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Gender Wars in the No-Longer United States

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Human Wrongs Watch
By Ellyn Kaschak*
17 October 2018, (Wall Street International)* — I am a lifelong American citizen, born and raised in New York. I have lived my adult life in Northern California. I have been a professor, a therapist and a writer for all my adult years. I have only felt moderately comfortable in these roles, as I was repeatedly ridiculed and criticized and even sexually assaulted once or twice for the crime of believing that I, a woman, could do these jobs.

Sexual discrimination in employment | Photo from Wall Street International.

My family was also horrified and wanted me to stay home, marry and give them grandchildren.

Of course, I was not the only one and the U.S. is not the only country where this discrimination and harassment occur.

Recently certain men whose names we all know (One is the president of the United States) have escalated the wars against women, people of color and immigrants to a level that must be called not only horrifying, but evil.

I think this is not just a question of psychopathology, although the psychopathy is lit up in neon, but of morality. These are men who are evil, greedy and concerned only for themselves.

It is looking like they may win this round, appointing a judge who will permit them all to keep their ill-gotten gains without fear of retribution. This is only one skirmish in a long-standing war that probably began when Abigail Adams admonished John not to forget the women in the Constitution.

He went off to the Constitutional Congress and ignored her advice. A constitution was written to protect the rights of white men and women and former slaves had to struggle for years to win rights even close to what white people have. That moment is when the gender wars began.

Eventually women won the vote, slaves won their freedom and then the vote. Now the superiority of white people had to be defended by trickery instead of by law. Asking for additional i.d., hiding the ballot box, etc. were some of these strategies.

The war raged on. It is little known that the suffragists not only sought the vote, but oppoosed their husbands drinking as they then came home and beat them. There were battleaxes involved as these brave women tore up the saloons where their men were preparing themselves for violence and spending all theirv hard earned money.

The history of the family and the meaning of the word are “…all the possessions of a man”. He owned his women and his animals, property, and could do with them as he wished.

Of course, this is ancient history. Domestic violence and rape share a long tradition and are much more prevalent than we ever thought when we began to look at them, in the 1970’s. It began with a simple idea. We listened to women’s stories.

As we did, thouands of them poured out that had been kept secret before. The field of feminst therapy wascborn and grew up to be the field of Trauma.

Even today, when it got around the campus that I, a known feminist, was teaching at the University for Peace in Costa Rica, I came to my first office hours to find a line of women waiting to tell me what had happened to them.

They felt that they would be given a fair hearing only by a feminist. This is usually the place where feminists defend themselves by saying that there aremany men of conscience that support women. Certainly it is the case. I say it here not as a defense, for I will surely be criticized as being anti-male. Feminists are not anti-male, but pro-female. These should not be opposed to each other.

*Ellyn Kaschak
Ellyn Kaschak, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita of Psychology, San Jose State University, Visiting Professor, University for Peace, Costa Rica and the author/editor of numerous articles and 12 books, including Sight Unseen: Gender and Race through Blind Eyes and Engendered Lives:A New Psychology of Women’s Experience.
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Source: https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2018/10/21/gender-wars-in-the-no-longer-united-states/


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