Racism is a virus, but as long as well meaning, but terribly mislead mental anti vaxxers keep avoiding changing their worldview, overcoming their subcRacism is a virus, but as long as well meaning, but terribly mislead mental anti vaxxers keep avoiding changing their worldview, overcoming their subconscious bias and agenda, and aren´t willing to openly debate important topics without being offended, it keeps spreading in sophisticated parts of the population that deem themselves progressive, open minded, and pro equality and emancipation, promoting structural racism trough white fragility.
An example that an idea in a blog can be expanded to a very sharp criticism of self righteous, bigoted arguments, that small steps can accumulate to books changing the perspective for many.
Once again, I don´t get the people hating the truth and its harbingers, their sad, restricted minds would be pitiful, if they and the media and system that made them wouldn´t be so dangerous and destructive. It´s not as if this was a humanities style mind game, it are real, true, hard facts, impossible to ignore if one has just a grain of anti opportunistic thinking inside one´s mind.
I do completely understand and promote the opinion behind the title, because most of the elitist, white population and the average population is blind to the harsh reality for most of the world´s population, unable and unwilling to consume critical and progressive media, read books, have own opinions, and prefer to stay with nothing more than repeating the stupid mantras they hear from whatever apologists they prefer to consume.
Proselytizing misguided activists that are worsening the problem by doing as if no more structural violence and inherent social, political, and economic problems exist, doesn´t work, faith has done its job and lead to total isolation from the willingness to change. Aggression and denial will always be the answer, the longer they´ve been so called activists, social justice warriors, and torchbearers of political correctness, the fewer may overthink what lies behind the easy, happy go lucky, unicorn, fairytale, lies many adults love to tell themselves to keep the self-deceit engine running on high tolerance levels.
Average people don´t really have a chance, from history books to news channels, from education to friends, from politics to relationships, a dulling system of wrong harmony and fringe cultural evolution, a doing as if no problems exist anymore, an extremely subtle system of bigotry, has been established to enable an until before unreached dimension of mendacity, duplicity, and misery beyond the gated communities. The whole system brainwashes people do as if they would be living in an enlightened utopia, encouraging them to be active to keep worsening the problem and waste their time, energy, and intelligence with propaganda telling that everything is fine, never mentioning serious topics, always just driveling about anecdotes, personal tragedies, and the one or other deeper going problem in faraway countries, never on the same continent, not to speak in the same country, unimaginable. Because everything is great there because of their altruistic activism, ok, and everything thinking something else is an as….
aspiring, real progressive who wants to help them in overcoming their logical fallacies.
The book reminded me of DiAngelo Robin´s White Fragility https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... and Solnit Rebecca´s Men explain things to me https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... The setting is similar and I just can´t realize why privileged, rich, wannabe sophisticated and intellectual people, just don´t get and understand the underlying problem of their own agenda, biases, and blindness and react small children defiant phase style, are hurt, feel discriminated themselves or, favorite option, just ignore anything that doesn´t correspond to their secretly extremely conservative worldview. It´s so ridiculous, people who are rich and privileged because of the consequences of a history of violence, racism, slavery, war, oppression,… are doing as if they are feeling bad, victim rolling around like mad, tweeting sad, because they are confronted with the real world. As soon as one sided ideologies, even seemingly positive, progressive ones, are involved, forget it.
I guess I´ve already had some redundancies in these reviews, so instead of repeating myself, I decided to just troll around a bit and give the links instead. Same underlying problem, same manifestations, same lack of solutions.
Subjective resume: After having stopped talking about many no gos, such as meta and macro economics, politics, faith, sports teams, favorite beers, etc., I´ve insted directly tried talking to humans, but what shall I say, there is no state to make with indoctrinated demagogue fan girls and boys. Just invest in the youth, the next generation, the kids, and the very few progressive elder ones and forget the rest. They won´t change and you waste your time interacting with them, could have talked to, and worked with open minded people towards sustainable change instead. The older I get, the more ageism is getting a problem, isn´t it ironic, soon I´ll hate even myself and not just all I´m ranting about. Sad. Shouldn´t I instead begin disliking what the youth does?
A note to my trusty review readers: Guess I am jumping off the depressing, ideology fueled nonfiction train soon here for a while, just a hand full left to read, and it doesn´t really help with being hopeful, positive, or less misanthropic. Saying that it takes energy and motivation would be a bit too pathetic and untrue, because I am pretty cold and hardened, but of course one subconsciously becomes, in an individually very varying extent, the creature of what one does, says, reads, eats, plays, etc. Especially these 3 books showed me the dimension of problems so huge that they leave one hopeless, at least for 1 or 2 other generations, breeding further evolved humans by removing epigenetic issues from the ape domestication and behavior cultivation process just takes time.
but most of what had to be read is read, said, reviewed, inappropriately dark humor satirized, internalized, and hopefully spread as wide as possible.
Certainly, new, world improving works may come, I look forward to more inspiring, solution filled books, but for the moment, I think that it ´s this hand full of a few dozen books I´ve read and listed (ok, these are hundreds) in my social criticism and social progress shelves, hardly anyone reads, that could change society. The thousands of also important works showing all the grievances are of course essential too, but solutions, in a political and societal climate unable to achieve compromises and convergence, are much more expedient.
Spreading the word has alpha priority, I hope I´ve done my tiny, insignificant part, learned a lot on this journey, and I hope I could give the one or other reading inspiration. Devour such books, spread the word, open minds, crush the phantasmagorias of well meaning people that just didn´t have the possibility and literature to understand that they are unwillingly part of the problem instead of the solution.
It seems as if nothing has been learned out of the sad period of inquisition and burning witches, because just not talking about problems such as sexuIt seems as if nothing has been learned out of the sad period of inquisition and burning witches, because just not talking about problems such as sexual abuse, fat shaming, rape culture, abortion, gender pay gap, sexism in media, etc, and doing as if they didn´t exist anymore in White Educated Industrialized Rich Democratic, or bigoted, hypocritical, etc. countries, is worsening the problem through downplaying and ignorance.
