American Feminism Out of Touch w/ Women & Men

As one Iraqi women's advocate, Haifa Abdul Rahman, told her, "We see feminism in America as dividing women from men, separating women from the family. This is bad for everyone." _Source

This is not the time to be attacking the family, or family-oriented women. But that is exactly what feminism and the left is doing, in an increasingly crude and frantic manner.

Today's feminist establishment in the United States is dominated by the radical wing of the egalitarian tradition. Not only do its members not cooperate with their conservative sisters, but they also often denigrate and vilify them; indeed they have all but eliminated them from the history of American feminism. Revisionist history is never a pretty sight. But feminist revisionists are destructive in special ways. They seek to obliterate not only feminist history but the femininity that made it a success.

Feminists do not speak for the majority of women. They speak for leftist radical women, who consider all other women as "fair game" to be exploited systematically in a way the patriarchy never considered doing.

The candidacy of Alaska governor Sarah Palin should present an interesting spectacle for the women of America. It also presents an increasingly difficult dilemma for the radical feminists who have pressed so hard for a Democratic Party majority in the US Congress. If radical feminists adopt their standard attack tactics against Palin, they risk revealing more about themselves than they care to do. But if they hold back, they risk allowing entire new generations of young women to be exposed a powerful new female role model that could reverse decades of feminist indoctrination.

Should the harpy hos of feminism ignore Palin, or should they loudly protest her as "anti woman?"

McCain's maverick choice has certainly stirred the pot.