How Dare Sarah Palin and Other Anti-Woman Conservatives Call Themselves Feminists? (Alternet)

[ihavenobias]

NOTE: What I've posted below is just a short excerpt, use the link to read the entire piece.

http://www.alternet.org/story/147201/how_dare_sarah_palin_and_other_anti-woman_conservatives_call_themselves_feminists/|How Dare Sarah Palin and Other Anti-Woman Conservatives Call Themselves Feminists?>
By Amanda Marcotte

It’s a debate that’s been raging ever since Sarah Palin made her http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj-Y10A28_M|absurd "mama grizzlies" comments> praising conservative women as the "real feminists." Palin’s disingenuous claim that women can be feminists while opposing basic feminist ideas kick-started a surge of conservative, anti-feminist women insisting that feminists unfairly exclude conservative women from feminism...

...Real feminists find themselves unimpressed with the notion that there can be a feminism based around rich, powerful women passing policies that destroy the possibility of equality for all other women in the country. Nowhere in the centuries-old definition of feminism is there a phrase explaining that equality is only for rich, white, straight, married mothers with conservative politics. That Michele Bachmann has the same right as James Inhofe to trot out a particularly loony kind of right-wing nuttery doesn’t do much for the vast majority of American women, who have the same needs they always did for equal pay, equality at home, bodily autonomy and freedom from violence...

[Demeter]

1. It's Standard Procedure--The Big Lie

See Orwell, Goebbels, Soviet Union, etc. Also, Reagan, Bush, Bush, and Clinton (both of them).

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Ironically..I think Limpballs coined the perfect phrase for the likes of Palin and her

followers....THEY are the feminazis.

[femrap]

3. I guess I will have to

refer to myself as a Progressive Feminist or an Unreconstituted Feminist.

Palin, etc. are neo-con Feminists. They're here to oppress other women into doing as they feel is right.