West owns the ridiculous democratic, educational, media, heck, all systems and just shows them what they are. I´ve read quite a lot of anti racist, pro equality and social change, feminist, progressive literature over the years and am coming to a point where I would say that I can give the quality seal of perfect, objective, fact based, and true research distilled to an unbelievable book.
Think about that, all the Big History, free independent whistleblower citizen journalism works completely ignored by all mainstream media, not discussed, debated, not influencing laws or politics. It´s so sick and disturbing, after realizing the true state of society, that one truly doesn´t want to participate or help any of these so called, pseudo democratic institutions, organizations, and, in their core and hearth, deeply racist, hateful, misogynic, feudal, and elitist systems.
That´s why witch hunt is such an appropriate title, that´s what´s happening each time when someone dares to speak up and protest against atrocities, unfair systems, and very especially, offender protection. Because poor old serial rapists don´t know that that´s not trendy anymore, molesting and grooming have drastically fallen in public popularity, but please, don´t be so serious about it, are you a misandric ageist who doesn´t want him to have some fun before funeral when he is already that old? Boys are boys too and the girls asked for it, as always, those little witches.
It makes one so sick to think about it. I am, subjectively, very sure that the sad truth is that there is more hate trolling, slut shaming, victim blaming, and downplaying and relativizing media articles than people standing up against sexual violence, rape, abuse, and psychological manipulation, that it´s a minority of people who aren´t directly or indirectly promoting such behavior and helping the criminals to get away with.
This is very often accompanied by the role of the victim, of course exclusively for criminal offenders and people with destructive, dangerous mindsets, the real victims should please get over it silently. That´s what I´ve read, heard, and seen whenever talking to people about controversial topics myself, one comes with detailed, hard, proven data, logical and universally acclaimed facts, and the other one is just like: "I am offended by this nasty topic. You make me sad, I feel bad, that´s unfair, you don´t have the right to do that, how evil." Sure, adult, pseudo sophisticated, privileged, white, people who hardly ever had to really do hard physical work in their lives, never suffered from abuse, don´t feel good when it´s getting serious, and attack the legions of hundreds of millions of women who were victims of crimes so disgusting most of these hypocritical do gooders could never overcome such trauma themselves.
It´s strongly reminding me of Khan Cullors Patrisse´s When they call you a terrorist A black lives matter memoir https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... and Kantor Jodi She Said Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... because it shows the same problem. People who are have been discriminated for centuries, women and people of color, are wanting nothing more than the same right, legal protection, freedom of speech, basically the same human rights their opponents have for generations, and get nothing but violence, discrimination, hate, death threats, and real killings. As if the history of suppression and exploitation hasn´t been enough, these anachronistic creatures keep attacking their former victims who dare to rebel and fight for their rights.
It´s often the case that 52 pages of condensed intelligence have more solutions, ideas, and concrete plans to fight grievances than unrealistic, over the top, counterproductive, conservative, camouflaged racist, homophobic, misogynic, etc., so called government plans and concepts, all pathetic displays of the many different stages of outdated societal, democratic, government, and economic models, depending on the country, but omnipresent in close to all of them.
How authors like her show the bigotry and madness of our system is amazing, talking about topics Western media likes to ignore, helping to understand the link between stupid neoliberal, neocolonial, neoconservative politics and economics dominating Western democracies, leading to all problems in the Southern hemisphere and directly helping any kind of stone age dictatorship theocracy to stay established as long as possible. Because the companies controlling any aspect of the US and EU get better deals with them than with emancipated, stable democracies that aren´t so easy to exploit.
The problem is not just the direct violence, conditions close to slavery, and oppression women have to deal with in many countries promoting such policies, it´s the poverty and global lack of distributive justice that makes the difference between the best places to live, the Northern European countries following the Nordic model with ecosocial Keynesian models and failing states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failed_...
Because white, rich men (sorry for being so stereotypical and discriminating this poor group) want to get richer, just some emancipated women, a tiny fraction of the world's population (when looking at child abuse, domestic violence, sexual abuse, etc. in so called enlightened democracies and the states incompetence to help the victims, punish the perpetrators, or change the oldfashioned education systems to something not producing offenders and rapist, that can be sure to get no real punishment when grown up and active) can live a peaceful life in one country while the other states are closer to medieval times than to the 21st century or, in some cases, if the state is rich but an authoritarian theocracy, a bizarre mixture of modern technology and tribe culture.
I find it highly irritating that many don´t seem to understand that the conditions described in the astonishing novel and series The handmaid's tale and similar Sci-Fi and horror dystopian uchronia works is reality for the majority of the female world population. That the nightmare is just ending for those privileged to just having to push the button to stop watching or to stop reading and never have to face being dominated deluded humans.
It´s not just the God Pan and humans closeness and relationship to nature that were killed with institutionalized stupidity thousands of years ago, it was the destruction of a sustainable and fair matriarchy necessary to facilitate the patriarchic reign of terror that let to all the political and economic madnesses called human history, not to talk of total destruction of nature.
One of the quickest ways might be to go the way of activism, alternative political parties, online activism,… in the Western countries to get a fundamental change to a progressive post scarcity political model started to force the dictatorships to change their societal model.
It´s not impossible, clever minds already made all the concepts, they are still just unwanted by the elite, because one of the nastiest elements of the Nordic model is a fair tax system and transparent government making large scale corruption and lobbyism tricky to impossible. Absolutely unthinkable, as these are the only things that could shock those people, not worldwide suffering, just losing cash.
Of course, there are still enough problems in the emancipated countries, as progress takes its time to accelerate, and there are many grievances and problems to solve, but all of this is nothing compared to the real suffering and it´s a privilege to be allowed talking about feminism without the fear of stoning, acid attacks, or lynch mobs.
