Fiorina blasts modern feminism: 'It pits women against men' to win elections

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'Carly Fiorina has previously described feminism as a "weapon used to win elections." Now, she's offering an alternative definition.

"Feminism began as a rallying cry to empower women – to vote, to get an education, to enter the workplace. But over the years, feminism has devolved into a left-leaning political ideology where women are pitted against men and used as a political weapon to win elections," the Republican presidential candidate wrote on Facebook Thursday.

Fiorina has frequently compared the familiar 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' philosophy, which she claims enabled her rise from secretary to chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, to contemporary feminism, which tends to emphasize instances of women's oppression and has developed a reputation of intolerance toward dissenters.

"Being empowered means having a voice. But ideological feminism shuts down conversation – on college campuses and in the media," Fiorina wrote Thursday. "If you are a man – or a woman — who doesn't believe the litanies of the left, then you are 'waging a war on women' or offensive as a candidate, as I have been called."'