Posted on 07/06/2008 7:53:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Mary C. Curtis is in high dudgeon. She is all twisted up inside over the seeming lack of support that feminists have for Michelle Obama. She has decided to scold all those recalcitrant feminists, too. Yes, she’s all upset over this thing wondering, “Where are Obama’s feminist defenders?” Curtis is even moaning that black women are second-class citizens, even with feminists. She is all in righteous indignation about the “The Loud Silence Of Feminists.”
Curtis is agonizing over the fact that women aren’t defending Michelle Obama. She imagines that feminists have failed women, specifically black women. Well, I agree at some point. Feminists have failed women, but the least of which is Michelle Obama. Not that Curtis seemed to notice, but femisinsts have indeed been silent on the treatment of women in the Muslim world. They have sat silent over forced weddings, beatings, female circumcision of children, rape, stoning and so-called honor killings going on not just in the Middle East, but in every western country that has a sizable Muslim population.
Still, Curtis is only interested in Michelle Obama. She warms us up with some hagiography of Michelle.
Michelle Obama has become an issue in the presidential campaign even though she isn’t running for anything. An educated, successful lawyer, devoted wife and caring mother has been labeled “angry” and unpatriotic and snidely referred to as Barack Obama’s “baby mama.”
As if Michelle, the angriest possible first lady ever, doesn’t have the spine to defend herself? Of course, like most Democrats whining about how Michelle Obama is being treated, Curtis forgets that Michelle is the one that went out on the campaign trail forcefully asserting her own point of view in the first place. Also, like most left-wingers, Curtis then wants to shut down anyone who reacts to Obama’s “baby mama” by calling them a racist for doing so. There’s no better way to stifle debate than to start calling everyone a racist!
Amusingly, Curtis goes on to inform us that the feminist movement never much cared for their black sisters in the first place.
I’ve long been frustrated, as a black woman and a feminist, with our national conversation. I didn’t hear the cause speaking up for women of color or for women who have always worked in blue-collar or service jobs. Choice was not their issue.
Ah, yes, when it comes down to it, it isn’t about feminism at all for Curtis. Like most of her media activist type, it’s all about the racism. As she says, “But in America, there’s seldom a cost for disrespecting black women.”
I would laugh at this next line if I didn’t think she was serious: “As a journalist, I have stayed neutral about political candidates.” Well, maybe she has stayed clear of “political candidates,” mostly because racism is her interest, not politics.
But all this whining and gnashing of teeth over how feminists are not supporting Michelle Obama is appalling in the end. You see, I am angry at feminists for their silence, too. They have universally remained utterly silent where REAL female oppression exists. Curtis might think that Michelle Obama is really oppressed and mistreated, but let’s talk about the story of Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Or perhaps if the feminists don’t want to talk of an individual they can discuss how women as a group are mutilated by the Muslim practice of female genital mutilation? How about the story of how girls born in England are rounded up and sent to the Middle East as child brides? Maybe these silent feminists might find somewhere in their souls the ability to get just a tad upset over the increasing practice of “honor killing” that has left young girls dead all throughout the western world?
Where are the feminists with these issues? Not visible at all. Silence on real mistreatment of women is what we get from the feminists.
So, yes, I agree with Curtis. There is a “loud silence of feminists” but it isn’t over something as silly and inconsequential as the pampered, fortunate life of Michelle Obama. Yes, there is silence, indeed, from the so-called feminists over real abuse and mistreatment of women in this world.
Too bad Mary C. Curtis is just as silent as the rest of them.
You know, there is one thing I have to say. Feminists have NOT been silent on the issues in the Muslim world. Ms. Magazine was one of the first places I read about how women are treated in the Muslim world some 20 years ago, and there were no apologetics about it. If you go to their website right now and search for “honor killing”, you’ll find 166 articles about it.
An excellant article and the writer brings up some really valid points. I can’t believe that American femminists are soooo silent about mistreatment of women in Muslim countries. Well, yes, this group of femminists that drool all over ObamaMessiah.
The Dems have still not dealt with the issue of how they treated Hillary. Personally, I can’t stand Hillary, but they sure weren’t very “progressive’ in their mistreatment of her as a political party, screaming for her to “shut up, sit down and get out of the race.”. For a party that goes on and on and on about “equality” and ‘women”, they have never at least recognized that she was the first woman to run for Pres...
Michelle a victim? Puhleez! this angry woman wants it all, and she has gotten a lot! From her connections with wealthy white women and then she slams “whitey”/ Her kids play soccer with wealthy whites, she doesn’t live with “black people”, and she vacations at a lakeside vacation home of a multimillionaire couple ( oh, did I say, they are white?).
Michelle plays that “mistreated black woman” game really well!
they aren’t represented in the Lib left or Code Pink.
the femminist movement sure has change since 20 years ago.