Something that often seems to be forgotten in tradition of First world problems is that it aren´t unsolvable errors intrinsic to the system and insolvable without a radical change, but corrections mainly to solve by breeding the next generation of emancipated men, as the old and young sexists, machos, and chauvinists won´t change, no matter what country. That´s what they sadly have in common with all other extremist mindsets with very improbable chances of recovering, as the once infected and indoctrinated mind tends to see the madness as a crucial part of its identity and the personality constructed out of rotten components.
Before the internet, victims had, in theory, a certain control and power to fight against harassment, but as tech evolves and gets more sophisticated,Before the internet, victims had, in theory, a certain control and power to fight against harassment, but as tech evolves and gets more sophisticated, it seems to be more like an endless arms race, similar to those between white and black hat hackers, with the victims having worse starting conditions.
The tragic stories that are told are just a beginning, the already terrifying level of perversion humans have reached in misusing new technology a dawn, and as we get more and more connected it´s not just our tech that is developing, but the scopes of abnormality too.
Trolls and hate porn are just the first stage of an evolution, deep fake is the next big thing and by adding a few decades, VR, AR, neural implants, growing importance of online reputation,… to the mix, one can imagine what people without the money and tech to protect themselves may have to endure in the future. Virus and malware protection may be useless if it are some humans who turn themselves into producers of malevolent, self-replicating, virulent spreading fake news that destroy and end (social) lives and careers.
Knowing your enemy and „attack is the best defense“ were useful tools in ages without social media and limited possibilities for the attackers, but nowadays one of the main motivations for mentally ill, perverted, evil people, and hate filled trolls is to keep on doing their sick thing and they will invest massive amounts of time in educating themselves in becoming so good in avoiding prosecution and getting tracked down that an average victim will be chanceless against a professional hater and cyberstalker. It doesn´t help that law and state are so slow and incompetent in dealing with those topics that they are no help, not to speak of the social media companies.
It´s especially obvious if one compares the real life consequences of human interactions involving stalking, mobbing, insult, duress, sexual harassment, and psycho terror that can lead to severe consequences for the perpetrators until prison, while the same crimes committed online fall under a kind of „Wild West, still no laws available here, we are too conservative, incompetent, and lazy to do something“ mentality by legislators. With conventional phone calls, emails, and letters it wouldn´t be possible or legal to do such awful things, but with social media and the internet, there are no real problems and obstacles for trolls and haters anywhere visible on the horizon of the near future.
I have the feeling that there is much more talk about anecdotes, personal tragedies, hate against the ones who dare to fight against the problem of male sexual violence, much public and media aversions against MeToo, emancipation, victims´law,… all signs that we are not close as highly developed and sophisticated as a society as we wished and dreamed to be. These are system intrinsic problems created by sexism, manifesting themselves in underaged girls/boys that go through horrible traumas many women/men couldn´t withstand and are afterward online victim-blamed and death threatened while the law enforcement is having no means to help her/him.
Another personal opinion is that I wouldn´t call psychopaths and sociopaths sick in the way that they need help or suffer like people who have mental problems that destroy their lives. It´s more that their psychological abnormalities are what enables them to enjoy the suffering of their victims until it becomes the only possibility for them to find satisfaction, that some of them are born this way without any abuse to rich, loving parents, and that our whole jurisdiction is still focused on protecting things over living beings so that they don´t have to fear real, appropriate, and hard punishment.
Western societies imagine themselves so modern, civilized, emancipated, progressive, and pro victim protection that they are totally blind to the still omnipresent and currently totally escalating problems with psycho terror and sexually motivated crimes and instead of quickly modernizing the laws they do, as always, nothing and wait for the next government to deal with this uncomfortable topics, especially because many of their conservative and fundamentalist voters don´t want to hear a word about those topics.
Goldbergs´work is amazing, as the successes of all people working to help others, but how depressing, heartbreaking, and also dangerous it must be to do this job is impressive and few people may have the guts and perseverance to do it without getting destroyed themselves.
I see one of the worst and unrecognizable stealth dangers in toxic friends and haters that are disguised as friends, followers, and likers and are working on long-time plans to harm other people. While offensive evil persons are easy to identify (as dangers, not IP addresses), it´s close to impossible in cases of vipers that have, for a personal reason or because of mental health problems, the goal to destroy the victim.
Above all the book shows how the male tendency to violence and revenge has entered a new stage, where they can act out their misogyny, because they are unable to deal with rejection and breakup in mature ways of self- reflection and criticism and searching the reasons in their behaviors, flaws, and errors.
I am a bit paranoid regarding my online security and privacy (very complex, often changing 16 to 20 digit passwords, less personal information, etc.) and that may be one of the only options to protect against outer dangers, including not sharing too much personal information and the well-known tips by security experts, but there is still the problem of trusting other people, especially loved ones and partners. An impossible to solve problem, as love can turn to hate and nobody can protect her/himself by preventive mistrusting everyone, sharing no pictures or too intimate information, and being cold and aloof to stay protected. Even if one does so, it will be soon possible to produce any kind of compromising video content with deep fake, something big and scary because it will get more and more difficult to impossible to distinguish real from faked revenge porn.
One of the most insidious long term tactics may be the combination of hacking, identity theft, social engineering, and fake posts, profiles, messages, and pictures. A profile or account can get secretly compromised and controlled pretty easily if the attacker really wants to, because each WLAN, device, many passwords, have weaknesses and someone having the skills, just waiting for it, and even following the victim in real life to hack her/him will succeed. If it´s done professionally, the person won´t even realize that there is any problem, just wondering why people are suddenly so reserved and reduce contact.
These tactics are used in authoritarian governments too to isolate and stigmatize the opposition without them even recognizing. The victim won´t ever notice that something is going on, as the activities will be invisible or just at times when the person isn´t online. Faked messages to friends and families from the account the person doesn´t know about, faked messages back from everyone the person knows and reactions to the unfriendly faked messages that isolate the victim,… destroy any kind of relationship and friendship. In the case of work, this could lead to dismissal and loss of reputation because hardly any company will invest in a cyber forensic scientist to check if there are any professional manipulations.
