What is a feminist?

[chanel]

As many commentators have noted, 2010 is shaping up to be the year of the Republican woman. According to Center for American Women and Politics, 14 Republican women have thrown their girdles into the ring for the U.S. Senate and 94 for the House of Representatives. According to CAWP director Debbie Walsh, 60 of the 106 females who are challenging House incumbents are Republicans.

“There is a conscious effort being made on the part of a lot of conservative women politicians to be using this word, feminist,” Carrie Lukas, vice-president and director of policy for the conservative Independent Women’s Forum, told The Daily Caller. “But they are offering a very different brand of liberation than what is usually associated with the term, which has really become, over the last few decades, associated with groups like NOW [National Organization for Women], which are essentially indistinguishable from the Democratic Party and are more about big government than women.”

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.”


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Is feminism simply about abortion or about empowering women in the workplace and politics?

 

[editec]

What is a feminist?

Somebody who is half as right as a HUMANIST?

 

[Granny]

It's not an issue of being a Democrat or Republican - although most appear to be involved in the Democrat party.

A "feminist" is, in my opinion, a (generally speaking) woman with revolutionist, militant, leftist, hostile, with personal issues of all kinds, and who does not necessarily have the best interests of ALL women at heart. They have a political agenda behind all their actions and are interested only in women of the same persuasion as they. In other words ... they are women who go through life with a cob up their ass.

They appear to have little emotional feelings for anyone other than themselves - and that includes husbands and children who are sometimes "necessary inconveniences". They transform themselves into "men" to "prove" they are better than men. Ever notice how they primarily dress in their little black suits ("uniforms") and stomp around rather than walk?

They fail to see that women are very smart in their own right and have made tremendous contributions to humanity throughout history and they've done it without chopping the balls off men and otherwise alienating both men and women alike. There is nothing feminine about any of them.

 

[editec]

It's not an issue of being a Democrat or Republican - although most appear to be involved in the Democrat party.

A "feminist" is, in my opinion, a (generally speaking) woman with revolutionist, militant, leftist, hostile, with personal issues of all kinds, and who does not necessarily have the best interests of ALL women at heart. They have a political agenda behind all their actions and are interested only in women of the same persuasion as they. In other words ... they are women who go through life with a cob up their ass.

They appear to have little emotional feelings for anyone other than themselves - and that includes husbands and children who are sometimes "necessary inconveniences". They transform themselves into "men" to "prove" they are better than men. Ever notice how they primarily dress in their little black suits ("uniforms") and stomp around rather than walk?

They fail to see that women are very smart in their own right and have made tremendous contributions to humanity throughout history and they've done it without chopping the balls off men and otherwise alienating both men and women alike. There is nothing feminine about any of them.

No, I think the world for those gals is either militant bull dykes or clueless angry hetersexual woman who cannot understand why every man they ever got involved with ran like hell after getting to know them.

I actually know some honest feminists who aren't sexist asshats.

They're refreshingly honest people.

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

As many commentators have noted, 2010 is shaping up to be the year of the Republican woman. According to Center for American Women and Politics, 14 Republican women have thrown their girdles into the ring for the U.S. Senate and 94 for the House of Representatives. According to CAWP director Debbie Walsh, 60 of the 106 females who are challenging House incumbents are Republicans.

“There is a conscious effort being made on the part of a lot of conservative women politicians to be using this word, feminist,” Carrie Lukas, vice-president and director of policy for the conservative Independent Women’s Forum, told The Daily Caller. “But they are offering a very different brand of liberation than what is usually associated with the term, which has really become, over the last few decades, associated with groups like NOW [National Organization for Women], which are essentially indistinguishable from the Democratic Party and are more about big government than women.”

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.”


Read more: Conservatives try to claim the term feminist as their own | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

Conservatives try to claim the term feminist as their own | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

Is feminism simply about abortion or about empowering women in the workplace and politics?

A feminist is a supporter of femminism.

Femminism describes political, cultural, and economic movements aimed at establishing greater rights, legal protection for women, and women's liberation.

