Rick Santorum, Gold-Star Feminist

  1. KrazyRabidSheep
    KrazyRabidSheep
    Rick Santorum, Gold-Star Feminist



    Oh, this is rich. The latest in a series of right-wingers to adopt a faux-feminist stance is Rick Santorum:
    SANTORUM: Sarah Palin is the Clarence Thomas for feminists. The civil rights community, the African-American community obviously should have rallied behind Clarence Thomas an his achievement, but they hammered him because he was a conservative. And the civil rights establishment was first and foremost liberal and then for the liberal rights of -- as liberals saw it, what blacks should have in this country. And the same thing with the feminist community.
    Because if there's anyone who has long been an ally of both the civil-rights and feminist communities, it's Rick Santorum. This is a man who thinks that birth control is harmful to society, that feminists tricked women into working outside the home, and that abortion rights are comparable to slavery.
    And on a related note, Dahlia Lithwick has a great retort for conservatives who invoke "feminism" as a reason to support Palin:
    The "new feminism" may include uncritical support for women who oppose teen pregnancy programs and for women who force rape victims to pay for their own rape kits. But I just don't see where support for women who persist in fabricating their own records is a feminist principle.
    Amen to that.

    http://www.feministing.com/archives/010957.html
  2. Jazzratt
    Jazzratt
    To so many people "feminism" is a buzzword - one that they can hold up as a protective shield when they are accused of sexism. While it's fun to laugh at right-wingers that use the "feminism" claim to help boost their support amongst women it's also important to remember that a lot on the left use this to cover unreconstructed misogyny.