Back in the 1990s (and into this century), whenever conservative men criticized the then-First Lady within earshot of her partisans, they quickly lashed out against us, telling us how afraid we were of strong women.
Such folks quickly forget how many Hillary critics in the 1990s had been, in the 1980s, enthusiastic supporters of then-Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, a Mrs. (now Lady) Margaret Thatcher who just happened to be a woman. And some of us also admired an American woman whom for some reason I have long called Lady Jeane, the Democrat Ronald Reagan tapped to serve as his Ambassador to the United Nations, Jeane Kirkpatrick.
As I read Peter Collier’s biography of this great lady, Political Woman: The Big Little Life of Jeane Kirkpatrick. I am reminded that despite her intellectual acumen, Ambassador Kirkpatrick was subject in the 1980s to the same sort of attacks, another more charismatic conservative woman would face a quarter-century later.
Gloria Steinem called the ambassador a “female impersonator”. Wendy Doniger quipped that Sarah Palin’s “greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.”
How ready some folks on the left who see us as somehow sexist when we don’t love the women they love. Yet, when conservative women rise in public favor, some liberals are quick to criticize them — and question even the reality of their sex. You would think feminists would welcome women who succeed in endeavors once reserved for men — and earn the admiration of men, particularly conservative men.
Why do accomplished conservative women arose such ire on the left?
“Why do accomplished conservative women arose such ire on the left?”
Because accomplished conservative women WORKED for their accomplishments, they didn’t get their positions by marrying rich men or programs like affirmative action. Accomplished conservative women are simply that: ACCOMPLISHED. They put effort into something and it paid off, unlike liberal women who mostly whined and seduced their way into their success. (Hillary Clinton admitted that the reason she agreed to marry Bill was because she could tell he was a rising star, that is, she married him because she wanted to leach off his success. Pelosi took a similar route. These are just two examples, but there are many more I could list.) The reason the Left get so cranky at accomplished conservative women is because it subconsciously believes that women can’t succeed without the help of the government. To the Left, a woman’s success must be given to her as an entitlement because she can’t actually earn it through her own efforts. That is why women like Sarah Palin drive them crazy.
Well, that, and the Left has a massive inferiority complex…
Leftist dogma is made up of a pile of theories and assumptions that don’t stand up to scrutiny. Among them is the notion that women can’t succeed because of the oppressive Patriarchy of a male-dominated white supremacist… yadda yadda yadda… When a woman succeeds within the oppressive Patriarchy on the strength of her merit, it reveals that a leftist article of faith is just a myth. This is very threatening to the whole enterprise.
Also, let’s face it, the progressive left are a bunch of bullies and insecure conformists. When they viciously attack someone like Sarah Palin or Dana Loesch, it sends a message to any women in the left who might start thinking for themselves; “Stay in line, sister, or you’ll get the same.”
Also, Academics who publish carefully researched, peer-reviewed studies that refute leftist dogma must be expelled from academia.
It is all about boxes. Liberals put everyone in a box based upon some “identity”. If you try and get out of the box that you have been assigned to, they hit you on the head. Reminds me of the people frantically playing “Whack-A-Mole” at the county fair.
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“Gloria Steinem called the ambassador a “female impersonator”.”
You really had to be around at the time to know just how vicious this comment by “professional victim” Steinem was.
Why does any accomplished person of the right get pilloried?
Reason no. 1 why women do – they have left the liberal plantation and are no longer part of a victim group. That simple.
I think it becomes such blatant hypocrisy because the left only knows how to react emotionally. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of liberals I know who are logical first, and they aren’t your typical liberals. The kind of liberals who spew this kind of vitriol are the hatemongering creatures they claim to detest, and that’s sad.
If a woman is not accepting her role as a “professional victim”, as Richard pointed out, they are not accepted by the left. It’s all about control: if they can keep you on the plantation, make you think you need them to stand up for you, they’re in control.
Great answers, all!
Sarah Palin couldn’t name a single newspaper she reads.
I have not read a newspaper of any type in well over a week. The only time I read one with any degree of consistency is on trips by plane, in which case it’s the Wall Street Journal — but that only happens every couple of months or so. I get my news from the Internet, blogs, and Twitter linkings.
Now, Tom1729; Barack Obama thinks people in Austria speak Austrian.
That’s not even a language.
Sheila Jackson-Lee thinks the United States landed astronauts on Mars and that North and South Vietnam exist together in peace and harmony.
She’s an Ivy League graduate.
You, sir, are a bigot. You cannot hold people similarly responsible regardless of skin color or gender. You are a disgusting, filthy bigot who should be publicly shamed and humiliated.
To the fool @ #9:
Pay attention to this-
Barack Hussein Obama, aka SCOAMF, Mocha Messiah, Captain Wonderful:
* Austrian language (as NDT pointed out)
* 57 states
* ‘buying a thingamajig’ (he couldn’t come up with ‘thermostat’ while giving a speech at a comapny that manufactures them)
* “The private economy is doing fine.”
* Navy “corpse man” (it’s ‘corpsman’)
Want me to keep going, Tom 1729?
I could list 2 dozen more, but why waste space?
By the way, what papers do YOU read?
“couldn’t” or “wouldn’t”
How about some substance here?
Since conservative women want the same things as conservative men, it means they are not women. Liberals use the same thing with minorities like a blacks are naturally Democrats.