It Only Takes One Girl to Change the World
November 5, 2010
MARKUS writes:
I don’t have a TV, but as of last year I started watching the odd hockey game over the Internet, which provides live feeds through Canada’s government-sponsored network, the CBC. Throughout the Stanley Cup playoffs, and continuing into this season, viewers have been treated frequently to this bit of propaganda (see link to commercial):
The ad is by Plan International, an organization that used to be kown as Foster Parents Plan International. Seems their name has gotten shorter even as their, uh, mission is expanding.
Laura writes:
Amazing. Men around the world are stealing food from the mouths of women. And see this other video that is part of this campaign, which states that women are “always last and without hope.” It blatantly misrepresents the poverty of women relative to men. The idea of separating the economic welfare of women from that of men is based on unworkable assumptions. Even in modern, individualistic countries such as ours, the economic status of women is so interrelated with that of men that it is impossible to view them separately. But in places where many women have no or very little monetary income of their own, it is especially false to consider their income as separate from that of the men who support them and own property which they essentially share.
The international movement to spread feminism to all parts of the world and destroy traditional sex roles wherever they exist is well-funded, continually advanced by the United Nations and pseudo-charitable organizations. This ad is one more horrific and outrageous example of how society cannot be egalitarian. It’s just not possible, partly because of the natural limitations of the human imagination. Men and women are by nature so different. Society is forced to promote the advancement of one sex first. It can no sooner equally promote the achievement of men and women than it could equally promote universal vegetarianism and universal meat-consumption. All the leading cultural forces now promote women first and continually boost the confidence and achievement of women. This means matriarchy. And matriarchal societies as we can see today do not function as well as patriarchal societies.
Doesn’t everything in a woman’s nature cry out against this blatant egotism? It should. “I am a girl… and so I will rule the world.” Women should instinctively rebel against this. They should cringe at the lie that women like to be selfish.
Markus responds:
Well said. I should note that I made a mistake in my initial comment: the ad is not by Plan International, but Plan Canada, though I would assume that other arms of this organization have similar campaigns. In any case, it reflects the value system of the international left.
I was struck by a few things in the commercial, notably:
1) The transparent dishonesty. Example: “It only takes one girl to change the world.” It’s one thing to give someone hope that they can accomplish something commendable and reasonable — like saying it takes one individual to make a difference in their community. But change the world? Any girl who changes the world will do so only with the backing of a huge network run by people who only see her as a prop, and which has been designed to steer her into a role that will be way over her head. (And should we really be telling young people their mission in life ought to be to “change the world” anyway?)
2) The whininess: “And yet, because I am a girl … I will pull my family out of poverty — if you give me the chance.” Here here, let’s give her a chance, shall we? Stop standing in the way of progress, you troglodytes! Honey, where’s my chequebook?
It’s interesting: Canada is definitely a more liberal country than the U.S., but not THAT much more liberal. And here we have the CBC — an organization like your NPR — that is very much outside the mainstream, relentlessly seeking to pull us ever leftward. And again, like NPR, the CBC is for the most part a network that could never support itself without taxpayer subsidies. But there is one exception to this general rule: hockey. The network’s biggest audience by far comes on Saturday nights, during what is known as Hockey Night in Canada. You’d think the knuckle-dragging patriarchal brutes from Newfoundland to Vancouver watching this stuff would at least object? Nah! Why waste their breath. Very few of the male hockey fans could verbalize all that is wrong with the commercial, because they don’t understand the falsity of its premises. They too are liberal, though with some residual manliness in a lot of cases. They probably watch this, roll their eyes, and think, man what a bunch of whiners, go get a beer, and come back for the next faceoff.
It’s all bread and circuses … till their own daughters start peddling this nonsense. Which they most likely will.
