Lindsay Mitchell's blog has drawn attention
to an advertisement
in the Auckland Women's Centre Newsletter. It offers prizes for
people to create fictional YouTube videos about violence committed by boyfriends
on girlfriends.
This is extremely dangerous, because many people will see these videos as
a depiction of reality -- and you can bet that Feminists will not be laying
a lot of stress on the fact that these videos are just fiction, when they
put them on the Web!
It's not as if the advertisement was basing itself on scientific research,
or anything like that. It just listed a few statements and called them
"myths". The word "myth"
is a favourite word of the Feminists. It means "anything that we
Feminists don't want you to believe."
This is part of a determined effort by Feminists to use all available media
to brainwash people into the beliefs and values which they themselves believe
in. See the excellent webpage "Does
feminism on TV cause anti-male attitudes?"
Fiction
It is noticeable that Feminists are typically not very interested in providing
objective evidence for their claims. They rely on assertions,
repetition and intimidation. Since Feminists
largely control the media and education systems
of Western countries, they make full use of their power to censor out views
that they dislike and to repeat views that they like.
This ties in well with women's tendency to be much more interested in fiction
than men are. This applies both to literature and to soap operas, although
men are typically more interested in action movies and fiction. You
could argue that women are actually less able than men are to separate fiction
from reality. In turn, this could be linked to women's
greater reliance on emotion than on reason.
Religion
Given this greater irrationality, it is not surprising that women are generally
more interested in religions and other superstitions (e.g. astrology) than
men are. After all, religions and other superstitions are spheres of
life where statements are believed largely on the basis of faith, and evidence
plays a minor role. In the West, religion has declined as Feminism has
grown, so Feminism can be seen as the new secular religion (ideology) of the
West. Although some religions have responded by trying to adopt Feminist
approaches, Feminism has been diametrically opposed to the churches (and increasingly
victorious) on issues such as abortion and homosexuality.
Education
Western universities were originally closely linked to religious education.
They then gradually became more and more secular. But now the wheel
has come full circle, because universities are now closely linked to Feminist
indoctrination.
It is also important to note the close relationship between creativity and
research. Ever since Kuhn's
famous book on the history and philosophy of science, it has been common
knowledge that theory-building is a creative process, and the supposedly objective
processes of "normal science" are carried out within these theories
("paradigms"), in an attempt to support, extend, or disprove them.
This gives great freedom to Feminist academics -- especially in the intellectually
down-market social sciences -- to promote any old rubbish as "research."
In addition, some Feminists reject objectivity altogether, which gives full
rein to their fictional creativity and their ability to indoctrinate students
with academic frauds. Inevitably, the Feminist media picks up on these
fraudsters, quotes their theories as fact, and describes them as "experts."