Posted on 05/24/2012 6:12:30 AM PDT by Aspenhuskerette
When Gloria Steinem popularized the saying “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle,” I wasn't old enough to wear a bra, never mind burn it. However, thanks to that feminist credo and its infiltration of 1970s popular culture, women of my generation grew up believing we could make it on our own, like Mary Tyler Moore. While her theme song cautioned, “This world is awfully big, girl,” our confidence rose with Mary's cap, tossed triumphantly to “You're going to make it after all.”
Indeed, we did make it, though presidential campaign operatives peddling the “War on Women” narrative want you to Think Again. They insist it's a war on women when it's actually a war for women's votes. This month's political ad “The Life of Julia” occasions the question: Which voter are they after, Georgia in Greece or Mary in Minneapolis?
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I was wondering if any feminists would wake up and realize how demeaning to women the “Julia” comics actually are. Apparently the Obama administration believes that women cannot function as independent adults; they will inevitably become dependent on someone or something.
There certainly ARE women as passive, incapable and stupid as “Julia,” but painting “Julia” as a typical every day American woman is insulting.
Julia seems to be coming up snake eyes in all the gummit jackpots.
Even I could do a better job of it, for example making each beneficiary different. And I’d put a face on each one, darn it.
Julia is the perfect example of what the left has done to women.
They’ve replaced the Godly relationship of a woman to her father and husband with a dependence on the State. The State is Satan’s tool of dominance here in his earthly kingdom.
Every one of these clauses is inaccurate. Feminists believed none of these things, and only used words like "self-reliance" and "freedom" in dishonest or deluded ways. The feminists who helped to create the current state of our society were Marxists from broken families who hated their mothers and fathers both. They hated America, and said so. They had a magical idea of where resources come from. You have to, to believe, with this dotty author, that the government can level a playing field. All a government can do with a market is prey upon it for political gain. What feminist personalities refused to face—and still do—was that freedom is not easy. To them, freedom means getting your way, no matter what rules you have to bend to get it.
A feminist cartoon character who is entirely dependent on government is inescapably logical. Feminism was born in dependence on the state. The motive was always to use government to force those around the feminist to support her without her having to do what she is personally incapable of doing: get along with others. All voluntary associations quickly were revealed to be the enemy of the feminist, including the men who had no desire for her company, businesses that had no use for her labor—and especially, the other, less troubled women who found husbands and raised children, and who, if they succeeded in commerce, did so by pleasing customers.
Nevertheless, I'm with you in hoping that the unauthorized, "deviationist" sentiments of this woman spread and sow division to some small degree among the Democratic masses.
I watched that stupid “Julia” slideshow.
The only thought afterwards was that “Julia” knows how to work the system.
To think of all the young girls who listened to these repulsive, lefty shrews.
They were told to become Mary Tyler Moore, forego husbands/kids and have it all. Then they grew old (or grew up) to find themselves cat farmers with no families and a lonesome wait until death.
That's not what most people consider "having it all".
[ They were told to become Mary Tyler Moore, forego husbands/kids and have it all. Then they grew old (or grew up) to find themselves cat farmers with no families and a lonesome wait until death. ]
Cat Farmers, LOL !!!!
My keyboard is ruined from the drink I was drinking....
[ I watched that stupid “Julia” slideshow.
The only thought afterwards was that “Julia” knows how to work the system. ]
Libs are pros at “working the system”....
Just ask a certain College student in the early 80’s who claimed to be Indonesian/Kenyan to get a sweetheart deal and affirmative action admission to some top law skrools...
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