Happy Birthday Momma

American women helped to elect a rapist as the president of the United States. Why?

In 1974, Patty Hearst, granddaughter of the publishing magnate, was kidnapped from her Berkely apartment by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). Patty was 19.

The SLA kidnapped Patty hoping to exchange her for jailed SLA comrades. The State said “No” so the SLA kept Patty locked in a closet. However, a couple of months later, Patty announced that she’d joined her abductors in their fight for love and peace via armed violence.

Patty now called herself “Tania” after Che Guevara’s girlfriend. And as Tania, she helped her abductors rob a bank. Two men were shot. The bandits, including Patty, escaped but eventually were caught.

In 1975, Patty was tried. As she was malnourished (weighing only 40 kilos) and had a zombie-like behavior (her IQ had dropped 18 points while captive), defense lawyers claimed Patty had been brainwashed. But the judge had no sympathy. Patty, convicted of using a firearm in a bank robbery, was given the maximum sentence of 35 years (she was later pardoned by President Carter).

One unexpected defender of Patty was conservative actor John Wayne who said he was puzzled as to how people could believe that cult leader Jim Jones convinced 900 people to drink Terminal Punch yet couldn’t accept that a 19-year-old girl kidnapped and hidden in a closet for weeks could be brainwashed into participating in SLA crimes.

Why is it that many men treat women as inferiors yet expect more from them than from their so-called superior selves?

Just a year before Patty’s heist, a bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm revealed the unsettling rapport between hostages and captors. For six days, four people were held hostage by bank robbers. When the hostages were finally rescued, they were very protective towards their captors. This unexplicable bonding became known as the Stockholm Syndrome.

The Stockholm Syndrome is a coping mechanism for those in abusive situations causing the victim to justify and/or develop positive feelings towards the abuser. Something many battered wives do.

Women, trapped inside a patriarchal culture, are being treated as hostages. Could I therefore assume that the women who voted for Trump are victims of the Stockholm Syndrome?

Toni O

Today is my mom’s birthday. She would have been 92.

My mom was a single parent during a time when being a single mom was a major struggle. Nevertheless, my mom made sure I had three daily meals, a bed with clean sheets, and the nicest dresses possible to wear to school. Considering the gender pay gap and the stigma of being a divorcée, my mom performed miracles.

I owe it to my mom and to all the other single moms who had to fight to survive in This Woman Hating Patriarchy to keep the fight going so their struggles will not have been in vain. And I will use this blog to do so.

Ladies, Trump & Co. have created a gender war. They feel that, as men, it’s their right to push women around. The loudest of the clan are the incels, short for involuntary celibacy. Unable to attract women on their own, these sfigati, now that Trump is president, are blatantly telling women “Your body, my choice.” Ladies, this is rape mentality and we should be scared especially if we have daughters.

The biggest incel rooster seems to be a boy named Nick who immediately got on Twitter after the elections and wrote “I’d just like to take the opportunity to thank men for saving this country from stupid bitches who wanted to destroy the world to keep abortion.”

We should not be surprised if the number of rapes and femicides increases. Is this what the women who voted for Trump really wanted?