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"Experts at the conference said there have been pockets of progress in some countries, with more education for girls, more opportunities to work outside the home, loan programs aimed at helping women set up businesses, and legislation designed to protect them from violence."
Now, this is all well and good... but.... how does this stop the spread of aids? Now last time I checked owning your own buisness was not a cure for aids, same thing for working out of the home. Now perhaps the journalist was talking about a different conferece, other than the HIV one, and perhaps the programs done to enact these changes didn't use HIV/Aids funding. If it does, I think the journalist should have focused on how feminists are hijacking well meaning health funding for other uses.
I think that they should fight AIDs/HIV with the best methods not, hey, this could have an effect and it empowers women. Leave society change for when millions are not being orhpaned by the disease, then they can go in and try and improve education and womens plight. If they wish to do that before hand, they could seek out funds from other sources.
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One of the not too-well publicized discoveries that has come out of worldwide AIDS research has to do with hidden "vectors of transmission."
The earliest of the research was done in Brazil, where researchers couldn't make sense of why the female and male "heterosexual" populations were the biggest sectors of new infections of HIV.
Turns out, a lot of macho Brazilian men who described themselves as hetero were in fact also engaging in homosexual activities.
In other words, self-description did not jive with actual sexual behaviors.
These findings have since been replicated in Africa, Asia, and Latin American nations.
So, effective AIDS prevention strategies run right up against a society's varying gender practices - public and secret - in ways that get pretty complicated.
"It's a terrible thing ... living in fear."
- Roy: hunted replicant, Blade Runner
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"Condoms are the cornerstone of prevention strategies, but are proving an unrealistic option for many women, who often don't have the power to insist their lovers wear them."
Bull. All a woman has to do is say no. Sorry, you don't wear a condom, you don't get sex. It has little to do with power. I doubt all these women who have aids were raped, and if rape is an issue then the women need to stick together in groups. Avoid the whole thing altogether.
I also love how they state that little under half the world aids cases are women...ie more are men...but focus in on a small area where women are the majority, and only discuss how women are affected. I have learned that being liberated is not the key to happiness. It is a pandoras box. Perhaps western culture should work on our own problems rather than making other countries worse than they are now.
Darwin was a very intelligent man.
The Biscuit Queen
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by Anonymous User on 06:39 PM July 20th, 2004 EST (#4)
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This is one of the most biased articles I've seen reported in a while. Clearly, this reporter is saying that if the radical feminist agenda (like the one at the U.N.) is just implemented more, then women will have less AIDS. How can that be, since one of the things that they are pushing is reproductive freedom in the form of more abortions, more birth control, not punishing women who are prostitutes. Generally promoting behavior that encourages sexual activity (freer sex) during an AIDS pandemic doesn't strike me as a particularly effective way to go about abating the problem. I think pushing the political agenda of radical feminists instead of concentrating on the social, cultural, religious, human, and other factors contributing to AIDS is actually contributing to the spread of AIDS. An effective unbiased program would try to work with the causes of the pandemic, instead of just using the radical feminist agenda as a fix all.
There may be some items on the feminist agenda (condoms) that helps people, but if the bigotry in their AIDS policy is anything like the bigotry with which they do other things, then I pity the poor people who have to contend with these fools (radical feminists) while trying to stop the pandemic plague of AIDS.
Sincerely, Ray
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by Anonymous User on 10:22 AM July 21st, 2004 EST (#5)
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For starters, feminism is actually anti-multiculturalism. Feminism would destroy the unique cultural fabrics of earths various societies that history has shaped. Feminists are not interested in culture; they are interested in power for women alone in areas that they perceive women as weaker than men.
What is happening in the case of this article is that money intended to fight HIV will be redirected into feminist indoctrination programs the world over. The following points were made:
Education for girls - what about impoverished boys?
More opportunities to work outside the home - break the family unit and create a dual income based society where labor is undervalued and the government will raise children.
loan programs aimed at helping women set up businesses - same as previous
and legislation designed to protect them from violence. - which is good in case of real violence. However the fascist laws related to DV in the US are based upon hysteria and men are jailed on accusation alone. DV policy is an attempt to instill fear in a target population - men, and not about treating the complex sociological problems that create violence.
Feminism is legally sanctioned sexism.
CJ
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by Anonymous User on 05:21 PM July 21st, 2004 EST (#6)
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The Boston Globe (I am sure other papers as well) reported on this HIV issue by publishing a front page article about how dirty older men in Africa spread the virus to younger women who are looking for financial security.
The message conveyed here, which is pure feminist agenda - is: men are killing women because women have no economic power.
This is how the feminist infrastructure disseminates information to the public, with lies, deceit and driven by a unified hate agenda that strives for power.
Men bad, women good. The will to power. Feminism. The Nazis were different in what way?
CJ
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