Having adopted the tactics of Communist regimes, well-known for fake propaganda, retouched photos and outright lies, feminists and their progressive allies have been caught slipping misleading photos into history books in an effort to portray women as heroic in the face of battle and mayhem.
The above photo, suitably multicultural with a touch of the lesbian aesthetic, is an example of how feminists like to see themselves: taking charge, wearing work clothes, bravely looking forward and up, and straining together with her sisters, turgid, gushing hose in hand. Supposedly, the girls were fighting fires set off by Japanese bombs, braving enemy attacks in a stalwart effort to stanch the fires of imperialist aggression.
However, it seems the photo was simply taken at a training exercise, and had nothing to do with the attack on Pearl Harbor. The women were workers at a pineapple factory, and they were training with equipment in case of a warehouse fire.
If you rub off the feminist sheen and look at the picture for what it is, it’s actually a pretty good photo. Just a few Hawaiian girls on the job, perhaps having a bit of fun (The hefty one on the right – Hilda Van Gieson – may be having a little too much fun), doing some routine training in case they have to cover for young men sent off to war.
Turns out one of the girls in the photo, Katherine Lowe, is still alive. She’s the second from right in the photo, and looks to be enjoying herself. According to Katherine, who is now 96 years old, the girls were having a good time, and horsed around while practicing, sometimes spraying each other with the hoses. Mrs. Lowe insists that she was not fighting fires at Pearl Harbor, but rather attending a church service when the attack happened.
Many will probably say it was simply a mistake, but there is a pattern here, and mistakes don’t happen nearly as consistently as feminists lie. In fact, feminists have relied on lies from the beginning. Famous feminist/Marxist anthropologist Margaret Meade, for example, told countless whoppers about the poor, simple Pacific islanders who had the misfortune to host her. After she was done with these defenseless people, the world thought they behaved like bonobo chimpanzees.
After one has been exposed to enough of these lies they are easy enough to identify, but the problem is that they are often inserted into textbooks specifically to influence young, impressionable minds. My generation in particular (those of us born in the 1970s) was subject to an immense amount of false propaganda about absolute gender equality, and as I look around at the women my age the unfortunate results are obvious: the weaker minded sorts ended up as single mothers, while the more competent ones took on a masculine lifestyle and are often childless careerists.
Misleading children in an attempt to advance one’s political cause is questionable at best, and has the potential to do long-term damage. These are not white lies, but rather have consequences, and those who perpetuate them are doing us all a disservice.
