Sarah Palin: Feminst

[TheMightyFavog]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127092813&f=1014&sc=tw

During a speech at the Susan B. Anthony List "Celebration of Life" breakfast in Washington, DC, Sarah Palin called upon the assembled group to take the reigns of an "emerging, conservative, feminist identity."

Many liberals complain that Palin's political views are incompatible with feminism. Meghan Daum calls that hypocritical. She writes in a recent column,"if she has the guts to call herself a feminist, then she's entitled to be accepted as one."

Daum, who has long considered herself a feminist, isn't sure she follows all of Palin's logic, but she is with Palin on this. Daum thinks opinions about abortion and other social issues aligned with women's rights are separate from the question of whether one is a feminist or not.

Further, Daum sees Palin's use of the word feminist in a conservative framework as a challenge to "those who believe in gender equality but avoid the word."

WTF? Did I just step into Bizzaro World or something?

[KharmaTrain]

1. This Lady Is An Idiot...

I think Mooselini's "opinions" are separated from reality. Anyone who thinks she's a "feminist" insult all women who have fought the good fight.

[left coaster]

2. So, by that "logic".. if I have the guts to call myself a brain surgeon..

I should be accepted as one??? Wow.. just WOW.

In the twisted world of the pathological narcissist, merely saying something makes it so!

[Vickers]

9. Hey, I'm an astronaut!!!

:crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy:

[sinkingfeeling]

3. NOT. From an original feminist... circa 1960s - 1970s n/t

[rurallib]

4. So strange. Not sure how to react. It is like Newtie calling himself a black man

just because he thinks he is.
Another RW fantasy like homosexuality can be 'cured.'

On another level my cat Natre thinks he is a german shepard.

[Radical Activist]

5. I have a hard time seeing her as a feminist. But,

As long as feminism is largely defined on college campuses and by a relatively small number of upper-class women in New York and California then there will continue to be the threat of a populist figure like Palin hijacking the feminist label and appropriating it for a conservative agenda targeted at working class women in middle America. This isn't too surprising. It reflects the same regional and class divides that are limiting the growth of the environmental movement as well.

[opihimoimoi]

6. She is NOT FOR THE COMMON GOOD..that makes her a PHONEY

[joeybee12]

7. I doubt any woman who quits because the job is too tough should be called a feminist....

...how about a femiwimp.

[katanalori]

8. She is NOT a fmnist

Anyone who would charge victims for their own rape kids (as she did while mayor of wasilly) is anti-women.
The kits cost at least $1100 - most women did not have the funds, so the cases could not be prosecuted.

Palin is a FRAUD, a HOAX, a QUITTER and a BULLY - and I am so sick of her bullshit.

[Obamanaut]

10. It may well be she is not a 'feminst' (OP) or a 'fmnist'. nt

[noel711]

11. Feminist? Or did she mean 'fabulist' or fantacist' or 'fascist'?

She's a feminist like I'm an 18 year old super model billionaire.

[mitchum]

12. She's not a feminist; she's an opportunist with ovaries

[LynneSin]

13. Until she campaigns for a woman's right to choose she is NOT a feminist

end of discussion.

If she had it her way she'd allow pharmists to block women from getting birth control. How is that feminism?

[one_voice]

14. Well according to Palin's father...

she doesn't make decisions, and he steers her in the direction he wants....


Making the decisions

Not entirely clear what Sarah Palin's father means here:

Mr. Heath said he was careful about nudging his daughter toward the things that interest him.

“I don’t want to push the wrong button with Sarah,” he said. “Besides, she doesn’t make the decisions. Let me retract that. I’m sure she thinks them over and she has a lot of say as to yes and no.”

So if not her, who?

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0510/Making_the_decisions.html?showall