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Colonialism and sexism
« on: April 27, 2022, 09:25:59 pm »
As I have always maintained, Western civilization is more, not less, sexist than those which it colonized:

https://theconversation.com/how-colonialism-is-a-major-cause-of-domestic-abuse-against-women-around-the-world-179257

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Postcolonial scholars have been telling us as much for decades. From widespread poverty to racial discrimination and gender inequalities, colonisation put in place systems and structures that are often at the root of heightened violence against women.

Colonial policies

Many colonial systems of governance were based on “racialising” the local population: categorising and marginalising groups of people according to race or ethnicity. For example, the divisions between Hindus and Muslims in pre-partition India and the racial hierarchy instituted in apartheid South Africa. These divisions have provided the fodder for many of the world’s contemporary armed conflicts. Scholars talk about colonial durabilities to describe the way in which colonial histories continue to actively shape the world today.
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Many colonial systems of governance also established regulations and legal frameworks that were particularly damaging for women. Despite the fact that both men and women were in positions of leadership in pre-colonial Nigeria, British colonial officials refused to negotiate with female chiefs. They also put in place a system of land ownership that explicitly excluded women.

The legacy of these policies is that women are still far less likely to own land than men in Nigeria. A recent study of national data has shown that women who do not own land are more likely to report domestic violence than those that do. This is because land ownership gives women income and power within a relationship. It also gives them options when they need somewhere to go. Women who have power and alternatives are simply less likely to put up with violence and more likely to leave.

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/whp-origins/era-7-the-great-convergence-and-divergence-1880-ce-to-the-future/74-end-of-empires-betaa/a/read-decolonizing-women-beta

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Women suffered more under colonial rule than men. In addition, early histories of the time ignore women's struggles for independence. Women don't appear much in the official records of that time because they were forbidden to participate in government or business. In some cases, colonial rulers forced women to live as Europeans thought they should, as mothers, wives and home keepers. But before European occupation those same women may have held positions of power in their community.

Colonial rulers and warrant chiefs in Nigeria

Colonial rulers generally only accepted males in roles of authority. For example, before colonial times, communities in Southeastern Nigeria were run by groups of men and women rather than single leaders. But colonial occupiers would only work with male "chiefs." Since there weren't any, the British chose random men to be leaders and called these men "warrant chiefs." These warrant chiefs―supported by colonial rulers―acted as judges and had a lot of power. This included power often over women who had previously been a part of political rule. Women also struggled to make money under colonial rule. In many West African societies before colonialism, women farmed and participated in local business. Most able-bodied women were either farmers or merchants. In southern Nigeria, for example, all members of a family farmed the family land.

Women helped produce important crops like palm oil in Igbo societies, and cocoa in the Yoruba societies. However, British colonialists brought the concept of individual land ownership to Nigeria and only allowed men to be landowners, so women found it difficult to make money from these important cash crops. In some areas however, like among the Igbo, women tried to hold on to their historic role as cultivators and market sellers.

Women participate in anti-colonial actions

Igbo women's knowledge of farming and business helped them resist unfair British laws. In 1929, the British began unfairly taxing women in southeastern Nigeria. These women protested at warrant chief's offices and attacked colonial buildings to demand an end to unfair taxes and the warrant chief system. The women used protest methods that were historically used by Igbo women to express their disapproval of men who abused their power. The women danced, sang songs about their poor treatment, and destroyed courthouses. This protest was known as the Aba Women's Rebellion and lasted two months. The protest ended on December 17th, 1929. During the protest, the British military fired into crowds of protestors and killed 55 women.
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European colonizers forced women out of jobs, took property from them, and removed them from government roles. Many things made it difficult for women to be a part of fighting colonialism. They were forced to be dependent on men, had less rights than men, could not own land and could not even earn money.



