Feminists against Palin - shame on you

[DixieBelle]

The denunciations of Sarah can't be only because she appears to be a conservative Republican, and the feminists want only liberal Democrats to win. In this era of independent voters and respect for a maverick, surely the milk of bipartisanship should soften feminist angst about Sarah.

But, no. Feminist anger against Sarah has exposed the fact that feminism is not about women's success and achievement. If it were, feminists would have been bragging for years about self-made women who are truly remarkable achievers, such as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, or former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, or Sen. Elizabeth Dole, or even Margaret Thatcher. Feminists never boast about these women because feminism's basic doctrine is victimology. Feminism preaches that women can never succeed because they are the sorry victims of an oppressive patriarchy. No matter how smart or accomplished a woman may be, she's told that success and happiness are beyond her grasp because institutional sexism and discrimination hold her down.

When Hillary Rodham Clinton failed to get the Democratic nomination for president or vice president, she and her allies rained a torrent of tears all over the media about the injustice of it all, ranting that rampant sexism denied her the nomination she was due. The aging Gloria Steinem opined on CNN that it is "clear that there is profound sexism." She whined that Hillary couldn't crack the "glass ceiling" because there are "still barriers and biases out there."

Oh, the unfairness of it all! Steinem bemoaned that women find it so "difficult to be competent and successful and be liked." Au contraire, Hillary and women like her are not disliked because they are competent and successful, but because they are chip-on-the-shoulder feminists, living in an unhappy world of their own making and spreading their discontent like a virus. Feminists convey a notion of entitlement, as though they deserve special privileges today because of wrongs in past years that no one any longer can remember, such as women not having the right to vote. The bad attitude of victimhood is indoctrinated in students by the bitter feminist faculty in university women's studies courses and even in some law schools. Victimhood is nurtured and exaggerated by feminist organizations using their tactic called "consciousness raising," i.e., retelling horror stories about how badly some women have been treated until small personal annoyances grow into societal grievances. The feminists resent Sarah because she's the exact opposite of Hillary Clinton. When the liberal media sharpened their knives against Sarah, some chivalrous McCainiacs cried foul about media unfairness, but we didn't hear any whining from Sarah. Sarah has been successful because of hard work and perseverance, not because she's a woman, and she's not going to pull any crybaby act now. Sarah didn't need any Equal Rights Amendment, which Hillary is still promoting even though it was declared dead by the Supreme Court 26 years ago.

The feminist tirades against Sarah are mostly so tiresome, but one line of their complaints is really funny. After 40 years of telling wives and mothers to get out of the home (which Betty Friedan called "a comfortable concentration camp"), put their children in day care (tax-funded, of course) and join the workforce, these same feminists now tell Sarah to stay home with her children.

Go read the whole thing. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/20/IN5U13026F.DTL

I think it's funny that those women who call themselves "feminists" are anything but.

[DarkHalo]

Same thing as feminists liking Bill Clinton so much yet he is inarguably the worst abuser of women to ever attain the Oval Office. It is all about voting correctly and not about actual womens rights. They subsume actual progress for women to further the Democrat agenda. They should be ashamed of themselves.

[SaintLouieWoman]

Same thing as feminists liking Bill Clinton so much yet he is inarguably the worst abuser of women to ever attain the Oval Office. It is all about voting correctly and not about actual womens rights. They subsume actual progress for women to further the Democrat agenda. They should be ashamed of themselves.

I also could never understand how women would say Clinton was sooo handsome and wonderful. I guess I never thought he was charming, because I never could stand that type of guy. He seemed like one of the worst of the medicine oil sales types.

My own sister started that junk about how Sarah should stay home with the disabled child. She started the whole line that's being planted into the minds of the gullible. I hate to admit that I lost it with her (and she had been out of the country for 2 weeks and I had really missed her). SR was laughing at me when he heard me start going on this stuff.

As a woman who was one of the first in my industry in the late 70's, I applaud Sarah Palin. She's a gutsy woman who seems to soak up info like a sponge. Combined with her strong moral compass, I totally support her for VP.

[Chris_]

Why do feminists despise Sarah Palin? Because she is everything they are not and secretly want to be.

Beautiful, smart, family-oriented, LOVED, witty, accomplished, unselfconscious, LOVED, trusted, honest, self-effacing. And LOVED.

Compare that to our exemplar of the feminist species, say, subway cat.

Jealousy is a bitter pill.