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Andrea Dworkin would have fought transgender ideology with every fiber of her being. The women who knew Andrea best have all come out and refuted all of John Stoltenberg's claims that Andrea Dworkin was a "trans ally." Andrea was sick at the end of her life and married a gay friend for the economic security and for health insurance. After her death, Stoltenberg tried to mischaracterize Andrea's position on transsexuals and defend her against the charge of “transphobia." Martin Duberman also wrote a biography of Andrea where he also distorted her views on transsexualism and falsely claimed that she “deplored” Janice Raymond’s analysis in "The Transsexual Empire." Nothing could be further from the truth. In reality, there is an endorsement by Andrea Dworkin on the front cover of Janice Raymond's book calling the work 'crucial reading." Phyllis Chesler writes, "It seems that both Duberman and Stoltenberg want to enlist Andrea’s ghost into supporting the contemporary transgender movement. To do so, they are using her work of 46 years ago to conflate Dworkin’s concept of a small, persecuted, and powerless minority of transsexual prostitutes in Europe with our contemporary, aggressive, well-funded transgender movement. For the purpose of this review, I contacted Jan Raymond—who told me that as she was writing The Transsexual Empire, that Andrea “read the manuscript in process and contributed an endorsement.” Andrea’s endorsement for The Transsexual Empire read as follows: Janice Raymond’s The Transsexual Empire is challenging, rigorous, and pioneering. Raymond scrutinizes the connections between science, morality, and gender. She asks the hard questions and her answers have an intellectual quality and ethical integrity so rare, so important, that the reader wants to think, to enter into a critical dialogue with the book. This does not sound like someone who “deplored” this work." https://archive.ph/eBB0K RESOURCES: RAYMOND SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON DWORKIN’S “TRANS-INCLUSIVITY” https://intenseworldtheory.com/raymond-sets-the-record-straight-on-dworkins-trans-inclusivity Archived https://archive.ph/X9QF8 PHYLLIS CHESLER WOKE ANDREA DWORKIN https://phyllis-chesler.com/articles/woke-andrea-dworkin Archived https://archive.ph/eBB0K https://www.newenglishreview.org/woke-andrea-dworkin Archived https://archive.ph/OXyLR Woke Andrea Dworkin Martin Duberman distorts the life and work of a pioneering feminist genius to make her more pleasing BY PHYLLIS CHESLER https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/woke-andrea-dworkin Archived https://archive.ph/HvGck “The Worst Kind of Betrayal: What John Stoltenberg Did to Andrea Dworkin” By Nikki Craft February 28, 2016 https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02JUGCVzg3rpGz8JRojYRHGRqAMbUcT19YQV3tvhL5RZMd1drZp6zupc4gguqzZujNl&id=100089961806400&paipv=0&eav=AfYzRPdbWLcz4MHvTi4f6lwTpO7QZXptgFD6JmzdC-tVKwRumKFknKU2amgy3st26Eg&_rdr Archived https://archive.ph/h9nZz “Altering Andrea: How John Stoltenberg Performs Editorial Surgery on Dworkin’s Sexual Politics” By Nikki Craft March 7, 2016 Stoltenberg wanted to add a postscript to Andrea's work even though it was her expressed wish that none of her work be edited or modified in any way. https://www.facebook.com/100089961806400/posts/pfbid037YxrtrLYUqT7N8TCTa64UfuAWmXVMA7L4Umm2kfGaxdiRCesnAoDerfrAqw29rQQl Archived https://archive.ph/BrNtk Derrick Jensen Response to John Stoltenberg: Andrea Dworkin & Transphobia https://derrickjensen.org/2015/02/response-to-john-stoltenberg-andrea-dworkin-transphobia/ Archived https://archive.ph/RfWxr A NOTE FROM THE TURF WAR ZONE A RESPONSE TO JOHN STOLTENBERG https://www.theturfwarzone.com/anotefrom.html Archived https://archive.ph/gk1zr Transitioning but Not Transcending: Dispelling the Distortions of Andrea Dworkin’s Work https://www.thedistancemag.com/p/transitioning-but-not-transcending Archived https://archive.ph/mbcGR Andrea Dworkin supported Nikki Craft's book on John Money - the father of Transgender Ideology Nikki Craft: Stoltenberg is wrong about Andrea Dworkin https://wolfwomanofnorth.wordpress.com/2016/02/27/nikki-craft-stoltenberg-is-wrong-about-andrea-dworkin Archived https://archive.ph/lMsnG After her death John Stoltenberg lied about having sex with Andrea. "In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice." https://arlindo-correia.com/140802.html Archived https://archive.ph/rjUqK John Stoltenberg did not believe Andrea was raped https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02JUGCVzg3rpGz8JRojYRHGRqAMbUcT19YQV3tvhL5RZMd1drZp6zupc4gguqzZujNl&id=100089961806400&paipv=0&eav=AfYzRPdbWLcz4MHvTi4f6lwTpO7QZXptgFD6JmzdC-tVKwRumKFknKU2amgy3st26Eg&_rdr #AndreaDworkin #TeamTERF #TransDebunk #GenderAbolitionist #RadFem #RadicalFeminist #MaleSexualPolitics #JohnStoltenberg #AndreaDworkinWasRightAboutEverything #LeftistMaleSexualPolitics #Leftism #SmashPatriarchy