I believe it is not a left/right thing but an Up/Down thing

 

[Sky Dancer]

It's not an issue of being a Democrat or Republican - although most appear to be involved in the Democrat party.

A "feminist" is, in my opinion, a (generally speaking) woman with revolutionist, militant, leftist, hostile, with personal issues of all kinds, and who does not necessarily have the best interests of ALL women at heart. They have a political agenda behind all their actions and are interested only in women of the same persuasion as they. In other words ... they are women who go through life with a cob up their ass.

They appear to have little emotional feelings for anyone other than themselves - and that includes husbands and children who are sometimes "necessary inconveniences". They transform themselves into "men" to "prove" they are better than men. Ever notice how they primarily dress in their little black suits ("uniforms") and stomp around rather than walk?

They fail to see that women are very smart in their own right and have made tremendous contributions to humanity throughout history and they've done it without chopping the balls off men and otherwise alienating both men and women alike. There is nothing feminine about any of them.

Wow. This post is full of stereotypes.

 

[PoliticalChic]

As many commentators have noted, 2010 is shaping up to be the year of the Republican woman. According to Center for American Women and Politics, 14 Republican women have thrown their girdles into the ring for the U.S. Senate and 94 for the House of Representatives. According to CAWP director Debbie Walsh, 60 of the 106 females who are challenging House incumbents are Republicans.

“There is a conscious effort being made on the part of a lot of conservative women politicians to be using this word, feminist,” Carrie Lukas, vice-president and director of policy for the conservative Independent Women’s Forum, told The Daily Caller. “But they are offering a very different brand of liberation than what is usually associated with the term, which has really become, over the last few decades, associated with groups like NOW [National Organization for Women], which are essentially indistinguishable from the Democratic Party and are more about big government than women.”

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.”


Read more: Conservatives try to claim the term feminist as their own | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

Conservatives try to claim the term feminist as their own | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

Is feminism simply about abortion or about empowering women in the workplace and politics?

Great topic!
The term as up 'til recently referred to, as you state, the wholly-owned subsidiary of the Democrat Party.

1."Academic feminists who received tenure, promotion, and funding, tended to be pro-abortion, pro-pornography (anti-censorship), pro-prostitution (pro-sex workers), pro-surrogacy, and anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist, and anti-American…proponents of simplistic gender-neutrality (women and men are exactly the same) or essentialist: men and women are completely different, and women are better. They are loyal to their careers and their cliques, not to the truth. [In their writing, they] have pretended that brilliance and originality can best be conveyed in a secret, Mandarin language that absolutely no one, including themselves, can possibly understand…and this obfuscation of language has been employed to hide a considerable lack of brilliance and originality and to avoid the consequences of making oneself clear.

a. This rigid intolerance as exercised by the movement, unfortunately, has driven away women who choose motherhood over high-powered careers, women who are American patriots, many religious women, women who do not identify themselves primarily in terms of sexual preference, and women who oppose abortion, pornography and prostitution. The outside-the-mainstream feminists hold abolitionist views about pornography, prostitution, trafficking, and sexual slavery; viewing freedom as a universal value; in short, are conservative.

b. Mainstream Western feminism is politically-correct left-dominated liberalism, postcolonial, anti-imperialist feminism, which has denounced America’s vision of freedom and democracy for the women of Moslem countries. One must be reflexively opposed to religion. One must not be opposed to pornography or prostitution, as it offends many gays, and threatens some views of sexual privacy and access. The left claims the usual laundry list of offenses attributable to the right, including : forcing people into gender roles, obstructing the use of alternative energy, increasing the fear of immigrants and aliens, denying adequate health care coverage, promoting a military policy that denies equal rights for sexual minorities.
While there is nothing wrong with raising concerns, but where is the indication that the problems are a) due to the right, or b) not equally the result of policies of both parties.?"

