"I don't know where I failed. : )"
You failed to stop NOW, NARAL, and Hillary, is all.
They are the ones 'effing' it up, and have brainwashed clueless women to follow.
Socialism by feelgoodism is the order of the day.
Reading the bio on Schussel, an accomplished woman, and then reading the comments on the Proahfied women-in-the-street, and how hysterical and wachked out women's special interest groups have gotten ... I know the problem.
It's not women... It's feminism.
Probably. It is unfortunate that the NOW nags have co-opted the term. I am firmly for women's ability to get an education, to work at the job she wants -and is capable of performing (they always forget that point), and participate in society.
Sadly, you can't just stop there and call yourself a feminist. The label now includes all kinds of anti-women, anti-family, anti-American BS that I find offensive.
I'm an academic, I'm surrounded by folks who don't think I'm a feminist because I don't go around hating men, etc. One thing that gives me a different take on the whole movement is that, since I was there near the beginning, I know how white-centered it was. No one was talking about black women - the same black women who were working low level jobs, keeping the white kids so mom could go off and demonstrate, etc. The movement ahd a decidedly white, middle & upper class slant that it retains in a large degree today.
One of my sisters worked for NOW when Patricia Ireland was there. She saw it as just a job, but wanted to quit after a few weeks due to the racism, anti-Christian, anti-family sentiments, etc. that she had to put up with. Ireland got her to stay another month or so, but my sister finally had to leave.
These folks don't fool me. They are as much for a woman's choice in life as I am for Air America.