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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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Betty Friedan: Friedan, the mother of the feminist movement, gave us The Feminine Mystique –– and the "problem that has no name." That problem –– according to Friedan –– is that women are victims. Being female means having delusions and false values and being forced to find fulfillment and identity through husbands and children. Friedan worked nine hours a day –– declaring that being a wife and mother was "not going to interfere with what I regarded as my real life." Not surprisingly, Friedan’s three children had to undergo therapy to deal with what was called "the emotional fallout."

Gloria Steinem: Steinem was the beauty queen of the feminist movement. Steinem, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate, was engaged to her college boyfriend. After breaking up with him and discovering that she was pregnant, she had an abortion. Later, Steinem founded Ms. Magazine and coined two phrases ––"reproductive freedom" and "pro-choice" –– bringing a brilliant sense of marketing to a movement that glossed over the realities of promiscuity and abortion and propelled so-called "sexual freedom" into the mainstream. Steinem famously declared that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. She remained single until her 60s –– when she married a divorced man with grown children.

Germaine Greer: Known as the diva of feminism, Germaine Greer is, like Gloria Steinem, now in her 60s. Greer has two books: The Female Eunuch, which kick-started her fame and The Whole Woman, which basically repudiated everything Greer had said previously. Known for her bawdy diatribes, Greer preached that sexual liberation is the path to fulfillment. Greer has had "several" abortions –– leaving her unable to have children. She has stooped to get attention by being an apologist for female genital mutilation. She was married briefly (for three weeks) during which time, she brags, she cheated on her husband seven times. But at age 60, she mused: "The finest time in your life was when you fell asleep in someone's arms and woke up in the same position eight hours later. Sleeping in someone's arms is the prize." Inevitably, she sleeps alone.

Andrea Dworkin and Katherine McKinnon: These women made the ridiculous assertion that "marital sexual relations are a form of rape." Some feminists considered this bold leadership. What a hideous idea –– to distort the God given capacity of a man and woman to love each other and produce new life by describing it as rape.

The list could go on to include disparate feminist personalities like Patricia Ireland, as well as Alice and Rebecca Walker. Hillary herself coined the phrase that "women’s rights are human rights," a phrase that enabled the radical feminist agenda to pose as "human rights." The former first lady was the power behind implementing the Beijing Platform for Action –– a U.N. document from the 1995 world women's conference that sought to "mainstream gender equity" by forcing quotas as essential to so-called "gender" rights.

Ironically, Betty Friedan realized that history and truth had passed the feminists by; she ended up taking back many of her words. The feminist vision has failed, yet the truth about the equality of all human beings has flourished. Witness the resurgence of conservative values among young women and the reductions in promiscuous sexual activity by teens documented by the CDC in the last 15 years. Gabrielle Molnar, Young Businesswoman of the Year in 2003, explained that she didn't want to be called a feminist "because feminism doesn’t support the cause of women."

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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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