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When did Feminism go bad? Thought I would make this post as I’m actually educated on the subject.
Shulamith Firestone. Full name is Shulamith Bath Shumal Ben Ari Firestone (born Feuerstein), daughter of Solomon Feuerstein and a ''Holocaust Survivor'' Kate Weiss. Firestone synthesized Marx and Freud with Feminism in The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (1970). She is the most prominent among the founders of 2nd Wave Feminism.
Needless to say, her philosophy is an abomination of nature, nothing short of Frankenstein. The central argument is that the origin of women’s oppression is not economic or anything else, but biological. Women's role in biological reproduction, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and child-rearing. According to Shulamith Firestone, these biological facts have made them dependent on men. Firestone was the first to articulate this argument in a clear, systematic framework.
Firestone’s true liberation for women is a Grey-inspired world in which babies are grown in artificial wombs. Her utopia is the elimination of sex distinction.
I’d pick her as the answer to the question in the title. Imagine rooms full of growing fetuses in pods.
Let's go back a little. Was Feminism always bad? Not really. Long before Marxist Feminism was a thing, and around the time the Enlightenment was happening, it was clear that the Judaic fable of creation is the root of the oppression of women. Women were posterior et inferior. Last and lesser.
Posterior because man (Adam) was created first. Woman (Eve) was created from man and after man. If man was first, and woman was created from him, then she must be secondary and dependent, spiritually and intellectually.
Inferior because Eve was deceived by the serpent and led Adam into disobedience. Women are inferior in intelligence, proven by Eve being deceived by the serpent. Thus, women were considered inferior in intellect, virtue, and will, not just socially, but ontologically (in their very being). Women are the reason men sin. Women are ''bad'', they tempt men. The theme exists and is echoed in various tales, with witches being bad and ugly. Bad and vile stepmom. Women are the origin of the fall of humanity and the face of sin in Christianity and in Islam, rooted in Jewish origins of these programs.
According to the Church and to Islam, women's submission is a divine order from the Jewish God. It was a justification to limit education and agency, to enforce silence on them, and exclude them from the priesthood, the academy, medicinal professions, and pretty much any high-status position. Women being mentally or morally inferior is a Jewish teaching originated from the Adam and Eve tale. Be rid of it if you fell for the programming.
1 Corinthians 11: “Man is the head of woman.”
Ephesians 5: “Wives, submit to your husbands.”
Islam has identical verses. In both so-called religions, women are seen as inferior in intelligence and morals; they should have no rights over their own bodies and lives.
Back to the subject, around the time of the Enlightenment English proto-feminists Jane Anger and Rachel Speght (name may sound Jewish, but she was from Puritan English parents) had a problem with ''posterior et inferior''.
Jane Anger (1589) used satire and criticized the Church, mocked men's and the Church's obsession with women’s bodies and beauty. If woman was created later, she would be the superior and masterwork of the God.
Rachel Speght (1617) produced theological arguments and used Christian scriptures. If Adam was oh so mightier and more intelligent, morally and intellectually superior, he should have just... not be deceived? Right?
Both women stayed inside the Judaic story, it would not be possible to do otherwise at the time, but they were criticizing the pastors and the Church. They lived before Feminism existed as a structured ideology. They are considered proto-feminists; thanks to them, feminism exists.
Virginia Woolf was a late 1st-wave feminist. Her work is fine. A Room of One’s Own was a good read as much as I remember. It is recommended. Sylvia Plath, quote:
. One day, I was doing exactly that. Dilly-dallying in a park looking for a four-leaf clover. A few hours later, I saw a young girl's post on social media, how she was catcalled and harassed, stalked by a car because she was alone in a park (like I was the versy same day) and men in the car thought she was a prostitute. They followed her to her home, found out whose home it is, then called her father to ''warn'' him. What other reason can a woman have by being alone in a park other than selling sex, right? Anything women do is to tempt men. Women need to be controlled because they lack intelligence and morals. This is Christian/Muslim mindset.
Mother Lilith is the liberator of women. She is the patron of strong women and a Goddess of women's rights. Lilith represents sexual liberation and sex for pleasure. She is the exaltation of the feminine divine. Lilith also stands for abortion rights and birth control. This is stated in the Temple of Zeus. Countless women do not have access to these rights. Even when abortion is legal and has been legal for 50 years like in Türkiye, muslims will try to stop and shame women.
So no, Feminism pointed out issues, rightfully so. It was a decent thing from multiple accounts. Then Shulamith Firestone happened. Marxist feminism happened.
What about now? Is Feminism bad right now? It is complicated. 3rd wave feminism has a branch that views traditional feminine things as important as traditional masculine things, such as cooking and stitching, or motherhood, and has the idea that women do not have to be manly to be strong. Like the "Lipstick feminism" sub-branch celebrates feminine expression without seeing it as weakness.
The 1st wave was mostly a struggle to be recognized as humans and not just genitals. For the right to inherit, to have say in their life, to have legal rights, to vote, to receive education. 2nd wave created Marxist, socialist, radical, liberal strands. Made it something broader. The 2nd wave was organized and sought to fight, while the 3rd wave is individual with temporary alliances, decentralized. TERF (trans exclusive feminists) are not as crazy as Marxist feminists. However, Marxist and Freudian aspects are not completely erased from the 3rd wave and whatever wave is going on at the moment. There is intersectional feminism, post-structuralist/post-modern feminism, post-colonial feminism, feminism of the new generation, and so on.
Anyway, I don't know how to conclude this. Early Feminism makes sense, Marxist Feminism is inhumane, and the rest is complicated.
