Strong Mothers, Weak Wives. Post-Palin Feminism. Post-Palin Feminism By Abby Scher Abby Scher is a sociologist and editor of The Public Eye. From the podium at the Christian Right’s Values Voter Summit in mid-September, National Review Institute’s Kate O’Beirne, 59, pronounced that the “selection of Sarah Palin [as the GOP vice presidential nominee] sounded the death knell of modern American feminism.”
“She’s a prick to the liberal establishment, to the feminists, and to the men who fear them,” she jeered to the audience of Christian Right activists. And when Phyllis Schlafly, 84, threw anti-feminist red meat to the cheering crowd, a 60-plus woman in the audience turned to me and said proudly she had been with Ms. But as Palin Power surged through the Washington Hilton’s halls that day and through the Republican party base in later weeks, her vice presidential candidacy revealed a generational cleavage that these elders may not have expected.
Is Sarah a Feminist? It also energizes activists in an unexpected quarter—the Christian Right. Angle on abortion, incest, lemons, and lemonade. More States Require a Waiting Period to Have an Abortion Than to Own a Gun. The Fringe Factor: Women Don’t Want Equal Pay Laws. Americans tell themselves that anything is possible when it comes to self-improvement, obscuring the truth that the privileged benefit from parental investment, strategic behavior, and simple capture of the institutions, like corporate boards, that hand out the money. This country needs some good class treason. Our meritocracy is doing more harm than good, and its members—and everyone else—need to start questioning it. I am a product of that meritocracy. Born and raised in West Virginia, way out in the country, I tested and wrote my way into elite schools, and now I teach at one. I’m surrounded by very smart people who work very hard, and get rewarded.
It’s a meritocratic age. So I pulled up hard last week reading economist Thomas Piketty’s ground-breaking study of inequality, Capital in the 21st Century. We need a foundation of political equality and social guarantees: education, personal security, health care for those who need it, and the expectation of a fair retirement. GOP plan to appeal to millennials: “Make abortion funny” “How do you make abortion funny?” That was a key question mulled at a major conservative gathering Friday on how to make social conservatism appealing to young people, after an election where Republicans got trounced in the battle for millennial voters (who are are moving even further and further away from the Christian-right on marriage and other issues).
Abortion has to be made funny, the thinking goes, because funny sells on social media, and that’s where one goes to court young people. “You can engage with sarcasm, it’s hard with the abortion issue, but you have to,” said Students for Life president Kristan Hawkins at a breakout panel at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference in Washington today on how to win millennial voters. “Unfortunately we have to, because this is the generation that we’ve been dealt.” How, then, do you win over young voters when as many as 70 percent support marriage equality? That smart way includes snark, and it includes social media. Marsha Blackburn GOP Rep: Women 'Don't Want' Equal Pay Laws. Sarah Palin says "Feminism Is Over" (and Gloria Steinem is "very passé") Is Sarah Palin a feminist. Barbara Kay: The day Sarah Palin kneecapped feminism. REUTERS/John GressThe Palin brood The feminist revolution began as a necessary reform movement, but unfortunately evolved into a marxism-imbued, revolutionary one.
Second-wave feminism’s focus soon shifted from women’s equal rights (which are limited to those defined by law) to women’s interests (which are limitless), as perceived through a victim’s lens. For decades, the people that instruct our children; mould our lawyers, social workers, psychologists and health professionals; train our judiciary; control (and misinform) the domestic-violence industry; shape the views of journalists; and counsel politicians: All have been marinating from early youth in feminist correctness.
Welcome Instapundit readers,We’ve noticed a lot of traffic coming to this story from your site. Here are some other links we thought you might like:David Frum: Feminists need to admit that western men are not the enemyRobert Fulford: How feminism changed the worldTasha Kheiriddin: Feminism’s second-wave hangover. Opinion: The fake feminism of Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin sure is dropping the f-bomb a lot lately. In a widely noted speech this month to the Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion-rights group, Palin invoked the words "feminism" and "feminist" no less than a dozen times. She called for a "pro-woman sisterhood" and addressed the "sisters" in the audience. If it weren't for the regular references to gun rights, you might have thought you were listening to Gloria Steinem.
If this rhetoric seems uncharacteristic of the former governor of Alaska, that's because it is. When running for vice president in 2008, Palin flip-flopped on the feminist question, telling CBS's Katie Couric that she is one, but later telling NBC's Brian Williams, "I'm not going to label myself anything.