See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/ancient-world/shock-the-first-crusade-and-the-conquest-of-jerusalem-the-crusades-an-arab-persp/msg4086/#msg4086

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/social-decolonization/msg4458/#msg4458

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/re-genghis-khan/msg4142/#msg4142

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/aryan-fingers/msg659/#msg659

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/re-sexual-dimorphism-preferences/msg1258/#msg1258

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/dress-decolonization/msg5632/#msg5632

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/dress-decolonization/msg5678/#msg5678

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/dress-decolonization/msg7414/#msg7414

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/dress-decolonization/msg7599/#msg7599
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Re: Colonialism and sexism
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2022, 03:46:56 am »
Offshooting from:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/legal-decolonization/msg13434/#msg13434

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Law enforcement in ancient China was carried out by "prefects" for thousands of years since it developed in both the Chu and Jin kingdoms of the Spring and Autumn period. In Jin, dozens of prefects were spread across the state, each having limited authority and employment period. They were appointed by local magistrates, who reported to higher authorities such as governors, who in turn were appointed by the emperor, and they oversaw the civil administration of their "prefecture", or jurisdiction. Under each prefect were "subprefects" who helped collectively with law enforcement in the area. Some prefects were responsible for handling investigations, much like modern police detectives. Prefects could also be women.[13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_criminal_justice#Ancient_China

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An example of a female prefect would be Lady Qu[4] of Wuding (serving 1531 – c. 1557).

Comparing with Western countries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_law_enforcement

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The first female police officers in Australia were appointed in New South Wales in July 1915

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Women have played an important role in enforcement since the early 1990s in Austria.

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On September 16, 1974, thirty-two women are sworn in with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as their first female officers.

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In Germany, women were employed in the police force from 1903

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in 1923, Meta Kehrer became the first woman Inspector of the Dutch police force

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the New Zealand Police did not admit women as police officers until 1941.

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Poland ... Finally, on February 26, 1925, the Commander-in-Chief of the State Police signed a decree allowing women to work in the State Police.

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In 1908, the first three women, Agda Hallin, Maria Andersson and Erica Ström, were employed in the Swedish Police Authority in Stockholm

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United Kingdom ... The first woman to be appointed a police officer with full powers of arrest was Edith Smith (1876–1923), who was sworn in to Grantham Borough Police in August 1915.

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The first policewomen in the United States included Marie Owens, who joined the Chicago Police department in 1891; Lola Baldwin, who was sworn in by the city of Portland in 1908; Fanny Bixby, also sworn into office in 1908 by the city of Long Beach, California; and Alice Stebbins Wells, who was initiated into the Los Angeles Police Department in 1910.[24]

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Re: Colonialism and sexism
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2022, 11:50:24 pm »




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scold's_bridle

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First recorded in Scotland in 1567, the branks were also used in England and its colonies.
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Escrava Anastacia ("Anastacia the female slave") is a Brazilian folk saint said to have died from wearing a punitive iron muzzle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escrava_Anastacia

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She is often purported to have possessed tremendous healing powers and to have performed other miracles. Eventually, she is punished by her owners by being forced to wear a muzzle-like facemask, which prevents her from speaking, and a heavy iron collar. The reasons given for this punishment vary: some stories report her aiding in the escape of other slaves, others claim she resisted **** by her master, and yet another places the blame on a mistress jealous of Anastacia's beauty. After a prolonged period of suffering, all the while performing more miracles of healing and peace, Anastacia dies of tetanus from the collar.

But we are supposed to believe Western civilization is less sexist than non-Western civilizations.....


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Re: Colonialism and sexism
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2022, 10:30:53 pm »
Nothing has changed, by the way:


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Re: Colonialism and sexism
« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2022, 12:47:48 am »
All the following are exclusively Western behaviours:

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/women-sharing-gentlemanly-behaviors-actually-184602282.html

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Women Are Revealing The "White Knight" Behaviors Men Do That Are Actually Pretty Disrespectful
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some "good deeds" don't come off as "kind" or "polite" at all. Instead, they can feel condescending, creepy, infantilizing, or worse: all of the above.
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1."Offering to help you and not backing off, regardless of what you say. My cousin is very beautiful and often has men offering help left and right in an effort to get in her good graces — except they keep offering when she says no. And they keep offering. And they keep pushing. It's basically a thinly veiled 'let me get close to you,' and they won't take no for an answer. It's extremely disrespectful."

