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N.C. Schools Employ Radical Lesbian Who Called Marriage ‘Slavery’ for Women

Posted on | May 24, 2015 | 123 Comments

By Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain on Twitter)

A pioneering lesbian activist who called heterosexuality “the ideology of male supremacy” and condemned marriage as “slavery” for women is now working as a math teacher in North Carolina.

 

As a graduate student in 1969, Margaret Small helped begin what became the Women’s Studies program at the State University of New York’s Buffalo campus and in 1972 co-taught a course called “Lesbianism 101” recognized as the first such class taught in the United States. Since 2009, Small has been employed as a K-12 Mathematics Curriculum Specialist for Buncombe County Schools in Asheville, N.C., according to her LinkedIn profile. However, in the 1970s, she was a member of a radical lesbian collective known as The Furies, co-founded by legendary feminist Charlotte Bunch. Small’s 1975 essay “Lesbians and the Class Position of Women” offered a Marxist interpretation of “lesbian consciousness” as part of a “revolutionary struggle” to end women’s “oppression” in the “relationship of slavery,” as she called marriage.

“Women’s oppression is based in the fact that she reproduces the species,” Small wrote in the essay, published in Lesbianism and the Women’s Movement, a book co-edited by Bunch and Nancy Myron. “The relationship of men to reproduction is defined by a single act of fucking at the moment of impregnation and ends at that point.”

Invoking the historical theories of Friedrich Engels (colleague of Karl Marx and co-author of the 1848 “Communist Manifesto”), Small declared: “Class society arose because of the oppression of women. . . . The exploitation of all women by all men made possible the exploitation of some men by other men. The more exploitative the relationship between men and women becomes, the stronger and more vital become the institutions of male supremacy.”

 

After getting her master’s degree from SUNY-Buffalo in 1973 Small “worked for 8 years as a machinist, first in a shipyard in San Diego and then at several manufacturing plants in Chicago,” before returning to school at the University of Illinois-Chicago, according to an online profile. She became a math teacher in Chicago public schools, got her PhD. and, in 2000, became “a founding Director of the Young Women’s Leadership Charter School of Chicago (YWLCS),” the only all-girls public school in Chicago. Small moved to North Carolina in 2009 and, in 2013, married her lesbian partner Peggy Baker. Also a former YWLCS teacher, Baker runs an education non-profit, EASL Institute, whose clients include schools in North Carolina, New York and Chicago.

Margaret Small’s pioneering work in the feminist movement has been recognized in numerous books, including Breaking the Wave: Women, Their Organizations, and Feminism, 1945-1985, edited by Kathleen Laughlin and Jacqueline Castledine (2010), and the Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements, by JoAnne Myers (2013). Her role in teaching the first lesbian university course (along with Madeline Davis) was cited as No. 10 on a list of “20 Notable College Moments in LGBT History” by Best Colleges Online.

Small’s 1975 essay condemning marriage and heterosexuality has been cited in such books as Separatism and Women’s Community by Dana Shugar and The Invention of Heterosexuality by Jonathan Katz. The essay was adapted from a speech Small gave to the Wasington, D.C., think tank Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) on behalf of The Furies.

“In terms of the oppression of women, heterosexuality is the ideology of male supremacy,” Small wrote. “In order for men to have a justification for exploiting women and an ability to enforce that exploitation, heterosexuality has to become, not merely an act in relation to impregnation, but the dominant ideology.”

Under male supremacy, Small asserted, women “become defined as appendages to men” in a system “which maintains the ideological power of men over women.” Small’s article (the full text of which is embedded below) declares: “Heterosexual hegemony insures that people think it natural that male and female form a life-long sexual/reproductive unit with the female belonging to the male.”

Lesbians, Small wrote, were crucial to “the development of revolutionary consciousness” because they are “outside of the reality which heterosexual ideology explains.” Heterosexuality would become “irrelevant” as alternatives to sexual reproduction were developed.

“Male supremacy is what is attacked in lesbian ideology,” Small wrote. “What we are doing in revolutionary struggle is to make our consciousnesses different. When enough people’s consciousnesses are different, then we make a revolution.”

