The Destruction of Feminism and Much Else
by Rabbi David Eidensohn
Maureen Dowd, unmarried and getting older, has presented her bitter plight to the world, in her columns in the New York Times, and now, in a book. Women, she says, marry up, and men marry down. So whom does she marry? She tells of a top producer who told her, "Between marriages, I thought of dating you, but didn't. You will never find a husband." America has taught girls to be brilliant achievers, and when they do, men don't want them. It is that simple. Throughout America, a generation of bright and driving women have made it in the business world; they are, however, in any sense but fiscal, a disaster.
Dowd's assault on feminism and America's raising of its daughters come upon the already extant literature on achieving women ruined by the culture. Last year books and magazine articles discussed the plight of millionaire women in their forties, who wanted children, but came too late to the fertility clinics. Many corporate success stories gave up marriage in order to reach high positions, but now regret it. The need for family, for children, for more than money, is not satisfied, and will never be.
What nobody seems to realize is that America has destroyed all of the people it helped. America helped the Indians, who now sit in reservations, with no need to work, and drink. These are the people who wiped out General Custer? What no enemy could accomplish the American government has achieved by helping.
American helped out blacks. Before America began to help them, teenage Jewish girls went about freely in integrated and poor neighborhoods, with no fear of blacks. Blacks had, before American began to help them, strong community, religious and family structures. Once American helped them, blacks fell apart. Today, the black community is a disaster, with some exceptions.
America decided to help homosexuals. The Gay movement got the government to take AIDS and HIV off of the infectious diseases list, so that homosexuals can infect others with impunity. This went on for many years, until we have a huge epidemic of AIDS and HIV, especially in the inner cities. Some men infect dozens of partners. Only in recent years, after incredibly expensive medications were found, did the government try to stem the expense by cutting back on certain leniencies, but the cutback was basically worthless or ineffective. AIDS and HIV are still not listed on the New York State infectious disease list.
America decided to help women. We are now learning the cost of that help. An entire generation of women have learned that the help they received damaged them. Their daughters are trying to learn a new way, but it won't be easy. If you have to be a woman unlike your mother, who teaches you how to do it?
The Jews, Greeks, Russian, Germans, and Asians who arrived in America with nobody to help them but heaven and themselves thrived. America helped Indians, blacks, gays, and women and hurled them to the depths of despair. Why?
Helping is fine, but America did not help properly. America created an atmosphere of minorities as helpless victims of the majority. The Indians accepted their situation, because they had money and reservations. The blacks easily accepted their victim status because of Southern attitudes, and those of others as well, and decided to teach hate as a tactic of gaining power. It worked, but in the process, isolated the blacks from those who began to fear them, and has created a hate-culture that has no use for marriage, family, or community.
The homosexual community learned to declare its individuality "we are who we are," and demanded that society bend laws for them, so they can do their thing, such as infecting other people. Thus does America encourage minorities to feel isolated from the majority, to hate the majority, to fight the majority, until the majority turns against the minority, out of honest fear, and the minority chokes in its hate.
Women raised with feminism learned to hate men. That is pretty stupid, but that is what the past generation learned from the civil rights movement. Today, women, on the brink, are trying to pull back, but can they? Has the damage been done?
As long as there are honest and courageous people like Maureen Dowd, willing to present their pain and shame and warn others of it, there is hope. Stop hating, and start living. That is the first step.
There are, once we eschew hate, other steps. We must, in each case, with each minority, determine how to help, the right way, without hate, without victimization, and encourage people to join the majority. The majority is saddled with its own problems, and until we realize that, we are not going to have a country pulling in the same direction. Instead, we will have various minorities pulling the country to pieces, until we end up like France.
France woke up too late. When will we wake up?