The day feminist icon Alice Walker resigned as my mother

The Times (UK) ^ | May 4, 2008 | Margarette Driscoll

[jalisco555]

Another prominent leftist who loves The People in the abstract but is horrid to the individuals in her life. The daughter's rejection of feminism is also very interesting. But a very sad story.

[Izzy Dunne]

Rebecca felt precisely that — a political symbol rather than a cherished daughter.

Hey, a lot of "political symbols" descended from these "progressives" are just outright killed, so consider yourself lucky.

[Arm_Bears]

To fems, children are a distraction, at best.

I am thankful everyday for my conservative mother.

[sr4402]

Liberals pretend to care for “The Children”, even though they taught it so much. But in actuality, the opposite is usually on display.

[CholeraJoe]

To rich liberal feminists, adopted children from the Third World are ornaments. Madonna and Angelina are in a contest to see who can adopt an orphan from the poorest country.

[EyeGuy]

Feminists and the Left in general, don’t understand the paramount importance of being a good mom (or dad).

There is no job, not neurosurgeon, CEO, high-powered attorney, butcher, baker or candlestick maker that is more important, not only for individual happiness and emotional health, but the future of western civilization itself.

[Arkansas Toothpick]

My wife, a school teacher, works with an educational consultant in her school who is constantly spouting drivel about how we need to do more for the children. However, she has said that she never wants kids of her own and doesn’t understand how we could want children.

[murdoog]

Like Dickens’s Mrs Jellyby

I read Bleak House many years ago and thought Mrs. Jellyby was a spot-on description of a lot of liberals I know, even though it was written is 1853.

[y6162]

Ben Stein said it best during the Murphy Brown controversy...liberals hate kids.

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Liberals in English Departments love her black woman voice - sames goes for Maya Angelou. Neither have written much quality in the last decade or so.

[CaptainK]

Just another in a long line of leftists who cared about every family in the world but their own.

It's a lot less work that way. You don't have to remember birthdays.

[American Quilter]

This is written from the daughter Rebecca’s perspective, of course, but she does appear to be a strong, intelligent, and loving woman who has her priorities straight. Her mother, Alice, appears to be a liberal and feminist who bought the propaganda entirely and refuses to recognize the damage it does.

[To Hell With Poverty]

My mother and sister have the opposite relationship. My mother was attentive and responsible, but accidentally raised a rabid liberal idealogue (more her husband's doing than my parents') who won't let my mother see her grandchildren any more.

I suppose a malignant narcissism is at fault for both these sad situations! Certainly seems that Alice Walker and my sister are two of a kind...

[Arm_Bears]

And what happens to the poor kids when the novelty wears off?

[supremedoctrine]

“Mommie Leftist” Alice Walker, another classic Lefty who prefers the abstract (it’s always cleaner and clearer) over the Concrete (hey,it’s messy!). This was all going along so
well, until the daughter identified herself as an Obama
supporter.So they’re both Lefties, and the daughter distinguishes herself from her mother, by moving farther left. They’re both equally deluded, it seems. Leave them all, mother, daughter, husbands, etc. to their politically-defined realities. They both and all have a highly inflated sense of how important they are.

[GOPJ]

“People don’t really understand how strong ideology can be,” she says. “I think sometimes of that group and that feminism as being close to a cult. I feel I had to de-programme myself in order to have independent thought. It’s been an ongoing struggle. When you have a cult, you have a cult leader who demands a certain conformity . . . And when you have a celebrity who has cultural-icon status, economic power beyond what you can imagine, you can’t resist that person — if you want to stay in their realm. Because once you start challenging them, they kick you out.”

Food for thought.

[Izzy Dunne]

It ought to be a requirement that, before you are licensed to “help the children”, you should raise some of your own.

[Fox_Mulder77]

I can see why Alice is upset. But she should be upset at herself, for being a monster. I’ll pray for Alice.

[The Toll]

So she gave birth to a boy 3 years ago huh? She must have been very shocked to learn the true nature of men.

[Valpal1]

Liberalism is a mental disease and this story just illustrates how a histrionic and narcissistic borderline personality neglected and abused her own child in the name of celebrity femininsm. Typical.