much of what we see occurring is not good.
- The most corrupt President in the history of
the United States, Bill Clinton, was rejected by a majority of
men in 1996. But the women re-elected him to office even
though everyone knows he has no regard for any woman except
for his own pleasure. He is the worst example of a man.
- The famous Civil Unions bill was rejected by
the majority of men in the Vermont legislature last year by a
vote of 60-41 but it was passed by the women legislators who
voted 35-9 in favor. This is the bill that the Vermont Supreme
Court warned could "destabilize" traditional
marriage and have "disruptive and unforeseen
consequences." The judges made that statement because
traditional marriage was begun to protect mothers and their
children. One must wonder how many mothers in Vermont are
aware of the consequences of their decision.
Those of us who served in World War II and Korea
must question whether our sacrifice to protect the women and
children of this country was in vain.
We remember strong women who raised us and other
women who worked beside us, not the narcissist feminists we see
today. We hear that all young women today laugh at the feminists,
but it is foolish to laugh when these women are such a threat to
the well-being of mothers and their children.
When our generation marched away to war in World
War II and Korea, and when another generation went to Vietnam, the
only reason we soldiers and sailors did so was because we believed
we were fighting to protect the women and children in this
society. If we didn't believe that, why would we have gone?
We have always placed women, particularly
mothers, on a pedestal in this country. There is no question this
was overdone. But many of the women who worked beside their
husbands on the farms of the country deserved to be placed there.
The people in Europe and other places used to laugh at America
because we were such "Puritans," but the children knew
their parents had stable marriages, and they were loved.
Many thought that when women got the right to
vote, things would change for the better. But, instead we see them
voting for the President as if they are voting for a movie star.
They don't seem to realize that this is not a
fight between men and women. They do not understand that this is a
battle among women. Their disagreement with the feminists is an
issue that is to be taken seriously. It is not just about
alternative lifestyles. These feminists have always had a
political strategy and they have not hidden it. They wish to
install a socialist government as exists in Cuba or Sweden where
the state will raise the child. The mother will be sent to work
like everyone else.
Is that what the women of Massachusetts want? Do
they want to lose control of their babies? Do they realize this is
what the feminists in charge of our state are planning? Or don't
they believe it?
In our state, the courts are now controlled by
those radical feminists. Would anyone in 1960, when the courts
were controlled by men, have dreamt that a mother of a newborn
would be thrown into jail with shackles on her wrists and ankles
and made to climb stairs - because a few state bureaucrats, mostly
women and mostly feminists, decreed that would happen, without
approval by a court? This would never have happened to a mother in
1960. Everyone would have been horrified at the thought.
Yet this is exactly what happened to Heidi
Howard last month in the Lowell court. This was not done in a
court system run by men. Its Chief Justice is a feminist woman.
Globe Canonizes Jane Fonda
The Globe canonized Jane Fonda last month for
donating $12.5 million to Harvard to create a center on gender and
education. The money was given in honor of Prof. Carol Gilligan,
the feminist professor who was exposed by Christina Hoff Sommers
last year as a fraud. Gilligan started the lie that girls are
shortchanged in schools. She is now trying to change the boys of
America into being more like girls and is using the public schools
across the country to do so.
It is her friend William Pollack, a psychologist
at Harvard Medical School, who is making millions of dollars in
popularizing this fraud.
Prof. Sommers said that Gilligan's research is
"riddled with errors." Sommers also says that the
research is totally unsupported in its alarmist, hysterical
claims. "Almost none of it has been published in
professional, peer-reviewed journals. Some of the data is
mysteriously missing. Yet the false picture remains and is
dutifully passed along ..."
Do the women of Massachusetts not understand
that the specter of Fonda making this gift of millions of dollars
to demonize boys is abhorrent to all men who served in the U.S.
services in the last century?
It's amazing today to hear most people talk as
though teenage boys looked forward to going to World War II when
the truth is that they didn't want to go any more than those who
were sent to Vietnam. But they felt it was their duty.
The same thing applied to my roommate at
Williams College who never returned from Korea. Did he die in
vain? Was this 23-year-old just a sucker when he believed he was
defending the women and children of America? He was one of the
finest people I have ever known. What a shame that he was cut down
at such a young age. Was it in vain?
And this woman, Jane Fonda, who used sex as her
means to entice men and make this $12.5 million, now says that if
she could, she would change her strip-tease which opened a movie
in 1968 when she was 31 years old. She says she did the tease only
as a result of what the Globe called, her "low self-esteem
and an ingrained belief that she should please the men in her
life."
One has to wonder. At what age does Fonda take
full responsibility for her acts? She wasn't responsible at age
31? Now that she is too old to play a sex-kitten, she blames it
all on someone else - men. But didn't she enjoy it when she could
still play the role?
What of her traitorous trip to Vietnam when
teen-age boys, much younger than she, were dying in order to
protect the mothers and children of America? They had been ordered
there by the politicians supported by her and her father. It was
not Eisenhower, Nixon or Reagan that sent them there. Their
average age was only 19 as compared to 26 in World War II. It was
truly a war of boys. Is she saying that 19-year-old boys are more
responsible than she was?
But the saddest thing is that the women of
Massachusetts appear to have no knowledge or appreciation of any
of this history. They support Fonda's exercise tapes, movies and
other endeavors as though she is just like any other person,
instead of one who has severely damaged our society and those
nineteen-year-old soldier/boys that she mocked.
Look At Women in Afghanistan
We see women in Afghanistan suffering under the
iron fist of men who oppress them in every way. But instead of
thanking us for protecting them from this type of man, the
feminists repeat the lie that all men are the same and they are
all the enemy.
If the women of Massachusetts don't begin to
understand this lie, they may soon find that the men are beginning
to wonder if they should do all that our generation did to protect
women and children. Should the men merely follow the lead of Bill
Clinton et al and enjoy life while they can? After all, it appears
to be what the majority of women want.
Whether women like it or not, it is clear that
the direction of a society is mainly dependent upon them. Our
state is in moral decay only because they have been accepting
feminist lies for 40 years. Everyone today seems to believe that
men in America used to have plenty of sex while the women were
kept in chains. Everyone who lived before 1960 knows that is not
true. When they closed the doors to the girls' dorm at night,
where did the men go? They went back to their rooms also. After
all, if the men were going to have sex, they had to have it with a
woman.
The men of that generation were taught to
respect and love women, not to use them as sex-objects. Many of
the problems that we see today are the direct result of a change
in those teachings. They have been encouraged by the feminists who
will be happy to destroy marriage.
The unraveling of our society will damage
mothers and children the most, but most of the women in
Massachusetts don't seem to understand that yet.
And meanwhile I must wonder, did my 23-year-old
friend die in vain at the hands of the Chinese Army in Korea?
- J.
Edward Pawlick, Publisher
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