Feminism vs Multiculturalism – UPDATED
Keith_Indy on Nov 28 2007 at 6:14 pm | Filed under: Culture, Foreign affairs, Keith's Page, Society
The radicals over at N.O.W. continue to be in a pickle over their support or at least their inaction over a case where one set of values conflicts with another set of values. How can you defend womens rights, and not condemn the treatment some cultures or some people, give towards women.
Why is it so hard to say that this treatment is completely out of line with the supposed crime? Do they fear offending Muslims so much, that they dare not criticize them?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,313426,00.html
A spokeswoman for the National Organization for Women said the situation “is definintely on the radar, and N.O.W. is not ignoring it.
But she added that the U.S.-based organization is “not putting out a statement or taking a position.”
Radio personality Tammy Bruce, former president of the Los Angles chapter of the National Organization for Women and past member of their board of directors, criticized the organization for not taking a stand.
“We have a duty to make a difference for women around the world,” Bruce told FOX News. “The supposed feminist establishment is refusing to take a position in this regard because they have no sensibility of what is right anymore. They’re afraid of offending people. They are bound by political correctness.”
“The American feminist movement has not taken one stand to support the women of Iraq, the women of Afghanistan, the women of Iran,” she said. “It is the United States Marines who have been doing the feminist work by liberating women and children around the world.”
Update:
Roger Simon notices a similar problem within the movie industry.
Sphere: Related ContentFor Vietnam: The evils of communism could be and were rationalized by the left as a plea for social equality in an economically unjust world. For Iraq: The evils of Islamofascism and just plain fascism are considerably harder, indeed almost impossible, to rationalize.
This problem is particularly true for Hollywood because the evils of Islamofascism – notably extreme misogyny and homophobia – are justifiably big no-nos to people in the Industry. In fact, they are close to the biggest no-nos of all for them in their daily lives. Who is worse than a sexist pig? Only a violent, murderous sexist pig who wants to take over the world. It then becomes a complex balancing act indeed to make a movie that ignores or downplays this in order to criticize the US as the larger villain. No one has been able to come close to pulling off this balancing act in a film. In fact, it may well be impossible because it is fundamentally dishonest.
So the filmmaker is reduced to the idea that our problem is that we are fighting these obvious (and largely unspoken) evils in the wrong way. But there is no easy way to fight anything. Or even to not fight it. Otherwise we would be living in a perfect world. So the idea itself is not even possible, yielding yet another level of fakery. No wonder these films seem inauthentic.
NOW and the feminist movement have always been overrated; female equality has been the result of a culture that evolved with a free market economic system, and the resulting technical advancement and division of labor.
This is also true of other advances, such as the Enlightenment, which was really the result of the evolution of Anglo-Saxon culture in a free market/commerce based society. The Enlightenment was not driven by intellectuals, except for the the failed French version.
I guess that my point is that NOW really can’t do much to help women around the world anyway. And frankly their leftist views would be counterproductive even if they were not bound my multicult nonsense.
The Marines intrinsically are much more capable of making real feminist advances.