
Reaction to Margaret Thatcher's passing proves feminism is about politics, not equality
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'IF you want proof that feminism is about politics, not equality, then take note of the way modern-day feminists have reacted to Margaret Thatcher's passing.
The same women who were sent into fits of righteous hysteria over Americans celebrating the death of Osama bin Laden were gleefully rejoicing in the death of a frail 87-year-old woman who history will acknowledge as Britain's greatest peacetime leader.
Thatcher should be celebrated by feminists as a trailblazer who succeeded against insurmountable odds to lead Great Britain from financial ruin to stability, prosperity and hope. Even now it is hard to fathom how a greengrocer's daughter overcame the "old boy network" to become leader of the Conservative Party and prime minister of a class-ridden nation. And she did it without ever making gender an issue. There were no quotas, no self-serving misogyny speeches, no victimhood statements; just a determination to get the job done.
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Modern-day feminism is caught in a Leftist quagmire of irrelevance and superficiality. It is bereft of principles and preoccupied with semantics and trivialities. The irony of feminists, on the ABC's Q&A program, earnestly debating the politics of opening doors when the world learned of Thatcher's passing was not lost on many.'
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