Pseudo-feminists beat the war tambourines

by International Minister, September 14th, 12:15 
a.m.

Instead of pointing out how going to war against 
Afghanistan will kill innocent wimmin and 
children, major leaders of the so-called 
"feminists" are doing their bit to supplement the 
men beating the war drums in the wake of the World 
Trade Center/Pentagon bombing. While they do not 
openly call for war against Afghanistan, because 
the U.$. government has not while it is still 
collecting evidence, the pseudo-feminists have 
indicated their readiness for it.

A case in point is former president of the 
National Organization of Women (NOW), Eleanore 
Smeal. Speaking for an organization called the 
"Feminist Majority," Smeal said, "While at this 
time we cannot definitely say that the Taliban and 
Osama bin Laden have committed the horrific acts 
of September 11, we do know that they have been 
leading campaigns of terror against women, women's 
rights, ethnic and religious minorities, and the 
Western world for many years."(1)

The worst part of what these pseudo-feminists do 
is say correct things at the wrong time. On 
September 12th when Smeal wrote her article, the 
task should be to oppose the war the imperialists 
are preparing. Instead, Smeal is going all out to 
give reasons for that war. She says that Arabs, 
Afghanis and people of Islamic faith in general 
should not be blamed, but there is no way at this 
time to be backing a war against Afghanistan that 
will accomplish anything other than attacks on 
Arabs, Afghanis and people of Islamic faith in 
general.

Not surprisingly, FOX News highlighted a column 
from the ifeminists.com which is specifically for 
"individualist feminism,"(2) a complete 
contradiction in terms. In her "ifeminist" column 
of September 13th, Wendy McElroy made the correct 
observation that the people hijacking the planes 
were not "cowards," because they were perfectly 
willing to die. Despite the truth of this "duh" 
statement that eluded many including President 
George Bush, McElroy's real point is that any 
statement about the actuality of general 
oppression is wrong: "To the terrorists, there 
were no innocent people in the WTC towers. "The 
burning question this tragedy poses is whether 
individuals are personally responsible for their 
own acts or whether they share a class guilt based 
on being white, male, American, Jewish, 
gay...whatever."(2) This sort of individualism is 
always the ideology of the oppressor. The 
strongest individuals know that as long as the 
weaker ones do not band together, the strong 
individuals may exploit the weak. That is why 
people like McElroy write their brand of 
"ifeminism," which is so predictably bad it 
probably comes from reading MIM Theory and saying 
everything MIM criticized. These same "ifeminists" 
are connected to the saveourguns.com advocating a 
belief in "God" and the mythical "freedom" of the 
United $tates. They are so opposed to rational 
thought about groups of people that they are 
innocently unaware that the United $tates is the 
world's leading prison-state per capita and 
therefore the least "free" country.

While former Bush Sr. (41st president) Secretary 
of State Lawrence Eagleburger called for war 
against Iran, Syria and Iraq on the 13th(3) in 
addition to the obvious of Afghanistan, these 
pseudo-feminists beat the tambourines. It goes to 
show why people aspiring to real feminism cannot 
leave it in the hands of the leaders calling 
themselves feminists. 

Going against the tide of war in the United $tates 
means accounting for the following and exerting 
leadership: "ABC found 94% of Americans in support 
of military action against 'the groups or nations 
responsible for the attacks,' and 92% of this 
group would support military action even if it 
means 'getting into a war.' CBS found somewhat 
lower support for military strikes when a 
reference to the possible killing of innocent 
civilians was included in the question wording. In 
this context, just 66% of those interviewed told 
CBS that 'the United States should take military 
action against whomever is responsible for the 
attacks, even if it means that innocent people are 
killed.'"(4) That means that 66% of the Amerikan 
public is in its usual mood of supporting state-
terrorism and they will contribute to the cycle of 
violence instead of eliminating its causes in 
private property and economic competition.

Despite noise about being against violence against 
wimmin, these pseudo- feminists have never, ever 
been prepared to lead a struggle against violence 
and patriarchy. They just go along with the tide. 
The real feminism will be achieved by proletarian-
feminist leadership, as it was done in China by 
Mao Zedong and not by the people calling 
themselves "feminist." These types of "feminists" 
have no historical track record of accomplishing 
anything for wimmin's equality. They do, however, 
fool many people into supporting the status quo, 
including state- terrorism against Third World 
wimmin.

Notes: 
1. 
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.
asp?id=5796 
2. 
http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/ 
3. 
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,34352,00.html 
4. 
http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr010913.asp