—u/peachandpeony

2."When people try to put words in my mouth, like, 'what I think she meant was...' No, no, no. I said what I said, all questions can be directed to me."

—u/CatrionaShadowleaf

3."When someone interrupts or stops telling a story to apologize for the profanities being used in front of me."

—u/smellycatsmelllycat

"Or you're in a group conversation with some men and one of them swears, so another man cuts him off and scolds him because I'm there. What is this, the 1850s? I promise I won't faint."

—u/crazynekosama

4."People insisting on carrying things for me. I worked in a warehouse for years and can’t count how many times I got told that the lifting should be left for the ‘men.’ I was usually the only employee on shift, and if I left all the lifting for the men, then I just wouldn’t be employed."

—u/Ill_Task_257

5."Any time a man is speaking for or 'defending' a woman and he gets extremely possessive, and you can tell that he’s more offended because she’s HIS, and it’s therefore disrespectful to HIM, than he is concerned about her feelings. 'That’s MY WIFE,' 'don’t talk about MY wife that way...'"

—u/lizard_ladder

6."When they try to mansplain to me about how to do my job."

—u/Bebe_Bleau

7."Speaking on my behalf because I didn't answer right away. Like, I don't care if you've known me my whole life, you don't, under any circumstances, speak for me. I have a voice."

—u/SlimJimLahey

8."Insisting on walking me to my car. No one has insisted on this with good intentions, so stop pretending you are protecting me."

—u/weewee52

9."Kissing my hand when first meeting me. Please, no."

—u/Holybull79

10."Babying pregnant women because they 'need protection,' including from themselves. When I was pregnant, one of my coworkers told on me to my husband (we work at the same company) because he thought the box I was carrying was too heavy for a pregnant woman to be carrying."

—u/fireflygalaxies

11."Men I don't know calling me 'honey,' 'sweetheart,' or any variation of that. It happens less now that I'm older, thank god."

—u/emshlaf

12."Walking you home after a first date, especially when you don't know them well. Like, okay, maybe there's good intent, but statistically, the guy I just started dating is more of a risk than the possibility of some random stranger-danger attack on a busy, well-lit city street. Until I know a guy better, I emphatically don't want to give them my address. I once told a guy all that out of sheer exasperation when he wouldn't accept my 'no, thank you'. He was...not happy."

—u/sharksnack3264

13."Taking tools away from me while I'm using them because they are 'thinking of my safety.' Like, no, it's not safe to try and take my axe out of my hands mid-swing."

—u/notanotherkrazychik

14."Those cringe-y 'POV' TikToks where a guy acts out an imaginary scenario where he saves a girl from being harassed/assaulted. They just love imagining that a woman is being hurt, just so they can be a hero. And there's always epic, movie-type music playing in the background."

—u/No_Natural2495

15."If I'm holding a door already for everyone to get in, and a man has to make it awkward by trying to be gentlemanly and hold the door for me. You're causing a traffic jam, then making it awkward holding the door also, so now I gotta do a weird shimmy under your arm, or go around you somehow to go inside. I hate it."

—u/TenaciousToffee

16.And finally, "Men I don’t know being 'gentlemanly' and letting me walk up the stairs in front of them when I’m wearing a short skirt or shorts. This usually happens with repairmen in my house."