Faking IDs at dating portals can go two ways: Fake accounts of the victim that bring many problems in real life, if working place, home, places of social activities, hobbies, are included for meetings. More sinister is to invest month or even years to simulate the perfect partner, possibly even paying someone to play the role in real meetings, get more sensible data this way and use it for a devastating attack, possibly combining it with the described social engineering tactics to destroy friend, family, and simulated love relations at the same time.
Because the sick methods of and tips for and by the seduction community and pick up artists are already widely available online, tutorials for destroying other peoples´ lives by using these tactics are certainly already available at one of the darker places of the internet or deep/dark web. I guess they have a comment section, Reddit group, rating system,… too.
One of the best approaches comes from specialized cybersecurity and cyber forensic companies that use AI and self- learning algorithms that are permanently scanning the internet, search and browse results and social media sites for possible violations of victims´ privacy and block each attempt immediately by deleting content at the moment it´s posted and track attacks to collect data for law enforcement. It´s an evidence of incapacity of the state that relatively small companies are able to do this and protect people from criminals, something that should normally be done by the police.
The role the authorities could play in a, not only sarcastic, future setting is the one of protecting the privacy of the perpetrators, fighting for their online privacy and freedom of speech, and being rigorous in executing offender protection, as they already have immense experience in this regard.
It´s so easy, subconscious, close to an automatic reflex. The hidden weaponization of language and social interactions.
See, even if we deem ourselvesIt´s so easy, subconscious, close to an automatic reflex. The hidden weaponization of language and social interactions.
See, even if we deem ourselves emancipated and identifying with the ideals of equality, there are so many seemingly harmless actions and social norms that manipulate how we interact with another. And it´s not just about copulation, it´s the presumption that motivates to think that certain interests or topics are gender specific and have to be condescendingly and jovially broken down to be understandable. But that´s just level one.
The invisible, hidden level area is avoiding to even mention certain topics and contexts, ultimately leading to the formation of gender clean groups and elites that are completely homogenous and close to impossible to reach and enter for women. That´s a mechanism so both subtle and vicious that it takes a while to even recognize that it has been there all the time, and that a writer like Solnit had to put the finger on the complex mechanism.
I deem it close to impossible to solve this problem, especially because it´s very tricky to draw the line between harmless, specific gender interests that are no problem, but just natural, and everyone thinking different should come down from planet, exaggerated equality at all costs if it even isn´t useful, and more a kind of escalating political correctness thing, and accept that biochemistry, hormones, and epigenetic make a good part of our personality. And next to this enriching diversity lurks the danger of belittling and ostracism, not even breakable by quotes, because the alpha group simply plays theater around the female managers, board members, ministers, and sometimes even presidents and form a shadow elite, don´t let them fully participate in their work, exclude the few influential women from the important contacts they would need for best performance,… It´s a bit as if stupid in groups in high school would keep dominating forever and that says a lot about the mentality behind it.
Like so many problems, it´s a cultural and traditional one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3msfj... and as long as, highly subjectively, dubious, and not certainly useful elements of social interactions dominate much of human lives, the end results are often unnecessary, outdated, and dangerous power structures.
That´s just the highest level of discrimination without directly harming and physically hurting the privileged women able to defend themselves, trickling down to severer and more and more harming to deadly consequences the more rights are taken away, finally culminating in a „Shut up, I am,“, I mean, „I have a dick.“ attitude. The legitimization of this deplorable worldview begins with each argument, rhetoric trick, psychological manipulation, the whole armory of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychol... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychol...
And as difficult as it is, men have to accept that they´ve been culturally conditioned to act in destructive ways without even recognizing and try to overcome their burden of sexist brainwashing in everyday situations. This is difficult as heck, because many women still shaped and styled to conform to gender norms don´t really make it much easier, not to talk about the ones demonizing men in general without much differentiating. Reading and spreading the words of the progressive, feminist thinkers such as Solnit seems to be one of the most important things one can do to both initiate change and try to live it too.
Gender specific interests are something that´s often instrumentalized in this context, because some stereotypical prejudices aren´t evil or discriminating, but just a logical consequence of biochemical reactions, leading to unpleasant situations for one gender in a group of the other gender with completely different interests.
Solnit created a short work, a collection of impressions, but the most important idea worth spreading is how language can be abused for domination and control, how subconscious prejudices can mislead even emancipated men in behaving belittling and arrogant when talking to women.
The title is ingenious, it´s an immediate critical conversation starter, a perfect premise of one of the most essential problems we are facing today. Not to forget the irony that female language use and competence is in many cases much better than that of men, leading to the bizarre satire real life events that relatively blunt, simple males try to explain seemingly difficult things to literate and educated women, similar to arrogant kids trying to explain to an adult why they are right. Much second hand embarrassment when being witness of it in real life, especially if acquainted with all participating in the facepalmity, often in combination with group dynamics of deluded Duh guys, just a more primitive version of the more cultivated discrimination practiced by sir manager and mister minister.
Other parts of the work include the sad, too well known truth, the direct suppression and killing of misbehaving women in many countries of the world and the Western alternative of trolls promising rape, torture, and death if a woman dares to enter the lands of male privileges.
Something a bit confusing, that could be mistakenly mixed up with the important equality and emancipation theme, is the extreme complexity and subjectivity of the sense and quality of human conversation, especially small talk. It´s highly dependent on interests, age, many other factors, and how enjoyable or torturing it is for participants is mainly depending on partly random factors. So it doesn´t make much sense to bash against people, unknowingly entering the land of https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph... https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph... https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph... https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph... just because one can´t find joy with the topic. If a woman voluntarily joins a manly discussion about topics she hates, to double agent style find arguments against the other gender, and vice versa, it´s the woman´s /man´s fault and her/his misandric/misogynic argument against everything male/female being stupid is wrong and just fuels the stupid gender wars.
