1896: The National Council of Women
August 13, 2020
By AHNZ
On 13th April, 1896, The National Council of Women was founded and meet in Christchurch. Well known suffragette Kate Sheppard was elected as its first President.
Not ones to be accused of hard working, they immediately take a ‘recess period of twelve years.’ State History often records that the NCW started up on this day but frequently fails to mention that it was not the start but the end of something. A last gasp.
A very fine example of an SJW era at the end of its time and waiting for the next Victimhood Culture cycle to kick in before coming out of hibernation.
“Make a better effort to celebrate diverse achievement”
So you’ve noticed that our culture celebrates individual achievement and distributes memorials accordantly rather than upon gender or racial quotas? But that’s not what the modern National Council of Women of New Zealand wants, of course…
“Lisa Lawrence, President of the National Council of Women NZ, said New Zealand needed to make a better effort to celebrate diverse achievement.”
“WOMEN WHO DESERVE A PEDESTAL…Kate Sheppard – Women’s suffrage leader…….Jean Batten – Aviator and first person to fly solo from England to New Zealand…Elizabeth McCombs – First woman elected to parliament in New Zealand“- Where are the women? Wellington’s statues have a gender problem; Joel MacManus, Stuff (Jan 2020)
What genuine admirer of McCombs, Batten, or Sheppard would ever say these women need statues to make some arbitrary gender-statue-gap look better on paper?
Affirmative action for statues now!
By the end of the same year, 2020, Victimhood Culture had ceased crying out for someone to build more statues. As their time came to a close they desperately supported the destruction of the existing statues.
“The rural backwaters of Canterbury do not escape from controversial place names. Eyreton…New Zealand’s Morally Suspect Monuments..”- Calls for colonial statues to go start to pick up in New Zealand; Joel MacManus, Stuff (Jan 2020)
We should continue celebrating people for what they have done, not to prop up an identitarian ratio. Next thing there wont be enough transexual statues or statues of disabled people or animals. We don’t need your pity monuments. If Joel MacManus genuinely wants a statue of anyone made then commission one and arrange for it to be situated because that’s how these things get done! Only Victimhood Culture people write tantrum articles about what is “deserved” seeking to guilt other people into celebrating things (and paying for them) by proxy.
The net result of all this Entitlement advocacy can be seen in MacManus’s two articles above. First, our monuments to achievement are diluted by monuments based not on merit but on Diversity. Statues are distributed according to participation. This miscegenation phase might be accepted by some with weaker boundaries the same way place names were given bilingual titles before being replaced in turn with one single Progressive name, eg. Mt Egmont’s fate. Secondly, the pretence at pluralism and respect for “diverse achievement” is discarded entirely and the earlier crop of statues and monuments are wiped out entirely.
The National Council of Women now, and then, hold no interest in diversity or equal rights. They are and always will be a lobby group for a particular Identitarian interest group and seek to raise that group above all others by saying whatever they need to say to do it.
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Image ref. NCW; Alexander Turnbull Library; Te Ara
Image ref. Same image, zoomed in on Anna and Kate
Ref. 1933: Elizabeth McCombs, MHR
Ref. 1893: Kate Sheppard
Ref. 1972: Germaine Greer visits
Ref. 1977: Jean Batten Came Home
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