The Furies collective, which Small represented in her speech at IPS, was formed by Bunch and others in 1971, and announced its revolutionary feminist goals in early 1972. Bunch’s manifesto, “Lesbians in Revolt,” is included in many university Women’s Studies textbooks and curricula. Bunch became a distinguished academic at Rutgers University and in 1999 was honored with the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights by President Bill Clinton. (Click here to see C-SPAN video of Hillary Clinton’s speech at the December 1999 ceremony.)

Lesbian Margaret Small 1975 by himself2462

 

John Hoge and Jeanette Runyon assisted in the research for this article, which is part of the Sex Trouble project that has been supported by contributions from readers. The first edition of Sex Trouble: Radical Feminism and the War on Human Nature is available from Amazon.com, $11.96 in paperback or $1.99 in Kindle ebook format.





 

 

Category: Education, Feminism, Gays, History, Marriage, North Carolina, Sex Trouble

Comments

123 Responses to “N.C. Schools Employ Radical Lesbian Who Called Marriage ‘Slavery’ for Women”

  1. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    May 25th, 2015 @ 12:27 pm

    So male same sex marriage is slavery squared?

  2. Michael Ryan
    May 25th, 2015 @ 12:50 pm

    Why in the world is any school district hiring anyone so old, whatever their politics?

  3. A_Nonny_Mouse
    May 25th, 2015 @ 1:00 pm

    I keep being struck by this nearly-universal “coincidence”: These man-hating, life-hating, Reality-denying, morally-warped moonbats seem to all look like a horse’s heinie.

    Hmm.

  4. Robert What?
    May 25th, 2015 @ 1:18 pm

    “Marriage is slavery for women.”

    Well, she’s half right.

  5. robertstacymccain
    May 25th, 2015 @ 1:38 pm

    Oh, they already do:

    “I Aborted My Baby — Because it was a Boy.”

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  7. Bumr50
    May 25th, 2015 @ 2:02 pm

    Union seniority rules?

  8. DeadMessenger
    May 25th, 2015 @ 3:35 pm

    What struck me was the “Lesbianism 101” course. In 1972, no less. We know that lots of people sin in lots of different ways. Sinners gonna sin, and this is just one of many types.

    But a class talking about it? What did they do in there, I wonder? (On second thought, I don’t want to know.)

    And so now the woman and her “partner” – these two poor, poor oppressed women – now oppress others with their tiresome feminist twaddle. I certainly feel oppressed.

    p.s. Good job on the research!

  9. DeadMessenger
    May 25th, 2015 @ 3:49 pm

    To your point, I just assumed that she’d worked her way up into this position by teaching in the classroom. But I suppose that assumption is not necessarily true.

    In a logical, reasonable world (shyeah), you would think that developing curriculum in a subject would necessarily mean that a person had a lot of experience in actually using curriculums and teaching in order to be able to judge whether a curriculum is actually good or bad.

    But then I remembered that we’re talking about government-run schools here.

  10. DeadMessenger
    May 25th, 2015 @ 4:00 pm

    I was just imagining a woman sending little cards to her friends announcing the date and time of her disimpregnation.

  11. DeadMessenger
    May 25th, 2015 @ 4:05 pm

    And yet there a lots of girls who were taught, and actually believe, that this is the case. And who were also taught to ignore obvious logical fallacy in favor of the narrative.

  12. DeadMessenger
    May 25th, 2015 @ 4:18 pm

    “…do we somehow become as nuts as them…”

    We only become as nuts as them when we are so entrenched in our own viewpoint that we neglect to seriously consider the opposing viewpoint in order to make the correct value judgment. This is true not only for wacky feminist cults, but cults of any kind.

    That is why what Stacy is doing here is so important, and why I hit the tip jar periodically.

    If you’re so deeply focused on the tenets of a particular belief that you experience cognitive dissonance simply by hearing the opposing belief, you are a wacky cultist, by definition.

    p.s. Snaps on the ST:TOS reference, dude. 😀

  13. Jeanette Victoria
    May 25th, 2015 @ 4:26 pm

    And here they are

  14. DeadMessenger
    May 25th, 2015 @ 4:27 pm

    She should wear a burka everytime she’s in public in order to draw attention to these larger feminist issues.

  15. DeadMessenger
    May 25th, 2015 @ 4:38 pm

    I’m ashamed to have Jesus look down and see what we’ve done with the world He created for us. No wonder the extent of God’s wrath is great in Revelation.