—u/Late_Significance519

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Re: Colonialism and sexism
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2022, 07:11:56 pm »
Our enemies writing a pro-patriarchy article that inadvertently reveals both Western civilization's greater patriarchy than non-Western civilizations, and Western civilization's (inaccurate) bigoted presumption that non-Western civilizations are just as patriarchal:

https://www.eurocanadians.ca/2022/08/the-tragedy-of-modern-love.html

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There is no female equivalent to the heroic stories of men killing dragons to save female virgins. Female fragility inspires male sacrifice while male fragility inspires female abandonment. The list goes on and on and on. It’s not just that women don’t prove love through sacrifice (in relation to adult men), it’s that they won’t even pretend to express such passions in their art, films, and literature as a matter of superficial virtue signaling.

Our enemies obviously do not watch Sailor Moon. But rather than use this or numerous other easy Counterculture-era counterexamples, I feel it would be even more convincing to prove our enemies wrong using an ancient counterexample:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_White_Snake

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the white and green snakes transform themselves into two young women called Bai Suzhen (白素貞) and Xiaoqing (小青), respectively. They meet Xu Xian at the Broken Bridge in Hangzhou. Xu Xian lends them his umbrella because it is raining. Xu Xian and Bai Suzhen gradually fall in love and are eventually married. They move to Zhenjiang, where they open a medicine shop.

In the meantime, the terrapin spirit has accumulated enough powers to take on human form, so he transforms into a Buddhist monk called Fahai (法海). Still angry with Bai Suzhen, Fahai plots to break up her relationship with Xu Xian. He approaches Xu Xian and tells him that during the Duanwu Festival his wife should drink realgar wine, an alcoholic drink commonly consumed during that festival. Bai Suzhen unsuspectingly drinks the wine and reveals her true form as a large white snake. Xu Xian dies of shock after seeing that his wife is not human. Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing travel to Mount Emei, where they brave danger to steal a magical herb that restores Xu Xian to life.

After coming back to life, Xu Xian still maintains his love for Bai Suzhen despite knowing her true nature. Fahai tries to separate them again by capturing Xu Xian and imprisoning him at the Jinshan Temple. Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing fight with Fahai to rescue Xu Xian.

In other words, of course stories of women rescuing men exist in literature, just not in traditional Western literature.

Better still, Legend of the White Snake even covers the inferiority of natalism:

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However, her powers are limited because she is already pregnant with Xu Xian's child, so she fails to save her husband.

The true hero of the story is the one who did not reproduce:

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At the same time, Xiaoqing, who had spent the intervening years refining her powers, goes to the Jinshan Temple to confront Fahai and defeats him.

But I digress.

You can read the whole enemy article if you want to laugh at our enemies' inferiority. Their main point is:

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This is why women need to be taught to submit to male authority.

This is why Western civilization needs to be killed.
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« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2022, 03:17:06 pm »
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1."Offering to help you and not backing off, regardless of what you say. My cousin is very beautiful and often has men offering help left and right in an effort to get in her good graces — except they keep offering when she says no. And they keep offering. And they keep pushing. It's basically a thinly veiled 'let me get close to you,' and they won't take no for an answer. It's extremely disrespectful."

Although not sexism, people in general thinking their helping a person by doing something that person has never asked them to do, or never having even asked for help in the first place, is extremely disrespectful also! This scenario seems to be particularly western behavior as well. As pointed out on the main site, if someone has not asked for help and someone else attempts to help them, the person believing that they are helping are in fact telling the other person that they are not confident in their ability to perform the task they are attempting.

Don't try and help people who haven't explicitly asked for help, it's extremely disrespectful!

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« Reply #7 on: August 27, 2022, 04:38:39 pm »
Gender segregation is sports is Western, because it is Westerners who are most obsessed with sexual dimorphism:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/christian-school-won-t-play-120000084.html

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The Lions football team of Valley Christian Academy — a small private school in the Central Coast city of Santa Maria — is once again refusing to play against girls.

That’s in spite of the fact that it’s becoming more common for girls to plays football, especially in California.

