Very few successful women have ever publicly declared themselves as feminists. Like many African America men, they resent the stigma that any preferential treatment might bring. Self-motivated women want to compete on a level playing field, not one that has been artificially tipped in their favor based on chromosomal configuration.
Other, less diligent women have found the feminist agenda to be the perfect agenda to try to propel themselves to coveted, but undeserved positions. Grievances of sexual harassment cause the males to avoid even the most innocent of conversations, and if advancements are not handed out upon demand, charges of discrimination become the ticket to a better office and bigger perks. Sexuality is no longer the easiest way up the corporate lawyer; a good lawyer will make the ascension even faster.
The floundering Clinton campaign was shook to its core by the dinosaur of feminism, Gloria Steinem, whose remarks caused even the most liberal of HRC’s supporters to cringe with embarrassment. Like the mastodons, the age of angry bra-burners has hopefully entered the twilight. Just as the prehistoric beasts could not survive the changing environment of earth, women who depend on feminist ideals will not emerge as the cream of the evolutionary churn.
Katherine Jean Lopez examines the Impending Death of Feminism for Townhall.com
Enough is enough. Hillary Clinton has made history already; she has shown us that a woman can be a major presidential candidate. But as we are here living history, I’d like it to now be history.
Simply put, I don’t want a woman president. Not if she’s running to be a “woman president” and not the leader of the United States.
I’m deeply grateful to my junior senator. Her defeat this year would be a significant milestone for American women: The death of the feminist movement. It would mark the end of the silly-women-talk on the national political scene. The beginning of female candidates running as candidates, without a heavy serving of identity politics.
Lopez specifically points to the case of the resignation of Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle.
The great feminist lie was exposed when Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle quit after some 16 years with the senator, using the excuse of her 6-year-old son. As the story goes, upon returning home after two months on the campaign trail, her son rejected her. “I want Daddy,” he insisted. Solis Doyle broke out in tears and announced to her husband, “Joey doesn’t want me. … I’m quitting.”
Few believe Joey was the only reason she quit. She left the campaign in a state of disarray, with reports of internal fighting and a dire outlook. But she did quit, and with a spotlight on her son, she revealed more than the sisterhood would have liked. America is ready to quit this feminist silliness that men and women are equal, and that women don’t have different, natural responsibilities to the children they give birth to than men do.
Did Doyle finally realize the deception of feminism? After being told that women “can have it all,” did Doyle realize that having it all means leaving much unrealized? Many woman have found out the deception of feminism; that not all men are chauvinists and being a mother and wife is not without its own rewards. And finally, that personal success comes from within and not from manipulation, deceit, and personal compromise.
