Message to liberal feminists: Don't dictate political views to me just because we share the same body parts
The 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in 1920, giving women the right to vote. But ironically, nearly 100 years later we’re still not fully free to exercise that right as we see fit, according to today’s feminists.
Now, instead of having men or the government controlling our behavior, other women are attempting to control our thoughts and tell us what we must do. According to modern day feminists, we are obligated to fall in lock step with them simply because we share the same body parts.
Isn’t the entire point of feminism for women to empower each other to be whoever we want to be, and do anything we want to do?
It turns out we didn’t read the fine print that says: except if you’re conservative, then you need to shut up because someone is obviously doing the thinking for you. Someone old and white and male. Because no legitimate, card-carrying female with our body parts would ever dare have a thought different from ours.
It’s been almost a year since the presidential election, but the liberal feminists still can’t wrap their heads around the fact that a majority of white women voted for a man instead of a woman for president.
One would think it’s time that we all channel our inner snow queen and “let it go.” But that’s not happening.
If you’re Hillary Clinton, it’s more fun instead to kick off a blame-game book tour and talk about all the reasons you lost (none of them your fault, of course).
Then, essentially accuse women who didn’t vote for you of being too dumb to think for themselves, by saying they voted the way their husbands and boyfriends told them to vote. Because, surely, a woman could never reject your candidacy on her own. Three cheers for girl power.
Then you have your like-minded feminist girl tribe come out and reinforce your attempt at women-shaming. Michelle Obama said women who didn’t vote for Hillary “voted against their own voice.” Is Mrs. Obama trying to tell us she voted in favor of her own voice in 2008 by secretly voting for Hillary instead of her own husband?
Her remarks were shortly followed by this gem from tennis icon Billie Jean King: “I’m upset with the white women that voted for Mr. Trump. I think they really don’t like themselves.” But the truth is, we like ourselves just fine – we just didn’t happen to like your candidate all that much.
The dictionary describes the women’s movement as “a broad movement campaigning for women’s liberation and rights.” Don’t those rights include the ability to think independently and come to a conclusion that differs from other women?
Technology executive and author Sheryl Sandberg said: “In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.” If that’s truly the endgame, how can we ever hope to stop differentiating between the two if we’re always throwing around the gender card?
If we’re making a practice out of shaming other women instead of empowering them and embracing our differences, then this exclusive type of feminism is really just a front for a particular brand of politics that really has nothing at all to do with women.. It’s time we call it just that.
Take the Mark Halperin and Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment scandals that recently broke, with the news about Halperin coming out even as the Weinstein revelations still reverberate. Weinstein’s accusers total at least 50 women over a period of 30 years, yet we’re just hearing about it now.
Women who were allegedly victimized by Weinstein were too afraid to speak out. As we’ve also discovered, other Hollywood elites saw it play out and sat on the sidelines in silence, including Jane Fonda, who has been a women’s rights activist for years. She recently said: “I guess it hadn't happened to me, and so I didn't feel that it was my place,” when explaining the reason for her silence and admitting that she knew about Weinstein.
Hillary Clinton’s presidential platform leaned heavily on being a champion of women’s rights, yet it took her five days to issue a statement about Weinstein. What was there to deliberate over for five days when women say they have been sexually abused for the last 30 years by a Hollywood bully?
A bully who happened to donate a lot of money to the Clinton Foundation, it’s worth noting. The foundation recently announced that it won’t return up to $250,000 in donations from Weinstein.
So much hypocrisy.
For decades we’ve been led to believe that feminism is about women. In reality, today’s feminism has very little to do with women. It’s an elitist, exclusive club where the rights of women are championed only if you are certain brand of woman and only if it suits a liberal political agenda.
If you are part of the 42 percent of women in this country who voted for President Trump you are not welcomed, empowered, or supported. Instead, you are shamed, criticized and reprimanded.
Women have made great strides and come too far in the last 100 years to be bullied into falling blindly in line with other women out of some fabricated sense of duty based purely on the fact that we share the same body parts. In that sense, Hillary’s loss was a victory for women – proof we won’t be controlled or manipulated by anyone.
If you want our vote bring something more to the table than the XX chromosome. http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/10/29/message-to-liberal-feminists-dont-dictate-political-views-to-me-just-because-share-same-body-parts.html
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Isn’t the entire point of feminism for women to empower each other to be whoever we want to be, and do anything we want to do?
And to be able to make up their own minds!
Regardless of your gender, if you believe a woman's place is in the kitchen or the bedroom and should be seen but not heard, that's your right to have those opinions. If you believe women should be viewed as objects waiting to be groped or their genitals grabbed by powerful men or "stars", that's your right to have that opinion. If you believe that men are somehow superior and should be the only ones ever elected President or put in positions of power, that's your right to have those opinions. But as more women speak up and name and shame the treatment many have received, not just for the last few years but for generations, those opinions are being put on display and exposed, and if you hold to them you'll find that there are many who do not share your patriarchal world view, and those people have a right to hold opposing views. You can call them femi-Nazi's if you wish, but you're rights to your opinions end at the tips of your fingers so if those fingers act on some sad patriarchal opinions, don't be surprised when you get outed, named and shamed for all to see. Because that's other people right to their opinion, and you don't get to police other peoples opinions of you if you do act on those deep misogynistic attitudes. The world is changing, general opinion is changing, and what once was the "norm" is no longer normal. We do not live in the "Mad Men" era anymore where you could laugh off sexual assault, where you could carelessly dismiss sexist jokes and heartless chauvinism. Act that way now and those around you have every right to define you, discriminate against you, fire you and sue you.
As for the comments about not voting for Hillary, it wasn't about just "voting for a woman". It was not voting for a sexist pig who admitted he treated women like garbage, who would just grab them by their genitals, would "just start kissing them, and moved on them "like a b!tch", who had 13 women come forward and admit they were sexually assaulted by him but didn't come forward previously because as so many women before, they knew they would be dismissed, called names, disbelieved and discarded if they tried to make claims against a powerful, wealthy male. And those women have every right to be aghast at the number of women who still voted for a self admitted sexual predator. And the defense shouldn't ever be "Well Bill Clinton did some stuff too", because that's not a defense at all, it's an admission that they're both in the wrong. Someday, hopefully soon, we will have a female President, and no, it's not going to be Hillary, but I'm sure there will still be some women who vote against whoever she is simply because they don't believe a woman can be equal to a man or should have that position, and I think that's sad, though they are entitled to their opinion. It's just sad that some are still so ingrained by religion or their peers as to see themselves as subservient to males as if that is some pre-ordained position that their gender and birth has locked them into, never to attempt to be more than what others tell them they are supposed to be.
Evening..Don't give a stuff what they say, do, or think..I make up my own mind, always have and always will...And if people have a problem with that...well tough. I don't answer to anyone, nor do I have time to stuff around with this type of crap...ever!!....Life is what you make it. Do it in your own way, in your own time and in your own style and you can't go wrong....PS: Happy Halloween for tomorrow night over there......