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Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Phyllis Schlafly :: Townhall.com Columnist
The Feminists Demand and Receive
by Phyllis Schlafly
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The feminists were well aware that Obama's chief economist is Larry Summers, the former president of Harvard University, who had already proven himself a pushover for pushy feminists. His embarrassing confrontation with hysterical feminist faculty over academic math and science professorships proved that there is no way to appease the feminists and that apologizing to them only makes matters worse -- they still demanded their pound of flesh and saw to it that he resign.

After working over the administration representatives assigned to get their orders from the feminists, they moved on to lobby Congress to write their demands into the text of the stimulus bill. They succeeded with the compliance of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid after face-to-face meetings, and Obama signed the revised stimulus bill.

A member of Pelosi's staff dared to offer the suggestion that "apron ready" could be the female equivalent of the term "shovel ready." The feminists didn't think that was funny.

Unemployment figures show that men are continuing to lose jobs and that women are getting jobs created by the stimulus bill. The Associated Press reported in June that "social programs get bulk of stimulus cash; state 'shovel-ready' jobs take back seat to spending on health care, welfare."

Obama gave two of his economists the task of calculating the gender ratio of jobs to be created by the stimulus legislation. They reported that women had only 20 percent of jobs lost in the recession but would get 42 percent of stimulus-created jobs.

In Georgia, for example, two-thirds of the $3.9 billion stimulus money will go to existing social programs.

Despite the recent welcome Ricci decision by the Supreme Court against egregious reverse discrimination on the basis of race, the feminists can look forward to Sonia Sotomayor joining the high court and ruling that "empathy" requires reverse discrimination for women. After all, when she was on the Second Circuit, she upheld affirmative action in the Ricci case, and her own words (repeated many times) reveal that she believes a woman's view of the law can be better than a man's.

When are the American people going to wake up to the fact that the feminists are not for equal opportunity or fairness? The feminist movement is for reverse discrimination to give jobs to women and make men, husbands and fathers irrelevant as family providers.

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Phyllis Schlafly is a national leader of the pro-family movement, a nationally syndicated columnist and author of Feminist Fantasies.
 
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You're right Phyllis Schlafly!
The fact is, feminists lobbied successfully to divert a very large portion of the stimulus to their agendas. It took a very large portion away from the most harmed portion of the workforce. Men!

So, don't begrudge we men, women. We resent that there is less of the pie to recover our jobs. For decades women's rights and perceptions have been that they must have some kind of ceiling to which they are not allowed to penetrate. Really? Tell that to Oprah!

It's ludicrous to keep on the same old story after proof is shown that salaries for women are not as insufficient as claimed to be. It's also wrong to claim that there are programs targeted just to men, and therefore discriminate against women. That does not justifty arguments that predominently male vocations discriminate against women. Women do not, by and large actively seek construction jobs. But, men would seek the hugely beneficial government jobs that women predominate in, even teaching, if it could be shown that men would actually obtain some proportional hiring.

I think reverse discrimination is a very valid discussion to this topic.


PLANO BLUE
The hour is late, enough of this nonsense.

Run along and play now. Hasta La Vista, Hombre.
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