And it’s in spite of the fact that VCA already is facing one lawsuit because it refused to play against Cuyama High’s football team last year. That squad included a female wide receiver whose mother filed the suit.

Now VCA, which is affiliated with First Baptist Church, could be on the receiving end of even more backlash for forfeiting an upcoming game against Coast Union High, a public high school in Cambria where two girls are on the football team.

The reason for the boycott?

The school administration says playing football with girls conflicts with the “guiding principles of the Bible regarding the care of a woman,” according a legal document filed in the Cuyama case.
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“We are not raising our daughters to be ‘fighters’ the same way we are with our sons,” Nancy Wilson wrote in an article published on the Christian website Reformed Perspective. “The goal we have in mind in raising sons is to inculcate masculinity. And we want our daughters to embrace a godly femininity, not a worldly feminism.”

But as far as the U.S. government is concerned, girls have the right to play whatever sport they choose, no matter what the Bible says.
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Ironically, Valley Christian scrimmaged against Cuyama High last year, which apparently went smoothly until the female player took off her helmet at the end of the game.

“Upon seeing her gender, the observers, coaches and administrators of Valley Christian glared at (the player) while shaking their heads in disbelief,” according to a court filing.

A few days later, Cuyama High’s superintendent received a letter stating that the female player — whose identity has not been disclosed — would no longer be welcome to play football at the Valley Christian campus.

The player was left “humiliated, embarrassed and shocked by the public display of unwelcomed reactions,” according to the case file.

Of course she was. One minute, she’s treated as an equal on the playing field. The next, she’s treated like a pariah who should trade her helmet and pads for a spoon and apron?

Contrast with:

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/228587-history-of-football-cuju

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it seems the first games in which the main technique involved kicking a ball originated in China. The game of Cuju was also played in Korea, Japan and Vietnam and dated back to the fourth century BC.
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Female clubs also developed where women could play up against each other and men. Often the women were more skillful at the game than the men and it is said that one time a 17-year-old girl beat a full team of soldiers on her own.

Back to first link; the solution is Cancel Culture:

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Fortunately, there’s a simple solution that can be reached outside of the courtroom.

Either the Valley Christian Academy Lions agree to play — whether or not girls are on the opposing team — or they withdraw from the league.

If they won’t withdraw, CIF can show them the door.

(Additionally, note that if gender segregation in sports had not been instituted in the first place, the present-day controversy over which team transgender athletes should be playing in wouldn't even exist because there wouldn't be separate teams to begin with!)

Related:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/true-left-breakthrough-degendering/

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« Reply #8 on: November 06, 2022, 07:59:16 pm »
Purely for entertainment:



This happened only because gendered toilets exist in the first place. And yes, gendered toilets are Western:

https://time.com/4337761/history-sex-segregated-bathrooms/

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Why Do We Have Men's and Women's Bathrooms Anyway?

Though the first sex-segregated toilets were established in Paris in the 1700s, regulations requiring that American men and women use separate restrooms got their start in the late 1800s. The first regulation requiring separate toilet facilities for men and women was passed in 1887, when Massachusetts required the establishment of separate privies in businesses. “Wherever male and female persons are employed in the same factory or workshop, a significant number of separate and distinct water-closets, earth-closets, or privies shall be provided for the use of each sex and should be plainly designated,” the law reads. In the next line, mixed use of such facilities is prohibited. Over the course of the next three decades, nearly every state passed its own version of that law.

