One of America's most famous feminists Gloria Steinem, 1971: CBC Archives | CBC

In this clip from 1971, leading American feminist Gloria Steinem talks about the fight for equality and the stereotype of a strong woman being labelled a "bitch". Steinem was a columnist for New York magazine and co-founded Ms. magazine. In 1969, she published an article, "After Black Power, Women's Liberation". For more classic clips, go to www.cbc.ca/arch...
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[@katjames7601]

I'm really enjoying the Hulu series Mrs. America featuring her.

[@flowerchild6309]

Sameeeee

[@lilsaam]

Well, feauturing Rose Byrnes who is portraying her.

[@katjames7601]

@Greta Oto what are you talking about??

[@katjames7601]

@Greta Oto you are being quite vague. I fact checked while watching the series and enjoyed it. If you didn't, why bother to comment?

[@LARPANET_3087]

So good! Just watched a great documentary about Shirley Chisholm too.

[@Dan.50]

She was almost 40 here. She was definitely a beautiful lady.

[@meredithgreyswife2806]

Everyone is reducing her to her looks. This is exactly what she was talking about all these years. She’s not just a pretty face.

[@josecarranza7555]

Lol typical feminazi response.

[@meredithgreyswife2806]

@@josecarranza7555 typical man response. this is why everyone hates you guys lol

[@meredithgreyswife2806]

@@dv8566 that’s because you’re a desperate man who only sees women as objects. Not everyone thinks like that, buddy.

[@josecarranza7555]

@@meredithgreyswife2806 Feminazi.

[@meredithgreyswife2806]

@@dv8566 I can tell by your response. Women don’t objectify other women.

[@chucker1696]

The long hair and short skirts which were fashionable at the time really suited her. It was amazing how the producers of the show were so nonchalant about her smoking, which many would consider politically incorrect today.

[@SilencedButNotForgotten]

It was very normal at the time.

[@Ionlydategoodgirls]

Everybody smoked back in the day

[@austinballard6815]

Was common back then. Even during a tv interview. Little to none was usually thought of it. Hell, I remember there were ashtrays at the beginning of each checkout counter in the supermarket

[@leylaaricanli9555]

she is an amazing human being

[@shanayahayes6394]

I could listen to her talk forever😭

[@ginny3491]

ME TOO she’s so freaking cool I look up to her

[@captainblocker4324]

@@ginny3491 she was a anti-communist cia agent who was paid to stop feminists talking about class, only gender and race

[@MrJanja93]

I know it's kind of ridiculous but there really is something quite cool about people smoking pre-1975 or so.

[@laurahall2710]

Actually pre 1995

[@minaroar]

I don't know how to feel about MS magazine being funded by the CIA, that's fucked up

[@bijoubijoux5185]

it means it was a fraud and a trick to manipulate people

[@jacindapeters2303]

She's stunning.

[@deejannemeiurffnicht1791]

As time goes on, from Gloria, to the Miss World Contest protesters of London, the courage, determination, integrity, actions and words of these women has sold the test of time, and only now are most people waking up to their insights, and too, realising that feminism is for EVERYONE! It's also surprising how many people yet still live under 20th century Stockholm Syndrome and still support their own captivity.

[@madams3478]

a woman boss can be above average, and still be criticized in all kinds of ways for which a man boss would be complimented as “tough but fair” 🏙 🏄🏽‍♂️

[@jllshov]

She wrecked havoc in the black community though

[@JarrettMazza]

"I had a picture of Gloria Steinem on my wall when I was a teenager. She was really attractive." - Larry David.

[@patriciarouse2801]

She gave talks about Radical ACts. She described getting to the point where any day the question would no longer be wither to pro-form a Radical Act today, rather which ones and how many. A women described to Gloria after hearing this talk " I found it useful to nail my husband's shorts to the floor" Truly a leader. The you tube are a treasure. Befor this for me she was words on a page or out of a radio. What a life! She just helped move the realm of thought far far far from where she first encountered them.

[@anon9110]

+flamesfromblazer What is wrong with men just having an equal role in parenting? Thats what we want... not special treatment. We want men to clean and change diapers the same as women. And women having the option to work the same as a man and coming to a balance. Its about equal responsibility. Men want women to clean up after them. Thats what I call SPECIAL TREATMENT. Because men dump everything on women, no wonder women win custody battles and get more rights. There was no equal raising.

