Feminism
What Freud Said About Feminism
Sigmund Freud, the Austrian psychoanalyst, was the first male authority figure feminists attacked. They began their attack on him at the beginning of the 20th Century and continued it up until the present. They then proceeded to attack practically all male authority figures, from George Washington to William Shakespeare and from Thomas Edison to John …
Helen Reddy of “I Am Woman” fame departs the patriarchal world
Helen Reddy, who died in September (1941-2020), has been called the queen of 70s pop. She had three number one hits in the United States (Billboard Hot 100 chart) in 1973 and 15 singles that entered charts in the US top 40. Hits also followed internationally. Her ‘feminist anthem’ titled I Am Woman catapulted Helen …
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The Feminist Race to Gender Superiority
The headline this morning said, “North Carolina girl wrestler dominates boys to become first ever female state champion.” She was praised not just for winning the championship, but mainly for winning it against boys. Girls are winning acclaim by beating boys, and this encourages them to compete with men later on. Perhaps soon there will …
The Absurdity of Patriarchy
The notion of The Patriarchy espoused by feminists has gone from being a radical fringe view to being mainstream not only among feminists but the wider community. The definition of patriarchy used by feminists differs from that used by anthropologists, sociologists and other researchers as well as differing from the common dictionary definition. These two …
Games Feminists Play
Back in 1964 Eric Bern, a psychologist, wrote a book called Games People Play, launching a new way of looking at people. The book described an array of methods that people use to manipulate other people in order to get what they want from them—or methods of defending against assumed threats. Berne extended Sigmund Freud’s …
No Gun Ever Killed Anyone
In the 1970’s I was alarmed to hear that my big sister, Kate Millett, who had serious mental health issues which had agonized my family and her friends for many years, was organizing a group called The Mental Patients’ Project in order to claim that the psychiatric community and society were “oppressing” people and “stigmatizing …
