Acclaimed activist Gloria Steinem leads a panel discussing the fight against human trafficking, sexual exploitation, and violence against women and girls. Joining her will be Taina Bien-Aime, Executive Director of Equality Now; Dorchen Leidholdt, Director of the Center for Battered Women’s Legal Services at Sanctuary for Families; and Rachel Lloyd, Executive Director of GEMS. This panel discussion took place at the Brooklyn Museum on December 13, 2008. Video courtesy of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation.
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@xxdiogenescynicxx So we regulate and heavily tax prostitution, making it a much less profitable business to be in, and use the money to educate women about the importance of choosing non-sex work related professions to achieve maximum life satisfaction, and for the greater good of society, including, the importance of not being a lazy gold digger, or useless housewhore. I heard the latest US census lumped housewife into the same category as beggar and prostitute – which is totally on the money!
@tom181071 Lol, housewife the same as a prostitute, yeah that is pretty funny. A woman who cares for her children, cleans the home, cooks meal, does all the grocery shopping yeah that is a the same as a prostitute sounds pretty damn stupid to me. As for prostitution it shouldn’t even be illegal.
Correction: It was the Indian census. None of that stuff you’ve listed counts as real work, which is why women insist so vehemently that it is THEIR work. If it is work, then why do women gatekeep it all so aggressively? Because they know it is far more emotionally rewarding than working for a boss in a faceless corporation just to meet some profit margin, wheras caring for the house you live in, and the children who are your off-spring, brings far more satisfaction – so no, NOT work dear.
@tom181071 You sound as bad as these bitter misandrist neofeminists. So what exactly turned you into a raving misogynist? Why do men think it is a good idea to combat loonies like these women and their agenda with equally reprehensible ideologies? If you don’t think raising children, cleaning the home, etc. is work then you obviously have a few screws loose lol. Also, if it is more emotionally rewarding then why don’t more men do it?
@xxdiogenescynicxx because legal and cultural structures are set up to encourage women to do it, and because women tend to get their way in marriages. Women tell men to leave the house, and they can do this verbally, but also non-verbally, it has been found. Research shows more men say they would like to stay home more, than women say they would like men to stay home. Also, women will say one thing, but behave in a different way, like saying they don’t go for rich men, whilst going for rich men
@tom181071 I think it is beyond legal and cultural structures, it is ingrained in our DNA. I don’t think there is anything wrong with a women looking for someone who can provide just as I don’t see anything wrong with a man looking for an attractive woman to pass on good genetics. It is interesting that men will chastise women for wanting a good provider but it is okay for men to value a woman for her beauty.
Any time you hear a victim-feminist claiming that some gender dynamic or other is natural, then you can be absolutely certain they are attempting to gatekeep a female privilege. Men desiring women’s beauty has nothing to do with women desiring men’s money. You are conflating aesthetic desire, with the prostitution ethic. Women desire men for their beauty too. Unfortunately the culture (including you) encourages women to be whores, by placating their gold digging ways, with such lame excuses.
@tom181071 No I think we are genetically hard wired to desire a protector and part of that is economic. Now obviously money shouldn’t be the sole reason a women goes after a guy but it is and always will be a factor. This has nothing to do with the current culture and everything to do with evolution. Maybe I should tell men that they should date fat ugly women with warts all over there faces and stop being so shallow by going after thin attractive women lol.
@xxdiogenescynicxx The trouble is, women know, that when they find one of these provider-type men, they can look forward to orgasm after fake orgasm, It’s nature’s way of saying ‘Get as job, you whore!’ Close your eyes (if female) and imagine some slavish sap in a tie, handing you the keys to a new Volvo. It leaves the old vulva stone cold. Also, new research shows lower IQ women are bigger gold diggers than higher IQ women, and that gold digging is a strategy – for the stupid! Understand?
@tom181071 Lol you are really funny you know that. I mean really an anti-feminist who wants the woman to get a job. Aren’t those women taking jobs from the men?
I’m not anti-feminist (Where did you get that idea?) I’m anti VICTIM-feminist, and I personally maintain there is a difference. I realize there is a concerted effort by feministing et al, to redifine feminism as the insistence that women are the oppressed sex, but real feminism has always really been about women realizing the equal opportunities they now have, and getting on with it. I’m all for women taking jobs from men, who do too much work as it is. Women are too often the redundant sex.
@tom181071 Well I am anti-feminist, and I think that if a women is raising children she shouldn’t be working at the same time. Sorry I think mothers raise children better then daycare centers or the child’s grandparents.
@xxdiogenescynicxx I agree with you totally. Most women have no idea of the feminist movement and who formed it and why. The main purpose is not the equality of women but to separate the woman from the child so the government can form the child into the manner they want. Unfortunately every woman that formed the original feminist movement were Ashkenazim JEWS.
I wonder how many of these women and children end up being cult sacrifices. My research shows that this is still ongoing world wide.
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I was interested in hearing Gloria speak about the spiritual war on women and men. I feel its possibly the most powerful area to pursue, which will have most impact politically, culturally and through-out the global society. What is going on with human beings focused on the base chakra, indoctrinated from birth by media and society that insanity in culture is acceptable. Its a much deeper issue than the visable symptoms.
GO FEMINISTAS!
this stuff is interesting. @0:58:55 disturbing.
I don’t think I would call this Feminist. I’d just call it Humanist. It should be something all people should care about.
This is not Feminist at all.
Elizbeth Sackler’s family fortune comes from addicting the world on Valium, a drug that makes people complacent when they should be angry … about such things as tyrannical government.
Gloria Steinem has been a CIA agent since her undergraduate days. In college she pretended to be a campus radical in order to spy on classmates at political meetings. CIA funded Ms. Magazine.
CIA now plants disinformation highlighting “atrocities committed against women” to justify US imperialist invasions.
A lot of the immigration problem is unwilling. I’m glad she said that. Everyone should keep that in mind. It’s a big part of our economic problems. It’s not just sex trafficking, it’s labor trafficking as well.
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She is so pompous and arrogant. If that bitch could bend-over and kiss her own ass, she would never leave the house. Somebody give that twat a slap!
What is really amusing is that the feminist movement, in particular the sexual revolution, was responsible for reducing women to nothing more than cheap whores. Steineim advocated that women tear down traditional sex roles for women. Resulting in women turning their backs on traditional families. There are more women in porn, work at massage parlors, strippers etc. Now than ever. Now, the bitch who started the whole thing is trying to stop it – scam.