Why is DU in a gender war anyway?

[LadyHawkAZ]

224. It isn't accidental

Some of us still remember how one of the groups was formed, and around whom it was formed. It was very much about separating "feminist" issues from any and all other issues, particularly those of the LGBT and men.

I happen to believe that most of the underpinnings of feminist issues (in the context of feminism as a broad social issue) are in fact based in class warfare- poverty and oppression of women are necessary to continue production of the next generation of profitable worker drones and cannon fodder; women's rights (especially reproductive rights) interfere heavily with that agenda. Giving the masses someone of their own class to fight with (women for men, men for women, gays for heteros, other skin tones for whites etc.) keeps them from going after the source of the problem en masse, which might result in an overturning of the social order keeping them oppressed. Most of our civil rights issues are class issues at the bottom of it all, and they all do overlap at that level, as well as on other levels.

As I've said before, DU is noticeably driven in many ways by mass media, and mass media is corporate-owned. There's a heavy media investment in different groups not getting along, and gender battles have proven effective even among the more progressive elements of society. This will continue exactly as long as we allow it to. So far, we're allowing it.

This is harmful to all of our causes. Don't buy the hype, don't drink the Kool-Aid, and always take the red pill.