Thursday, June 24, 2010

Hawkins: Palin Is A Better Feminist Role Model Than Steinem

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A lot of liberal heads have been exploding lately, especial among those who prefer to wrap their radical leftist agenda up in the cloak of feminism. This post by Right Wing News editor John Hawkins is going to cause even more radiclib cranial combustion:
It must be tough to be a left-wing feminist these days. For so long, they got away with essentially defining feminism as "being a liberal woman." Then along came Sarah Palin. Granted, she's not the only conservative woman who deserves to be treated as a feminist icon. For example, I've long said that Michelle Malkin is a fantastic feminist role model and if you're looking for an empowered woman, who's a better example of that than Ann Coulter? But Sarah Palin is such a towering figure that people are paying attention to her attempts to redefine the word "feminism." That's not making shrill battleaxes like Gloria Steinem very happy...

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Shorter Steinem: Only liberal women can claim to be feminists and be role models for other women.

Yet, if Sarah Palin is not a phenomenal role model for young women -- then nobody is. Take a look at what we have in Sarah Palin....
Read Hawkins' post unabridged at RWN.

- JP

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