Meryl Streep Mixed Up

Meryl Streep is a prime example of Hollywood celebrity pinheads that help shape the opinions of low information voters who are useful idiots to the progressive left. She might be a prolific actress with awards up the wazoo, but like Sean Penn and so many other film star pop idols who influence the mind numb masses, her head is full of gówno when it comes to politics, life, the human condition and sexual mores in Poland.

You might remember her from the 1982 film Sophie's Choice when she played the part of a mother of two children in Nazi occupied Poland. Her choice was to give up one of her children to the Death Camp. But, it seems she did not learn a damn thing about Poland its culture or traditions. And, she's got the "now" and "then" mixed up.

Currently in Poland there is a great deal of backlash regarding sex education and contemporary sexual mores.

Post-communist countries have experienced of late a kind of inverted sexual revolution. Maybe

you've heard about new laws against "homosexual propaganda" in Russia, or perhaps the ban on homosexual marriage in Croatia, but have you heard of the "war on gender" in Poland?

Presently there is a storm of controversy over the issue of sex education. In Poland, the word "gender" has become a giant catchall term, conflating anything that diverges from the conservative, patriarchal norm according to liberal/progressives. It is on this threat that the church and its many allies in politics have declared war. According to a church official, "gender ideology" is worse even than communism.

The controversy was sparked by "gender workshops”, which were organized in pro-equality nurseries and schools. Children are taught contravening alternatives in a context where getting married to a member of the opposite sex while a virgin is deemed the only acceptable solution.

The current backlash concerns all alternatives to Catholic upbringing. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are incessantly insulted by the church, and parliamentary officials compare their activities to zoophytes and pedophiles. A civil partnership law was thrown out in the sejm last year.

How does this sit with Poland's glowing image abroad? When Meryl Streep gave an interview to promote her new film in the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, she appealed to Polish politicians to get their act together: "I thought that after years of communism you'd caught up with the west in a social-cultural sense."

It's a pity nobody told Streep that, in fact, it was during the Communist Era when women in Poland enjoyed civil and reproductive rights.

That was a time when both abortion and contraceptives were legal and available. In today's Poland, both doctors and pharmacists can deny women contraceptives; abortion law is the tightest in Europe and sex education practically nonexistent. Even scientists speak in one voice with the church: the Polish Academy of Sciences published a letter in which they called the gender workshops an attempt at "unseating children from their own sex".

What a fallacy it is that a "liberal" economy means liberalism in social norms. As Poland demonstrates, the truth can be the opposite.