Thinking About the Intricate Pattern of Suppression

 

What nonsense! As if women only need medical attention when they are in the child-bearing age. Nothing could be more wrong - except one thing: The very idea that women always should do with medical attention. As we know that's what the infamous "Project 2025" is implying, at the same time uttering the assumption that women are some kind of "breeding machines" who willingly will give birth without any kind of medical and economic help. 

Up through history women have been "paid off" in ideas, that seemingly eliminate the, more or less, elicit the stigma of being a woman in a Patriarchy. Religion, common superstitions and doctored historical accounts of "how it has always been" have claimed that women are the "inferior sex". Women, wanting to find an acceptable position in such a poisonous social situation, will be easy prey for whatever makes them feel less worthless than they have been portrayed by their suppressors. That's the point of special interest to me as I know that what makes suppression work is what seemingly turns it into something "good" to the one who is suppressed.

Joseph Goebbels should not be someone to admire, but he sure did have an eye for propaganda, and he knew how to use his knowledge. He is not the one who invented the "Kinder-Kuche-Kirche"-ideology which was set to assign women their special role in society as it goes much further back in history. However, he - as well the Nazified German society as such - used this ideology, to suppress women. 

 

The seeming "glorification" of women and their maternal role in society gave the suppressed gender a loophole into a kind of acceptance that in reality was more of a "noose" because they didn't have any other useful options.

These days many women have their tubes tied, not to get pregnant, because they know that in the tRumpian Hellhole of today they shall have to fend for themselves, even with little or no medical and economic attention. Those who fell for the "Kinder-Kuche-Kirche"-scam in former times may have become CEOs, etc. these days. They may still want to have children, but also they may turn their wishes for progeny into a deep love of their "furbabies". Such a family doesn't even take a husband or father ....
 

https://boobytrapec.blogspot.com/2025/02/women-chosing-to-have-no-babies-after.html 

 

https://chariotjournal.wordpress.com/2020/07/13/kinder-kuche-kirche-the-role-of-women-in-nazi-germany/ 

 

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Porn as Liberator of Women?

As sex in a patriarchy is most often defined as a power struggle it's difficult to agree to Ovidie's suggestion that porn is a form of female emancipation. After all, words may have been given the power to define sexual interactions, even though the most common definitions don't hold water for a more close scrutiny: For instance, for a long time sex very often was described as "he got his way with her", as if it was all his doing. It's definitely not a definition made in Nature, but in Patriarchal societies: There are many "Mrs. Robinsons" out there, seducing whomever catches their eyes. However, somehow the idea of men as the "aggressor" is still (more or less) valid: Men are the seducers, proving their masculine superiority by getting women to sleep with them - something which they may even brag about.

Ovidie is of another opinion than the general one about the sexual roles, and, by the way, she is a French actress, movie director, writer, journalist as well as a former porn star. When entering the porn industry she was a very active feminist, and before trying out porn for herself she was sure that the female stars were subjected to all manners of suppression and degrading situations. However, she came to see that they themselves felt that they were gaining power from their work - and, after all, it is a job!!! - so she decided to try it out for herself.

 

She saw her porn experience as extremely interesting as a way of understanding something about the female sexuality, femininity as well as bodily expressions. Surprisingly enough in her opinion the female porn stars didn't come out as "victims", which was how they were commonly described, but as strong women made stronger through the performance of sexual acts. 

To me that looks as a very limited "freedom", but I admit that sexual rights are an important part of the picture as such. As it is, I hold that freedom should be the right to do whatever one wants within the legal limits of one's society and the personal limits of each of us. That also pinpoints what's very important in any society: The ability to earn a living, to have a meaningful career and to say "NO!!!" if that's what one wants to do when one is being targeted by that maybe not all that seductive guy.