Posted on 02/10/2017 4:24:54 PM PST by drewh
Women can be vicious. Just ask men. Better yet, ask other women. If they’re honest, they’ll tell you. Women can be harsh to their own kind, especially liberal women. That’s what makes feminist campaigns like the “Women’s March” a bit of a joke. It’s not about women sticking up for one another. It’s about liberal women advancing their own liberal agenda, and if you’re not on board, you’re attacked, viciously.
Just look at how Ivanka Trump is being treated. After she posted an adorable photo with her son, comedian Ilana Glazer of “Broad City” unfurled her claws.
Ivanka’s tweet didn’t mock other women. In fact, many women could identify with her. Plenty of working moms have taken their kids to work, and women who are homemakers or work from home appreciate a mom who is active in their children’s lives.
I can bet if any liberal celebrity or politician tweeted the same thing, they’d be praised for it. But not Ivanka. Because she’s her father’s daughter, she is unfairly attacked by other women.
The Double Standards Are Obvious The same goes for all the stores that are pulling or downplaying her clothing line—Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, T.J. Maxx, and Marshalls. Ivanka was shocked, of course. Why would they boycott her clothing line just because of her dad’s politics? Aren’t women supposed to be treated independently, separate from their male relatives?
Isn’t this what we were told repeatedly about Hillary Clinton? It didn’t matter what Bill did. Hillary was her own woman. She didn’t have to answer for her husband’s shortcomings and immoral behavior, particularly toward women. Yet this is what we get about Ivanka: “While she is not her dad, she is complicit in his actions, especially considering her husband is her dad’s advisor.”
Complicit in his actions? Which illegal or immoral actions is she involved in, exactly? Unlike Hillary, who actually took active steps to silence her husband’s accusers of sexual assault and rape, Ivanka has done nothing even remotely similar. She has supported her dad’s candidacy, and she continues to support him, but she is not actively “complicit” in anything. Women are independent of men, right?
Or is that true only for liberal women? Only they are seen as individuals with identities of their own, but Republican women, well, they have no independent identities. They’re appendages of the men in their lives. I call BS on that one.
People See the Hypocrisy and They’re Sick of It It’s this kind of hypocrisy from the Left that got Donald Trump elected. People are tired of it. They see behind the veil where petty, insecure people are pulling the levers. This is especially true of the feminist movement: Madonna, Ashley Judd, Scarlett Johannsson, Sarah Silverman, and all the rest of the liberal celebrities who are in meltdown mode right now are being exposed for the frauds they are.
Just like the organizers who refused to let pro-life women participate in the Woman’s March, and the conga line of liberal elites who bash conservative female pundits and politicians as if they’re Sarah Palin beating a halibut, women who attack Ivanka are backstabbing harpies. That’s all. They’re not principled. They don’t care about women’s rights. They don’t care about the dignity of all women. They care about one thing—their own egos, which are wrapped up in their liberal politics. They don’t care about you. They care about themselves.
Instead of engaging in rational debate, they attack, boycott, politicize, and propagandize. They bastardize their art and their platforms to perpetuate an ideology that undermines our republic, our freedom, the American people, and the very women they say they represent.
It’s time we said “Enough!” Enough of the double standards. Enough of the vicious attacks on Republican women or anyone who dares to challenge the Left and their ideology, which isn’t about empowering women at all. It’s about empowering the state, the political elites, and their handmaidens in Hollywood.
Ivanka Trump is a successful, beautiful, strong woman who should be celebrated and supported for the example she sets for young women as a wife, mother, business woman, and, yes, even daughter. Is she perfect? No, none of us are. But to put a target on her merely because she loves and supports her father is the opposite of what feminism represents. Feminism is supposed to be about respecting a woman’s choices, seeing her independent of a man, and celebrating her on her own merit. Ivanka deserves that. We all do.
Correction: An earlier version of this article included TJ Maxx and Marshall’s in a list of retailers that have pulled Ivanka Trump’s clothing line. The two have so far kept her clothes on the shelves but removed them from special displays and signs.
Denise C. McAllister is a journalist based in Charlotte, North Carolina, and a senior contributor to The Federalist. Follow her on Twitter @McAllisterDen
The UGLY LEFT DESPISES the PRETTY RIGHT!!! DESPISES and wants to KILL!!!
Uh-oh...no pics?!! Rules are rules!!!
Ivanka and family are getting to see front and center what is becoming the mainstream of liberalism...absolute insanity and vicious hate.
The hates:
Women
Blacks
Jews
Men
Homosexuals
Straights
Christians
...
Well ... everybody.
The new beauty and the beasts
Of course, it’s a sham. It’s always been a sham. When was the last time they protested honor killings, fenitalia mutilation and selling little girls off as wives?
Women hate women that are beautiful and successful.
Ask any female executive. Her underlings constantly try to do her in.
How about their “womens march”, shrieking about womens rights yet they had Sharia supremacist Linda Sarsour speak. And that is not fake news, you can go to Youtube and watch a video of Rachel Maddow interviewing her where she complains that 22 states have anti-Sharia bills. Sharia law - THE most oppressive ideology against women in the world, nothing comes close to it and they allowed her to speak.
Here it is - Hear it from her own mouth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k13UXsMnHn0
Oh yes, and she also accused the US of “executing Muslim kids”. No sorry Linda, that’s your own Muslim bros that do that, usually while using the excuse of Sharia law that you so whine about not being allowed. Let’s see how eager Madonna and Ashley Judd would be to live under Sharia law.
Ivanka is most likely a conservative liberal and they hate her with no love at all. Wise up conservatives.
This is reminding me of what they did to Sarah Palin. Remember how they viciously ridiculed her toddler son who has Downs syndrome? Who could do that to a baby?
They also attacked Sarah’s womanhood by producing a porn movie with a woman who was made up to look like her. This is the party that respects women?
And not only is she super hot, she is super down to earth. Flying coach on a plane? Not even the fanatical global warming leftist “celebrities” do that. Anyone ever seen Al Gore or Leo DiCrapio fly coach? Only private planes for them.
That is absolutely correct. The pretty ones are on our team. I suspect the unattractiveness is part of liberalism. Beauty is a source of power in our culture. Those without it are angry women. Anger isn’t pretty either.
Some liberal women could be attractive if they bothered to take showers and do their hair and make up. But, they commit to their ugliness.
Liberal women are, for the most part, altogether angry, unpleasant, unattractive women. Of course they resent a lovely, powerful young woman like Ivanka. A healthy, mentally balanced woman looks at Ivanka with admiration and wonders what she can learn from her example.
Great points, all.
You know what is happening though, people who are middle of the road or moderate Democrats are seeing Trumps family, what good people they are, and how viciously they are being attacked and it is disgusting them. My Aunt has had it with the Democratic party. She’s been a teacher for 30 years, life long Democrat. She said next election she will vote independent. I don’t think she would ever vote Republican, but it doesn’t matter - That’s a vote the Democrats lost because of their conduct. So all I can say to that is: I HOPE THEY KEEP IT UP! LOL LOL!!!
As mich a sham as when they pretend they never spat on veterans and that we should help them instead of building a wall south of the border
Somehow they can convince themselves that it is true.
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