There is a rivalry between St. Paul and Minneapolis and a perverse love of destructive forces. Minnesota gets snow, rainstorms, tornadoes, and floods, and while we’re openly compassionate about those who’ve lost their homes, possessions, or loved ones we love seeing the raw power of man and nature.
An earthquake deep in the ocean can create a tsunami that destroys a nation. Three such earthquakes were born between 1934 – 1948 in the Twin Cities.
Millett – Patriarchy and Gender Theory
Kate Millett, the promulgator of Patriarchy Theory and Gender as a Social Construct, was born September 14, 1934. I’ve written plenty about her, her sister Mallory has written in-depth about Kate’s mental illness, dark moods, malevolent sadistic depravity, and histrionics.
She was the granddaughter of elite privilege, her grandfather, P.H. Feely ran the oldest independently owned grain elevator, P.H. Feely and Son, which was in the family for over a hundred years. This was a highly lucrative business and the source of much resentment for Kate.
Millett attended St. Paul Catholic Girls Schools at roughly the same time as my eldest aunt. I’ve long suspected some kind of mass hysteria took place. Many Catholic women I’ve spoken to from that era have remarked upon it. She was raised in the very fashionable Summit Ave. neighborhood, attended the University of Minnesota where she allegedly feigned poverty to avoid paying tuition or sorority dues.
Her aunt, Dorothy, lived in the Summit Ave. mansion of railroad baron James J. Hill paid for Millett to attend Oxford where she wrote Sexual Politics as a doctoral dissertation.
James J. Hill House photo courtesy Visit St. Paul in its article about Millett’s neighborhood.
Her book Sexual Politics was a best seller and foundational to second-wave Feminism. It basically scapegoats men as controllers of society and rapists and murderers of Women. She also wrote books about her sister’s locking her up for mental illness, a Woman who raped and tortured a girl who she’d locked in a basement, a treatise on government torture, and her own fascination with the death of her mother whom she openly fantasized about murdering.
Her funeral is among the most bizarre things I’ve ever seen. Yoko Ono speaks and giggles about how the working-class men of England enslave, beat and murder their wives for not staying pregnant and upper-class women who just disappear without notice as if this is fact.
This is followed by a parade of the most powerful, successful, privileged Women in the history of the species thanking Kate Millett for enlightening them of their oppression at the hands of such working-class men.
MacKinnon – Sexual Harassment, Sex trafficking, and Porn
Catharine MacKinnon was the daughter of Republican George Edward MacKinnon who was described as “so far right he makes Goldwater look like George McGovern”. George Mackinnon was a MN congressman before Catharine was born, a US Congressman when she was a little girl, A US Attorney when she was in High School, appointed by Richard Nixon to be US Appeals Judge when she was in college.
On the surface, one might think the conservative daughter, a radical feminist might have little in common. In fact, she couched many conservative views including prostitution, sex trafficking, rape, pornography and sexual harassment
Catharine, a third-generation Smith graduate with a J.D. and Political science PhD. from Yale sued Yale (Alexander v. Yale) in the first Title IX case for sexual harassment in charges of sexual harassment against an educational institution.
This novel case was a reflection of Judge MacKinnon’s position (Barnes v. Costle 1977), in which a Democrat-appointed Govt. official had proposed sex to an underling in exchange for a government promotion.
Judge MacKinnon held that sexual harassment could be considered a form of sex discrimination.
In the Yale student case, District Court upheld their legal argument, ruling that, “It is perfectly reasonable to maintain that academic advancement conditioned upon submission to sexual demands constitutes sex discrimination in education.”
Plaintiffs, Ronni Alexander, Margery Reifler, Pamela Price, Lisa E. Stone, and Ann Olivarius alleged they were offered better grades in exchange for sex.
Catharine and the students set the precedent that launched an industry; they actually lost the case and may have been predicated on false allegations. The Court found that Price had not been sexually propositioned in exchange for better grades. It dismissed the other plaintiffs’ allegations as either moot because they had graduated, or untenable.
Ann Olivarius makes her living as an attorney in similar cases.
Upon returning to Minneapolis, Catherine MacKinnon began a long partnership with visiting U of M professor Andrea Dworkin. The two penned the Anti-Pornography Civil Rights Act which spread across the English-speaking world before being struck down in Canada as unconstitutional.
MacKinnon is the author of over a dozen books, including Sexual Harassment of Working Women (1979);[4] Feminism Unmodified (1987), described as “one of the most widely cited books on law in the English language”;[5] Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989); Only Words (1993); a casebook, Sex Equality (2001 and 2007); Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws (2005); and Butterfly Politics (2017).
Ellen Pence
April 15, 1948, Marxist Feminist, graphics designer and Praxis International Executive Director graced us with her presence in this world. Upon graduating from high school, Pence moved to Duluth to attend a private Benedictine College.
There, she learned all about feminism and worked with a battered Women’s program, and decided the solution to the complex problem of Domestic violence was best solved by gathering the “lived experience” of Women and creating a tidy graphic model.
The highly prejudicial Duluth Model is based on Kate Millett’s Patriarchy Theory and Catharine MacKinnon’s legal theories.
Praxis International uses an intergovernmental agency collaboration model used in all 50 states in the U.S. and over 17 countries to create laws and train law enforcement that all men are guilty of oppressing using a “spectrum of violence” while assuming Women, do not falsely accuse, have a mental illness, drug addiction and are only violent in self-defense.
These three women have destroyed more families, careers, and lives than every hurricane or tsunami of the last century combined. Their influence on the Bipartisan, Bicameral Minnesota Believe All Women for Cash and Prizes Act will bring that higher than both world wars combined.
Many Minnesota feminists will revel in hearing of that kind of power.
