I want to stop the influence of gender ideology in our education and elsewhere. But there is much else that damages far greater numbers of kids and women than gender ideology.
Allying with the right from the 1980s on pornography was a foolish, blind movement for women which has not limited the impact of pornography on young people of eith…
I want to stop the influence of gender ideology in our education and elsewhere. But there is much else that damages far greater numbers of kids and women than gender ideology.
Allying with the right from the 1980s on pornography was a foolish, blind movement for women which has not limited the impact of pornography on young people of either sex or old ones either. Have you thought about the long term consequences of that experiment? The distortion of feminism into support for Xtian and other religious purity movements that prevented the emergence of a vision of female sexuality that was not based on purity and violence? The erotically charged emphasis on sexual danger child sexual abuse and rape that pervades girls' childhoods (and our whole culture) while domestic violence refugees are left impoverished and those who have suffered real abuse are barely supported?
How about you write a post that places the real damage that this right wing government wants to do to women and children and the damage that the right will do to LGB people once they get going alongside the slender gain that has been achieved today?
Hi Hera, I don't think the Right are entirely responsible for damage done to women and girls. I may have once agreed that the Left was more of a friend to us, but the last few years have changed my mind about that. Both the Left and Right have bad players in their ranks who perpetrate harms either ideologically or directly, they just use different justifications and gaslighting to do it. Personally, I think it benefits women to not wed ourselves monogamously to either side.
There are several policies in NZ's new centre-right government which I don't like - the re-introduction of live exports, is one - but I acknowledge the policies I do like, especially the ones which will help roll back the entrenchment of gender ideology.
Currently, I write about topical issues around the subject of gender ideology, rather than do deep dives into specific issues. However, the Women's Rights Party NZ (https://womensrightsparty.nz/) will be fleshing out their policies as they get more established, and the things you mention will be amongst them.
Is a 'left' that erases women's rights and kids' protections really a left? Is a left that has replaced class struggle with the promotion of bourgeois identitarianism really a left? I don't think so. Today's 'left' is simply displaying its abandonment of left principles and practices. I was actively involved in the far Left for more than 40 years. No more.
How much more damaging is it to LGB people than to deny same sex attraction and replace it with same 'gender' attraction? This enables hetero men to claim they are 'lesbians', join lesbian dating pools and pressure young lesbians to engage in hetero sex. It's happening, it's regressive and no genuine left person should support it. Not ever. The faux left has lost its mind, its politics, its way.
That is exactly right - it is not we who have changed our values (I'm speaking from the centre-left /social democratic viewpoint which seems to be predominant in the GC community). Till the globalism revolution the left was a predominantly working-class backed movement centred around unionised industrial labour. Once the working class were kicked out from our own movement it became dominated by a technocratic nomenklatura who run the public service, education system and the media (except the explicitly right wing press). The current one is a "bourgeois/academic/corporate left", yes that last one is an oxymoron.
Unfortunately its not as simple as just changing the govt. I'm happy for you across the Tasman but this movement has entrenched itself so deeply they have taken control of the education system to indoctrinate generations of children and actively curate news reporting to advance their ideological agendas. They have succeeded in the Marcusian/Dutschkian long march. This has to be recognised and fought over the long term.
Yes, these policies are just the beginning of a long haul. We may be helped along by the emergence of swathe of younger people who think gender ideology is bonkers and take the p*ss out of it now. Ridiculing and resisting it is like their rebellion. However, as you say, there’s still a huge cohort who have bought into it.
I want to stop the influence of gender ideology in our education and elsewhere. But there is much else that damages far greater numbers of kids and women than gender ideology.
Allying with the right from the 1980s on pornography was a foolish, blind movement for women which has not limited the impact of pornography on young people of either sex or old ones either. Have you thought about the long term consequences of that experiment? The distortion of feminism into support for Xtian and other religious purity movements that prevented the emergence of a vision of female sexuality that was not based on purity and violence? The erotically charged emphasis on sexual danger child sexual abuse and rape that pervades girls' childhoods (and our whole culture) while domestic violence refugees are left impoverished and those who have suffered real abuse are barely supported?
How about you write a post that places the real damage that this right wing government wants to do to women and children and the damage that the right will do to LGB people once they get going alongside the slender gain that has been achieved today?
Hi Hera, I don't think the Right are entirely responsible for damage done to women and girls. I may have once agreed that the Left was more of a friend to us, but the last few years have changed my mind about that. Both the Left and Right have bad players in their ranks who perpetrate harms either ideologically or directly, they just use different justifications and gaslighting to do it. Personally, I think it benefits women to not wed ourselves monogamously to either side.
There are several policies in NZ's new centre-right government which I don't like - the re-introduction of live exports, is one - but I acknowledge the policies I do like, especially the ones which will help roll back the entrenchment of gender ideology.
Currently, I write about topical issues around the subject of gender ideology, rather than do deep dives into specific issues. However, the Women's Rights Party NZ (https://womensrightsparty.nz/) will be fleshing out their policies as they get more established, and the things you mention will be amongst them.
Is a 'left' that erases women's rights and kids' protections really a left? Is a left that has replaced class struggle with the promotion of bourgeois identitarianism really a left? I don't think so. Today's 'left' is simply displaying its abandonment of left principles and practices. I was actively involved in the far Left for more than 40 years. No more.
How much more damaging is it to LGB people than to deny same sex attraction and replace it with same 'gender' attraction? This enables hetero men to claim they are 'lesbians', join lesbian dating pools and pressure young lesbians to engage in hetero sex. It's happening, it's regressive and no genuine left person should support it. Not ever. The faux left has lost its mind, its politics, its way.
That is exactly right - it is not we who have changed our values (I'm speaking from the centre-left /social democratic viewpoint which seems to be predominant in the GC community). Till the globalism revolution the left was a predominantly working-class backed movement centred around unionised industrial labour. Once the working class were kicked out from our own movement it became dominated by a technocratic nomenklatura who run the public service, education system and the media (except the explicitly right wing press). The current one is a "bourgeois/academic/corporate left", yes that last one is an oxymoron.
Unfortunately its not as simple as just changing the govt. I'm happy for you across the Tasman but this movement has entrenched itself so deeply they have taken control of the education system to indoctrinate generations of children and actively curate news reporting to advance their ideological agendas. They have succeeded in the Marcusian/Dutschkian long march. This has to be recognised and fought over the long term.
Yes, these policies are just the beginning of a long haul. We may be helped along by the emergence of swathe of younger people who think gender ideology is bonkers and take the p*ss out of it now. Ridiculing and resisting it is like their rebellion. However, as you say, there’s still a huge cohort who have bought into it.