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« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2022, 03:24:49 am »


Again, Western civilization is the most patriarchist civilization. The above phenomenon and the uniquely Western legal prohibition of polygamy are in fact two manifestations of the same ultra-patriarchist attitude: both are based on the notion that every man (no matter how awful a person he is) is entitled to keep a woman. (Not coincidentally, it was Western men who came up with the notion of an "incel" based on the same sense of entitlement being unmet.) This attitude is thoroughly alien to non-Western civilizations, whose men have no such equivalent patriarchist rapport with other men in evenly distributing women.
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« Reply #10 on: January 14, 2023, 08:48:28 pm »
Traditional democracy (only men allowed to vote, as Aristotle recommended, and as practiced until well into the 20th century:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage#20th_century

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The Representation of the People Act 1918 saw British women over 30 gain the vote. Dutch women won the vote in 1919, and American women on August 26, 1920, with the passage of the 19th Amendment (the Voting Rights Act of 1965 secured voting rights for racial minorities). Irish women won the same voting rights as men in the Irish Free State constitution, 1922. In 1928, British women won suffrage on the same terms as men, that is, for ages 21 and older.
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By the time French women were granted the suffrage in July 1944 by Charles de Gaulle's government in exile, by a vote of 51 for, 16 against,[32] France had been for about a decade the only Western country that did not at least allow women's suffrage at municipal elections.[33]

) compared to autocracy is itself evidence that Western civilization is more patriarchist than non-Western civilizations. Under traditional democracy, all men participate in state decisionmaking while no women do. Whereas under autocracy, the number of men and the number of women who do not participate in state decisionmaking are almost equal (the monarch being the sole exception). It is clear which system was designed with greater male bias in mind.

See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/if-we-lose/msg15622/?topicseen#msg15622
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« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2023, 04:23:51 pm »
In Puerto Rico, Women Won the Vote in a Bittersweet Game of Colonial Politics
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Puertorriqueñas’ fight for suffrage shaped by class, colonialism and racism—but even today, island residents cannot vote for president.
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[...]When Pagán heard back months later, it confirmed the grim reality she was prepared to hear. As colonial subjects, Puertorriqueñas would not be afforded the same freedoms as their white, American sisters on the mainland. Despite the 19th Amendment’s promises and despite their American citizenship, Pagán and the roughly 300,000 other Puerto Rican women eligible to vote would have to wait another 16 years to cast ballots.

In their journey to suffrage, Puertorriqueñas defiantly used the island’s colonial politics to their advantage to pressure the island’s governing elite to deliver the vote. Yet the story remains incomplete. Their struggle didn’t end when Puerto Rican women were extended the franchise for local elections; on a federal level, Puerto Ricans of all genders remain as disenfranchised as they were 100 years ago. Island residents have the rare displeasure of being citizens who cannot vote for president, and the delegates they elect to Congress also cannot vote on U.S. laws.

In 1898, the U.S. claimed the island as a bounty of its victory in its war with Spain and took over colonial control. After a few short years of military rule, the U.S. established a civil government subject to American supervision, drastically transforming Puerto Rican society. Thousands lost their family-owned farms to U.S. companies eager to exploit the island’s natural resources through the sugar, tobacco and coffee industries. More women, facing the prospect of poverty, were forced to enter the workforce...
Entire article: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/in-puerto-rico-women-won-the-vote-in-a-bittersweet-game-of-colonial-politics?utm_source=pocket-newtab

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« Reply #12 on: April 28, 2023, 06:37:47 pm »
Excellent commentary by Carollo again:



See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/plebian-hubris/

Our enemies confirm my claim that Western civilization is more patriarchist than non-Western civilizations:

https://www.eurocanadians.ca/2023/02/are-all-women-female-supremacists.html

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women are more sexually selective than men. That’s partially why twice as many of your reproductively successful ancestors were female, not male. That’s also why men are sexually rejected at a rate ten times greater than vice versa while women judge 80% of men as below average.
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Throw in the fact that women are infinitely more likely to complain about male sexual advances (not to mention male attention more generally) and it becomes all but impossible to deny that, as an evolutionary class, women seem to be at least somewhat gender-cidal towards men.
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The male hypogamy/female hypergamy dynamic appears to be all but entirely irreversible. This begs the question: Are virtually all women female supremacists in this regard? Do virtually all women view men as a potentially disposable genetic crop while viewing women as the selective face of Mother Nature? And if so, is this not a vaguely femi-nazi-esque world view?