One of the most shocking books I´ve ever read, made possible by the courage and bravery of the authors who try to overcome their traumas by telling thOne of the most shocking books I´ve ever read, made possible by the courage and bravery of the authors who try to overcome their traumas by telling their personal stories of all kinds of sexual violence, enabling a far more open debate and discussions and thereby hopefully someday a society and justice system that helps and cares for the victims.
It begins with diminutives, escalates to sexism and sexual harassment, and ends with abuse. Already in childhood, a boy gets the instruction to manly defend himself, why a girl should please, for the sake of whatever, be quiet, obedient, and friendly. As a result, nobody would dare to speak to a man in a similar ridiculing, arrogant way than to a woman, fearing possible consequences, but if it's just a woman, who cares. Maybe she likes it. Described in detail in https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
In this circle of sexist deviancy, a little slap, a quick grope, a short date rape, isn´t seen as that bad, she wanted it, screamed for it, was already a hussy before, is now greedy and wants money or to destroy the poor man´s or several men´s reputation, deserves some victim blaming and slut shaming afterward, can have a hate crime or honor killing as extra if she doesn´t shut up, is there to be used and abused, should see it as a compliment, is possibly gay and thereby not normal, enjoyed it,…
Of course, there is also a differentiation of which women to abuse and harass. Wealthy, influential, mostly white women? Better not, that could lead to serious problems, better choose poor, dependent, uneducated, helpless women from rape cultures that are already used to it and conditioned to endure anything. Much better and securer because perpetrator protection is important.
I´m very critical of anything with group, organization, club,… in it and women won´t want to believe and be disgusted by what is commonly talked about in groups of men from ages 12 to 25, I´ve left that kind of peer group a decade ago. Not for that reason at that moment, more because it doesn´t seem to have any sense to continue worthless connections with people who don´t want to and thereby won´t develop further and get grown up. Subjectively I would say that quite many men stay at the stone age level.
Now, in retrospect, I see more and more of the monsters I was used to seeing in these groups, all isms, racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia,… any kind of prejudice against any group possible, all that makes it great to be a man. Cynical and cold that I have become, I would deem an overwhelming majority of the male population, no matter what profession or sophistication, prone to any kind of destructive ideology, although sexism as part of the evolutionary appendix might be the strongest.
The others are already tricky to overcome, but once a man has been indoctrinated and conditioned to have such an opinion about women, there won´t be any real chance to change him anymore. Reminds me of many historical inferiority complexes leading to megalomania and self aggrandizement. And what an argument it is, being born this or that way is an immense achievement.
And how hypocritical Westerners get when they talk about societies that treat woman The Handmaid´s Tales style, completely ignoring both the economic and social discrimination in ever so modern democracies. That, thanks to the stupidity of ideologies of the past and sadly present too, sexuality is the ultimate taboo, leads to being unable to openly talk about abuse and rape. The bigotry goes so far as that self-proclaimed moral guardians have no problem with extreme violence, nudity, and women degraded to objects in all media, while the slightest sexual act could lead to mass hysteria.
We live in a society in which, let´s say, 2 men openly kissing, a modern sexual education, free contraceptives, same rights for same sex couples,… would create more outcries than the numbers of hundreds of millions of women getting abused, assaulted, and harassed. There are 2 quotes by Neal Stephenson I´ll mix up together: „Ideology is a virus. No matter how smart we get, there is always this deep irrational part that makes us potential hosts for self-replicating information.“
There are also the undiscussed, underlying socioeconomic reason why the best places for women to live are countries inspired by the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_... followed by other Western democracies and the sad rest.
Simply said, if someone is in power, he tries to make a policy that meets his wishes and reflects the image of the society, company, etc he wants to bSimply said, if someone is in power, he tries to make a policy that meets his wishes and reflects the image of the society, company, etc he wants to build. This can be done in a direct, evil way by treating minorities, women, atheists, etc. with repression until imprisonment, torture and death if they misbehave and in these cases, it is an obvious crime.
It gets more subtle when bigotry and indoctrination kick in and lead to both politicians and managers that are not all direct, misogynic sexists. That would either fit the requirements their spin doctors taught them for winning the next election nor the code of conduct, corporate responsibility or whatever ethic mumbo jumbo the PR department has in planning.
Those white, rich man's minds have been poisoned by influences of faith, elitist thinking and inhumanity and many of them simply had no chance to get out of this vicious cycle, because it makes no difference if it is a cult, an extremist group or a billionaires club, they are all pretty misguided and pitiful.
The worst case, both for women and for the possibility to real change, are those who believe that they are doing the right thing and would call themselves emancipated but keep on pushing laws and employment contracts that discriminate against women indirectly and perfidiously. They don´t give any kind of appreciation, allowance or financial help to mothers without whose immense pain and effort each nation would die out because no kids would be born anymore.
They don´t give a dollar for all the unpaid work, the caring for toddlers and especially care-dependent elders and without this, the health system would simply collapse.
There are medicinal research areas that are taught, shaped and mainly tested on man. It is a simple economic reason why men are preferred in all kinds of long going and very expensive admission procedures for drugs because they don´t get pregnant and have no staggering hormone levels. The result is that many side effects may cause much more harm in women because they haven´t been tested in such large numbers or anyway.
The same questions plops up with the harmfulness of, well, anything, like any kind of food additive, environmental toxins and the regulatory limits. Tested and found harmless for men with an official quality seal. Tested with younger and older women with different hormone levels, muscle mass and probably pregnancy? "Nope, would have been too difficult and expensive, sorry, nobody does that, probably in Amazon wonderland, but not here." There are no numbers available regarding the side effects of all drugs, environmental destruction and food risks, but let's say that there may be an unknown number of women that would have profited from clean 50 male/ 50 female test series instead of dying.
