The agony and the idiocy
Gloria Steinem is not a happy camper.
Ms. Steinem whines, “Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.”
A chromosome? That’s it? A single chromosome?
What Ms. Steinem really means is that Sarah Palin really isn’t a woman. You know a real woman. So what makes a real woman?
Let’s see.
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.
Of course to Ms. Steinem if Sarah Palin had had an abortion then she would be qualified. Tell your friends why they have to vote this November. Let’s kick some hippie ass in the polling booth. You see the real discrimination comes from those who scream for equal rights but only they should decide. We call them hypocrites, more commonly known as liberals.