[CodeToad]

Read the book: Ayn Rand Answers, edited by Robert Mayhew (2005).

She states clearly that she believes in feminism and believes in goverment interference to enforce it.

[BobbyT]

I haven’t read that book, but I read nearly all of hers (fiction as well as about a dozen non-fiction), and nothing she wrote struck me as being supportive of “feminism” or government set asides.

She did refute “multiculturalism”, “affirmative action”, and other unearned preferences. I don’t see how she would’ve supported anything but government blindness to all traits except merit.

[ReformationFan]

Could you post(if it’s not too long or too much trouble) what Ayn Rand actually said about feminism in that book? Also, if possible, the year she advocated affirmative action and state enforcement of women’s hiring for jobs? The reason I ask this is I saw an interview with her that was taped in 1979. In it, she and the feminists were disgreeing strongly about affirmative action for women with Rand making a two wrongs don’t make a right type of argument against affirmative action for women. Rand sounded much more like Phyllis Schlafly in that exchange than Gloria Steinem.

Of course, people can be inconsistent and/or change their opinions over time, but I think it would be interesting to read considering how anti-statist and anti-collectivist Ayn Rand was and how pro-statist/collectivist the NOW gang was(and still is).

[neocon1984]

I will have to get back to you on that. It sounds fishy, like a secondary source with an agenda.

Have you read “The Passion of Ayn Rand” by Barbara Branden (Nathaniel Branden’s ex-wife)? It is a remarkable biography that gives tremendous insight from someone who knew her very well.

[neocon1984]

"Read the book: Ayn Rand Answers, edited by Robert Mayhew (2005)".

Mayhew, a philosophy professor, contributed twice to John Edwards' Presidential campaign. Get real and go back to the DailyKos.

[formosa]

If you read a book of essays by Ayn Rand called “Return to the Primitive” you will find in many of the essays, not just dislike but revulsion for modern day feminism. Also you will find she is against affirmative action and multi-culturalism.
She was a lady very much against government intervention in these areas. She liked the idea of the heroic man and felt that only a man should be president except in extreme circumstances.
Perhaps you should read her many essays and works of philosophy before passing judgement.