I find it really difficult to decide if the simple, logical, economic greed is more disgusting than the reminiscences and aftermaths of all those very old, sexist writings by weird old men. Those two axes of evil certainly exponentiate each other, learn from each other and produce the right social and consumer products for him who unofficially still deems women inferior.
In design, the number of toilets is a prime example of male domination. This is not deadly, in contrast to using crash test dummies that are normed as male or giving free condoms and restricting female contraception, but an instance of simply forgetting that there is another gender out there. Or designing public transport in a way that makes it impossible to do more than just manly things like driving from home to work and back and not caring about things like groceries, kids and stuff. It would also be more expensive to tailor clothes that fit better at hips and breasts, so it simply isn´t done.
As much talk as there is about gendering, sexual harassment, eating disorders, etc. so less is heard about those topics in mainstream media. Those would probably bash the religious groups as long as the broadcast corporation doesn´t belong to the Kraken. But they wouldn´t even touch the economic problems with pincers and gloves, cause they all are very dependent on the companies advertising their products.
There are no men in general to blame, but a society and upbringing that makes them so blind to the different necessities of half of the population that their work, publications and statistics get highly subconscious biased, onesided, dangerous and often even deadly, as seen in medicine, especially pharmacy, one of the sickest examples of misleading science I have ever seen, especially because it is so obvious and could be easily prevented.
"This is a men biased world", one could sing and yes, the so-called strong gender built the whole world with a focus on efficiency, profit or prestige and didn´t listen, care or even think of the needs of all their wives, mothers, sisters and daughters. And they inherited this behavior to their sons instead who live in a world of big data with algorithms, AI and immense potential to use all those tools to improve life for all people, but instead, as daddy taught them, they simply ignore, forget or, the easiest way, don´t even evaluate the data about women to jump in their money storage instead and let gold coins softly recoil from their bald head (from daddy too) producing a hollow sound from a skull just filled with ....
By empowering women, making a strict law to make half of each government and management leadership ranks half female, make all research transparent with tools like blockchain and dumping direct and indirect sexism in the trash can of history right next to all the other sick ideas out of white men's heads.
Discriminating half of your population is a crime against humanity of such immense stupidity that hardly any words can be found to describe it. Next tDiscriminating half of your population is a crime against humanity of such immense stupidity that hardly any words can be found to describe it. Next to the social and millionfold individual suffering, the scientific and economic damage is immense and countries lead by such deluded conservatives are immensely weakened. In a modern, equitable country simply everything would collapse if overnight a suddenly appearing dictatorship would disenfranchise all women.
There is often the old belief in talent and gender, but it is talent, hard work, and perseverance, independent of the gender. The argument of conservative sexists gets really ridiculous if one takes people born in bodies with genders they don´t identify with, among others all variants of LGBTs, as examples. In these cases, the vindications lose any logical and comprehensible semblance and can be seen as the pure shenanigans that they are. Cause it shows, that the human, person and character are the facts that count and not the body, genitals, hormones, self-concept or something. Instead, other arbitrary arguments such as height, weight or some kind of descendant of eugenics could be taken to show the absurdity.
As seen in statistics, boys get outstripped and owned by girls as kids already in early childhood and adolescence in a fair society and in most western, democratic countries most problems with addiction, inability of adaption to new circumstances, stress resistance, let's say it, nearly every flaw, is a male problem. The only thing men are really good at is getting megalomaniac and destroying the planet. This is perfectly shown in the reports of sociologists and psychologists that compare kids in schools as following: Males never stop with stupid hierarchical and physical fights, have nearly all the learning problems, disturb the lessons, are more prone to any addictive substance and abuse it much more often, can´t multitask, aren´t as diligent as girls and have very low social skills.
The only sexist argument that makes men look good are the higher achievements in the MINT areas. This is definitively just a consequence of sexism, telling little girls that evil maths, physics, etc. is too difficult for their cute little heads (jovial, condescending patting) and that they should do something less manly that fits to their lesser skills. If a girl is well educated by modern parents and the enthusiasm awakened at an early age, she wipes the floor with a boy with the same starting conditions.
It´s not as if I am so schizophrenic to be a misandrist, but there are so many negative aspects of my gender that one could really point at any past, actual or future problem and show that it is purely manmade. We are tribal, archaic, easy to manipulate, violent, hateful and totally asocial and totally ruthless regarding the consequences of our actions. Be it wars in the past or the economic mayhem in the present, I simply don´t believe that women in power would act so stupid, against the interest of humanity and especially against the interest of their own children. And for what do manly men do this stuff? Money and power to get even hairier chests, larger harems and more ultimate powaaaa, emperor Palpatine style.
I know that I have all those tendencies inside myself and can say that is a daily struggle not to be a ...., because it is the easy, fast and comfortable way to be an egoistic, manipulative, power-hungry, evil, hateful, cold, career-obsessed and brutal tyrant and demagogue instead of helping others, being social, unselfish, self- sacrificing, listening, caring and a better human.
A good education has to begin with the youngest boys, cause as soon as a certain age is reached, the elder ones are lost trough indoctrination with BS and unable to change at a terrifyingly young age and would rather kill or die than to adapt to better alternatives.
Of course, there are exceptions, but they are rare and the funny thing is that the most successful and rich man go the way of hard work, are often introverts, do feminine things like reading and beeing immune to stupid group dynamics that normally steal the time to do meaningful work.
The danger of inequality for the whole state can be seen in history with multiple examples since the beginning of historiography. A population that is divided and not emancipated has less defensive, production and offensive capabilities, is more susceptible to agitators from enemy states who simply have to spread the facts about the grievances and has to keep its own population monitored by a terror secret police to keep it from uprising. An army can have shieldmaidens that are more dangerous than any man, because they won´t fear death just because of the option to go to Valhalla, but because they will die to defend their children, something man probably won´t do in each case or the army, as always in history, simply sucks because it is a mixture of conscripted and slave soldiers, mercenaries and incompetent officers and general staff.
