If you missed the workshops, discussions, and spontaneous
guitar circles of last month’s National Women’s Encounter in Argentina, you
missed out on some real pro-abortion positivity and women’s empowerment. Among the
issues tackled at this feminist Mecca last
year were the legalization of abortion and problems of gender violence; this
year, however, the participants apparently decided to focus on waging some gender
violence of their own.
A
glowing writeup in The Argentina
Independent explains that the annual Encounter brings together thousands of
feminists from Argentina and elsewhere in South America (the Independent estimates 25,000 in
attendance in 2012). The event is “based on a premise of democracy and
horizontal organization, [whose] aim is to provide a pluralist space to debate
issues specific to women and the feminist movement.” These issues include human
trafficking, domestic violence, and – unsurprisingly, somehow – “the defense of
the rights of the earth.” It’s unclear how the latter qualifies as a woman’s
issue, but the earth’s rights are apparently more valued than those of the
human unborn, who probably don’t even get mentioned, much less defended, in all
the Encounter’s “pluralist” debates.
Just to clarify: “horizontal organization” is essentially a
euphemism for “mob,” which explains why these radicals are so fond of the concept
(and of euphemisms). It deemphasizes such qualities as leadership and personal
responsibility while empowering anarchic criminals like the Occupy Wall Street
movement to run rampant. And besides, “vertical organizations” are so
patriarchal and obsolete, like men themselves.
Each year the Encounter takes place in a different city;
this November the city of San Juan was the unlucky winner. Knowing that this
event tends to end in vandalism and graffiti, and having received threats of such
against the Cathedral of San Juan
Bautista, as many as 1500 rosary-praying Catholic men formed a human
shield to peacefully protect it (700 more people of both sexes were inside,
praying with their bishop). The men found themselves beset
by a raging, Christian-hating, “horizontal organization” from the National Women’s
Encounter that reportedly numbered
about 7000.
If you want to see the true face of hateful bigotry, you
would be hard-pressed to find a better current example than this disturbing video footage of radical feminists savagely
attacking and even sexually molesting the cathedral’s peaceful guardians. The
women, many of them topless, descended like a pack of rabid animals (and if you
think that is an offensive comparison, check out the video and judge for
yourself whether these women deserve more respect). They spray-painted the
men’s crotches and eyes, painting swastikas on their chests and foreheads and Hitler
moustaches on their faces. They performed obscene sexual acts in front of them and
pushed their breasts into the men’s faces, all the while shouting “get your
rosaries out of our ovaries,” a catchy slogan for which the subtext is “We
demand the right to murder our own children.” Reports from young Catholics present at the cathedral
gave the impression that it was a “satanic attack” with “demonic figures.”
During the attack some men were driven to tears. Amazingly,
none of them retaliated against these vile abuses. The police who were present
reportedly told the media that they were unable to intervene because “they are
women.” That’s debatable.
After unsuccessfully trying to get into the building, the
women burned a life-sized effigy of Pope Francis. “If the pope were a woman,
abortion would be legal,” they shouted. The parish priest Fr. Rómulo Campora
said that “the burning of the image of Pope Francis is an offense, not just to
the Church but to every Argentinean because the pope is Argentinean.”
Praising the men who defended the church, Campora said: “San
Juan loves its God, loves its faith, loves its family.” He lamented the
damage done to the cathedral and concluded that “if they don’t respect life, we
can’t expect them to respect the buildings.” While the site of the protest
was the front of the cathedral, InfoBae reports that “the whole city awoke to
graffiti in favor of abortion.”
According to the pro-life site ArgentinosAlerta.org, the cathedrals of Bariloche, Paraná and
Posadas have also been attacked by these radicals in past protests. “These
encounters of women represent today’s civilization that seeks to impose its own
rules,” reads the site. “On one side, they try to impose political agenda
that international organizations dictate: population control, abortion,
contraception, homosexualism [sic]. On the other side, they become barbaric in
the most literal sense.” Just as the video demonstrates.
This insanity isn’t limited to hot-blooded South Americans. Remember
that in our very own Texas last year, during the debate over a law banning
abortion after 20 weeks, pro-abortion protestors chanted “Hail Satan!” while
police confiscated jars of urine and feces that the feminists had intended to hurl
at pro-life supporters. And yet it is the Tea Partiers – who don’t even litter,
much less commit crimes, and who seek to protect the lives of the unborn – who
are considered dangerous and intolerant.
Here is a topic suggestion
for next year’s National Women’s Encounter: perhaps someone in their horizontal
organization could explain how they reconcile their feminist solidarity with the
gender violence they commit against the female half of the future population they
are so casual about aborting.
(This article originally appeared here on FrontPage Mag, 12/12/13)