" Today, however, Palin is happily adopting the feminist label. It's not a realization of the importance of women's rights that's inspired the change. Several years ago, when antiabortion protesters realized that screaming "Murderer! " 5 Ways Of Looking At "Sarah Palin Feminism" Police: Woman runs over husband for not casting Romney vote. An Arizona woman critically injured her husband by running over him with an SUV during an argument about the presidential election, police said. Holly Solomon, 28, was upset about President Barack Obama's re-election and began arguing with her husband last Saturday when she found out that he didn't vote, authorities said.
Daniel Solomon, 36, told investigators that his wife believed her family was going to face hardship as a result of Obama's election to a second term. During the argument, Daniel Solomon got out of the family Jeep and gave his wife a dirty look, according to a police report obtained by Phoenix television station KPHO. That's when she started chasing him through a Gilbert parking lot. Police said he took refuge behind a light pole as she circled him numerous times while continuing to yell at him. She struck him as he tried to run toward the road, pinning him between the SUV's underside and a curb, police said. Daniel Solomon remained in critical condition Monday. Sonia Nassery Cole: I Don't Want to Be Equal to a Man.
FASCISM AND THE DENIGRATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. This Woman Who Hates Women Just Made My Day. I don’t mean to brag, but when it comes to slang, I can crack abbreviations and decipher code names quicker than it takes you to log on to Urban Dictionary and realize that you’re old and pathetic. Ditto for having seen Jawbreaker enough times to know what constitutes some seriously fucked-up shit.
Please trust me when I say, from my position of smug know-it-all PGB queen, the world isn’t ready for Claire Khaw. An example of some things that have earned Khaw a bad name: the time she announced in a roundabout way on a BBC radio show in 2011 that she would rather murder a brain-damaged child than force UK taxpayers to support its parents; the assertion that religion is only useful for subjugating the lower social groups of women and children; oh, and a campaign to rid Britain of “SSMs.”
Are you gutted that you can’t work out that abbreviation? Don’t be, here's Khaw to explain: “SSM—Slut Single Mom i.e. mothers of illegitimate offspring. What a villain, right? Like I said: villain. Patriarchy Works. Before feminism, men got along just fine. Some men succeeded, others failed. Collectively, men built and re-built social structures that they preferred, structures that worked best for men and served their proximate interests.
Whatever your feelings are about the “rights” of women in society, one thing is undeniable: patriarchy works. It’s not an academic theory. It’s historical fact. There is no matriarchal or feminist society with a comparable track record. What we do know is that as a group, men did not demand feminism. Men did not demand feminism. It is important to remember that patriarchy did not fail or collapse. Patriarchy works. Does feminism work? It seems to be good for women, at least on the surface. For a society to work, it must first survive. If a population that embraces feminism necessarily ages and dwindles, as competing non-feminist cultures surrounding it grow and thrive…does feminism work? Tagged as: Feminism, fertility, patriarchy. Nigella Lawson photos: See shocking pictures of Charles Saatchi repeatedly squeezing TV chef's throat.
Glamorous TV cook left distraught after multimillionaire other half turns violent during vicious row, the Sunday People can reveal View gallery Jean-Paul Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi outside Scott's restaurant Her eyes are transfixed as she struggles to prise away the powerful hand squeezing around her throat. Glamorous TV cook Nigella Lawson looks stunned to be attacked by her art collector husband Charles Saatchi during a vicious row at their favourite London restaurant. Fellow diners and passers-by at Scott’s in Mayfair were shocked to see the advertising multimillionaire reduce his celebrity wife to tears.
Saatchi launched a tirade of angry words. At first he used only his left hand, then both. Several times she nodded intently while the conversation became more and more heated. By the end of the meal she was clearly distraught and in tears. Now there are fears of severe problems in their 10-year marriage – his third and her second. “Nigella was very, very upset. The Dark Bible: Women's Inferior Status. The Dark Bible Women's Inferior Status Back To Table Of Contents Blue words represent Bible quotes Burn The Daughter! "And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire. " Comment A priest's daughter, if found to have lost her virginity without marriage, can receive the death penalty, but in the form of incineration.
How many fundamentalist priests who so easily condemn others would carry out the burning of their daughters if they found them "whoring"? (See also Genesis 38:24) Cut Off Her Hand! "When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.
