I'm talking about David Usher, the President of the American Coalition of Fathers and Children, who may just be my favorite anti-feminist writer. He attempts to create this fictional history of the feminist movement and proceeds to attack us with the most hilarious of theories (for lack of a better word). It’s time for a good laugh.
While he advised all men in his previous piece responding to the Duke rape allegations to “stay away from feminists and strippers� while calling feminism the “Pink Mafia,� an article from a while back went into depth about the linkage between the feminist movement and the Ku Klux Klan.
Well, his new piece talks of the “WKKK� as well, where the second wave of feminism was born. (Who knew?) Additionally, books such as “Women of the Klan� are apparently required reading in women’s studies classes. Darn, I didn’t get that one in my courses!
There’s a number of other shit he throws out that the women’s movement caused, like the “orgy of self-gratification and mass liberated sex� in the 60s, a feminist take-over of the United Nations, and the war against marriage. He says:
“The crucial war shaping the future of America occurs silently in Washington D.C. Feminists are deeply aware that war spending needs translate into reductions of federal funding on the war against marriage.  This is why Jane Fonda, Barbara Streisand, and all known feminists staunchly oppose the war at all costs.�
HA! I fucking love it. His solution? The overturn of Roe and the restoration of a free marriage market:
"Heterosexual marriage is the only institution that naturally erases all physical, social, economic, and culturally-imposed differences that exist between the sexes. Marriage assures a robust economy, with many men ready to vigorously defend their homes and families, women willing to live on less to ensure the survival of a free democracy, and deficit spending is unlikely.Yeah, sounds pretty equal. Is this guy for real?
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Actually, he got one thing right. In my "Women in Radicalism" class at college, we did study feminists in the KKK and neo-Nazi movement.
We also studied female socialists, women in the Black Panthers, radical feminists of the 1970's, women in the fight for migrant worker's rights, and women in fundamentalist religious sects, and women of color and low income women who addressed the race/class split in the feminist movement.
This class, besides be a great tour of contemporary social movements, taught me about how multi-faceted feminism is, and that it often has to be separated from ideas about liberalism, class, race and country. Also it taught me that you should never make assumptions what "all known feminists" do, something that Usher obviously needs to learn.
"...the “orgy of self-gratification and mass liberated sex� in the 60s, a feminist take-over of the United Nations, and the war against marriage."
You say that as if they were bad things!
Seriously, whenever I hear about how the feminists have allegedly taken over [fill in the blank], I want to know where that particular utopia might be, because it sure ain't here...yet.
Kathleen Blee's "Women of the Klan" is a popular text for women's and gender history classes - and it's a wonderful, if disturbing, piece of scholarship. In it, Blee argues that women in KKK auxilary, the WKKK, used white supremacy as a window through which to advance progressive ideas about (white) womanhood. I know that anti-feminists like to use this book as a way to link feminism and the KKK, but they're misreading Blee's text (big surprise).
Anyway, perhaps you should read the book before making assumptions about it.
I can imagine that women's studies would celebrate women in the Klan as a group standing up for their rights but I wonder what sort of influences the Klan has in today's feminism? I wouldn't say racism has been passed down but weren't the women in Klan into making the perfect child by trying to eradicate deformities?
In China, women who have a disability are not allowed to have children, and yet I read somewhere that this issue is funded and monitored from American groups.
Is this feminists work through family planning? My apology upfront for not giving a source. But if need be I could search for one.
Was my comment erased?
This guy sounds rather nutty but, I often meet feminists on-line that are as intolerant of men as the kkk is of blacks.
The feminist point that all men should share the blame for rape, all jews should share the blame for Germanys poor economy, all blacks are thugs because of a few confused teens?
I have heard on these blogs dreams of male genocide by securing male sperm, after all the rest of the man can be discarded?
And I have heard accused men being labeled guilty of rape, and I have heard the opinion that, anyone that believes the duke players innocent hates women of color.
“Whiney white man� is the typical feminist insult for white men with balls enough to challenge this hatred.
Check out More.Duke.Crap.
These MND guys need to drop the machismo and inflammatory statements because their concepts or ideas certainly have validity though as their style stands they will only serve to help feminist intolerance thrive.