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On Sep 11, 6:04 am, Cold Water <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why Feminists Fear Strong Women > By James Lewis > > "I assume John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential partner in > a fit of pique because the Republican money men refused to let him have the > stuffed male shirt he really wanted. She added nothing to the ticket that the > Republicans didn't already have sewn up, the white trash vote, the > demographic that sullies America's name ... yet has such a curious appeal for > the right." > > That delicious tidbit comes from a Canadian feminist named Heather Mallick, > who writes for the tax-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Mallick is a > career "journalist" for the CBC and other major Canadian media. She has > decided to blame Governor Sarah Palin on "the white trash vote" -- because > it's obvious that trash attracts trash. > > This just another little tribute from sneering, caterwauling, > traditional-woman-hating feminists all over the Western world. (With the > wonderful exception of Camille Paglia.) > > Aye, 'tis a grand sight to behold. > > Governor Sarah Palin is Everywoman -- she is your mother, your sister or your > wife; even your grandmothers and great-grandmothers, going back generations. > She is a normal strong, healthy woman. Just as in Lake Woebegon, in reality > all normal women are strong. > > For decades we've been told that half the human population -- the female half > -- are somehow weak, oppressed victims, who cannot handle the normal > challenges of life. Those are not the women you or I know. Normal women are > incredibly strong; that's how evolution, or if you prefer God, made them; > they are hardly pushovers or pitiable weaklings. Weaklings perish over the > generations. The strong survive. > > All too often modern women have been suckered and bamboozled by a lifetime of > Leftist agitprop, which has turned their strengths into weaknesses. But it's > 100% hogwash. > > Hillary Clinton has based her whole political career on the Myth of the > Victimized Woman. Feminists who run our schools and colleges are always > trying to push that story to naive students, just like the young Hillary of > forty years ago, who was indoctrinated at Wellesley College. Even perfectly > normal women have come to believe it. > > But ask yourself: How many weakling women have you ever known? I've known > very few, and I suspect those few learned to behave that way for sympathy. > Just put them on a jungle island and soon they'd be swinging through the > trees like Jane of the Jungle. > > "Weak" women are a figment of the Left, just like "weak" black people or > "weak" poor people. Those folks never used to be weaklings, until the media > made them think they were. With the unanimous help of mainstream radio and TV > you can talk yourself into feeling you're a victim of circumstances, just as > under better influences you can talk yourself into feeling strong. > > But the media don't celebrate winners in life. (Wonder why?) > > Comes along Sarah Palin, a strong, joyous, normal woman, who doesn't mind it > if the world knows who she is, and shatters the weakling stereotype just by > being herself. What a blast! And the voters, who know from personal > experience exactly how strong women really are, are just recognizing their > mothers and sisters and aunts in Governor Palin. > > That's not "white trash." It's not "lipstick on a pig," as Obama wittily told > his adoring audience a few days ago. It's normal, healthy behavior --- in > fact, it's pretty much like Michelle Obama, who is also a strong woman (but > bitterly angry, for some unfathomable reason). > > So why do Leftist feminists fear Sarah Palin? Because their personal > ego-trips and their political power depend upon The Big Lie. Like all > Leftists, feminists desperately need to feel superior to the rest of us. That > makes them feel good about themselves. For some Lesbian feminists I've known > there is another, even more personal feeling: An intense sense of sexual > competition with men. If you believe that all men are evil abusers, Lesbians > are the logical refuge for women. The edge of manic rage that marks a lot of > feminism seems to owe quite a lot to sexual jealousy, one of the most > destructive of human emotions. > > So there's a lot riding on the Myth of Female Weakness, from ego, to sexual > passions, to deliberately cultivated group rage, to money and career > ambitions. Without the Myth a rage-driven feminist like Heather Mallick would > not have a high-paid career with the government-own broadcaster in socialist > Canada. All the feminist professors who were hired to create "gender balance" > in our schools and colleges, all the Ms. Magazine writers, all the media > ladies, the affirmative action bureaucrats and victimology peddlers would > lose the only career they know. A huge amount of money, prestige, snobbery, > influence, ego, rage and sexual passion rides on the feminist myth. > > Sarah Palin shatters their reasons for being. > > Once a majority of normal women decide they are not victims at all, Leftist > feminism is a goner. Which would be a good thing, overall, because the > important thing is not some "ism" -- particularly not a destructive one -- > but human beings, regardless of gender, race and all the other incidentals. > Humanity is greater than feminism. It's greater than any race, creed, color, > and any of those other cut and paste categories beloved of the Left. > > One of my favorite books is Mario Puzo's The Fortunate Pilgrim (1965). (Yes, > that Mario Puzo.) It's the story of his Neapolitan mother, and many another > woman of her generation. The book's heroine is named Lucia Santa. Mamma > Santa's life is incredibly touching because she is not 'fortunate' at all -- > not to our way of thinking. But she is a stout pilgrim through life, in so > many senses of that word. Lucia Santa was not as well-to-do as we are; she > was not well-educated; she was an Italian immigrant along with her husband, > who became psychotic and lived rest of his life in an asylum. Her immigrant > experience is like that of many first-generation Americans, including today's > Hispanics and Asians. > > As Wikipedia notes, > > "(The Fortunate Pilgrim) deals with the Angeluzzi-Corbos family, a family > of immigrants living an adopted life in New York City. The head of the family > is Lucia Santa, a wife, widow and mother of two families. It is her > formidable will that steers them through the Great Depression and the early > years of World War II. But she cannot prevent the conflict between Italian > and American values, or the violence and bloodshed which must surely follow." > ... > > "The Fortunate Pilgrim is the real birthplace of The Godfather. As Puzo > says, the book's hero, Lucia Santa, is based on his own mother: > > "Whenever the Godfather opened his mouth, in my own mind I heard the voice > of my mother. I heard her wisdom, her ruthlessness, and her unconquerable > love for her family and for life itself. ... The Don's courage and loyalty > came from her; his humanity came from her...and so, I know now, without Lucia > Santa, I could not have written The Godfather." > > Lucia Santa lived a life of immense suffering and joy, loss and triumph. Her > pilgrimage was to carry on in the new land with her children, to deal with > their troubles and triumphs, and to be a tower of strength to her family and > neighbors. Her son Mario became a great success as a novelist. But we become > who we are from our parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles and brothers > and sisters; yes, and our friends and teachers; sometimes we do it > consciously, and more often not. > > That's the traditional woman -- who we are told, on great feminist authority > -- was always a "weakling" before feminist ideologues came along to rescue > her. That is your grandmother and mine, down the generations, just as it is > your grandfather and mine. > > Nobody told them they were weaklings. So they never knew it. > > "We stand on the shoulders of giants," as a more grateful age used to say. > > Maybe it's time to bring back that old truth. > > James Lewis occasionally blogs at dangeroustimes.wordpress.com > > Page Printed > from:http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/why_feminists_fear_strong_wome... > at September 11, 2008 - 06:02:08 AM EDT --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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