"Know Your Place!": Misogyny and Racism

When Dr. Henry Morgentaler died on Wednesday at the age of 90, we expected him to be vilified by the usual suspects. Among those who attacked his legacy were boneheads. Most comments made were pretty nasty, as again we would have expected, but many included some variation of the following assertion:

Women are, in the view of boneheads like Winnicki, simply baby factories. That in a nutshell is all women are really worth to the men who predominate in the racist movement. They might try to soften their view of women by using euphemisms about supporting the traditional families and their desire to protect, "white women" from the coloured hordes eager to ravage them, but the reality is that women are only viewed as useful in their genetic potential and their ability to provide an incubator for the future white warriors who will fight, "the upcoming race war." But the woman herself? Her job is simply to bear children and keep her mouth shut.

The simple, and not so hidden secret, is this: as much as they hate people of colour and Jews, boneheads hate women almost as much.

This attitude isn't new. We could provide a number of historic examples of the white nationalist resentment and hatred of women. While a discussion of Hitler's views concerning the role of women in society might be an appropriate starting point, we're going to go back a little further in history.

Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, born Adolf Josef Lanz in 1874, founded the magazine "Ostara" in 1906. This publication combined elements of mysticism and the occult with strident German nationalism, antisemitism, and virulent racism. Two years earlier he had published a book in which the views which would soon find a wider circulation in "Ostara":

In 1904, he published his book Theozoologie ("Theozoology") in which he advocated sterilization of the sick and the "lower races" as well as forced labour for "castrated chandals", and glorified the "Aryan race" as "Gottmenschen" ("god-men"). Theozoology could also be classified as a work encompassing what has now come to be called cryptozoology. Lanz justified his neognostic racial ideology by attempting to give it a Biblical foundation; according to him, Eve, whom he described as initially being divine, involved herself with a demon and gave birth to the "lower races" in the process. Furthermore, he claimed that this led to blonde women being attracted primarily to "dark men", something that only could be stopped by "racial demixing" so that the "Aryan-Christian master humans" could "once again rule the dark-skinned beastmen" and ultimately achieve "divinity". 

In this we begin to see that his hatred was focused not only on non-whites and Jews, but was also directed at women who he blamed for the fall of the Gottmenschen:

Hamann, Brigitte. Hitler's Vienna: A Portrait of the Tyrant as a Young Man.
I.B.Tauris Publishers: London. 2010. pg. 219.

Sound familiar? In the following more recent missive, Paulie and co. comment on a Facebook group dealing with relationships between white women and black men:

UPDATE: Paulie provided an even more clear example on June 7, 2013:

This isn't even the most egregious example we could include, but it goes to show not a hell of a lot has changed in the course of 100 years. The woman as the weak and easily corruptible vessel. When boneheads talk about protecting "their women" they really mean controlling them.

Far fetched? Lanz continues:

Hamann, Brigitte. Hitler's Vienna: A Portrait of the Tyrant as a Young Man.
I.B.Tauris Publishers: London. 2010. pg. 218.

Again, this was over 100 years ago but it is echoed in the more modern writings of someone revered by most white supremacists. David Lane coined the tiresome "fourteen words" cliche, "we must secure the existence of our people and a future for White Children." However he also coined another fourteen words as well: "Because the beauty of the White Aryan woman must not perish from the earth."

Sounds like someone who really respects the women of the movement, eh? Perhaps you should be introduced to his novella "KD Rebel" then?

Without going into a lot of detail, the novella is, in essence, an extended rape fantasy. Written in 2004 a few years before Lane's death, the novella is set in a near future in which the men of the Wotanist colony of Kinsland venture into the cities outside the colony to kidnap women and girls involved in interracial relationships or who have been otherwise tainted by "zog." The women are then taken back to the colony, distributed among the men (who, fyi, are generally polygamous), and raped into submission. Those women who refuse the man they are assigned to are executed as are women deemed to sickly or unable to bare children.

We won't be providing a link to the novella, but it isn't hard to find if you have the stomach for it. But here is one review from a fan:

Yep, some of these people actually dream of things like this.

Now not all are as overtly this anti-women and some are smart enough to keep their views about the place of women in their little utopia a secret, but it really isn't hard to discern their true meaning:

On another post covering the same topic:

In the comments section, he lets his agenda slip:

Pulled out?

We weren't the only ones to catch that, by the way:

Ah, yes. "Freed."

It's always important to find the right euphemism.

Those women who have left the movement, and we are in contact with more than a few, have their own stories that could be told which validate our argument. And those women currently in the movement know we're right as well.

Perhaps these women too might reconsider their involvement in a movement that secretly despises them?