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Old 09-09-2008, 07:41 AM
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There are lots of articles about how feminists acted at the first news of a Palin VP pick. I believe that the first reaction is your most honest reaction.

Feminists Flip Out Over Palin FOX Forum FOXNews.com

"While Cottle bemoans the blows that feminism has taken in this campaign, what Cottle should really be complaining about is how the movement feminists have been revealed to care more about liberal policy positions than women per se. In many ways Sarah Palin is a model of what feminists have long said they wanted - women who are able to build a successful career on their own without depending on their husband’s position to get where they want to go. And to have a family with a husband who fully shares in the parenting duties. Yet now we know that that is not enough. A woman also has to be a liberal to be a true role model: When Gloria Steinem takes to the pages of The Los Angeles Times to tell us that Palin is not the right woman for other women because of her positions, I guess that is a step forward that Palin can be evaluated on the basis of her positions more than on her gender, but it also helps clarify that organizations like NOW were never really about women but only about liberal women. And what they’re now horrified to discover is that there are a whole lot of women out there who don’t ascribe to that agenda.

And feminists like Cottle and Steinem should be horrified at some of the discussions going on in the media and around the water cooler about whether the mother of five children can have a position of responsibility. Yesterday on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” Sally Quinn and Ellen Rooney both asserted that they didn’t think that a mother with a baby and two other young children plus a pregnant teenager could do an adequate job as vice president. When asked if these questions were unfair and wouldn’t be asked of a male candidate such as Barack Obama, they both chimed in that of course it was unfair, but it was the way things are. Whenever women have jobs that take them away from their children, they suffer from guilt and divided concerns that a vice president shouldn’t have.

Wow! Feminists certainly have flipped on whether women are able to do it all — have a career and a family. And when faced with the sort of husband feminists have been saying they long for - a guy who gave up one of his jobs on the North Slope because of his wife’s career and now has stepped forth to take care of the day-to-day child care so that his wife can take care of her career, they totally discount that sort of contribution and come back to attacking the mother."