While the above may not be direct quotes, the concepts and premises are from
Phyllis Chesler, "The Death of Feminism"

2. The kind of feminism of the last 4 or 5 decades is the narrowing, totalitarian kind that imposes directions and limits choices. Logical as it seems that women should be prepared for events such as divorce and widowhood, marriage and family may reduce opportunities for outside work or education. But the solution, according to Simone de Beauvoir in an interview with Betty Friedan is “No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.” “Sex, Society, and the Female Dilemma,” Saturday Review, June 14, 1975, p. 18.
a. Like all totalitarian movements, the goal is not to give more freedom, but to take away choice.
b.Radical Feminists refuse to recognize the accomplishments of conservative women. Jeane Kirkpatrick, Margaret Thatcher, Sarah Palin, none could be recognized or honored. Apparently there are men, women, and people who might otherwise have qualified as women but have chosen to be Republicans instead.

 

[editec]

Let's face it.

The kind of woman who shoves her feminism credential down your throat is probably a just a pain in everybody's ass sexist.

But there are thoughly decent women out there who ARE feminists who focus on the problems associated with being a woman and THEY are a boon to this society.

I remember when women didn't make equal pay for equal work.

I remember when there were good girls and bad girls.

I remember when women seldom had the same opportunities as men.

Feminism and REAL feminists did much to deal with that unfair reality.

But like every other civil rights movement there are stupid asshats who glom onto social movements as just a way of them rationizing their own bitterness.

Manhaters who claim they are motivated by the politics of feminism are generally just clueless idiots.

 

[Ravi]

"Feminist" is a word that "conservative" women and men use to bash women they disagree with.

 

[Care4all]

what a crock of crapola pc....sheesh

feminists did not ever support prostitution, nor did they ever support pornography...

The original feminists were the ones protesting AGAINST SUCH.....they were the ones who thought women were being used and exploited for sex....they were even against beauty pageants for same reason....another rewrite of history on your part....sheesh pc!?!

AND Granny, you too are way off base with your whole post imo as well???

 

[PoliticalChic]

Let's face it.

The kind of woman who shoves her feminism credential down your throat is probably a just a pain in everybody's ass sexist.

But there are thoughly decent women out there who ARE feminists who focus on the problems associated with being a woman and THEY are a boon to this society.

I remember when women didn't make equal pay for equal work.

I remember when there were good girls and bad girls.

I remember when women seldom has the same opportunities as men.

Feminism and REAL feminists did much to deal with that unfair reality.

But like every other civil rights movement there are stupid asshats
who think that the movement is just a way of turning the victims into the victimizers.

Manhaters who claim they are motivated by the politics of feminism are generally just clueless idiots.

Here is the enormous error in your post:
"But like every other civil rights movement there are stupid asshats ..."
The implication is that the majority of whose under the 'feminist ' umbrella are just good folks whose agenda is consistent with normal American values.

You are sorely mistaken.

The term has been reserved for radical egalitarian leftist totalitarians whose major belief is that gender roles are culturally derived, not biological, and it is only the oppression of males that prevents them from ruling the world.

And, like so much of the bogus leftist propaganda, it is an intellectual movement that has found a home in the universities, where Women's Studies put forth false doctrine, and produce poorly educated, angry, misguided women.

I find it hard to believe that one seemingly well read, such as yourself, can be so blinded to reality.

For your edification:

“Professing Feminism: Cautionary Tales from the Strange World of Women’s Studies,” Patai and Koertge,

“Sex, Society, and the Female Dilemma,” Saturday Review, June 14, 1975

"The Death of Feminism," Dr. Phyllis Chesler

“Feminism Against Science,” National Review, November 18, 1991,

“ ‘Equality’ Over Quality,” Reason, July 1991,http://biblioteca.uprrp.edu/latcrit...Symposium/LCIHarvardLat(1997)/LCIEArriola.pdf

Robert Nisbet, “Prejudices: A Philosophical Dictionary,”

 

[The Rabbi]

What is a feminist? Hairy legs, man-hating dyke.

More seriously, the feminist movement started out with the idea that women should be and could be just like men, doing men's jobs, getting men's pay etc. And there was some validity to that.
But like most such movements, once the objective was met the organizations involved had to find something else to agitate about. In this case the feminist groups prostituted themselves to the Democratic Party. Thus they hounded Republican Bob Packwood out of office for sexual harassment but supported rapist and abuser Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy, both Democrats. In doing so they lost any moral authority they had. They further confirmed their roles as partisan hacks in their shrill denunciations of Sarah Palin for being a wife and mother.

