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Academia and EducationSilencing Women's Speech - Max Dashu presents on global women's history
Posted September 14, 2023 by Hysteric in FeministEvents

LIVE EVENT, Friday, September 15th 2023 at 12 PM PST (3 PM EST)

Youtube link - it will be available after! Live chat during

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*A Sumerian law called for crushing a woman's mouth with a brick, for "disrespecting" a man. Ancient and medieval conventions ordered women to keep silent. The European witch hunts targeted women; the accusation that a woman could magically harm others from afar, by her evil thoughts, and thus deserved to be hounded, beaten, tortured, killed, or shunned. Coercing speech in the torture trials. Scoring aboon the breath: cutting a woman's face "above the mouth," so drawing her blood would break her spells.

The Witch's bridle / Scold's bridle / branks: headcages with a metal gag, for public humiliation, and also Schandmasken: "shame masks." "Swimming the witch," "ducking the scold" (epithet for an outspoken woman). Women Possessed; exorcism as a rite of male domination. Witch accusations by possessed children in the Salem hunts.

New Left attacks on women's speech, igniting an explosion of female protest in the 2nd Wave. Rightwing backlash gains ground: Limbaugh invents the "feminazi," followed 30 years later by self-styled antifascists calling feminists "Nazis." Resurgence of witch hunt memes: "Burn TERFs," "punch TERFs," along with rape and death threats, directed at female targets, with impunity.*

2 comments

chewedanddigestedJanuary 5, 2021

If you think this looks like what we're seeing in the trans community (and by extension many neoliberal circles) you're not alone.

For further reading: https://freedomofmind.com/bite-model/

FreyjaBring the 😂💩January 5, 2021

Definitely not alone! Funny timing about this. Was just reading through this post yesterday that also is (partly) framed around Singer's BITE model. I actually do agree with the author's conclusion that transgenderism does not qualify as a cult, due to lack of a clear Leader or Leaders that are also venerated, but that it certainly has a lot of cult like aspects & would qualify as a thought reform programme. Author mentions some may argue

https://www.critorix.co.uk/essays/cults-deception-and-the-woke-left/

###August 15, 2019 | Cults, Deception and the Woke Left by @AlteredSquid

Not all trans people are transgenderists. And not all transgenderists are trans people – in fact, most are not. Transgenderism is a separate thing from whatever it means to be trans. Transgenderism is not a state of being. It’s a political movement. . .

. . .‘Transgenderism’ plays on the feelings and deepest desires of trans people, and recruits them into an effort to persuade society to accept its two fundamental axioms: trans women are women, and sex work is work.

But this is just one component of the ‘woke’ thought-reform program, which aims to queer society to destroy and then rebuild it as a totalitarian system. But it’s all done with sugar and spice and all things nice – until you disagree with the management. Or, as I like to call them, The Great Penis Cult.

. . .6 Conditions for a Though Reform Environment

  1. Deception – Keep the subject unaware of the hidden agenda
  1. Destabilisation – Control the subject’s physical environment and ‘thinking time’.
  1. Dependency and Dread – Create a sense of powerlessness, anxiety and fear
  1. Disconnection – Suppress the old behaviour and attitudes
  1. Developing the Cult Pseudopersonality – Elicit new behaviour and attitudes
  1. Denial and Dedication – Maintain a closed system of logic and restrict criticism.
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