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Monday, March 25, 2002

Speaking at a charity luncheon for the YWCA of Palm Beach County, Fla., this past Friday, Steinem began her speech by saying, "I hardly know where to begin.

"To create a hierarchy of authority and sanctity and then suppress sexuality as a natural form of expression and subject these men to total control," Steinem said, "well, it's almost natural that some of them will then seek control over people lower down in the power structure."

Steinem also claimed that pedophile priests were victims, just as the children they had abused, of the male-dominated church hierarchy.

According to a press report, Steinem drew a clear line connecting male dominance, the church sex scandals and the terrorists who wreaked havoc on Sept. 11.

Steinem then drew a link between the Church sex scandal and Adolf Hitler.

"Let's not forget that Hitler was elected from a society with a strong patriarchal authoritative structure," Steinem said.

"We can't begin to know how much less violence there could be in the world if one generation of children was raised without violence," Steinem claimed.

According to Steinem, all evil finds its origin in the male gender.

She stressed that the terrorists of 9-11 were all male – and added that all of the school massacres have been orchestrated by young males who were heterosexual "or striving to appear heterosexual."

Steinem also said that almost all serial murderers are male and usually Caucasian and come from the middle class.

Steinem said: "The cult of masculinity is the basis of every violent, fascist regime. … We need to raise our sons more like our daughters, with empathy, flexibility, patience and compassion. These so-called feminine qualities are present in men as much as women, and it's a libel on men to say they're not."

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