Blogger: Feminists Flip Out Over Palin

Blog entry here. Excerpt:

'...In many ways Sarah Palin is a model of what feminists have long said they wanted - women who are able to build a successful career on their own without depending on their husband’s position to get where they want to go. And to have a family with a husband who fully shares in the parenting duties. Yet now we know that that is not enough. A woman also has to be a liberal to be a true role model: When Gloria Steinem takes to the pages of The Los Angeles Times to tell us that Palin is not the right woman for other women because of her positions, I guess that is a step forward that Palin can be evaluated on the basis of her positions more than on her gender, but it also helps clarify that organizations like NOW were never really about women but only about liberal women. And what they’re now horrified to discover is that there are a whole lot of women out there who don’t ascribe to that agenda.

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'Wow! Feminists certainly have flipped on whether women are able to do it all — have a career and a family. And when faced with the sort of husband feminists have been saying they long for - a guy who gave up one of his jobs on the North Slope because of his wife’s career and now has stepped forth to take care of the day-to-day child care so that his wife can take care of her career, they totally discount that sort of contribution and come back to attacking the mother.

Well, feminists can spend their time wondering what has become of all that they have argued for in the past. The rest of us can move on and choose to take each female candidate as she comes and judge her on her own individual merits rather than simply her gender or her ideology.'