Slavery is another prime example of how a state may accumulate immense wealth as long as the times are primitive, but as soon as industrialization sets in, it becomes an immense inner danger. Oppression is just a softer kind of slavery without direct possession certificates and many once-mighty empires had this self-destruction button integrated into their system, with examples as the Qing dynasty, the Romans, the Umayyad dynasty, the British empire, the Yuan dynasty, the Caliphate, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of.... If one builds his society and a stupid model, one should not wonder if his global empire perishes.
If any of those states would have been a democracy, the rest of the world would have been doomed, because while the others would have kept fighting with each other and against the behemoth, the inner stability would have been the key to success in the path to world domination.
Each high developed country depends on emancipation and justice, as seen on statistics on the best places to live. A limitation of the rights and possibilities of half of the population is a sign of so massive wretchedness and madness at the same time because it causes immense harm and reduces competitiveness. As if nothing could be learned out of the many deterrent examples out of the past and actual failing states that castrate themselves by overestimating their primary sexual characteristics.
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Selective perception of history and its denial leads to a continuation of the abuses in new forms.
As if the past horrors were not enough. The ENGLISH
Selective perception of history and its denial leads to a continuation of the abuses in new forms.
As if the past horrors were not enough. The unrecovered and hushed up crimes of the past which are combined with a lack of reparations. Historical revisionism is one thing. But further suppression of the problem is only a reason for more shame and an even more devastating judgment in the distant future.
At the time of slavery, the power of control on births was subject to simple market laws. If one needed many new workers, the women were forced to have many children. They were demoted to reproduction machines. In contrast, if the economic times were bad and the food and accommodation would have been too expensive, abortion was practiced in large scales.
It was necessary to distinguish between the children of normal slaves and house slaves. At the top were children who had been fathered by the slaveholders themselves. The perverted part was that these children were elected to be governors and officers over their own people. In the colonies, an intermediate caste formed in this way. The slave owners copied their sick ideology into the minds of these children. They were brought up to see part of their ancestry as a lawless slave and the other part as a master. As a good, higher part and as a bad, lesser part. The bipolarity of this is a good example of the inhuman insanity of the concept.
From the interwar period until today 2 demented ideas compete with each other. Denominations that demonize contraception and family planning and actively boycott access to contraceptives. And political ideologies that indirectly, because no longer openly acceptable, promote institutionalized racism.
Combining birth control with eugenics was one of the dubious achievements of this era. Or the control over welfare programs, which led to forced sterilization and forced birth control. The victims were indirectly given the choice of either vegetating homeless without social benefits or comply with irreversible interventions on their bodies.
Intuitively, one would assume that since the abolition of slavery such crimes against humanity have never been committed on a larger scale again. That forcible abortion and forced sterilization entered the history books as a memorial and warning. That eugenics and indirect forms of genetic warfare, in particular, may be considered as monuments of history. And not that such a practice was promoted after the genocides, war crimes, ethnic cleansings and expulsions of World War II. And nationally promoted and legally legitimized until far into the 20 and 21 Century. In classic duplicity and hypocrisy, the focus was directed to the crimes of communism and fascism. And at the same time, the concept was used against their population.
A point emphasized by the author is particularly complex. Feminists are often white and wealthy, which is why they have in particular written gender equality and reduction of professional discrimination on their agendas. The problems that are omnipresent to many poor, black women are usually not theirs. Therefore, those interests for basic needs are often underrepresented in the initiatives because they are not present in the affluent middle and upper classes. The programs and priorities would have to be expanded to sufficiently represent the hitherto neglected concerns of these groups.
The unwanted chemical and physical sterilization is as contemptible as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and similar medical atrocities. The damage, the reputation of medicine has taken, is irreparable and is reinforced by two-class medicine. The critics may still be branded as conspiracy theorists because they distrust medicine. The weakest in the system may be welcomed to serve as experimental animals and participate in averagely paid high-risk test series. But they will never be able to afford the life-saving medicines they are made possible by this way.
Another main problem in the society is the wanton made and produced poverty, which does not allow a free decision. Be it the availability, quality and affordability of contraceptives, poorer medical care or financial cuts in the health and social sectors. If abortions are not affordable, they are made by back yard doctors.
As a mockery, the victims of demagogues are still portrayed as social parasites, called welfare queens and denounced. There is a similarity between direct racism against immigrants and the indirect tolerance of discrimination against large-scale families from low-income groups. The factors add up to targeted gender discrimination in the 21st century. The mutual, quiet acceptance of the grievances and the increased mortality and disease rates is ideologically in line with the former forced abortions and their spiritual fathers from times of slavery.
To sustainably defuse the problem and to sensitize future generations to such abuses, a reappraisal of colonization, Atlantic triangular trade, slavery in general, discrimination, neocolonialization, ... would be needed. Let alone redemption and removal of all glorification of mass murderers after whom much is named and plastered with statuaries. Just as the ideologies they stand for, they belong in garbage bins. So that the future generations grow up without the omnipresence of a misled past.
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Eine selektive Wahrnehmung der Geschichte sowie deren Verleugnung führt zu einer Fortsetzung der Missstände in neuen Ausprägungen.
Als wären die vergangenen Gräuel nicht genug. Die nicht aufgearbeiteten, vertuschten und durch ausbleibende Wiedergutmachung weiter verschleppten Verbrechen der Vergangenheit. Geschichtsrevisionismus ist das eine. Aber weiteres Verdrängen der Problematik gereicht nur zu noch größerer Schande und einem noch vernichtenderem Urteil in der ferneren Zukunft.
Zu Zeiten der Sklaverei war die Verfügungsgewalt der Sklaventreiber über die Geburten schlichten Marktgesetzen unterworfen. Wenn man viele neue Arbeiter brauchte, wurden die Frauen dazu gezwungen, viele Kinder zu bekommen. Sie wurden zu Reproduktionsmaschinen degradiert. Waren die wirtschaftlichen Zeiten hingegen schlecht und das Essen und die Unterkunft wären zu teuer gewesen, wurde in rauen Mengen abgetrieben.
