Gloria Allred: Ambulance Chaser of 'Feminism'

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'So why do we feel so dubious? There's a growing disconnect between what she says and the cases she takes, for example, this "too hot" nonsense. Can a lawyer call herself a feminist or a pioneer of social justice if she appears to be primarily fighting on behalf of women (or men) who want a payout for some perceived trumped-up injustice, or who have made poor decisions and gotten involved in questionable things and want to evade punishment by the law? Feminism and "social equality of the sexes" requires accountability for our actions; we can't rely on the excuse that just because we're women we've been discriminated against and therefore don't have to own up to mistakes or pay for our crimes. It's also not using sex to make someone else pay—that seems the reverse of feminism, actually.
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The media laps up beefs both in the courtroom and out of it. And if we're living in a world of painfully obvious self-promotion in which everyone's aching for their own reality show, Gloria Allred may be the pre-eminent attorney for that time. But that hardly means she's a feminist, or even a feminist lawyer. Maybe she was, once; maybe she still is, but all we have is our perception, and at this point, she looks more like an ambulance chaser for feminism. A woman who fights in the name of feminism to focus the media on unimportant topics (with the benefit of getting attached to another "high-profile" case) when we should be discussing things that matter is not really a feminist at all: That's called an opportunist.'