So much of the femisogynist movement today involves denying everything that a woman is. The idea that pregnancy and childbirth somehow makes you a non-functioning member of society — treating expectant mothers as victims just because they are expectant mothers — is a slap in the face to all of the women who actually are empowered enough to not see pregnancy as victimizing. Pro-life conservative women don’t look at children as punishments, or as slaves to their hormones. That’s one of the major differences between conservative women and the femisogynists. Conservatives don’t see themselves as perpetual victims. Conservatives believe in personal responsibility, and that they are the masters of their own lives. The pro-abortion fanatics can’t seem to realize that women don’t just get spontaneously pregnant; it isn’t a random condition that unpredictably happens. Women get pregnant from having sex, and 99% of the time, they chose to do so. If a woman doesn’t want to get pregnant, then there’s a simple solution: don’t have sex. Femisogynists want women to be able to have abortions — to “control their reproductive rights”, as Grabenhofer phrased it — because it’s too much of a sacrifice to ask women to control their desire to have sex. They reduce women to nothing more than slaves of our hormones and desires, and then package us as victims of our own irresponsibility.
These fascist feminists aren’t out for equality anymore; if they were, then why would they have such a problem with dissenting opinions? They require women to walk in unwavering lockstep on the left. In order for them to defend you from disgusting misogynist attacks (like the ones Sarah Palin has endured since bursting onto the national stage), you have to be pro-abortion and in love with Big Daddy government. And let’s not forget, you also have to constantly consider yourself a victim and whine about the big bad patriarchy. Yet conservative women are the anti-feminists? Conservatives are unempowered?
I, along with Sarah Palin and millions of other conservative American women, don’t see myself as the product of an outdated orthodoxy. Conservative women don’t feel the need to worship at the altar of a movement that requires blood from the murder of the unborn and give it thanks for lives that we have built for ourselves. We see ourselves as masters of our own fates, and really, isn’t that what bothers the femisogynists so much? They want us to just shut up and get back in the kitchen and let them do all of the talking. Problem is, they don’t speak for American women anymore. They don’t fight for them. They speak for themselves and they fight for themselves, and they only think you deserve equality if you’re one of them. They either conveniently ignore the beginnings of feminism and what it originally stood for (the original feminists were ardently pro-life) or they just lie about it. Meanwhile, they can’t let go of their victimhood mentality because it makes them feel like they still have something to fight for, like they’re still somehow relevant.
Conservative women like Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann are more relevant than ever. American women identify more with them than they do with today’s rabid femisogynists — and I think that is exactly what their problem is. Grabenhofer, along with Jessica Valenti, Amanda Marcotte, and their ilk, can’t stand that the tables have finally been turned.
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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