Trudy W. Schuett at Dean’s World writes about the real gender war:

While the genuine issues of equality have been dealt with long ago, the ultimate aim of feminism – to liberate women from the perceived oppression of husbands and families – has yet to be attained. If we continue to believe in the illusion that feminism has ever been about equality, or concern for the state of women in general, they will succeed. The result will be a society that will quickly learn what real oppression is about.

The other day, I mentioned to a co-worker that feminism was the gender version of Marxism. Don’t believe me? Well-known feminist philosopher bell hooks wrote in Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center:

Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology o domination that permeates Western culture on various levels, as well as commitment to reorganizing society so that the self-development of people can take precedence over imperialism, economic expansion, and material desires.

A former co-worker, who is an avowed feminist, once told me that she hates money. I laughed at her and called her naive, but then I remembered that bell hooks is one of her favorite writers. There’s a deep hatred towards capitalism and freedom that underlies the silly, PC-talk of the women’s lib crowd.

Rory Dicker, a professor at Vanderbilt University, wrote in A History of U.S. Feminisms:

…society needs to be transformed so that all systems of domination, including not just patriarchy but racism, imperialism, and capitalism, are eradicated. All of society would be free if the “ideology of domination” were eliminated; as a result, people would be able to concentrate on “self-development.”

She later writes:

Above all, sisterhood elevates the importance of the collective over that of the individual….Perhaps the biggest threat to sisterhood is competitive individualism, one of the beliefs on which our capitalistic American society is founded….A basic part of American culture, competitive individualism is what the American Dream is premised on: The idea is that, through hard work, a scrappy go-getter can claw her way to the top, gaining monetary rewards along the way. While the financial gain one acquires as a result of this ideal may be fulfilling to some, the cons are great: What is sacrificed is a sense of commitment to the greater good of the community.

One of the goals of feminism, then is to remind women that if their focus is exclusively on themselves, much is lost: In addition to change that could be accomplished on behalf of oppressed groups, competitive individualists lose out on a sense of commitment to something larger than themselves….feminism is essentially a way of thinking and of acting in the world. By transforming our understanding of power relations in men and women’s lives, feminism can teach us how to transform society itself so that both equality and liberation can be achieved.

Schuett nails it when she says, “It was never about equality and cooperation as we were led to believe, but about exactly the same things political revolutions are always about: money and power.”

As I said earlier, feminism is the gender version of Marxism. Ever wonder why gender equality is never quite achieved? Feminists have not succeeded in reaching their Marxist goals. Until society is absolutely and completely re-organized, they will not be happy. Feminism aims to destroy capitalism, individual rights, and as evidenced by Ms. Dicker, the American Dream. This is the truth behind feminism.