"The 2010 Year of the Woman was mainly about candidates who supported policies traditionally advanced by white men. " - and that can never be a good thing

WikipediaBrown · 2010-11-10T01:31:59+00:00

This article is all over the place, but the initial point can be distilled into this: Republican women generally hate themselves. This is true--they oppose family planning, including abortion rights and sex education, all of which are good for women. Republican women are anti-feminist in this sense.

Not all feminism is bad, as widely as the term "feminism" is used. Originally feminism was about equality, and things like women's suffrage were primary goals of the movement. Nowadays the movement's goals are much more dilute and some of them are highly suspect. However, the original goal of gender equality is a good one, and that's why men's rights is a movement in the first place.

However, family planning is just as much a men's rights issue as it is one of feminism. Tea Party types like Angle, O'Donnell, Palin and Fiorina are against men's rights just as much as they are against women's rights because they want to impose fundamentalist Christian values on the American populace as a whole, and that is a very, very bad thing for the humanism of the men's rights movement.

kloo2yoo · 2010-11-10T00:51:00+00:00

Beneath the shiny veneer of the "You Go Girl!" message is a more sinister reality. The culture is becoming extremely hostile to feminism’s goal of equality between the sexes.

that's not feminism's goal.

2010-11-10T01:49:25+00:00

Here is 2XC's link to this from a few days ago

The more times I read that article though, the more it becomes obvious the real issue here - people are getting tired of those who just hoist up the label "Feminism" and expect everyone to fall in line behind them especially now that it is used in political campaigns by both sides.

When it passed a certain threshold, feminism became politics - a lobbyist group for certain special interests, empty campaign slogans, a wedge issue even. Once it hit that point, the game changed. In politics, any "sacred cow" will first be milked for all that it is worth, then it is killed to polarize and mobilize voters.

We are witnessing the split - the division of feminism along political lines. This is good news for anti-feminists.

Title	"The 2010 Year of the Woman was mainly about candidates who supported policies traditionally advanced by white men. " - and that can never be a good thing
Author	kloo2yoo
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Comments	4
Date	November 10, 2010 12:47 AM UTC (15 years ago)
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