  16. Fail Burton
    May 25th, 2015 @ 7:40 pm

    From the most radical but obscure of them to less radical but more high profile people like Anita Sarkeessian, I wonder if they can’t grasp how much they are teaching incitement to hatred? You’d think people who proudly display threats against themselves might grasp that is our main gripe. These people support anti-defamation orgs so they must understand the concept of group defamation. What’s wrong with these people? Why are they taking innocent demographics that are white or male and turning them into ideologies assumed as hostile to themselves. Is it sheer stupidity, paranoia, a misreading of history. Is success or a demographic spike in and of itself proof of a supremacist conspiracy to take out women?

  17. Quartermaster
    May 25th, 2015 @ 8:05 pm

    And no matter the degree of judgment that falls they still refuse to “cease their fornication.”

    We’re seeing what riles God so much in that book.

  18. Jason Lee
    May 25th, 2015 @ 8:52 pm

    Lesbians and gays are useful idiots for the ruling elite who would like nothing better than to grow their own power by weakening marriage and family. What better way to weaken the family than to confuse people about the purpose of marriage — to make people think that marriage is about romantic feelings and empty symbolism and to make people forget that marriage is really about sublimating the power of sexuality.

  19. Zohydro
    May 25th, 2015 @ 9:38 pm

    Let us consult the Magic 8-Ball…

  20. Zohydro
    May 25th, 2015 @ 9:56 pm

    I really wish there were a “gay gene” and a prenatal test for it… Abortion would be banned by dawn, I would think!

  21. Dianna Deeley
    May 25th, 2015 @ 10:13 pm

    Excuse me.

    I am sure I could comment. However, I just recieved notice of a death, and I am simply too grieved to comment. Please go on, I am unable to even comment.

  22. Daniel Freeman
    May 25th, 2015 @ 10:13 pm

    Speaking of male supremacy, in which women “become defined as appendages to men,” Germain Greer has criticized Elton John for naming his husband David Furnish as their sons’ mother on their birth certificates. Funny thing is, if feminism is the problem, then the solution is not more feminism.

  23. Daniel Freeman
    May 25th, 2015 @ 10:17 pm

    The only thing worse than knowing grief is the alternative. I will keep you in my prayers.

  24. DeadMessenger
    May 25th, 2015 @ 11:44 pm

    I never considered that, but I bet you’re right.

  25. DeadMessenger
    May 25th, 2015 @ 11:46 pm

    I’ll take “sheer stupidity” for 100, please.

  26. DeadMessenger
    May 26th, 2015 @ 12:05 am

    Did she say that naming a gay man as “mother” is damaging to motherhood??

    Wait…I gotta double check that.

    Yep.

    Speaking at the Hay Festival, the feminist author said she felt that their decision to name Furnish the mother was damaging to the concept of motherhood.

    OF COURSE the whole situation is damaging to the concept of motherhood (and fatherhood, and families, for that matter). But does she think that feminism is somehow beneficial to motherhood? Have the physical constants of the universe changed? Have we somehow been plunged into Superman Bizarro World? Are we now residents of Psychoville, and Greer’s the mayor?

    Then later in the article, we see the mention of Elton John calling out his army of LGBT groupies against D&G, for (correctly) saying something Elton disagreed with. (For some readon, I’m picturing lots of b1tch-slapping, crying, and calling each other “Miss Thing”.)

  27. Daniel Freeman
    May 26th, 2015 @ 1:44 am

    I was surprised at how D&G were honest about how reproduction requires both men and women, so it’s a simple logical deduction that kids probably need both. I was not surprised that they were attacked.

  28. MaMcGriz
    May 26th, 2015 @ 4:02 am

    “Did she say that naming a gay man as “mother” is damaging to motherhood??

    Wait…I gotta double check that.

    Yep.”

    SMH

    It’s a statement convoluted enough to induce motion sickness.
    I want my Mommy.

  29. M. Simon
    May 26th, 2015 @ 5:55 am

    Lesbians are unlikely to reproduce. It is ALL good. Let them have their day. Nature selects for reproduction. These fellers (and I use the term loosely) have (mostly) decided not to reproduce.

    They are deselecting themselves. Good.

