[paudio]

Let’s be perfectly plain about it: Feminism is the antithesis of everything conservatism stands for.

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.

[GMMAC]

Overall, another gem from FReeper Carey.

To me, the only possible way to further hone ...
"Another reason is that many conservative men – especially politicians and newspaper editors — confuse ladies-first chivalry with becoming water-carriers for the latest feminist myth-de-jour."
... would be by lumping in "law enforcement officials" with "especially politicians and newspaper editors".

As an example, how often have we seen radical feminist harpies leading an otherwise exemplary Chief of Police around by the nose?

PING!

[rjp2005]

Uhh...this is about 25 years late. They're realizing this now??

[goldstategop]

Men Are From Conservative Mars Women Are From Liberal Venus

"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

[Muleteam1]

>>And what about conservative men? Are the conservative no-shows intimidated or merely complacent? <<

My diagnosis is it is a new disease called Republicanitis.

[JHBowden]

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.

[Lizavetta]

Depends on what one defines as abuse these days.

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.

[TChad]

The Washington Times is certainly no feminist rag. So what’s going on here?

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.

[longtermmemmory]

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.

[fortheDeclaration]

To be sure, one reason is that the conservative movement has become beholden to the electoral imperatives of the Republican party, fearing that any criticism of feminism might stir a backlash on election day. This fear is misplaced, however, as only a quarter of American women call themselves feminist, and 22% of women say that being called a feminist would be an “insult.”

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.