" Only in an overly obsessive male dominated culture could men create such atrocious laws. Female Births Get Penalty (See also Psalms 51:3-5) Female Inferiority. Must Watch - Gianna Jessen abortion survivor speaks against abortion 1 of 2. Gianna Jessen,Abortion Survivor,Whoopie,The View,Palin,obama. Women church leaders protest against abortion. BLACK PEOPLE AGAINST ABORTION at THE BLACK WOMEN'S EXPO. Fischer: "Political Leadership Ought To Be Reserved For The Hands Of Males" The Last Word - Rewriting Malala Yousafzai's story. Profile of Malala Yousafzai Pakistani Girl Shot by the Taliban - Class Dismissed. Iran Chamber Society: Iranian Society: Patriarchy and parental control in Iran. Patriarchy and parental control in IranBy: Massoume Price, March 2006 Traditionally Iranian culture has been patriarchal with the father or the husband at the head of the family and household.
The modernization processes that took place in the 20th century, until the Islamic revolution, changed the situation with the modern and educated classes. However, the masses and the more traditional classes remained more or less the same. Since the revolution, patriarchy has been promoted and strengthened by reverting to ancient Islamic codes and with enforced patriarchal practices, such as controlling female appearance and mobility.
Patriarchy has been a major institution in the area since ancient times and is deeply rooted in religious, legal and cultural practices. It is portrayed extensively in Persian literature and metaphors, cultural constructs, ethics, explanatory systems, both religious and secular. Recommended Readings: Aschar Fathi. Fascism, Fundamentalism and Patriarchy. Exactly one year after the carnage in Gujarat began, the country is still reeling from the horror of the events. Narendra Modi’s expected victory in the assembly elections has further strengthened the position of the Hindutva fascist forces not only in Gujarat but also in the country as a whole. Reviewing the strategy of Hindutva forces and the lessons from Gujarat become even more relevant now.
Here we are concerned with the impact of the Hindutva fascist forces on women and on the women’s movement. The agenda of the Hindu fascist forces is political. Their strategy is the maximum political mobilisation of the Hindu masses and their aim is the establishment of a Hindu Rashtra. It will be noticed that the present phase of Hindu fascist growth can trace its growth with the neo-liberal economic policies of the early 1980s.
And the aggressive policies of economic reforms and globalisation of the 1990s is accompanied with the aggressive policies of Hindutva. The Indian Context. The Body as a Site of Contest: Sherene Seikaly on the Gendered Exercise of Power and Resistance. How is the body produced as a site of repression and resistence? Sherene Seikaly, Co-Editor at Jadaliyya, as well as Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Middle East Studies Center at the American University of Cairo, tackles this question by exploring the ways in which the Egyptian state's production of the body as a terrorized and passive political subject inspired people to take their lives into their own hands and revolt. The state's theatrics of domination reveal a deep and sinister hatred of the Egyptian people as a collective body and as individual bodies.
Both men and women are subject to various types of brutality, the “mundane,” scripted as political, and the “sexual,” scripted as gendered. We should remember that one opening salvo of the last two years of Arab uprising was the spectacle of burnt flesh. Mohamed Bouazizi’s self-mutilation overturned authoritarian regimes’ staging of the body as a place to produce power. QUIVERFULL. In Quiverfull Movement, Birth Control Is Shunned.
Quiverfull. Home... Hands Full, HEARTS Full, Quiver Full! A Quiver Full. Romney Quiver Full Advice Wasn't Just Out Of Touch — It's Ideological. Last week, articles abounded when Mitt Romney advised Southern Virginia University graduates to "Get married, have a quiver full of kids if you can. " Many readers noted the silliness of this remark; not as many noted its significance. Romney was not talking like your out-of-touch uncle, trying to say something encouraging about hearth and home but missing the big picture. Not by a long shot. He was speaking the language of conservative patriarchal Christian ideology — an ideology that, increasingly, is shaping both our policies and our discourse.
I first learned about the Quiverfull movement (yes, it is a movement) via Frank Schaeffer’s Sex, Mom, and God: How the Bible’s Strange Take on Women Led to Crazy Politics — and How I Learned to Love Women (and Jesus) Anyway. Here’s the scoop on Quiverfull: - The name comes from Psalm 127, 3-5: "Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. . - A woman's womb belongs to God. Liz Hall Magill. Making babies for Jesus: BBC highlights the lunacy of the Quiverfull evangelical movement. THIS evening, the BBC World Service will broadcast The Womb as a Weapon, an examination of the spread in the UK of a dotty and dangerous trend that insists that good Christians mums should produce babies as fast as their bodies will allow. Christians in the Quiverfull movement believe in giving up all forms of contraception and accepting as many children as God gives, both as a sign of obedience to God and in a bid to ensure the future of the faith.