RAPE HAS ALWAYS BEEN USED AS A WEAPON OF WAR IN PATRIARCHY - NEITHER MEN ON THE RIGHT NOR MEN ON THE LEFT WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT BOTH sides in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict think they're justified in killing anything that moves. NEITHER side is "defending" itself. What's happening is what happens in ALL wars - misogynist MEN are taking out their grievances with other men by annihilating women's bodies. Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War https://youtu.be/JTVVCfvrITY RAPE AS A WEAPON OF WAR AND IT'S LONG-TERM EFFECTS ON VICTIMS AND SOCIETY https://www.peacewomen.org/sites/default/files/vaw_rapeasaweaponofwar_stopmodernslavery_may2008_0.pdf "Rape in warfare is rooted deep in world history and well established in modern warfare, however it can no longer remain an issue silenced by suppressive governments, ignorance and fear. The idea that rape is a normal byproduct of war, due to its continual use historically and currently, only perpetuates its use. The seeing of it as normal and its continual impunity increases its use as a weapon, the perpetrators are less likely to be tried for rape than murder. " Rape as a Weapon of War and it’s Long-term Effects on Victims and Society Rape as a Weapon of War and Genocide: https://www.cmc.edu/sites/default/files/humanrights/Rape%20as%20a%20tool%20of%20war.pdf “Rape committed during war is often intended to terrorize the population, break up families, destroy communities, and, in some instances, change the ethnic makeup of the next generation. Sometimes it is also used to deliberately infect women with HIV or render women from the targeted community incapable of bearing children.” For centuries, rape has been used as a spoil of war and as a weapon—possibly the most brutal weapon of war—in order to exercise power and dominance over women and undermine the social fabric of society. It is a method of torture both physical and psychological, and is a crime, just like murder, and in many cases." Curious erasures: the sexual in wartime sexual violence https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1204983/FULLTEXT01.pdf Rape as a Weapon of War: Women 's Human Rights During the Dissolution of Yugoslavia https://is.gd/YsJZEw Bibliography 📚📚📙📘📗📘📙📚📚 Russell-Brown, Sherrie L. “Rape as an Act of Genocide.” Berkeley Journal of International Law. 21(350). 2003. Accessed through HeinOnline. Barry, Kathleen. 1981. Female Sexual Slavery. New York: New York University Press Boesten, Jelke. 2014. Sexual Violence During War and Peace: Gender, Power, and Postconflict Justice in Peru. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Bos, Pascale R. 2006. “Feminists Interpreting the Politics of Wartime Rape: Berlin, 1945; Yugoslavia, 1992–1993.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 31 (4): 995–1025 Brownmiller, Susan. 1975. Against our Will: Men, Women and Rape. New York: Simon & Schuster Dworkin, Andrea. 1976. Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics. New York: Harper & Row. Eriksson Baaz, Maria, and Maria Stern. 2013. Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War?: Perceptions, Prescriptions, Problems in the Congo and Beyond. London: Zed Books. Jeffreys, Sheila. 1990. Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution. New York: The Women’s Press MacKinnon, Catherine A. 1989. Toward a Feminist Theory of the State. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press MacKinnon, Catherine A. 1994. “Rape, Genocide and Women‘s Human Rights.” In Mass Rape: The War Against Women in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Millet, Kate. 1970. Sexual Politics. New York: Doubleday "I can't roll my eyes hard enough. I do not have enough forehead to raise my eyebrows high enough to adequately express... what am I feeling with this? Outrage." Niarchos, Catherine N. 1995. “Women, War, and Rape: Challenges Facing The International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.” Human Rights Quarterly 17 (2): 649–690. Norma, Caroline. 2016. The Japanese Comfort Women and Sexual Slavery. New York: Bloomsbury. Russell-Brown, Sherrie L. “Rape as an Act of Genocide.” Berkeley Journal of International Law. 21(350). 2003. Accessed through HeinOnline. Wood, Elizabeth J. 2013. “Multiple Perpetrator Rape During War.” In Handbook on the Study of Multiple Perpetrator Rape: A Multidisciplinary Response to an International Problem, edited by Miranda Horvath and Jessica Woodhams, 132–160. London: Routledge Zalewski, Marysia, and Anne Runyan. 2015. “‘Unthinking’ Sexual Violence in a Neoliberal Era of Spectacular Terror.” Critical Studies on Terrorism 8 (3): 439–455. #Israel #Palestine #AntiMiitarism #NoWarForIsrael #Misogyny #SmashPatriarchy #RadicalFeminism #RadFem #AntiMilitarism #Peace #NoWarWithRussia #Feminism #feminist #RapeIsAWarCrime #RapeIsACrimeAgainstHumanity

