Sorry, Fox Business Network, but feminists shouldn’t see Nancy Reagan as a “role model”
http://www.salon.com/2016/03/08/sorry_fox_business_network_but_feminists_shouldnt_see_nancy_reagan_as_a_role_model/
Nancy Reagan lived her life glorifying women’s submission, so I suppose she’d be happy to know that Fox Business Network is using her death as an opportunity to bash feminism. Host Trish Regan went on a rant arguing that Reagan, who openly and unabashedly believed that a woman’s place was serving her husband, was somehow a better feminist than all those meanie women who think that women are equal to men. Pshaw, what kind of feminism is that compared to the “feminism” that treats women as appendages to their husbands?
“With the passing away of Nancy Reagan, the world has lost a woman who was a great American, and a great role model for all of us, especially women,” Regan sneered, in full umbrage mode. “I remember as a kid hearing some of the criticism against her, that she was too old fashioned, not a modern woman, someone who just lived in her husband’s shadow.”
Well, yeah. I mean, Nancy Reagan didn’t exactly hide that this is exactly who she was. She openly and unashamedly went out of her way to downplay her own intelligence and influence, so her husband’s star would shine brighter in comparison. She was so committed to the idea that a wife’s place is in the home that she actually apologized for the one time she took paid work after she married Ronald. It’s weird to “defend” someone by getting mad at other people for describing her dearly held beliefs for what they were.
This segment is fun for me in particular because, while Regan is too cowardly to use my name (it rhymes with Far-Caught, if that’s the concern), she uses my tribute to Reagan’s enduring anti-feminism as evidence that feminists are mean for pointing out aspects of Reagan’s personality she didn’t try to hide.
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