The Tea Party and the New Right-Wing Christian Feminism

History News Network ^ | July 12, 2010 | Ruth Rosen

[o_zarkman44]

“Why, I’ve wondered, does this chaotic movement appeal to so many women? There are many possible reasons. Some of the women in these groups are certainly women who love men who love guns and who hate the government and taxes.”

And the comment that the men in the movement are all in militias blah blah.

Pretty much sums up the left wings hate for the movement to put America back in the hands of good people.

[Jabba the Nutt]

"Most Americans are not quite sure what to make of the sprawling right-wing Tea Party,..."

To Rosin, "most Americans" = me and my progressive friends. Most Americans have zero problem in understanding the Tea Party, including people who disagree.

Rosin = I am a clueless, out of touch, card-carrying member of the drive-by, state-controlled media.

[Nevadan]

re: It’s like they’re observing us in a zoo.

Good point!

[peggybac]

I quit reading after ...”and an African American president who had saved American capitalism by expanding the government’s subsidies to the financial, real estate, and automobile industries.”

[kcvl]

April 2010

Tea Partiers have been dismissed as a fringe, but two new polls suggest the conservative movement might be going mainstream.

A Rasmussen poll released Monday found more Americans identify with the Tea Party groups than with President Obama.

According to the survey, 48 percent of voters said the average Tea Party activist is more aligned with their views on major issues than the president. Forty-four percent said Obama’s views are closer to theirs.

[kcvl]

Ruth Rosen, a former columnist at the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, is also an historian who currently teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of “The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America (Viking, 2006).

[kcvl]

Ruth Rosen is a historian of gender and society, who taught the first courses in this field at Berkeley in the early 1970s.

[kcvl]

http://homepage.mac.com/anitamedal/.cv/anitamedal/Sites/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2004-12-04%2008.33.29%20-0800/Image-B3F2244E461111D9.jpg-thumb_202_269.jpg

[kcvl]

http://www.savethemales.ca/150801.html

Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique (1963) which sold more than five million copies, is considered the manifesto of the modern feminist movement. Friedan and Simon de Beauvoir, are the pioneers of modern feminism. In the book, Friedan describes herself as a typical suburban housewife and mother who had a revelation. She realized that women like herself are being exploited and dehumanized; and, she actually compared their plight with that of Nazi concentration camp inmates. She pointed to career as a woman’s only path to identity and self-fulfillment.

What Friedan didn’t say is that she wasn’t a typical housewife. Rather, she had been a Marxist activist since her undergraduate years at Smith College (1938-1942) where she wrote for the college newspaper. She dropped out of grad school to become a reporter for a radical left wing news service. From 1946 -1952 she was a reporter for the union newspaper of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, (UE) “the largest Communist-led institution of any kind in the United States.”

[Dumb_Ox]

From the same site: Gloria Steinem backed by CIA. Feminism was very much an astroturf movement.

I don't care much for Gov. Palin's feminism myself. Palin supports things like Title IX programs which ensure continued cushy jobs for and lawsuits from feminists. Forcing businesses to worry about feminist lawsuits also is a drag on the economy and is a force for PC in the workplace (including the media!).

The New Deal-era Dems were very pro-family, more concerned about helping a man support a stay-at-home wife and kids. The GOP was the "feminist" party at the time, which meant it sided with industrialists who wanted to force more women into the workplace through "equality" legislation. (see Profam.org for more)

[DTogo]

Men drawn to this movement appear to belong to a broad range of fringe right-wing groups, such as militias, white supremacy groups, pro-gun and confederacy "armies."

From where she sits in Berkeley...

[chainsaw]

Most Americans are not quite sure what to make of the sprawling right-wing Tea Party,

That’s as far as I got. This a..hole never heard of the Boston Tea Party. He needs to revisit the American History books.

[snowtigger]

All this shows me is that they still don’t get it or, they get it and are afraid of it.

[bray]

Of course he has proof most men belong to malitias and right wing fringe groups. What pap.

Pray for America

[when the time is right]

First, something called the History News Network has to “remind” people in the very first paragraph what the original Boston Tea Party was about. That makes me feel they assume their readers are not truly interested in history.

Second if you are truly interested in writing about history, perhaps you should become involved in history in the making and go to one of the big Tea Party rallies and see for yourself just what this historic movement is all about.

[RoadTest]

“right-wing Tea Party”

Propaganda words chosen by the sycophant mainstream media. The tea party sprawls all over (what used to be) the center, not the right, because the whole political spectrum has been wrenched violently to the far left.

The tea party people are the silent majority and their children, only silent no more.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"Most Americans [liberals] are not quite sure what to make of the sprawling right-wing Tea Party..."

Many urban liberals view normal Americans as strange.
Freedom is strange, private property is strange, Christianity is strange, having children is strange, etc.

By contrast, for them, Fabian Socialism is normal, Frankfurt School ideology is normal, anti-Christian foreign billionaires funding depopulation are normal, a dorky science nerd who wants to dope the water supply with sterilization drugs is normal.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Alvin Greene and His Mysterious but UNNECESSARY Filing Fee (SCOTUS: Filing fees unconstitutional)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2533255/posts

[JudgemAll]

Ah. The useful idiot academic feels its funds are going to dry up. So he/she has to cry foul to those who won’t fund him or her. This is because their budget mindedness is ultimately tied to their hate and wish to genocide opposition. The Congress budget is oriented toward killing by famines and witholding through thuggery the abilities of freely feed oneself without a lawyer fed gov cop racketeering the stuff.

The communist academic has only fed a bunch of rabid cops the power they needed. Now they are going to be erradicated in a swift purge and they blame who? THose they collaborated against, the tax payers.

[JudgemAll]

Like Mrs. Bucket, they all are into that BS politiks of narcissism and keeping up appearances. It invariably turns the emotional retard liberal into a rabid bigot rivaling Nazies.

THeir belief is they are motivated by “emotion” and not by “physical greed”. But this is in error because all of them are Vegas style gamblers and beters on error ideologies. They want those ideologies to win not on merit but just because it was their barking choice. Tell them they are wrong and losing territory, and they turn like a hysterical pitbull who finds anything contrarian to be an attack on his food dispenser dish.

These people are near animal in behavior. They only understand a tamer’s sobering put down with no further explanation. Their only difference with their ancestral jackals is that they have lost the hunting skills because they were too scared to go into the woods and came begging to the doors of civilization.

Like the Chihuahua who regularly get baited and eaten by Coyotes in my neighborhood, this is the fate of liberal barking rudderless “emotional” bet greedy democrates and academics. That in their demand for respect of their appearances and narcissism makes them lose self-respect and turns them to fascistoid racisms, does not even flicker in their coward undeveloped pea brain. THey do not even understand the concept of “regret” or being “wrong”, they are animals. For them it’s men and their emulators/followers that is wrong.