Only if we let them define the term the way Gloria Steinem does.
Like 'conservativism', 'feminism' also has multiple meanings. I think we need to push for women's rights, but not the way current feminists do. Susan B. Anthony has shown us examples of what to do.
PING!
Uhh...this is about 25 years late. They're realizing this now??
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
My diagnosis is it is a new disease called Republicanitis.
In some ways, modern feminism is conservative, given the way many thinkers talk about the "female mode of knowing" and so forth. Traditional liberalism, being more abstract, looks at human beings qua human beings and emphasizes uniform rights instead of respecting "ways of being in the world" and other nonsense. Here is the conflict between instinct and reason.
Postmodern thought in general is much closer to De Maistre than it is to J.S. Mill.
I just typed a parole hearing in which the inmate considered himself abused because for part of his childhood he grew up poor.
For Lifetime Channel watchers, an abused woman is one who is expected to mother her children.
I noticed this drivel when it appeared, fabricated feminist victimization boilerplate. I read the Washington Times precisely in order to avoid this sort of leftist propaganda, but the paper is no longer reliably conservative. Editorial page editor Tony Blankley gave the Democrats a huge gift with his ill-timed calls for Dennis Hastert to resign for the Foley kerfuffle. Blankley gave undeserved legitimacy to the notion that it was a Republican scandal, not just a Mark Foley scandal. It's time for him to collect his payback for point shaving in the championship game, and go to work for the Washington Post.
Many of the recent WT editorial page cartoons could have been taken from the Post or the NYT, they are simply humorless Republican bashing. I still trust Wes Pruden and most of the WT columnists, but something is very wrong with the paper's current leadership.
yes it absoluly has.
women who state the conservative believes still also jump into the feminist propaganda points in order to support quotas, set asides, and feminist support groups.
That is because there is a vast difference between being Feminine and being a feminist.
Women who are feminine love being women.
Women who are feminists do not and resent the real differences between men and women.