Posted on 01/16/2009 12:55:28 PM PST by curth
From the Indypendent, the newspaper of the NYC independent media center: From the podium at the Christian Right’s Values Voter Summit in mid-September, Kate O’Beirne of the National Review Institute pronounced that the “selection of Sarah Palin [as the GOP vice presidential nominee] sounded the death knell of modern American feminism.”
“She’s a prick to the liberal establishment, to the feminists and to the men who fear them,” she jeered.
But as “Palin Power” surged through the halls of the Hilton Washington that day and through the Republican Party base in later weeks, her vice-presidential candidacy revealed a generational cleavage that conservative elders may not have expected. Because even as older conservatives decried anything feminist, many younger activists in the hall were supportive of Sarah Palin’s “free-market” feminism.
Sarah Palin is by no means a liberal feminist. She has expressed off-again, on-again support for talking about condoms during sex education, shown ambivalence about benefiting from Title IX, which bans sex discrimination in educational institutions, and is associated with the group Feminists for Life. But Palin gave viable political form to a free-market feminism that until now was largely championed by a few intellectuals and pundits based in conservative beltway think tanks. As the GOP regroups in the Obama era, it may find this feminism useful as it softens the culture war crusade that is so off-putting to moderate Republicans and independents alike.
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Wait till your liberal feminism meets Islam. We’ll see then.
Hmmm. Wonder if there's a pun that could be derived from that statement.
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