Posted on 03/01/2007 1:12:20 PM PST by racing fan
During the 20th century, legions of women worked tirelessly to help women break free of the stereotype that they were meant to be either housewives and mothers or men’s playthings. We pay tribute to these barrier-busters—such as Alice Paul, Susan B. Anthony, Betty Friedan, Eleanor Roosevelt and many others—during Women’s History Month to thank them for their amazing accomplishments. Yet, while we honor such women, there still are those who manage, through their actions or their words, to make us wonder, have we really come that far. You know the type: The women who either perpetuate the stereotypes so many have fought against or who forget that women have won the right to chart their own course, even if it’s as a homemaker. There’s the spoiled young woman who seems to prize a good party over all else; the woman who harangues other women to get back to the home, even though the haranguer isn’t living by her own rules; and the woman who pressures her kind to forget about the pleasures of raising children to climb the corporate ladder. Here’s a selection of 10 women, in no particular order, who make life a little harder for the rest of us.
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I looked, but didn't find my ex-wife on the list. What gives?
I looked, but didn't find my ex-wife on the list. What gives?
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I don't know. They probably didn't know. Maybe next year?
and the bratz dolls are #10. This list has problems and so does PMSNBC.
Betty Friedan, Eleanor Roosevelt
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Oooh, it's UGLY women's history month. I get it!
Brenda Fabianski.....don't ask.
Would somebody PLEASE tell me, just WHAT the hell did Eleanor Roosevelt ever do besides marry FDR and mug for the cameras?...........
Hitlary would be two of them.
She wrote a biweekly column whose strident socialism drove any number of good conservative women right up the wall for years.
See Florence King's autobiography for the effect Eleanor had on one good old Dixie woman (Flo's grandma).
Women's history month? Somehow I don't think there will ever be a white male's month.
Well, give them some credit for having Linda Hirshman on there.
Not much. But some.
Mostly sluts and feminists, with a couple of conservatives. Fairly even-handed.
Susan B. Anthony makes me cringe, as she was a leader of the temperance movement that led to the disastrous Prohibition. She wanted freedom for women (herself) and blacks (like a lot of people did), but screw anyone who wants a drink.
Jeez, it's the Runaway Columnist!
It is a list of "women".
Phyllis Schlafly: Conservative activist
Self-described leader of the “pro-family” movement since the early 1970s, Phyllis Schlafly heads the Eagle Forum, a conservative organization that advocates for the protection of what it calls “traditional values,” like the role of wife as homemaker rather than as a professional.
Schlafly famously led the fight against what she called “radical feminists” to defeat the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment in the late 1970s. After 30 of the needed 38 states had ratified the amendment, Schlafly began a grass-roots effort to lobby the remaining legislatures, claiming that ratification of the ERA wouldn’t just provide equal pay for equal work, but that it would also lead to same-sex marriages, women in the military and erosion of “traditional” family roles for women.
Interestingly, Schlafly, who stridently urges women to be homemakers, and homemakers only, has not gravitated to that role herself. In addition to leading the Eagle Forum for over 30 years, she also holds three degrees, including a master’s in political science and a law degree.
My Heroine!
Yes, we’re all entitled to First Amendment protections of the Constitution, short of yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater. But ultra-conservative right-wing commentator and author Ann Coulter seems to think it’s her birthright to criticize and lambaste whoever she wants, regardless of the facts or the impact of her vitriol.
"Where is Hitlery and the queen of all women that make a guy cringe, Helen Thomas, on that list?"
It is a list of "women".
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LOL.
"It is a list of "women"."
You have a point there.
The arrogance on Michelman's face.
But then again, most feminists are
pompous and self-righteous.
On the whole the article makes ME cringe!
Soooo,
Does that mean you don't like her? :^)
In no particular order:
The Hildebeeste
Nazi Pelosi
Frances Kissling
Kate Michelman
Eve Ensler
Barbara Mikulski
Helen Thomas
Barbara Boxer
Hanoi Jane Fonda
Janet Reno
I guess I should be a little more direct. ;-)
Of course, with the exception of Sheila Jeffreys who I know nothing about, they're either entertainers (understandable) or conservatives.
This list is BS because it doesn't contain "Rosie O'Donnell" or "Helen Thomas" on it.
My ex would definitely be at the top of the list. UNNGH!
Sounds like Joanne is bitter about something.
I'd hit it!
All Christians will have a ringside seat.
What an airhead she was. All those things happened anyway!
Still, writing a bi-weekly column is not much. Did she ever actually do anything, like feed the children of poor America, or give homes to the homeless or comfort to the sick and elderly. The way people revere her name is as if she were a saint! She died when I was very young, seven or so. I remember some people thought she was a devil and some a saint. Write about problems? Hell, anybody can do that! If she was so great, why didn't she have FDR do away with segregation a generation ahead of time?.................
Or brushing her teeth, apparently.
Well if she keeps silent, maybe... nah, never!
"doesn't believe in make-up and dressing up"
And apparently doesn't believe in dentists either.
I don't want her silent, she just can't talk!
With the souls of going on 50 million standing on the sidelines looking on. Very ironic subtitle: A Life Spent Protecting The Right To Choose. A bit dangling, like all the pro-abort bromides. I always ask, the "right" to choose what? Apparent answer: the "right" to slaughter millions of innocent lives.
Yep, a life spent "protecting" the "right" to "choose". Well, Michelman made her choice, alright, now she'll spend an eternity of damnation paying for it.
Silence.
I have tortured fantasies of her and a drum of canola oil.
Thats is the scariest bunch of women I have ever seen at the same time.
[...What an airhead she was. All those things happened anyway!...]
Please tell me that was sarcasm. The point is that
Schlafly knew what the ERA would bring upon our culture.
It's as if she could see into the future. What a woman!
How dare they say one word against the honorable Phyllis Schlafly. What a great American.
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