| ▲ | pstuart 6 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
Right wing talking points. They see feminism as a threat (which it is to them, but for the good overall). | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | paimapi 6 hours ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
it really isn't - it's well-documented: https://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/blog/feminist-was-spy "While popularly pilloried because of her paymaster, Steinem defended the CIA relationship, saying: “In my experience The Agency was completely different from its image; it was liberal, nonviolent and honorable.” Less cloak-and-dagger and more a young, energetic, global representative for American values and freedom" was part of the Cold War-era soft power projection for the US since Communist countries were uplifting their women a lot more intentionally and structurally, especially compared to their historic baseline [0]. it looks pretty bad if your primary values are freedom but they don't apply super well to half of your entire population there's also a further-left critique of Steinem [1] as being the public face and visage of pro-American, capitalist feminism, someone who took it from being the more Emma Goldman/Combahee River Collective rooted form - a kind of 'JFK' for the masses to substitute for the more revolutionary ideals of, say, Malcolm X or Dr. King, both of whom were very unpopular in their time and often derided as 'asking for too much' [2] [0]https://kristenghodsee.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/om... [1]https://publicseminar.org/2016/06/feminisms-of-the-left-poli... [2]https://news.gallup.com/vault/246167/protests-seen-harming-c... | |||||||||||||||||
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