fixer:
I concur with your observations on feminists.
It's generally understood that feminism today has been taken over by the radicals, and that is nowhere more evident than on the college campus.
Look at the what they support (Andrea Yeager) and what they ignore (Afghanistan women).
Hopefully, they are becoming a marginal factor in the lives of most women, as they should be.
Frankly, I think that feminism's time has passed, just as the 'civil rights' era passed a long time ago. Oh, there is still some bigotry against both racial minorities and women here and there and you can find some specific grievence in any large organization, but institutionally-sponsored racism or 'gender-bias' is mostly a figment of the imaginations of the NOW gang and Al Sharpton.
I find it interesting that Oprah Winfrey - a black woman - is one of the most successful people in America; certainly one of the richest women.
She was born poor, female and black and yet, in what some groups will try to tell you is a racist and 'patriarchal' society, Oprah rose, through her own efforts and abilities, to attain the stardom, influence and wealth she enjoys today. She didn't marry some guy or trade on her race to get there, either. NOW and the NAACP will tell you that they 'paved the way' for an Oprah to succeed, but I believe that the American people paved the way, by abandoning racism as an acceptable attitude and accepting women in roles they might not have been accepted in earlier. We all benefited from that change.
Yes, the civil rights movement and the women's liberation movement started the ball rolling in the '60's by bringing these issues to light and making them something the American public had to deal with, but Americans responded responsibly and these issues were basically settled about 20 to 30 years ago.
We're a better nation for those national decisions and I don't want to go back but that is exactly why you see Jesse Jackson shaking down car companies for multi-million-dollar 'affirmative action' scams and NOW defending mass child-murderers. They are basically irrelevant and need to search out for something, anything to 'champion' to keep the money coming in.
Unfortunately, some folks still believe that these groups really represent black people or women. They don't, but the liberal media run to them for a quote anytime any issue that falls in the area of race or gender comes up, so the general impression the public gets is that they are representing those groups.
I'm not fooled and as far as NOW goes, I doubt very many women - especially younger ones - are fooled, either. They are a lot smarter than that.
I mean, can many women look at Kim Gandy, the shrill leader of NOW and relate to her? I doubt it.
As I said, American women are smart and independent and won't be taken in by radical feminists telling them that killing their unborn babies is the epitome of womenhood and that 'men' are the source of any problems they ever had.
Is this a great country or what?
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