Endless respect to our Founding Mother, High Priestess, Lady Maxine. She is and will be an idol to women for generations to come.
Shulamith Firestone. Full name is Shulamith Bath Shumal Ben Ari Firestone (born Feuerstein), daughter of Solomon Feuerstein and a ''Holocaust Survivor'' Kate Weiss. Firestone synthesized Marx and Freud with Feminism in The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (1970). She is the most prominent among the founders of 2nd Wave Feminism.
Needless to say, her philosophy is an abomination of nature, nothing short of Frankenstein. The central argument is that the origin of women’s oppression is not economic or anything else, but biological. Women's role in biological reproduction, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and child-rearing. According to Shulamith Firestone, these biological facts have made them dependent on men. Firestone was the first to articulate this argument in a clear, systematic framework.
Firestone’s true liberation for women is a Grey-inspired world in which babies are grown in artificial wombs. Her utopia is the elimination of sex distinction.
"The end goal of feminist revolution must be, unlike that of the first feminist movement, not just the elimination of male privilege but of the sex distinction itself: genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally."
— Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex
I’d pick her as the answer to the question in the title. Imagine rooms full of growing fetuses in pods.
Let's go back a little. Was Feminism always bad? Not really. Long before Marxist Feminism was a thing, and around the time the Enlightenment was happening, it was clear that the Judaic fable of creation is the root of the oppression of women. Women were posterior et inferior. Last and lesser.
Posterior because man (Adam) was created first. Woman (Eve) was created from man and after man. If man was first, and woman was created from him, then she must be secondary and dependent, spiritually and intellectually.
Inferior because Eve was deceived by the serpent and led Adam into disobedience. Women are inferior in intelligence, proven by Eve being deceived by the serpent. Thus, women were considered inferior in intellect, virtue, and will, not just socially, but ontologically (in their very being). Women are the reason men sin. Women are ''bad'', they tempt men. The theme exists and is echoed in various tales, with witches being bad and ugly. Bad and vile stepmom. Women are the origin of the fall of humanity and the face of sin in Christianity and in Islam, rooted in Jewish origins of these programs.
According to the Church and to Islam, women's submission is a divine order from the Jewish God. It was a justification to limit education and agency, to enforce silence on them, and exclude them from the priesthood, the academy, medicinal professions, and pretty much any high-status position. Women being mentally or morally inferior is a Jewish teaching originated from the Adam and Eve tale. Be rid of it if you fell for the programming.
1 Corinthians 11: “Man is the head of woman.”
Ephesians 5: “Wives, submit to your husbands.”
Islam has identical verses. In both so-called religions, women are seen as inferior in intelligence and morals; they should have no rights over their own bodies and lives.
Back to the subject, around the time of the Enlightenment English proto-feminists Jane Anger and Rachel Speght (name may sound Jewish, but she was from Puritan English parents) had a problem with ''posterior et inferior''.
Jane Anger (1589) used satire and criticized the Church, mocked men's and the Church's obsession with women’s bodies and beauty. If woman was created later, she would be the superior and masterwork of the God.
Rachel Speght (1617) produced theological arguments and used Christian scriptures. If Adam was oh so mightier and more intelligent, morally and intellectually superior, he should have just... not be deceived? Right?
Both women stayed inside the Judaic story, it would not be possible to do otherwise at the time, but they were criticizing the pastors and the Church. They lived before Feminism existed as a structured ideology. They are considered proto-feminists; thanks to them, feminism exists.
Virginia Woolf was a late 1st-wave feminist. Her work is fine. A Room of One’s Own was a good read as much as I remember. It is recommended. Sylvia Plath, quote:
She explains it very well. Every time I see clovers, I stop to look for a four-leaf one''Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars--to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording--all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night...”― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath''

Mother Lilith is the liberator of women. She is the patron of strong women and a Goddess of women's rights. Lilith represents sexual liberation and sex for pleasure. She is the exaltation of the feminine divine. Lilith also stands for abortion rights and birth control. This is stated in the Temple of Zeus. Countless women do not have access to these rights. Even when abortion is legal and has been legal for 50 years like in Türkiye, muslims will try to stop and shame women.
So no, Feminism pointed out issues, rightfully so. It was a decent thing from multiple accounts. Then Shulamith Firestone happened. Marxist feminism happened.
What about now? Is Feminism bad right now? It is complicated. 3rd wave feminism has a branch that views traditional feminine things as important as traditional masculine things, such as cooking and stitching, or motherhood, and has the idea that women do not have to be manly to be strong. Like the "Lipstick feminism" sub-branch celebrates feminine expression without seeing it as weakness.
The 1st wave was mostly a struggle to be recognized as humans and not just genitals. For the right to inherit, to have say in their life, to have legal rights, to vote, to receive education. 2nd wave created Marxist, socialist, radical, liberal strands. Made it something broader. The 2nd wave was organized and sought to fight, while the 3rd wave is individual with temporary alliances, decentralized. TERF (trans exclusive feminists) are not as crazy as Marxist feminists. However, Marxist and Freudian aspects are not completely erased from the 3rd wave and whatever wave is going on at the moment. There is intersectional feminism, post-structuralist/post-modern feminism, post-colonial feminism, feminism of the new generation, and so on.
Anyway, I don't know how to conclude this. Early Feminism makes sense, Marxist Feminism is inhumane, and the rest is complicated.
Endless respect to our Founding Mother, High Priestess, Lady Maxine. She is and will be an idol to women for generations to come.