theHRguyTIL: Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem Was An Anti-Communist CIA Operative who Kept Feminism From Discussing Class
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Why do humans suck so much?
Why do humans suck so much?
Short sightedness
When Ramparts broke the story in 1967, Steinem confirmed her role to The New York Times without apology, describing the CIA as āliberal, nonviolent and honorableā and stating she would do it again.
Haha, what?
Can we just talk about Rampart please?
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ageedizzleAbstract expressionism (ie modern art) was actually pushed by the CIA as well (source), though the motivation in this case is murkier
I didnāt know that. Either way it seems a bit odd that the CIA would care so deeply about matters of artistic taste
Yes but the extent to which theyād go to oppose the Soviets even on trivial matters seems silly
Unless you lived in that era itās really hard to imagine how the reds lived in the imagination of every American. if youāre old enough to remember the war culture during the start of Iraq/Afghanistan. it was like that on steroids. 50 years of Cold War means a couple generations were completely consumed by it.
Iām not old enough to remember the first one and Iām not American so I was never really caught up in the second one, so it is genuinely hard for me to understand why the CIA cared so deeply about Soviet artistic preferences that they conducted psyops to oppose them. Iām not doubting that it happened, it just seems bizarre to me
Itās very bizarre. Like a mass psychosis. To be fair any idea you can summon sounds better than a nuclear war, so they did a lot of bizarre ideas.
A foolish strategy. It means you allow your opponent to limit you. People who like hyper realism would have no option but Soviet art.
Itās also a stupid strategy because modern art is pretty dumb (I know I might get hate for this but lets be real guys)
I always thought Suprematism was what the Soviets were pushing, now I read the wiki article and it seems it was not, and Socialist realism was, and I guess it was the hyper-realism you talk about?
Feminists of the 70s did not give two fucks about intersectionality or helping the oppressedā¦they only cared about white women getting the same slice of the pie as white men.
hmmmā¦this sounds very familiarā¦ where have I heard of this type of person beforeā¦
Continuing the tradition. The suffragette movement was tied to the civil rights movement. Until the white patriarchy promised white women the right to vote if they dumped the civil rights movement. Then the white women went āfyigmā and helped keep Jim Crow alive.
Itās amazing how a large movement can achieve half its goals and then pull up the ladder on the other half isnāt it?
White feminists*
Black feminists wanted to talk about class and racism, itās just the media didnāt give them a microphone to talk about itā¦
she seems more anti-feminist than feminist, like how TERFs are.
Ya itās an effect of the passage of time, thatās why we label the 3 waves of feminism in America. the movement got broader and more inclusive as the years went on. Which upset some of the older feminists like JK Rowling who refused the memo of equality for all.
Gloria Steinem was paid $20k to speak/q&a at my school by an alumni committee and it was an hour of students just tearing her to shreds about what a money grubbing POS she was. It was great.
quick_snailYou paid her to bash her? I bet she left with a smug smile
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And the link written this way works better methinks. ā¦substack.com/ā¦/feminist-icon-gloria-steinem-was
Iām not sure how feminism can mean equality for all when all of us have a billionaire problem.
The only feminism we honor in this household
Good article, but the photos really need captions explaining who is in the images
Sources: Gloria Steinem, New York Times (1967); Redstockings press release and research report (1975); The Village Voice (May 21, 1979); Frances Stonor Saunders, The Cultural Cold War (1999); Daniel Brandt, NameBase/Portland
Itās kinda fucked that they link to Wikipedia all throughout this article, but the real primary source material has zero links.
Kinda kills your credibility.