The hate you give
Women hold up half the sky, Mao Zedong famously said—a quote intended to underline the importance of women as equals of men during the tumultuous years of China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). And clearly, the most empowered woman at that time was Chairman Mao’s own fourth wife, the notorious Jiang Qing, whose revolutionary zeal led to the formation of the much-feared Gang of Four.
An alliance of four key leaders in the Chinese Communist Party, they proved to be a destructive force in Chinese society—pursuing artists and intellectuals in their relentless purge of bourgeois pretensions, as well as any opposition to the totalitarian regime.
Their reign of terror came to an end following Mao’s death. In a spectacular reversal of fortune, the four were imprisoned and in 1981, after a highly publicized trial, they were convicted of “counter-revolutionary crimes.” Jiang Qing was sentenced to death, which was commuted to life imprisonment. In 1991, 10 years into her sentence, she hung herself in prison.
Not all women
Not all women, unfortunately, hold up half the sky; far too many still prefer to hold up the patriarchy.
As Jiang Qing and a number of women throughout history—we’ve had a few of them in the Philippines—have sadly proved, women can be just as odious and as evil as men. There are those women who regard proximity to power, usually wielded by men, as a power in itself, and embrace with unabashed glee the cruelty of the regimes they serve.
The women and girls who frequented Jeffrey Epstein’s island and various homes were mostly the victims he trafficked, with the help of a key woman in his pedophile ring: Ghislaine Maxwell. The scattering of other women who appear in the Epstein files were equally complicit, from—allegedly—Hillary Clinton to the Filipino help. Clinton’s kink, it would appear, was watching the girls get tortured (again allegedly), while her husband Bill’s proclivities are well-known.
Both have denied any involvement, criminal or otherwise, with Epstein. The public remains unconvinced.
The irony of it all
The latest heiress—she is but one of many—to this base tradition has to be that awful Colombian-American woman from Texas who ran, and lost, for a congressional seat in her district.
Valentina Gomez seems to get off on inflammatory speech that demeans Islam and Muslims, as well as the LGBTQIA+ community, Black Americans, and other immigrants. The irony is breathtaking and her gall is next-level cringe: she herself was born in Colombia and came to the United States at the age of 10 as an immigrant.
All of 26 years old, the obnoxious die-hard MAGA “influencer” who drank the proverbial AIPAC/Zionist Kool-Aid actually revels in the controversies she creates, which have included burning a copy of the Qur’an using a flamethrower. “Your daughters will be raped and your sons beheaded, unless we stop Islam once and for all,” she says in her video.
Apart from being pure nonsense—the statistics do not support these accusations at all—her rhetoric is not just problematic. It is downright dangerous, laying the groundwork for stochastic terrorism.
Who hurt you?
More recently, she was set to travel to the United Kingdom to join that far right racist Tommy Robinson in an anti-immigrant march through London. Despite her copious tweets and posts signalling her revolting bigotry, she was initially granted an entry visa by the Home Office. Days later, this was revoked.
The UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood rightly deemed that Gomez’s presence “would not be conducive to the public good.” And in response, Gomez threatened to arrive on UK shores in a boat and called Mahmood “a dirty Pakistani Muslim.”
Such a strange kink to have, really. Like, girl, who hurt you when you were a child? Why the hate? If you’re performing for men, Valentina, they might think you’re attractive—but they’ll also see the red flags: that you’re totally unhinged, psycho alert level maximum unhinged.
Besides, hasn’t anyone told you that all that hate eventually putrefies you from the inside? Hate is my beauty secret, said no one ever.
