The
Woman Question
An
Essay by Wolf Larsen
from the book Capitalism Sucks
Women
in the United States of America and all over the world are treated like
second-class citizens. There is no shortage
of political correctness and feminism, but this is just a bunch of worthless
window-dressing that fails to address critical issues facing working-class
women.
Feminists
whine about pornography and that men are not much better than dogs. Personally, I worked in a predominately male
environment for 12 years. And I can't
understand why anybody would insult dogs by comparing them to men. But seriously, what's wrong with nudity? What's wrong with movies showing people
having sex? Frankly, I can't think of
anything more natural than nudity and sex.
The fact is is that many feminists – at least in the United States of
America – are a bunch of Puritans! They
are Puritans just like those crazy religious-fanatics that came over on the
Pilgrim ship and founded our neurotic country – which remains Puritanical to
this day.
The
fact that many of these feminists have adopted the puritanical values of
religious extremists is nothing less than treason when one considers that
religious extremists are hostile to women's rights. How strange that these feminists that
supposedly support the struggle for women's rights have the same puritanical
anti-sexual values as the born-again Christians who stand outside abortion clinics
and harass women who are exercising their right to abortion.
Even
the feminist slogan of "freedom of choice" is weak. It is imperative to launch an all-out
struggle to defend the right of women to have free abortion on demand! Poor women should have the right to an
abortion too!
A
struggle to defend women's right to an abortion would involve asking labor
unions, workers, progressive students, women, etc. to come out and defend
abortion clinics by any means necessary against these religious bigots who are
trying to deny women their right to an abortion. It is not enough that women have the right to
an abortion on paper. We must defend
abortion clinics against these religious-extremist bigots.
Just
as it is imperative to defend abortion clinics it is important to fight to make
contraception available for free to all females of reproductive age. In this day and age with HIV running rampant
it is important that condoms be available to all for free! Condoms must be distributed in both high
schools and middle schools! Free condom
dispensing machines should be available on every street corner in every nation
across the world.
Sexuality
must be treated as something natural. We
must throw away all those feminist and born-again Christian puritanical
values. Once we treat sexuality as
something natural we began to understand the need for distributing free condoms
to everyone, the need to fight for free abortion on demand, and the need to
spend more money on a cure for AIDS and less money on war. In fact, no money should go to war.
One
of the major obstacles to achieving women's liberation is illusions in the
Democratic Party. There have been lots
of Democratic presidents. The Democratic
Party has done next to nothing for women.
We still don't have equal pay for equal work. We still don't have quality free child care
for working women. We still don't have
free abortion on demand. In fact, there
are more and more places in America where it is difficult for women to get an
abortion because of a lack of facilities.
And if you think having a woman as President is going to change that or
anything else look no further than the example of England's Margaret Thatcher
to understand that female politicians are no different than male politicians.
What
is needed is a workers party! A workers
party will fight for the rights of working women. A workers party will fight for free abortion
on demand, free contraceptives available to all, free quality child care for
all working women, and equal pay for equal work.
Ultimately,
the goal is complete equality for women.
Ultimately, the goal is women's liberation!
To
achieve women's liberation we must completely change this nation that was
founded by anti-sexual Puritans. To
achieve women's liberation we must live in a society where women have control
of their own bodies. For women to have
control of their own bodies and their own destinies women must have full
control over their own reproductive rights.
For women to have control of their own reproductive rights we must smash
the puritanical forces who seek to deny women the right to an abortion. We must struggle against puritanical forces
who seek to deny women the right to free contraceptives. All females of reproductive age must have
access to free contraceptives regardless of age. If you are old enough to get pregnant you
should have the right to acquire free contraceptives.
The
forces of Puritanism are the enemy of women.
Teenage girls get pregnant because they are not taught about birth
control. They are only taught
abstinence. Telling teenagers not to
have sex is like telling a shark not to eat fish. Teenagers must have the right to learn about
sexuality in school, and they should have the right to free contraceptives so
they won't get pregnant.
The
puritanical forces that are worried that teenagers might have sex are the same
right-wing forces that usually support war.
Their Christian morality says teenage sex is bad but war is okay. This kind of "morality" is
diabolical.
Let
us not forget that it was the Puritans that founded this nation. In order to end the Puritan rule that keeps
women down we need fundamental change – we need something besides the same old
Democrats and Republicans – we need a workers party that will fight for women's
liberation and women's equality and women's rights!
The Fight for Gender Equality & Women's Liberation!
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