Originally posted at David Horowitz’s Newsreal:
The femisogynists just cannot let Sarah Palin go. Ever since she came out of the closet as a feminist, their heads haven’t stopped exploding. When you add in the number of strong, successful, conservative female politicians who have emerged in the past year, it’s no wonder that the fascist feminists have been going through a major identity crisis. The Sarah Palin feminist story is actually pretty old news, but the feminist left just can’t stop bringing it up. The latest to join in on the cacophony of complaints is the executive vice president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), Bonnie Grabenhofer. The problem? All these gosh-darned conservative women, led by that dastardly Sarah Palin, just don’t realize that they’re victims and slaves to their reproductive rights. How dare a woman think she paved the road to her own success and be pro-life??
Grabenhofer starts with the trite and beaten-to-death meme that Sarah Palin is not a feminist.
NOW executive vice-president, Bonnie Grabenhofer, told The Daily Caller that to her, “feminism is a social justice movement aimed at getting social, political, and economic equality for women. We work for the advancement of women on multiple fronts.”
… According to Grabenhofer, Palin doesn’t qualify as a feminist.
“I do not consider Sarah Palin to be a feminist,” she said. “She has benefitted from the work of feminists but she has not worked to advance the rights of women. She works against the progressive ideas meant to help.”
What, exactly, disqualifies Sarah Palin from being considered a feminist? She’s a self-made women with an impressive career. For those unfamiliar with Palin’s career pre-politics, she first worked as a sports reporter; after marrying her husband, Todd Palin, she worked with him in the commercial fishing industry in Alaska. She got into politics pretty much at the lowest possible level: at the PTA. She then ran for a seat on the Wasilla city council, eventually moving on to become the mayor, and then governor of Alaska. The rest is history. She was forced to step down as governor, but her career has been far from over. She’s now a bestselling author with an upcoming second book to be released later this year, a Fox News contributor, and a public speaker. She’s the clear breadwinner of her family, but by all accounts seems to have a happy, healthy marriage with her hunk of a husband, Todd. They have five beautiful children together. One would think this would be the perfect definition of a feminist is. But, of course, there’s a litmus test that you have to pass in order to join the Fascist Feminist Club, and Sarah Palin failed. It doesn’t matter how self-sufficient she is, or how equal a partnership she has with her husband, or how hard she worked to forge herself a spot in the boys’ club of politics. Because she’s pro-life, she can’t be considered a feminist.
Grabenhofer continued, saying that in order to be a feminist, a woman must support abortion rights.
“If you cannot control your reproductive rights, you cannot fully participate in society,” she explained.
Abortion is the end-all, be-all for the femisogynists. It is the sacred cow of their movement. If you don’t support abortion, then you aren’t a real women. Not only are you not a real women, but you are anti-woman, and an anti-feminist. There’s no room for dissent in today’s extremist feminist movement. But there’s a slight problem with their orthodoxy. Grabenhofer’s argument, that if you cannot control your “reproductive rights”, you cannot participate fully in society insinuates that a pregnant woman cannot is not capable of participating fully in society, thus the need for abortions.
Isn’t that a little insulting to all mothers, everywhere?
I so love watching their heads explode…….
Sarah Palin has set the bar and shattered whatever remained of those old glass ceilings. She has refused to be a victim and has taken advantage of the opportunities this great nation offered.
I will be proud to cast my vote for her as President of these United States.
>“If you cannot control your reproductive rights, you cannot fully participate in society,” she explained.
Does the speaker not even catch the irony here, that she’s saying that a woman who was a governor, ran for the second highest office in the country on a major party ticket, and wrote a best-selling book, is apparently not able to “fully participate in society” because she is not pro-abortion. What, exactly, does a woman have to DO to demonstrate that she has managed to “fully participate in society”?
I R A Darth Aggie says: their heads haven’t stopped exploding
Ah, yes, the sweet sound of a paradigm shifting without a clutch!
Mom says: As a working mother of 3 and pro-life feminist myself, the entire arguement that Sarah Palin is not a feminist is blatantly contradictory and illogical. She is an excellent example to young girls everywhere that women can truly have it all – a successful career and a family. She has also shown us thru her own life that women are strong enough to handle unexpected circumstances while still maintaining her integrity and the values that are important to her. It seems unbelievably arrogant to me that any one woman stands in judgement of another woman and says that these women are good feminists, yet these are not. Who are they to make that claim. In all honesty, it’s these types “feminists” who have sold this generation of women a pack of lies, making them beleive that pregnancy is a death sentence and means the end of the life they had planned. It underestimates the very group they claim to advocate by making them feel they are incapable of handling an unexpected pregnancy, so the best thing to do is abort your child?!?? Wouldn’t it be more liberating for women if we provided these expectant mothers with support while they continue working toward their goals? Rather than spending so much money to end a life, that money could be used help women thru a challenging time. And while I certainly agree that not all women are ready to be mothers, adoption provides the solution in these circumstances. Finally, the motto for pro abortion feminist groups usually centers around a woman’s right to choose what happens to her own body. But the bottom line here that it is not just her body she is making a choice about. The unborn child never had a choice. Check out the group “Feminists For Life”. Their philosophy is right on target.
Jewels says: I think you have it exactly right here, Cassy. Sarah Palin IS the very definition of an empowered woman. She thinks her own thoughts, pursues her own goals (and succeeds at them), AND does this WITHOUT pretending to be a man.
In other words, she embraces her own femininity.
Too many womynbelieve that a “feminist” must sacrifice the very thing that makes her so- her womanly nature. To these people, a “feminist” must dress like a man (bonus points if she looks like one.), work in a male dominated industry, and sleep around ‘like a man’ (I say this facetiously).
In contrast, a feminist is someone who absolutely CAN NOT be A} feminine B} attractive} C} work in a traditionally “female” role (seamstresses, take note) and she absolutely must be completely open to sleeping with as many people as she so desires. To enable this last qualification, she must be willing to support abortion. After all, if a man sleeps around, he does not get pregnant. Neither should womyn.
This is ridiculous, of course, and a far cry from what the original Feminists (big F) fought so hard for. To them, being a Feminist meant being able to work at the same job as a man, performing at an equal quality of productivity, and get paid just as much. It meant that their intelligence was not dismissed, especially when it was equal to that of their husband’s. And that their vote should be equal to that of their brother’s.
NOTE: this did NOT mean that a woman would head over to a firehouse and still be hired, despite the fact that she couldn’t carry the equipment while wearing the gear through a burning building while carrying an unconscious victim over their shoulder.
Women, despite what “feminists” would like to imagine, are not exactly the same as men. There are some things we (generally speaking) are better at, and some that they excel at. It is the way of reality.
The problem with womyn feminists is that would very much like to deny that reality.
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