Men are free to be as sexually selective towards women as women are sexually selective towards men, or even more so if they want. Every non-Western civilization understands that if men are less selective than women in reality, it is men's fault for lacking standards. Western civilization, in contrast, thinks it is women's fault for having standards.

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« Reply #13 on: May 26, 2023, 03:38:10 pm »
Duchesne again concedes that there is no such thing as "cultural Marxism":

https://twitter.com/dr_duchesne/status/1661782004143206400

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The "authoritarian family" critique did not come from cultural Marxism but out of liberalism: J.S.Mill wrote in The Subjection of Women that traditional (Victorian) family was “a school of despotism” where children were accustomed to accept authoritarian values.

They were! But no, this is not despotism. It would be more accurate to say that the traditional Victorian family was a school of patriarchy. As we keep pointing out, authentic despotism (a.k.a. autocracy) weakens patriarchy whereas it is traditional democracy which strengthens it:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/colonialism-and-sexism/msg17477/#msg17477

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Under traditional democracy, all men participate in state decisionmaking while no women do. Whereas under autocracy, the number of men and the number of women who do not participate in state decisionmaking are almost equal (the monarch being the sole exception). It is clear which system was designed with greater male bias in mind.

which is why non-Western civilizations were less patriarchist than Western civilization.

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Re: Colonialism and sexism
« Reply #14 on: June 19, 2023, 08:49:23 pm »
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/daughter-mixed-rugby-team-taught-060000301.html

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Anyone who thinks that “toxic masculinity” is woke nonsense has obviously never watched under-nines mixed rugby.

I of course agree that toxic masculinity is real. It is also worse in high-sexual-dimorphism men. Rugby selects for high-sexual-dimorphism men, and hence for the most extreme sexism. Societies which admire rugby thus promote sexism. Which civilization invented rugby (and spread it around the world during the colonial era)? It is no coincidence that the civilization which invented rugby is the one whose gene pool produces the highest sexual dimorphism:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/re-sexual-dimorphism-preferences/msg460/#msg460

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An interesting finding is that all European countries revealed 420
larger differences between male and female average faces than in all the other populations.

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/mythical-world/aryanism-vs-hyperboreanism/msg18981/#msg18981

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Europeans, on the average, show much greater secondary differences between the sexes. And
among the subraces of the White race sexual dimorphism increases from south to north, with
Mediterraneans exhibiting the least dimorphism and Nordics the most.
In general, a large degree of sexual dimorphism in a race is an indication of
evolutionary adaptation to markedly different male and female social roles. When men and
women have similar lifestyles, there is relatively little need for them to differ physically,
except in their reproductive organs. But in the big-game hunting society of Upper Paleolithic
Europe, the men went out into the forests or the tundra to do the hunting and killing, and the
women stayed at home to bear and raise the children -- for a thousand generations.

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Last year, Penny decided she wanted to try rugby and joined a club I had once played for in my teens. So, well placed to help, I accompanied her to training and matches and was relieved to see her apply her trademark fearlessness in the mud with a group of 20 or so children, all but three of whom were boys.
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They whispered insults to the girls out of the earshot of adults. Sometimes the boys refused to accept the coach’s decisions, as if the rules were an inconvenient brake on their individualism.

But what jarred most and filled me with that burning sense of fatherly injustice was the refusal of any of the boys to pass to a girl, despite the encouragement of the coaches. The girls – all excellent players – had to pass to each other; it was their best hope of getting involved. When the boys had the ball, they would rather run backwards or into touch than pass to a girl
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I was watching young males repeat patterns of behaviour in which females will always be an “other”. (Penny has recently started playing cricket, too, and the boys’ behaviour is just the same.)
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These boys are not the embodiment of evil; they are just children.

No, they are the embodiment of evil. They are certainly not children. They are future Westerners.
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