Are you sure they're silent? Do you read a lot of feminist literature?
I thought the feminists were silent about Michelle because she isn’t Lesbian enough for their taste.
Like when a woman gets married to a man, and has his children she forfeits the support of the feminists.
If a woman wants to keep the support of the feminists she should merely being promiscuous with nameless men, or better yet be promiscuous with with women and gets artifically inseminated.
That may very well be..in the ‘femminist literature” ( a very elite segment )....but where it counts, where people hear about it, in the MSM and the “demonstrations” you hear nothing. In fact, liberal and leftist women that are all upset about us going into Iraq, are quite “liberal” in their whitewashing Muslim culture when it comes to women.
The femminists haven’t really made any strides in that regard. Politically they are not so different than the femminists in the early 70’s feminist resurgence. When push came to shove, the women fell in line right behind the men in SDS, Black Power groups. Even NOW was very quick to integrate men into their group at a time when women were just starting to form women’s group.
\So it is no different with the left today, spouting a lot about women’s rights, but throwing their own under the bus if a charismatic black Man comes along.