Feminism: Ideology or Interest Group?

Article here. Excerpt:

'The American Thinker’s always interesting Clarice Feldman has taken two separate incidents to draw our attention to what Feldman calls “the pernicious effects” of feminism today.

The two incidents are…

"…the skewed married women versus single women vote in Virginia and the increasing pressure put on the military to prosecute meritless charges of sexual assault. In both cases, ordinary men and women and the country as a whole are the victims of upper-class women's drive to power through mendacious claims megaphoned by a credulous, biased press."
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... Because feminists are so politically powerful, Feldman says, the military is bowing to their demands and allowing unwarranted sexual assault criminal prosecutions to go forward. Let me stop to say that any man who assaults a woman deserves the utmost punishment. But it is also crucial if we are to be a just society that we don’t punish men who don’t deserve it to meet the demands of a feminist lobby.
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We obviously want--need--to know if there’s a rise in sexual assaults in the military. But we also must recognize that, because the issue has been so politicized, it is going to be difficult to get the real numbers.

What Feldman’s column reminded me of was something that I thought a when I attended a conference in September at the Center for American Progress, the think tank with Obama ties. Feminism is no longer an ideal: it is the basis of an interest group.'