But here's the fun part. Feminists are hooked on their own Kool-Aid; they
actually believe the stuff they say. The shrill, angry women you see on
MSNBC claiming to speak for all women actually think they do. But they
don't. They speak for a few left-leaning women in faculty lounges, editorial
boardrooms and that's about it.
Mainstream liberals have been in captivity for so long, eagerly accepting
their ritual beatings, that they've gotten Stockholm Syndrome and convinced
themselves that Gloria Steinem and Co. are the authentic voices of women
everywhere.
Stop laughing.
The reality is that there is an actual reality out there, and it doesn't
look anything like what feminists see beyond the rims of their ideological
blinders.
For instance, immediately after the Palin announcement, the priestesses not
only ruled it "sexist" for McCain to pick a woman but also said it was
strategically dumb - "insulting to women!" - to think any real women would
switch support from the beatified Obama to that old devil McCain.
Well, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll, there's been a 20-point
swing among white women from Obama-Biden to McCain-Palin. Did this
"ideological brain rape" suddenly induce an epidemic of false consciousness?
Of course not. Nor are women mindlessly switching loyalties because there's
a woman on the ticket. What the Palin pick has demonstrated, however, is
that the Feminist-Industrial Complex is a fraud. Disagreeing with
self-described feminists doesn't mean you're anti-woman. Usually it just
means you're sensible.
And for that lesson alone, we should all be grateful.
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