  30. MGTOW-man
    May 26th, 2015 @ 6:48 am

    Laying complete waste to her ridiculous theory: how did all the people get there up until the point that heterosexuality was “invented”?

    It was said that those people were nuts. Hasn’t the proof been rolling in consistently?

    Nature haters are truth haters.

  31. Fail Burton
    May 26th, 2015 @ 6:55 am

    What did you from an ideology that supports a woman who said magical Hobbits lived in England and taught sorcery to women who were then all burnt by men?

  32. MGTOW-man
    May 26th, 2015 @ 6:58 am

    It already has. 2+2 =4 for men, but 5 for women. If every last thing is made “equal”, then, women having the extra power of reproductive oppression for men, they have 5, whereas men have 4.

    This is the dynamics between the sexes, and is why things were more balanced in yesteryear than what is taught and felt by selfish oblivious.

  33. cheerdiver .
    May 26th, 2015 @ 8:24 am

    I didn’t hear any mention of how unmarried ppl, on avg, receive 30% less in pay than married ppl. Or that unmarried women, on avg, receive 17% more in wages. According to PEW research. But that doesn’t concern the plantation owners, ie religious nuts.

  34. Smells TheRat
    May 26th, 2015 @ 8:49 am

    I see they aren’t big fans of a low carb diet…

  35. BitterEXdemocrackkk
    May 26th, 2015 @ 8:50 am

    I don’t note a word about her mathmatics instruction QUALIFICATIONS !!! What about THAT ??? Get YOUR children OUT of government SCREWLS as FAST AS YOU CAN !!!

  36. Smells TheRat
    May 26th, 2015 @ 8:51 am

    That Democrat plantation is alive and well…

  37. stillaPatriot
    May 26th, 2015 @ 10:40 am

    Speaking as a traditional woman; She’s a total head case. And a very sad, angry head case too.

  38. Dana
    May 26th, 2015 @ 12:02 pm

    I don’t think that we have to worry about them seducing teenaged girls! Even Ray Charles can see that they are ugly.

  39. factsearch
    May 26th, 2015 @ 12:02 pm

    ewww gross. why is it that lesbos’ are so angry, negative and hostile whereas gay dudes seem more laid back in comparison?

  40. Dana
    May 26th, 2015 @ 12:05 pm

    And technically, she’s wrong about that as well. Copulation normally ends reasonably shortly after ejaculation, but fertilization occurs sometime afterward; our determined sperm must still swim upward, against the currents, to reach the Promised Land.

  41. factsearch
    May 26th, 2015 @ 12:06 pm

    ashville ,nc is the hotbed of the most extremist libmarxist on the east/south coast rivaling Carrboro/Chapel Hill. I would soooo not let my kid go to a public school there.

    As for the teacher Ms butch, she’s just another idiot

  42. Dana
    May 26th, 2015 @ 12:06 pm

    Alas! That, too often, is exactly the case!

  43. Dana
    May 26th, 2015 @ 12:09 pm

    Germain Greer has criticized Elton John for naming his husband homosexual bedpartner David Furnish as their sons’ mother on their birth certificates.

    FTFY. Even if some jurisdiction has recognized a legal marriage between two men, that doesn’t make it so.

  44. Dana
    May 26th, 2015 @ 12:10 pm

    I believe that’s “Miss Thang,” thank you very much!

  45. Dana
    May 26th, 2015 @ 12:12 pm

    As J R R Tolkien noted, hobbits have little or no magic associated with themselves, save for the kind that allows them to quickly disappear when big people like us come storming around, making a noise that the hobbits can hear a mile away.

  46. Dana
    May 26th, 2015 @ 12:12 pm

    Are you saying she doesn’t give good head?

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  48. Math & Physics
    May 26th, 2015 @ 12:38 pm

    So you have to be on the religious right to be GOP?
    That’s twisted logic, of grand perversion. Sounds more like u want to create a pigeon hole in which to push your fear. Lucifer is very different than Satan, yet they are all the devil to you.

  49. Dana
    May 26th, 2015 @ 1:12 pm

    “more laid back?”

  50. George
    May 26th, 2015 @ 1:42 pm

    ….she wouldn’t be here if not for a hetrosexual….now, I am sure she is happy that children can be born to lesbian you have been impregnated with the sperm of a homosexual you masturbated into a cup…but she can’t claim that “glorious conception.”