 

[blastoff]

Any woman who would have sex with Rosie O'Donnell.

 

[PoliticalChic]

what a crock of crapola pc....sheesh

feminists did not ever support prostitution, nor did they ever support pornography...

The original feminists were the ones protesting AGAINST SUCH.....they were the ones who thought women were being used and exploited for sex....they were even against beauty pageants for same reason....another rewrite of history on your part....sheesh pc!?!

AND Granny, you too are way off base with your whole post imo as well???

You are exposing your ignorance of the subject...as well as an...interesting...writing style.

As a modern liberal spinoff, the feminist, certainly supports every permutation of personal sexual freedom.

"Daniel Bell described in “The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism” as the rejection of traditional bourgeois qualities by late-nineteenth-century European artists and intellectuals who sought “to substitute for religion or morality an aesthetic justification of life.” By the 1960s, that modernist tendency had evolved into a credo of self-fulfillment in which “nothing is forbidden, all is to be explored,” Bell wrote."
Whatever Happened to the Work Ethic? by Steven Malanga, City Journal Summer 2009

The specific references to pro-prostitution as in freedom to be 'sex workers' is covered fully in Dr. Chesler's discussion of the feminist doctrine.

The liberal, and, of course that includes self-identified feminists, are of a piece with most of pop culture, which finds the most disreputable as paragons, to be idolized.
a. “The extrovert, the hedonist, the madman, the criminal, the suicide, or the exhibitionist can rise to heroic stature in [the culture] for the same reason that Byron or Raskolnikov became Romantic heroes- profligacy and murder are expressions of an emotional intensity that defies the limits imposed by nature and society.” Robert Pattison, “The Triumph of Vulgarity: Rock Music in the Mirror of Romanticism,” p. 122-3

 

[theDoctorisIn]

what a crock of crapola pc....sheesh

feminists did not ever support prostitution, nor did they ever support pornography...

The original feminists were the ones protesting AGAINST SUCH.....they were the ones who thought women were being used and exploited for sex....they were even against beauty pageants for same reason....another rewrite of history on your part....sheesh pc!?!

AND Granny, you too are way off base with your whole post imo as well???

Read about the differences between first, second and third-wave feminism.

 

[Modbert]

The last people I want defining feminists are Conservatives who have used it as a smear word for longer than I've been alive.

 

[LuckyDan]

The last people I want defining feminists are Conservatives who have used it as a smear word for longer than I've been alive.

That statement is more true in the reverse. Feminists despise conservative women and berate any woman who chooses a traditional role. Ask any stay-at-home mom.

 

[The Rabbi]

The last people I want defining feminists are Conservatives who have used it as a smear word for longer than I've been alive.

That statement is more true in the reverse. Feminists despise conservative women and berate any woman who chooses a traditional role. Ask any stay-at-home mom.

Never mind that. Any woman who doesn't hew to the party line of higher taxes and more government assistance is demonized. Just ask Sarah Palin.

 

[Modbert]

That statement is more true in the reverse. Feminists despise conservative women and berate any woman who chooses a traditional role. Ask any stay-at-home mom.

What a moronic statement. Do you usually take millions of people, and group them all into one statement and view? I doubt it. There are some feminists who are out there and I'm sure who despise women who choose a role not like theirs. However, to say they are the majority is not only dangerously ignorant but bordering on dishonest.

Feminists fight for equal rights for women, last I checked. They fight for women to have choice, which yes, includes Abortion. Conservatives, especially the moral ones, tend to want to limit people's choices, so why should anyone be surprised?

 

[Modbert]

Never mind that. Any woman who doesn't hew to the party line of higher taxes and more government assistance is demonized. Just ask Sarah Palin.

So says the sexist racist. Use the N word again recently? Call anymore women bitches? Call African Americans the "gimme" crowd again?

I find it hilarious, you, the stereotypical white sexist racist Republican trying to act otherwise is just too good.