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BOOK REVIEW
WOMEN WHO MAKE THE WORLD WORSE
By Kate O’Beirne
Washington Editor of
National Review Magazine
Published By Sentinel, $18.50

Kate O’Beirne has written a lively book about feminism with the deliciously appropriate title, “Women Who Make the World Worse”. Her sharp mind, sparkling wit and insights pinpoint the lack of logic and many contradictions in the feminist agenda. She points out that the feminist movement is totalitarian in its methods, radical in its aims, and dishonest in its advocacy. She states that feminists employ coercion through the courts to enforce their unpopular agenda, such as abortion and gender quotas because their militant agenda is not supported by the general public.

In her book, Kate O’Beirne discusses how radical feminists have weakened the family and made fathers disposable items. The well being of children never takes precedence over the desires of feminists. The latter ignore the benefits of marriage, such as better health, higher satisfaction with life, financial stability and greater sexual satisfaction – all of which are verifiable facts.

Kate O’Beirne is at her best when discussing women serving in combat roles in the military. She agrees that women do admirable service in non-combat positions, thereby freeing men to be on the front lines, but she believes they should not serve in combat positions. She states on page 113:

Feminists knew that winning the ‘right’ for women to kill and be killed beside men would be a triumph over far more than women’s limited career options. It would be a successful challenge to masculinity and the male imperative to protect the weaker sex. The aim is to deny that a soldier’s attributes of physical courage, aggression, and risk-taking are quintessential male traits.

She goes on to make the point that in the name of phony equality, women are being asked to serve in combat duty when they do not have an equal chance to survive. She gives as an example, U.S. Private Jessica Lynch, who, before being rescued by the U.S. military, was continuously raped by her captors:

… the right arm was shattered between her shoulder and her elbow, and the compound fracture shoved slivers of bone through muscles, nerves and skin, leaving her right hand all but useless. Her spine was fractured in two places, causing nerve damage that left her unable to control her kidneys or bowels. Her right foot was crushed. Her left leg had broken into pieces above and below the knee…and left her without feeling in that limb.

The medical records of Private Lynch do not indicate whether she was sexually assaulted before or after sustaining her grave injuries, but Newsweek reported that U.S. military intelligence officers believe Lynch’s injuries were inflicted after she and other survivors surrendered. Three sources claimed she was standing, with minor injuries, when she surrendered. An Iraqi surgeon explained, “Her injuries appeared to have been inflicted by a severe beating, probably with rifle butts.”

The media celebratory coverage of this teenager’s rescue delicately avoided what she must have endured. According to Kate, it is typical that:

Snapshots of sanitized yellow-ribbon moments reassure the public – and hide the reality of violence against America’s daughters.

Feminists imply that women serving in combat are merely carrying out work that is an extension of working outside the home. Of the 213,059 women in the U.S. military on active service over 24,000 are single mothers and there are 29,000 married women with children, and it is the children who are casualties of war. According to Kate O’Beirne, the military is increasingly a mecca for single parents since it provides a tempting safety net of benefits, including health care and housing. As a result, a significant number of deployed parents are leaving behind children who pay a heavy price when their mothers or fathers are called to active duty abroad.

Kate points out that although feminists maintain there are no differences between the sexes in the military, they believe women in the workplace are frail creatures with special vulnerabilities that are particularly affected by coarse behaviour. Any sexual overture in the workplace, according to feminists, is a cause for alarm and leads to rape that requires strict sexual harassment laws.

In short, the feminist position on integrating combat ranks puts feminists in the position of saying violence against women is a terrible thing unless it is at the hands of the enemy, in which case it is a welcome tribute to women’s equality.

Kate O’Beirne’s book includes a chapter on day care in which she points out that feminists and their sister child care operators (an industry worth $36 billion U.S. per year) engage in deceit and censorship to prevent an honest assessment of what a decade of research tells us about the effect of substitute care on children. She states that, “consistent research findings show child care is physically and emotionally harmful to children, but few experts are brave enough to risk the wrath of feminists and the day care establishment”. According to Kate, “feminist intimidation has created plenty of cowards”.

Kate calls abortion the feminist “holy grail” and says modern feminism’s biggest enemies are the smallest humans. She asserts that feminist fundamentalism believes that they cannot win the battle of the sexes unless women make war on these tiniest of human beings. Yet, according to Kate, a 2003 poll commissioned by the feminist Center for the Advancement of Women found that 51 percent of women felt that abortion should be available only in cases of rape or incest or to save the life of the mother. Only 30% support the feminist position.

In the chapter entitled “Mother Nature is a Bitch”, Kate O’Beirne points out that the very real differences between men and women have nothing to do with cultural “conditioning”, as asserted by feminists, as Mother Nature apparently hasn’t read the feminist script. According to Kate, the differences between men and women occur to assist mankind, not hinder the feminist agenda. For example, women’s nurturing ability and men’s testosterone, making them assertive and protective, are all characteristics necessary for the survival of society. As stated by Kate, “All of these women who make the world worse by waging a destructive war between the sexes are at war with Mother Nature.”

Kate O’Beirne’s book analyses the weird world of feminism. It’s a great read!

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