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Thursday, March 29, 2007
Janice Shaw Crouse :: Townhall.com Columnist
NOW Embraces Hillary. Will she hug Back?
by Janice Shaw Crouse
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The Legacy Media are touting the endorsement of Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential bid by the political arm of the National Organization for Women (NOW). Hillary should have thought twice before accepting NOW’s endorsement. NOW began in 1966 when Betty Friedan claimed to speak for all American women. The women's group has come a long way since those times –– a long way, the wrong way. After 40 years, a whole new generation of women is questioning the feminist myths that have produced so much devastation for America’s families in general and most especially for the children.

A CBS poll revealed that three out of four women described the word feminist as an insult. Another study found that the number of working women who believe that a career is as important as being a wife and mother has fallen 23% since the 1970s.

What has caused such a dramatic change in women's attitudes?

The feminist movement began to unravel the more it promoted the idea that inhibiting one's sexual desires, in any fashion, is a bad thing. Then, feminism took increasingly more radical positions that took the movement even further out of the mainstream: men and women are completely interchangeable, women don't need men, all family arrangements work equally well for rearing children. Hillary is convinced that the "woman's vote" will be her secret weapon for victory; she is forgetting that mainstream women don’t identify with feminism or with the issues pushed by feminists.

Problems with Issues:

Abortion-on-Demand: Since one of the central aspects of women's liberation is so-called "free love" –– sexual activity that is unconstrained and without consequences –– the feminists declared that abortion-on-demand is a basic human right and they made abortion-on-demand an essential and sacred element of their life's creed. The abortion activists defend the 45 million murders of unborn lives by abortionists –– at every turn and in every arena.

Federally Mandated Day Care: Feminists demand that childcare arrangements be federally funded so that the rearing of children can be turned over to childcare providers and thus not interfere with a woman's career aspirations. The data clearly indicate that there are elevated risks to babies and children who are in day care too much –– generally conceded to be over 20 hours a week. These data have consistently been suppressed, buried and un-reported –– or unfairly attacked and distorted. In fact, the suppression of the overwhelming evidence about the attachment, behavioral, emotional and health risks associated with the overuse of day care amounts to statutory child abuse, but such is the power of the feminist special interests that they can keep that information from widespread dissemination. Feminists are at the forefront of those who are trying to convince the world that "father and mother" are just words –– that all a child needs are both male and female influences and that any man and woman can provide a child's nurturing and guidance needs.

Sexual Orientation Special Agenda: Feminists are determined to mainstream lesbian and gay, bisexual, and even transgendered lifestyles. One of the women's movement biographers attributed Betty Friedan's downfall as the "mother of feminism" to her refusal to embrace homosexuality. Some of the movement leaders privately accused Friedan of only dealing with "symptoms" and that only "those willing to explore the significance of 'women loving women' would come to grips with the underlying causes of women's oppression."

Anti-Masculinity: Feminists currently argue the importance of the role of men and boys in achieving gender equity. There is considerable emphasis on teaching young boys to be more "sensitive" and less "aggressive." Characteristics that are stereotypically "male" are clearly undesirable and consistently are portrayed in a negative light.

Problems with Feminist Icons. Hillary should also remember that the women behind feminist ideas had disastrous personal lives; few of today's young women want to end up with personal lives like Hillary's or any of the other feminist leaders.

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Janice Shaw Crouse is a former speechwriter for George H. W. Bush and now political commentator for the Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee.
 
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Hillary isn't the first shot.....
....at a woman presidency. OK, she's probably the one with the best chance of winning, but she's actually the 12th woman to run for president....and the ninth mother...

Details in this recent piece in the Washington Post:

Mothers Who Blazed a Trail - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2007/03/20/GR2007032000072.html

NOW - National Organization of Witches
This is an excellent article – joining the ranks of many others which are clearly exposing the radical nature of NOW. NOW began with good intentions and embraced an egalitarian charter though in recent years it has largely become radical.

A quick visit to the NOW website quickly reveals that NOW refutes, ignores and twists the results of current-day studies and evidence that clearly promote gender equality and does so with the twisted agenda to promote feminism as a cleverly cloaked female superiority. They have lobbied heavily against gender equality in the care of children and refused at every opportunity to recognize the significant mounting evidence on the benefits of shared parenting. They claim that this is a sham to avoid child support and that men just make this an issue about money – but neglect to point out that their refusal to recognize the benefits of shared parenting amounts to the very same crime – reducing the issue to money. On close examination it becomes clear that NOW cleverly and subversively reduces this argument to money but does so in “the Best Interest of Children.” This is even a larger crime.

NOW continues to site Lenora Weitzman’s statistics about the wealth of the genders after divorce – these numbers were proven to be significantly flawed and incredibly misleading not only by many other studies but through the self admission of Lenora herself. (http://www.acbr.com/biglie.htm).

NOW refuses to recognize that domestic violence is just that Domestic Violence – it is not violence against women only. The level and severity of violence that is perpetrated against men is continually ignored by NOW and the political agenda to ensure that this is ignored by society is doggedly and stubbornly pursued by NOW. This is hurting women and men of domestic violence and the unjust laws, erroneous beliefs and incredulous precedents that are growing as a result of this agenda force true victims (both men and women) into compromising situations.

Hilary’s alignment with this organization is a sad event – not only for our people but also for our first shot at a woman’s approach to the presidency – something we all should be looking to embrace but must refute if even remotely associated with radicalism.
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