Now, they are all running after Obama.
Hope Mary reads Warner Todd Huston. . .
Hillary is who really silenced the feminists....
We at least have that to thank her for.
“Feminists have NOT been silent on the issues in the Muslim world.”
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Have feminists also expressed their alarm and anger at “kitchen fires” in India and surrounding countries?
Wait a danged minute here... That expression is the exclusive property of WASPs!!! One must first be self-righteous in order to have "righteous indignation!" (snicker)
Ah, it’s so nice to see liberal racism revealed. Once the Civil Rights bill passed, liberals drummed up the feminist movement to ensure they took priority over blacks. Then, the liberals came up with gay rights to push the blacks aside again. Finally, they had to make room for illegal Mexicans. All the while, promising blacks they would get their turn. Blacks who made it, such as Clarence Thomas, were totally denounced by the libs.
August 30, 2000 Woman In India Tortured For Two-Months Over Dowry A 20-year old woman was chained to a bed, beaten and denied sufficient amounts of food for a period of two months by the family of her husband because of failure to meet the family's dowry demand. The torture of the woman was caused by her husbands feeling of insecurity about his impotence and fear that she would leave him because of his medical condition. She was able to escape by sheer luck when her mother-in-law forgot to secure the manacles that bound her hands.
The cruel and inhumane treatment of women over dowry disputes is not uncommon in India. Dowry, the act of giving or receiving, is considered illegal in India and punishable under law. However, the exchange of dowries remains widely practiced and dowry disputes are equally settled through torture and burning of women by their husbands and in-laws.
http://www.msmagazine.com/news/uswirestory.asp?id=5130
Are you sure they're silent? Do you read a lot of feminist literature?
I thought the feminists were silent about Michelle because she isn’t Lesbian enough for their taste.
Like when a woman gets married to a man, and has his children she forfeits the support of the feminists.
If a woman wants to keep the support of the feminists she should merely being promiscuous with nameless men, or better yet be promiscuous with with women and gets artifically inseminated.
It will be very hard to sell Michelle — the over degreed, over paid, over hyped, Affirmative Action America hater, who wasn’t proud of America until her husband convinced enough fools to elect him Senator and nominate him for President..
Then again - we’re talking about Chicago and the DNC.
Poor Michelle — with all she is and has, still wouldn’t amount to more than a blackhead on a real lady’s ass.
“Scandal? Michelle Obama Called Hubby Barack: “My Baby’s Daddy”
“... Michelle Obama, wife of Barack Obama, and in the middle of her glowing, excited introduction of her husband, Barack Obama, she said, “My baby’s daddy, Barack Obama! Yeah!” She introduced her husband as “my baby’s daddy.” Barack Obama, senator-elect, Illinois: “Thank you, Illinois. Thank you. Thank you, Illinois.”
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_061308/content/01125113.guest.html
That may very well be..in the ‘femminist literature” ( a very elite segment )....but where it counts, where people hear about it, in the MSM and the “demonstrations” you hear nothing. In fact, liberal and leftist women that are all upset about us going into Iraq, are quite “liberal” in their whitewashing Muslim culture when it comes to women.
The femminists haven’t really made any strides in that regard. Politically they are not so different than the femminists in the early 70’s feminist resurgence. When push came to shove, the women fell in line right behind the men in SDS, Black Power groups. Even NOW was very quick to integrate men into their group at a time when women were just starting to form women’s group.
\So it is no different with the left today, spouting a lot about women’s rights, but throwing their own under the bus if a charismatic black Man comes along.
They’re still reeling from the dethroning of the Pant Suit.
That has more to do with the decisions of the MSM than the efforts of feminists to be heard.
You are right Feminists have not been silent on issues in the Muslim world. Do they make it a priority? That is debatable. My impression and I did spend a bit of time pouring over feminist literature some of it almost as good as science fiction was that modern feminists were really concerned less about the plight of women in general or real fairness of opportunity but instead promoting a lifestyle that was hostile to that which was lived and desired by most men and women.
It was if they really believed men met in little clubs to plan how to keep women down which was and is hardly case. That men like to dominate and generally do should not be a surprise. It is nature. Just like little boys tend to be more rambunctious and aggressive, this is not a sickness it is a part of their nature and it is that nature in conjunction with the nature women that has built this modern world.
I believe that for all the negatives that have arisen from aggression and ego that the world would be much more mundane without the aggression of men just as I believe the world would be lacking so much beauty and refinement without the more openly emotional and often comforting nature of women. If humanity ever succeeds in eliminating the differences between the sexes it will have ushered in the end of humanity.
Well enough of my rambling...I hope you are doing well.
that’s no jackie Kennedy!
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