[@BF-th6kv]

no

[@lorenzolemons5410]

Westernization at its finest

[@leomatthews7652]

Couldn’t agree more Mary

[@josecarranza7555]

Men are usually the bread winners and you’re complaining about cleaning up after they eat? My goodness. Lol the least you can do right, making the bread winner feel comfortable. We all have a role in the family structure.

[@josecarranza7555]

DoughnationCreative Feminism is a total failure.

[@sashaflip7450]

This was the early version of mean tweets. 😂

[@freshasflowers]

We love you Gloria Steinem!

[@BF-th6kv]

Whos we, you don't speak for me

[@allizappamcminn4376]

freshasflowers Do you also love the CIA?

[@josecarranza7555]

Gloria aborted her babies. Nothing to be proud of killing babies.

[@wstr-jp5er]

@@josecarranza7555 lmao pro-lifers are funny

[@joadhenry]

CIA Asset

[@bijoubijoux5185]

yep, fraud

[@sssl9528]

Why she never ran for presidential elections

[@thegoodlydragon7452]

+s.lena Because with Trump running we've already got a fumbling joke candidate. We don't need another that's even more ridiculous.

[@kjcs2770]

Thank God she didn't

[@gloriagruca8290]

She was for inclusion not exclusion. As my friend with a doctorate in Women's Studies notes, women can be the worst enemies of other women.

[@breezyj5054]

She’s so hot Jesus

[@tapnodyl]

That is a FINE woman.

[@duewhit310]

Central Intelligence Agency

[@basejumpingmonkey]

She was a CIA stooge

[@ltenclavesoldier9280]

She a j

[@FredericFreedom]

CIA OPERATIVE? 🤔

[@enid9911]

And here we are in the year 2024 and women ended up with more legal rights and protections than men. Is this what she meant with equality?

[@robertwhitson7471]

There are no ex-CIA assets.

[@Jevan2010]

if the word contradiction has legs and a blonde hair

[@billhaywood3503]

dated kissinger cia operative

[@AndrewHeard]

Very cool woman. :)

[@wrnr_mn]

Now I see where the "blm activism" comes from...

[@mattjustice4618]

If you want to know why modern day women are so stressed out and depressed, look no further than this woman.

[@TS-rd7oy]

You know nothing about how stressed out women were when they had to have back alley abortions, when there were no laws protecting women from their husbands who felt like beating the crap out of them, when if the police even showed up, would tell the man to calm down, do nothing for the woman and say it was a domestic matter, how stressed women were when they were blamed for being raped, how stressed they were when they could not, even up until 1980, get a credit card in their own names (I know because I was one of these women), how stressed women were when there were two columns in the newspaper - women wanted, men wanted. Take a guess which ones paid a living wage and which ones didn't. I could go on and on but why waste the energy on some clueless male who would make such a ludicrous and ignorant comment?

[@josecarranza7555]

@@TS-rd7oy Back alley abortions, then why did they have unprotected sex in the first place? The women should have made better decisions. Abortion is killing babies.

[@graveraider1029]

Jokes on you all, Gloria was paid by the CIA to preach her feminist idealogy

[@robynperdieu3434]

Feminists were separating women from their families. Look at our children's generation and how they lost their spirituality.

[@tessacarstairs5998]

I love her

[@onemanschorus12]

She was hot.

[@laurahall2710]

You missed the point

[@josecarranza7555]

@@laurahall2710 Feminazi

[@minaroar]

Betty Friedan was more important, albeit crazy.

[@kaylao.3326]

No she wasnt

[@madams3478]

sometimes a little bit of crazy is good! 😉

[@TUHANbukanorangARAB]

Out of the ground YHWH God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. His disciples say unto him, "If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry." Now for the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman." Are you free from such a commitment? Do not look for a wife. Don't waste your life chasing after women! This has ruined many kings. *(Men Going Their Own Way)*

[@AndrewHeard]

I like to think so. Just ask my mother. :)

[@daboys1215]

Garbage then, garbage now.

