Have you noticed how feminists have taken the back seat to LGBTQ issues, or to “blacklivesmatter” issues, or white microaggression, or any of the other victimology themes in today’s political and academic streams of thought? Now the media have to trot out Bruce Jenner for woman of the year, as if hormone supplements, a manicure, and a glamorous dress make one a woman—accoutrements that a few years ago were an anathema for feminists.
So looking back to the 2008 campaign I think Sarah Palin stole their thunder. Feminists just didn’t know what to do with her, and gradually disintegrated, at least as victims. The left had to seek new and fresh victims--trust fund black students, transgendered reality stars, and anchor babies wanting in-state tuition.
This item appear in SF Gate, September 21, 2008, written by Phyllis Schafly. Sarah Palin never became the first female vice president, but she perhaps did more—she led women out of the feminist swamp even if that looked impossible in 2008.
"Feminist anger against Sarah has exposed the fact that feminism is not about women's success and achievement. If it were, feminists would have been bragging for years about self-made women who are truly remarkable achievers, such as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, or former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, or Sen. Elizabeth Dole, or even Margaret Thatcher. Feminists never boast about these women because feminism's basic doctrine is victimology. Feminism preaches that women can never succeed because they are the sorry victims of an oppressive patriarchy. No matter how smart or accomplished a woman may be, she's told that success and happiness are beyond her grasp because institutional sexism and discrimination hold her down. . . Sarah Palin is an exemplar of a successful, can-do woman, and the feminists simply don't know how to deal with her. I hope she will usher in a new era where conventional wisdom recognizes that feminist negativism is ancient history and American women are so fortunate to live in the greatest country on Earth." SF Gate, Sept. 21
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Sarah Palin is a celerity not a stateswoman. She has made a lot of money but I fail to see any other major achievement in her life. She was picked out of nowhere to run with McClain purely perhaps she was a woman not because she had any remote experience or for that matter brains. And she has repeatedly proved the latter. You don't quit two years into it and go on Fox to make major money and spout your idiot notions. She should have gone back to school,taken some history, finished a few courses and then run for something she could handle to start with. She has no creditability . She blew it and may have set women back a few decades. Do it ladies-but do it right.
I was very unhappy that she quit, but I stand by what I said about feminism being a bankrupt, victimology. We'll disagree, since you carry water for the Democrats.
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