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The News They Didn't Report
BY IRENE STUBER
 The great new media for our brave new world really showed its tail in its
"coverage" of the U.N. Women's Conference in Beijing.
Instead of writing about the conference, it published all the
bad things that go on in China as if the reporters were teenage boys just
discovering sex. All the things they did report on were happening
last year were they just trying to bury the real news of the conference?
They wrote about the anti-freedom-for-women patriarchal
religions, as if they constitute the moral high ground instead of being
the prime advocates of women's subservience to the male master's comfort.
They wrote about bus schedules and visas. The media even
dutifully repeated rumors that Non-Governmental women would march naked.
What they weren't writing about was what was actually going on
at the conferences. What the platform was trying to do: find ways to solve
the myriad social and legal ills that have reduced and kept most women of
the world in a state of poverty, sexual and reproductive slavery, and in
such general wretchedness that it cannot be discussed on "family"
television or printed in "family" newspapers, church bulletins and
magazines.
The analysts also missed what may well be the greatest boon of
the conferences. The big news in Beijing is the networking that has
developed among the thousands of women who met and saw the same gleam in
each other's eyes and have the same commitment to the betterment of their
sisters.
They are women leaders from the grassroots level to
heads-of-state to U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton getting to know
each other.
Can you imagine the absolute power surge that hit every woman
delegate when she saw that she was part of a powerful group of women from
every continent, of every nationality, of every race, of every hue and
size and age?
Do you honestly think that she is not coming home to spread
the word that regardless of what the patriarchal media and the
patriarchal-sanctioned governments and religions say the fact is, boys,
"The sisterhood is alive and well and strong and getting stronger!"
Yet, what may well be the most lasting result of this
conference won't be the platform although it is the glue that holds ideas
in one place. The most lasting result will be that most of these powerful
women are, or will soon be, Internet-computerized.
After the last learned analysis of the conference is chewed
over by the guys in suits and their pronouncements resemble the balloons
of a party that have softened and collapsed, the strong, powerful women
and friends will still be talking, planning and plotting and remembering
how the patriarchal-controlled United Nations, with the full approval of
then-President George Bush, assigned the women's conference to one of the
most oppressive nations on earth, with a history of murdering billions of
babies whose crime was to be born female.
The patriarchy has long recognized the gawd-awful danger/power
of women being able to communicate with each other away from the
ever-vigilant eye of their masters. That is why men (and
men-controlled-women) fight attempts by women to network on cyberspace.
Look at the way every women's net is invaded by male venom. (Those with
weak stomachs shouldn't even think about reading my mail!)
But Internet-women stubbornly work around these hate messages
and keep networking, growing stronger and exchanging more and more vital
information.
We regularly In-talk to women (and great, strong men) in
Australia, Russia, South Africa, Germany, England, Canada as well as every
corner and niche of the United States. Yes, the lasting result of the
women's conference in China is that millions of women will be networked.
It is ironic that China should be the scene of the largest
birth in history: the baby being worldwide feminist communication.
From Catt's Claw
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