[@terrencebryant2084]

Yuk hated her politics

[@Giovannisenzaterra]

@freshasflowers Paglia is better

[@TheNewYorker360]

Here are some thoughts on Gloria Steinem by leftist political activist Tom Hayden -- from his November 2014 piece in The Nation (Of course, he was dying of cancer by that point, so he figured he had nothing to lose and could finally tell the truth): "...(Traveling to California in the early 1960s) I spent an exhilarating summer staying in an apartment full of Berkeley radicals. One of the many visitors I met was Donald Hoffman, who represented the National Student Association, which included members of student government and (the University of Michigan's student newspaper, the Michigan) Daily editors that met every summer. He was a bit older than me, a friendly liberal fellow who wanted to make sure that Berkeley students came to that summer’s national convention. He also was a CIA agent, and remained so for many decades. The editor of the (Michigan) Daily before me, Peter Eckstein, was enlisted by the CIA to direct its recruiting operations, which targeted student activists in Europe who had been attracted to Soviet-sponsored youth festivals. Peter was preceded by another Daily editor, Harry Lunn, who became a lifetime CIA operative in many postings around the world. In 1962, curious about these youth festivals and eager to see the world, I interviewed as a possible participant in an American (anti-communist) delegation to the Soviet-sponsored Helsinki Youth Festival in Finland, one of several of the era. Their purpose was to confront the communist delegates with a counter-narrative about American democracy and firmly oppose any rapprochement or coexistence between capitalism and communism. Neutralism in the Cold War was considered as being “soft” on Communism. In the end, I didn’t attend. But I will never forget the smart, attractive woman who interviewed me. A graduate of Smith College, her name was Gloria Steinem. This was one year before she worked at the Playboy Club in New York City and six years before she wrote “A Bunny’s Tale” in Show magazine and (suddenly) described herself as an “active feminist” in 1969. The CIA’s Harry Lunn, according to Patriotic Betrayal, encouraged Steinem to become “the public face of the Independent Service for Information,” an anti-communist delegation controlled and funded by the CIA, on the Vienna Youth Festival; by early 1959, it had been renamed the Independent Research Service. She was “one of the few women in the NSA-CIA club,” Paget writes, noting that “Steinem, who knowingly cooperated with the CIA, is sensitive today about her work with the Agency.” Steinem recruited about one hundred Americans into a delegation to confront the 17,000 youth at the 1959 Vienna Youth Festival under the banners of Marxism and national liberation. Her bloc employed dirty tricks to disrupt the proceedings, including distributing anti-communist propaganda to fill a shortage of toilet paper and invading discussion groups to attack communist dogma. Pleased with her work in Vienna, the CIA sent Steinem to lead a similar delegation to Helsinki in 1962, where the CIA courted African students with American jazz and, according to Paget, left “memorable images of Steinem parting the beaded curtains to enter the nightclub as if she was Mata Hari.” Gloria Steinem. Well connected to the wealthy elite and ruling elite in America -- and a CIA operative since the 1950s. If only the (completely duped and deceived) women in America knew the truth, huh? At least Tom Hayden, dying of cancer in 2014, knew the truth -- and wrote about it. Tom Hayden (1939-2016). RIP.

[@SuperSheGeek]

[@ericedwardsjr3459]

Covert evil

[@leegate1237]

She sold women on having a career. That having a career is all that matters. That is BS. I can now see that the only thing that matters in this life is having a family. Having children is what life is about. Now, she’s an old woman with no children of her own because she thought it was more important to run a magazine. She is a sad, old lady.

[@magdalenab7874]

not only did you not do anything meaningful in your life but also probably made the world worse by egoistically producing a bunch of useless kids whose purpose was only to fill the terrible void of your life ;>>

[@leegate1237]

Magdalena Bazylewicz Nope, I never had children, but I see now that having children is what life is about. Nothing else really matters. For both men and women life is about creating new life. A career is just a job and a career is a sad thing to settle for. Steinem is a sad and lonely old woman.

[@magdalenab7874]

@@leegate1237 well, just because you are lonely and sad does not mean that everybody is, sorry

[@leegate1237]

Magdalena Bazylewicz Interpretation is obviously not something you are good at. Steinem is the one who is old and lonely. Please, try and follow. I will have kids because it’s not too late for me. I’m glad I discovered the fact that the reason we are here is to create life-before it’s too late.

[@katiekins17]

Lee Gate If that’s what works for you, great. But it’s not the only reason for living. Having kids is not for everyone and it’s sad that you think that’s all life’s for.

[@xOpIaNoGuRlxO]

why did she decide to become a feminist she could have been a model..

[@theguitarprogresschannel1907]

she was a CIA agent first and foremost.