Dabei galt es zwischen den Kindern von normalen Sklaven und Haussklaven zu unterscheiden. Ganz oben standen Kinder, die die Sklavenhalter selbst gezeugt hatten. Das Perverse daran ist, dass diese Kinder zu Statthaltern und leitenden Angestellten auserkoren waren. In den Kolonien bildete sich auf diese Art oft eine Zwischenkaste heraus. Die Sklaventreiber zwangen ihre kranke Ideologie diesen Kindern auf. Sie wurden dazu erzogen, einen Teil ihrer eigenen Herkunft als rechtlosen Sklaven und den anderen Teil als Meister zu sehen. Als guten, höheren Teil und als schlechten, minderen Teil. Die Bipolarität dessen ist ein gutes Beispiel für den menschenverachtenden Wahnsinn des Konzepts.
Von der Zwischenkriegszeit bis heute konkurrieren 2 Weltbilder miteinander. Um das Monopol auf die Erzeugung von sinnlosem Leid um das eigentliche Wunder der Entstehung des Lebens. Glaubensgemeinschaften, die Verhütung und Familienplanung dämonisieren und einen Zugang zu Verhütungsmitteln aktiv boykottieren. Und politische Ideologien, die indirekt, weil nicht mehr offen salonfähig, institutionalisierten Rassismus indirekt fördern.
Geburtenkontrolle mit Eugenik zu kombinieren war eine der zweifelhaften Errungenschaften dieser Ära. Oder die Kontrolle über Wohlfahrtsprogramme, was zu Zwangssterilisationen und Zwangsverhütung führte. Die Opfer wurden indirekt vor die Wahl gestellt, entweder ohne Sozialleistungen obdachlos dahin zu vegetieren oder sich irreversiblen Eingriffen an ihren Körpern zu beugen.
Intuitiv würde man annehmen, dass seit der Abschaffung der Sklaverei nie wieder derartige Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit verübt wurden. Dass Zwangsabtreibung und Zwangssterilisation als Mahnmal in die Geschichte eingehen. Dass insbesondere Eugenik und indirekte Art der genetischen Kriegsführung als Mahnmäler der Geschichte gelten mögen. Und nicht, dass man nach den Genoziden, Kriegsverbrechen, ethnischen Säuberungen und Vertreibungen des zweiten Weltkriegs noch eine derartige Praxis gefördert wurde. Bis weit ins 20 und 21 Jahrhundert hinein staatlich gefördert und gesetzlich legitimiert. In klassischer Doppelzüngigkeit und Scheinheiligkeit wurde auf die Verbrechen von Kommunismus und Faschismus gedeutet. Und gleichzeitig dasselbe Konzept gegen die eigene Bevölkerung angewandt.
Ein von der Autorin betonter Punkt ist besonders komplex. Feministinnen sind häufig weiß und wohlhabend, weswegen sie insbesondere Gleichberechtigung und Abbau von beruflichen Diskriminierungen auf ihre Agenden geschrieben haben. Die Probleme, die für viele arme, schwarze Frauen, allgegenwärtig sind, stellen sich ihnen meist nicht mehr. Daher sind deren Interessen in den Initiativen häufig unterrepräsentiert, weil in der wohlhabenden Mittel- und Oberschicht nicht mehr gegenwärtig. Die Programme und Schwerpunktsetzungen müssten erweitert werden, um die bisher zu wenig beachteten Anliegen dieser Gruppen in ausreichendem Maße zu vertreten.
Die ungewollte chemische und physische Sterilisation steht in Menschenverachtung der Tuskegee Syphilis Studie um nichts nach. Der Schaden, den das Ansehen der Medizin dadurch genommen hat, ist irreparabel und wird durch die Zweiklassenmedizin nur bestärkt. Die Kritiker werden vielleicht noch als Verschwörungstheoretiker gebrandmarkt, weil sie der Medizin misstrauen. Die Schwächsten des Systems dürfen zwar gern als medizinische Versuchskaninchen herhalten und bei bezahlten, hoch riskanten Testreihen mitmachen. Aber die lebensrettenden Medikamente, die dadurch ermöglicht werden, werden sie sich nie leisten können.
Ein weiteres systemimmantes Problem ist die mutwillige gemachte und erzeugte Armut, die keine freie Entscheidung ermöglicht. Sei es die Verfügbarkeit, Qualität und Leistbarkeit von Verhütungsmitteln, die schlechtere medizinische Betreuung oder die Einschnitte im Gesundheits- und Sozialsektor. Wenn Abtreibungen nicht leistbar sind, müssen sie von illegalen back alley doctors Hinterhofdoktoren gemacht werden. Als Hohn werden die Opfer von Demagogen noch als Sozialschmarotzer dargestellt, welfare queens genannt und denunziert. Es besteht eine Ähnlichkeit zwischen dem direkten Rassismus gegenüber Immigranten und der indirekten Duldung der Diskriminierung von kinderreichen Familien aus einkommensschwachen Schichten. Die Faktoren addieren sich zu einer im 21 Jahrhundert weiter gehenden, gezielten Geschlechtsdiskriminierung. Die Akzeptanz der Missstände und der erhöhten Sterblichkeits- und Krankheitsraten steht ideologisch auf einer Linie mit den früheren Zwangsabtreibungen und deren geistigen Vätern aus Zeiten der Sklaverei.
Um die Problematik nachhaltig zu entschärfen und zukünftige Generationen für derartige Missstände zu sensibilisieren, wäre eine Aufarbeitung von Kolonialisierung, Atlantischem Dreieckshandel, Sklaverei im allgemeinen, Diskriminierung, Neokolonialisierung,… vonnöten. Damit die kommenden Generationen registrieren, wenn das alles unmittelbar vor ihren Augen allgegenwärtig geschieht....more
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