Quiverfull ideology also advocates a return to “traditional” roles in the home, where women are wife and mother first of all. They are their husband’s “helpmeet”, designed to support him as head of the household and primary breadwinner. The programme features one woman who tested her faith in Quiverfull to the limit – Vyckie Garrison, a mother of seven. Once a cornerstone of the Quiverfull movement in the US, she left in 2008. Her No Longer Quivering is described as a “place for women escaping and recovering from spiritual abuse”. Mitt Romney's Advice to College Grads: Start Having Babies As Soon As Possible. QuiverFull .com :: Psalm 127:3-5. No Longer Quivering — The Quiverfull: The evangelical Christians opposed to contraception. What Is Quiverfull? Women's Ministry: Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Leigh DeMoss | Revive Our Hearts.
Inside the Duggar Family's Conservative Ideology - Newsweek and The Daily Beast. The Bizarre Christian "Quiverfull" Movement Pushing Women to Procreate for "God's Army" TSA agent allegedly tells teenage girl to “cover herself” Promise Keepers Men's Ministry. What's Wrong with the Promise Keepers Movement? Whatever happened to the Promise Keepers, an article by John Bartkowski. Information on the Promise Keepers. Myths And Facts About The Promise Keepers. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Sep., 1997), pp. 393-410.
'Promise Keepers' Mind Control Techniques. Viewpoint: Promise Keepers Pose A Real Threat. Pseudo-Science or Religious Agenda? Todd Akin's Right-wing Science. Mary Toft. The Effects of Religious Fundamentalism and Religiosity on Preference for Traditional Family Norms - Grasmick - 2007 - Sociological Inquiry. Why Can't We Love Them Both? (John C. Willke, MD & Barbara H. Willke, RN) Rape and pregnancy controversies in United States elections, 2012. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Google News Archive Search.
Christian Life Resources. Todd Akin, 'Legitimate Rape,' and Gospel Healing for Victims of Sexual Assault... It's Not Shocking That Republican Senate Nominee Thinks Women Can't Get Pregnant From 'Legitimate Rape' Report: Akin was arrested multiple times outside abortion clinics | Midwest Democracy. Todd Akin On Abortion: 'Legitimate Rape' Victims Have 'Ways To Try To Shut That Whole Thing Down' Republicans' Rationalizations for Rape. The Republican Rape Advisory Chart. Mitt Romney's Heartless Advice to a Woman Whose Pregnancy Might Have Killed Her. The Conviction of Tim Dreste - Page 1 - News - St. Louis - Riverfront Times. Anti-Abortion Movement Marches On After Two Decades of Arson, Bombs and Murder.
31 States Allow Rapists Custody and Visitation Rights - Esther Zuckerman. Anti-Abortion Bombings Related. Did Todd Akin get his misinformation on rape and pregnancy from Physicians for Life? Physicians For Life - Abstinence, Abortion, Birth Control - Assault Rape Pregnancies Are Rare. Times Daily - Google News Archive Search. BBC News | HEALTH | Link between rape and pregnancy. Sex, Mom, and God: A Book Review | Yo Mama. When men made God a man: Religion, the patriarchy and the culture of misogyny | iPinion Syndicate.
The Rise of the Poor, Weak, and Wicked: Poor Care, Punishment, Religion, and Patriarchy in Leipzig, 1700-1730. Patriarchy (social system) -- Encyclopedia Britannica. Net Reviews. Patriarchy. Adams_Rule of the Father.pdf. Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity. What exactly is biblical marriage? | XKV8R: The Official Blog of Dr. Robert R. Cargill. Why is Christianity opposed to sexuality? Why didn’t anyone help? Examples of Gender-Based Hate Speech on Facebook | WAM! Patti Stanger and the "new" Cosmo Girl. The Sixteen Commandments Of Poon. The G Manifesto. Single Mom Wants Alpha Male, Won’t Get Him. 60 Years of Challenge | The Automatic Seduction System. PAGE FOR MEN. Alternative Right - A Magazine of Radical Traditionalism.
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