Marxists and their various subgroups identified that women were the core of traditional society, which was an impediment to the revolution. And the nuclear and extended family needed to be destroyed in order to re-create human society into its socialist and thence communist form. Germaine Greer amongst many other british and european feminists of the sexual liberation apostles were explicit about this. They grew from writing pamphlets and books and radical magazines to establish "womens' studies" and thence "gender studies" and infecting Universities. And so we have seen women move from the "right" to the "left" in my adult lifetime. Now they are apparently all for choosing your sex. For the marxists, job done.
Nigel, the promotion of feminist liberty freedom is useful to those who want to sow divisiveness in two ways. It can be portrayed as freedom for women, but flipped into an oppressive form of exploitation (e.g, "male gaze"). By lacking a coherent ideology, feminism can morph to take advantage of current or changing social views about behavior, income, labor and what used to be known as intimate relationships.
Marxists and their various subgroups identified that women were the core of traditional society, which was an impediment to the revolution. And the nuclear and extended family needed to be destroyed in order to re-create human society into its socialist and thence communist form. Germaine Greer amongst many other british and european feminists of the sexual liberation apostles were explicit about this. They grew from writing pamphlets and books and radical magazines to establish "womens' studies" and thence "gender studies" and infecting Universities. And so we have seen women move from the "right" to the "left" in my adult lifetime. Now they are apparently all for choosing your sex. For the marxists, job done.
Nigel, the promotion of feminist liberty freedom is useful to those who want to sow divisiveness in two ways. It can be portrayed as freedom for women, but flipped into an oppressive form of exploitation (e.g, "male gaze"). By lacking a coherent ideology, feminism can morph to take advantage of current or changing social views about behavior, income, labor and what used to be known as intimate relationships.