Posted on 06/14/2010 7:38:18 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
What Tuesday’s results demonstrated, convincingly, is that America is now a country where social conservatives are as comfortable as liberals with the idea of women in high office. More strikingly, they’re comfortable voting for working mothers — for women publicly juggling careers and family obligations in ways that would have been unthinkable for the generations of female leaders, from Elizabeth I’s Virgin Queen down to Margaret Thatcher’s Iron Lady, who were expected to unsex themselves before being entrusted with the responsibilities of state…
In this environment, it isn’t a surprise that women in the public square now disagree about everything from abortion to health care to foreign policy. If anything, it’s a sign that feminism may be returning to its fractious, ideologically unpredictable roots. (As Kerry Howley noted recently, reviewing a history of late-Victorian female radicals, there was no such thing as a “typical” early feminist: “She might well support free love but think condoms a tool of the sex-mad patriarchy; she might want to socialize housework or smash the state.”)
So however much heartburn Palin’s “mama grizzlies” give to those who associate feminism with the policies and prejudices of American liberalism, circa 1973, they should recognize their emergence for what it is: not a setback for the women’s movement, but a happy consequence of its victories.
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Well, Ross not all people are confident of a conservative woman running for office...ask pissant!
You can be a feminist if you want, limp wrist. It’s about as asinine as calling oneself a man-ist.
There is reason to be concerned, see my tagline.
Most of the men have been more liberal than the women this past few decades even in the GOP,Not so much the conservative women...like Bachmann, Malkin, Palin, Brewer (at least on immigrations)...etc
Feminists excoriate males who make sexist comments about women. Yet now, surprise surprise, it is the feminists who don’t hesitate to make crude sexist comments about conservative females. Popcorn, popcorn, the world is awash in popcorn.
Do women wear skirts anymore except to Maybe) church?
Striking.
Skirts and dresses have been entirely rejected now.
Entirely.
Rumps, rumps and more rumps.
It's always polite to include a referenced FReeper.
You're welcome.
I suspect if more women saw themselves as we see them today, skirts and dresses would make a fast comeback.
But what do I know? I'm sexist; God made men and women different for a reason and who am I to question His judgment?
(And yes, many men need to shape up a bit too...)
Not many people will discuss her polices because of course they agree with her on that. from comments from pundits like she should “leave the room” to she “is a ditz” “needs to study up on the issues” None of those types of comments would be directed at a male.
i think it will be one of Palin’s biggest hurdles to overcome in the GOP pirmairies the sexism. Hopefully the elections of many conservative women in NOV will destroy sexism once and fall all in the GOP and the nation.
I just bought a new skirt...yesterday! Yes, women wear skirts....just not as much...
Only in cities and its still rare there. Ain’t none nowhere else. I can go days without seeing one now. No I don’t get around much but, ask the Walmart greeter to do a survey.
Men who view women as helpless, dimwitted creatures aren't meeting the right kind of women.
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