Palin Nation

September 14, 2008

Goldberg on Feminism and Palin

Filed under: Sarah Palin — Dave the Sage @ 7:06 am

Intense political conflict only brings out the best in writers. Some of the best and most impassioned writing I have seen in some time all seems to focus around Sarah Palin. I can’t remember a time that a vice presidential candidate has so completely reversed an election.

Feminist Army Aims it Canon at Palin

Gloria Steinem, the grand mufti of feminism, issued a fatwa anathematizing Palin. A National Organization for Women spokeswoman proclaimed Palin more of a man than a woman. Wendy Doniger, a feminist academic at the University of Chicago, writes of Palin in Newsweek: “Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.”

It’s funny. The left has been whining about having their patriotism questioned for so long it feels like they started griping in the Mesozoic era. Feminists have argued for decades that womanhood is an existential and metaphysical state of enlightenment. But they have no problem questioning whether women they hate are really women at all.

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