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Last night I called Harry Crouch at the National Coalition (NCFM.org) to tell him that Gloria Steinem, Catherine A. Mackinnon, and 130 Feminist and Domestic Violence organizations released an open letter in support of Amber Heard.
“You’ve got to be kidding me,” he said, which is particularly funny as Harry has heard everything and is never surprised about anything.
He really couldn’t tell if I was kidding. I decided to leave him in Satirical News Limbo (SNL), you know that temporary state where you can’t tell if a news headline is real or parody.
You’ve probably noticed it happening more and more frequently. He eventually did his own research and there it was.
By this morning, the letter had nearly 200 organizations and a growing list of signatories.
It’s not that it’s a bad letter, it’s full of things most women and men sympathetic to women would feel comfortable signing publicly.
It will just seem odd to some people that these prominent public people would lend their name to supporting Amber Heard.
(Letter Printed in total to avoid misrepresenting it)
There are some people who watched the trial who are currently trying to ignore the prominence of the signatories of this letter of support for Amber Heard.
These are not fly-by-night crazy people.
The National Organization of Women – NOW!, Ms. Magazine, Gloria Steinem, Catherine A. MacKinnon the most cited feminist author in history, and hundreds of other major organizations and public intellectuals.
This is the A-List. Millett, Steinem, and MacKinnon are well known in this blog to be well-funded and highly pervasive.
Feminist.org
Some people who watched the trial will be absolutely astonished that these prominent organizations are backing Amber Heard, who defamed Johnny Depp with false allegations.
To many, it strains credulity that seemingly reputable organizations would attach their names to a letter supporting a person who’s been publicly shamed.
To me, it’s perfectly brand-friendly.
Like the Teacher’s Unions, the Domestic Violence Industry has a tremendous amount of emotional pull on public opinion. They have a collective bond, a morally unassailable mission, they take care of their collective interests.
Advocating for their group’s interests and reducing public criticism.
They’re very good at both.
Unfortunately, being very good at both and being mostly women makes these organizations ripe for Woke takeover. Much of the Domestic Violence industry runs some version of intersectional feminism.
These aren’t necessarily the purple-haired gender ideologues you find around kids. These are very nice, professional, adult people, who really want to help women, “families,” and children.
However, general attitudes about men and their actions lend themselves to oppressor/oppressed narratives wielding state power.
You can teach these social “Good Guy” v. “Bad Guy” techniques to 3rd graders, and you can certainly teach and enforce these social techniques in groups of mostly women.
Woke takeover of those institutions can cause these organizations to produce great societal harm because they wield state power and resources in an imaginary Amber Heard Universe.
Woke takeover also reduces the output of organizational services as the core mission is gradually diluted with ever-increasing demands for the organization to be a social justice provider.
This is bad news for men and children, and eventually becomes bad news for women when their men and children are disrupted by well-meaning ideologues who are entrapped in intersectional groupthink echo chambers of state power.
These echo chambers also exist in nearly every corporate HR and College Admissions department and are likely, slowly, undermining your organization.
I would expect support for this letter to continue to grow over time. I wouldn’t be surprised to see 500 signatories or more in the future.
Would you be surprised if this list grew to 500 prominent signatories?
Why or why not?
If you were afraid of a Red Wave in the midterms or were expecting one to happen, you’re probably underestimating the prevalence of the woke pseudo-reality in our society.
To those living in the woke pseudo-reality, Amber Heard must be the victim, at all costs, and Johnny Depp must be the perpetrator.
More and more people are beginning to realize Johnny can play any role he wants.