Radical Lesbian-Feminist have a long history of anti-militarism. Feminist message of anti-militarism anti-racism anti-classim anti-misogyny The Long History of Lesbian Anit-Militarism "Inclusion: in the military is NOT Liberation Antiwar movements and civil rights movements have never been separate from Lesbian Liberation movements. Radical Lesbians have always been active in the anti-war, anti-nuclear freeze movements, but they are rarely recognized. Here's a few: Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA), which created a safe, women-only space from 1972 to 1994, then later Dykes for the Second American Revolution (DARII). Lorraine Fontana founding member of the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA) Code Pink, The Lesbian Avengers, No Merci ALFA, Mandy Carter War Resisters League/West in San Francisco https://www.sinisterwisdom.org/SW93Supplement/Carter field director for the National Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum, (1:17:73) She taught Women's Studies at San Francisco State for 18 years. She left Sonoma State when it became difficult to think about race and class at Sonoma State. Ruth Mahaney San Francisco CA Audio Radical Lesbian Activist https://archive.org/details/ruth-mahaney-radical-lesbian-activist Corinne Manning Lorraine Fontana Atlanta GA Georgia Voice https://thegavoice.com/community/activist-in-action-lesbian-activist-lorraine-fontana/ Mandy Carter is a well-known African-American lesbian anti war activist LilyYuriko Shinde Vancouver Canada is a 69-year old Japanese Canadian lesbian founding members of the first Third World Women's group and Women of Color group in Vancouver. Lesbians and Gays Against Intervention, or LAGAI, which formed in the Bay Area in the 1980s to combat U.S.-sponsored terror in Latin America Lesbians in every group from WILPF Women's international League for Peace and Freedom The Lesbian Avengers We WIll NOT Be Commodified Dorothy Marder Women's Strike Force for Peace Dorothy Marder Women's Strike for Peace https://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/Exhibits/Dorothy%20Marder/MarderActivism_files/MarderActivism.html Dorothy Marder’s photography during the period of the early 1960s to mid 1970s documented the “real” anti-war movement, particularly in New York City. Marder believed that the large news corporations covered only national demonstrations, distorted the reality of the anti-war movement, and neglected the small or local protests Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice Collection http://findingaids.library.umass.edu/ead/mums839 Gay Anti War Journals Out Now! Notes of a Lesbian Feminist During War time https://library.fes.de/libalt/journals/swetsfulltext/12592953.pdf #NoWarWithRussia #LesbianHerstory #LesbianPride #AntiMilitarism #Peace #NoNukes #AntiWar #RadFem #RadicalFeminism

"The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton This was spoken by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a leading figure in the early women’s rights movement in the United States. Stanton made this statement to express her belief that religious institutions and biblical interpretations had historically been used to justify the subordination of women and hinder their progress toward equality. Stanton argued that traditional Christian teachings, particularly those derived from the Bible, reinforced patriarchal structures by portraying women as morally weaker or subordinate to men. She believed that these religious narratives were central to maintaining gender inequality in society. Her most notable work reflecting this critique is The Woman’s Bible, published in two parts in 1895 and 1898, in which she and a group of women reinterpreted biblical stories from a feminist perspective. One of her key reinterpretations involved the story of Eve in Genesis. While traditional theology blamed Eve for humanity’s fall, Stanton viewed her act of eating the forbidden fruit as a courageous pursuit of knowledge and autonomy. She also challenged the interpretation of woman being created from Adam’s rib, arguing it signified equality rather than inferiority. Stanton’s views were controversial even within the suffrage movement. Many of her contemporaries, including some fellow suffragists, feared that openly criticizing religion would alienate supporters and damage the cause of women’s rights. As a result, she was marginalized by more mainstream factions of the movement. The Woman's Bible by Elizabeth Cady Stanton https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9880 https://archive.org/details/womansbible0000eliz #Feminism #Feminist #RadicalFeminist #RadFem #Atheist #Atheism

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The Whole "Tradwife" Thing is Just a Ploy To Impoverish Women

Hopefully the "tradwife" trend is just a phase young women quickly snap out of, because data shows older homemakers who spend their prime working years out of the labor force face the absolute worst financial hardship if a husband leaves.

References:

• American Sociological Review by Richard R. Peterson

• Longitudinal research tracking modern marriage cohorts by Tach and Eads

• The Journals of Gerontology by Lin and Brown Journal of Financial Therapy by Kristy Archuleta and Sonya Britt

• American Sociological Review by Christin Munsch

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