Feminism Is For Everyone

Mar 4, 2008,5:14 PM

WTF of the Week

I'm amazed and disheartened by the extent to which some women have thoroughly internalized misogynistic views. Case in point: an article published in the Washington Post this Sunday:
"We Scream, We Swoon. How Dumb Can We Get?" by Charlotte Allen

Here's my favorite line:
"So I don't understand why more women don't relax, enjoy the innate abilities most of us possess (as well as the ones fewer of us possess) and revel in the things most important to life at which nearly all of us excel: tenderness toward children and men and the weak and the ability to make a house a home."

Holy shit, it's the 1950s all over again.

Please, someone tell me this lady is being sarcastic.

And wait, there's more! That article was published side by side with this one:
"For Hillary's Campaign, It's Been a Class Struggle" by Linda Hirschman, which on the whole seems to be more intelligently written--until Hirschman concludes that the reason for the split of women's votes between Obama and Clinton boils down to "the fickleness of the female voter."