Actually, it was created much earlier, but probably by the same people, but before the Rockefeller Foundation was created. If you go back and look at art, movies, books, there was a deliberate move since back in the end of the 19th century to convince women that there was no fate on earth worse than being JUST a housewife and mother. A wife was just an extension of her husband. She had no identity of her own. I think it's very telling that one of the big pushes in the 70s and 80s, just as we were moving into the new all-fiat currency world once Nixon took us completely off the gold standard, was for women (who were now establishing their own careers) to develop a credit history. We were encouraged to go out and get a credit card so we could develop our own credit history. It was like you didn't exist if you didn't have a credit history. At the time, none of us dreamed that we would one day be carrying the enormous debt loads that most of us do these days. We didn't realize at the time that we were being encouraged to voluntarily report ourselves to the financial tracking database. But if you look back over the 20th century, you can see that there was a deliberate program carried out to convince women that they wanted anything other than a traditional woman's role.
"Torches of Freedom" was a phrase used to encourage women's smoking by exploiting women's aspirations for a better life during the early twentieth century first-wave feminism in the United States. Cigarettes were described as symbols of emancipation and equality with men. The term was first used by psychoanalyst A. A. Brill when describing the natural desire for women to smoke and was used by Edward Bernays to encourage women to smoke in public despite social taboos. Bernays hired women to march while smoking their "torches of freedom" in the Easter Sunday Parade of 31 March 1929,[1] which was a significant moment for fighting social barriers for women smokers.
Actually, it was created much earlier, but probably by the same people, but before the Rockefeller Foundation was created. If you go back and look at art, movies, books, there was a deliberate move since back in the end of the 19th century to convince women that there was no fate on earth worse than being JUST a housewife and mother. A wife was just an extension of her husband. She had no identity of her own. I think it's very telling that one of the big pushes in the 70s and 80s, just as we were moving into the new all-fiat currency world once Nixon took us completely off the gold standard, was for women (who were now establishing their own careers) to develop a credit history. We were encouraged to go out and get a credit card so we could develop our own credit history. It was like you didn't exist if you didn't have a credit history. At the time, none of us dreamed that we would one day be carrying the enormous debt loads that most of us do these days. We didn't realize at the time that we were being encouraged to voluntarily report ourselves to the financial tracking database. But if you look back over the 20th century, you can see that there was a deliberate program carried out to convince women that they wanted anything other than a traditional woman's role.
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"Torches of Freedom" was a phrase used to encourage women's smoking by exploiting women's aspirations for a better life during the early twentieth century first-wave feminism in the United States. Cigarettes were described as symbols of emancipation and equality with men. The term was first used by psychoanalyst A. A. Brill when describing the natural desire for women to smoke and was used by Edward Bernays to encourage women to smoke in public despite social taboos. Bernays hired women to march while smoking their "torches of freedom" in the Easter Sunday Parade of 31 March 1929,[1] which was a significant moment for fighting social barriers for women smokers.