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Phyllis Schlafly says Palin is not a feminist because she's pretty

I'm sorry, I wasn't aware that there were still people out there who looked at her as being anything more than the progenitor of that useless blob of pseudo-intellectual nutbaggery Andy.

I wouldn't worry about what she has to say, she's consistently demonstrated that she's scum and far past wasting time criticizing her.
 
Sadly, I've known several 'feminists' who had that point of view. The argument might be made that Palin isn't a feminist, even though I can't think of any support for it off the top of my head, but this certainly isn't a good argument.

Also, being a conservative isn't incompatible with being a feminist. Although I really wish we would start using a different, gender neutral term.
 
Puppycow said:
It's not quite clear to me what point of view you refer to.
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That conservatives can't be feminists. Although I've also seen the 'can't be feminist and pretty' idea put out there too.
 
How dare you criticise Phylis Schlafly? Her feminist credentials are impeccable; being such a minger.
 
tyr_13 said:
That conservatives can't be feminists. Although I've also seen the 'can't be feminist and pretty' idea put out there too.
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I remember that idea being forwarded by feminists back in college. Of course they were the radical brand of feminist that thought all sex was rape or something. Most of the other feminists tried to ignore them.
 
Travis said:
I remember that idea being forwarded by feminists back in college. Of course they were the radical brand of feminist that thought all sex was rape or something. Most of the other feminists tried to ignore them.
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Not all sex. Just the heterosexual kind. ;)
I'll bet they were also the kind that pronounced 'Nicaragua' in that certain way.
 
Personally, my feminist pet peeve with Palin is here "mamma bear" thing. Yes, women vote because they are emotionally reacting to protect their babies :rolleyes: .
 
Sarah Palin is, physically, quite attractive. She is also one of the most simple-minded people among those who are considered politial spokespersons. Yeah, I'd do her, but I'd have to put a bag over her brain.
 
There may be women who think that being pretty is contrary to being a feminist, but it appears to me to be a very small minority of sociopaths within the moovement or peripheral to it.

There are beautiful, strongly feminist women who are feminists because they realized that being beautiful sometimes caused them to be trapped into glamourous but meaningless careers where men would not take them seriously for their talents or ideas.

Right wing males are very quick to take up the theme that beautiful women have no role in the feminist movement, the most noticeable beingn the fat deaf eunuch who is given to proclaiming the "the feminist movement is just a means for unattractive women to have access to the main stream of society."

Caribou Barnie is not a feminist not because she is pretty, but because she is such a dimwitted twit and has nothing else to offer than her aesthetic appeal, and is satisfied that that is really all she needs.
 
I would be interested to see if anyone can produce a bit of writing by a reasonably well-known feminist that advances the idea that attractiveness and women's rights are incompatable.

No doubt there's some crazy person somewhere who thinks that, but feminism, more than any other political advocacy group, has the insecurities of their opponents grafted onto their corpus of beliefs.

"All sex is rape," "Anyone who has a child is giving into the patriarchy," "Feminists hate stay at home mothers..." There are an endless number of insane strawman arguments that people accuse feminists of holding, yet no one ever produces the person actually making that argument.

"Feminists want to cut off men's balls and use them for the lottery." It's really not that far removed from stories about witches. Wonder if there's a connection.
 
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