Gloria Steinem I love you

[malaise]

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-steinem4-2008sep04,0,1290251.story

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Here's the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even the anti-feminist right wing -- the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party -- are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president. We owe this to women -- and to many men too -- who have picketed, gone on hunger strikes or confronted violence at the polls so women can vote. We owe it to Shirley Chisholm, who first took the "white-male-only" sign off the White House, and to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who hung in there through ridicule and misogyny to win 18 million votes.

But here is even better news: It won't work. This isn't the first time a boss has picked an unqualified woman just because she agrees with him and opposes everything most other women want and need. Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

Selecting Sarah Palin, who was touted all summer by Rush Limbaugh, is no way to attract most women, including die-hard Clinton supporters. Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton. Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that opposes pretty much everything Clinton's candidacy stood for -- and that Barack Obama's still does. To vote in protest for McCain/Palin would be like saying, "Somebody stole my shoes, so I'll amputate my legs."
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Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! :rofl:

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[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[firedupdem]

2. K & R

Love it...you tell em Gloria!

[malaise]

3. Don't you wonder who are the women

responding. Must be a Fundie group.

[Solly Mack]

4. Have to be...damn sure not self-respecting

[Hidden Stillness]

5. The Wonderful Gloria Steinem, Making Things Clear, Again

This is what happens when a movement is co-opted by the oppressive forces, to harness it for their own ends. This is "feminism," as presented by woman-hating males who own the public mouthpiece now. They couldn't kill it, or laugh it off, so now they "become" it, and take it away--like telling women, by way of media ads, that "wearing sexy outfits," or pornography, is "liberating" to "women"; or telling women that lawsuits for equal pay are really, actually "bad" for "women," because they are all "frivilous lawsuits" and "detract" from something or other. Thank God, though, that it is being played to an educated group, the non-media women, and it all comes at us like orders from males. It will not work, although it is being pretended otherwise on the media.

I am old enough to remember when there just were no women anywhere, and any woman winning was so exciting--like a New Day Dawning--that you were so happy, almost no matter who it was: "It's us!" Now, all these years later, it is much more common, and there is no need to just want to jump at any chance. Now, we choose individually, as if it were always this way, always normal... Of course, you could also ask why the great Gloria Steinem, whose books, (when she writes them), are still best-sellers, has never been on the "liberal male" Olbermann "Countdown" program, but that would be causing trouble, again.