Oprah Winfrey is a good example of someone who used her abilities to become a huge success.
Unfortunately her personal life hasn't done as well, with her endless weight problems and her inability to commit to marriage after 20 years or so of living with the same man and her obvious decision to not have children. Her business of course, but I find it amusing that Oprah has gotten into the realm of dispensing life choice advice (mostly humanism-based).
Now, if she was giving financial or career advice, that would make more sense.
In case you've all missed it, the feminists generally have moved on from workplace equality issues because they realize it's already been achieved.
Sadly, feminists are now totally political in the sense that abortion rights have become almost a religion and they are knee-jerk liberal Democrats, even staying mostly silent when Clinton's sleazy antics with 21-year-old interns was the #1 news.
Lately, I noticed that the National Organization of Women has decided to defend the woman in Texas that drowned her five small children. They are calling it 'temporary insanity due to patriarchal oppression'. Translation: It was all her husbands fault. Bull.
This practice of so-called 'feminists' using the 'girl defense' is disgusting. On one hand, it's "I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar" (self-empowerment) then - when the going gets tough - it's all the guy's fault: 'Boo Hoo, I'm just a helpless little woman, don't blame me'!
As I see it, women in America are far, far from helpless, unless they choose to be. We make choices. Honesty would help. Women in Afghanistan were oppressed. Feminists are just milking the non-existant 'oppression' of American women for political and sometimes financial gain, much as the NAACP and Jesse Jackson do when they play the race card to get some benefit or other for a select group of people. It's all a sham and most of us know it and it doesn't help the relationship between men and women a bit.
I'm pleased to find MustangBelle306 and some other women see the feminist 'movement' for what it is. Simply a very liberal political action committee that uses the 'oppression' of women as a wedge to divide Americans of both sexes with little benefit to either gender.
Who needs them?
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