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I don’t believe a word Steinem says, she changes her tune on a dime (or for her next “story”) which just happens to fit her lifestyle at the time. Why anyone would follow that nut job is a mystery.

She is not for “women’s rights”, she is for LIBERAL women’s rights. She is a political hack!

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In 2005, Steinem worked alongside Jane Fonda and Robin Morgan to co-found the Women’s Media Center, an organization that works to amplify the voices of women in the media through advocacy, media and leadership training.

When Steinem was three years old, her mother Ruth, then aged 34, had a “nervous breakdown” that left her an invalid, trapped in delusional fantasies that occasionally turned violent. She changed “from an energetic, fun-loving, book-loving” woman into “someone who was afraid to be alone, who could not hang on to reality long enough to hold a job, and who could rarely concentrate enough to read a book.”[6] Ruth spent long periods in and out of sanatoriums for the mentally disabled. Steinem was ten years old when her parents finally separated in 1944. Her father went to California to find work, while she and her mother continued to live together in Toledo.

Steinem interpreted her mother’s inability to hold on to a job as evidence of general hostility towards working women.[8] She also interpreted the general apathy of doctors towards her mother as emerging from a similar anti-woman animus. Years later, Steinem described her mother’s experiences as having been pivotal to her understanding of social injustices.

In the late 1950s, Steinem spent two years in India as a Chester Bowles Asian Fellow. After returning to the U.S., she served as director of the Independent Research Service, an organization funded in secret by a donor which turned out to be the CIA. She worked to send non-Communist American students to the 1959 World Youth Festival.

In 1963, while working on an article for Huntington Hartford’s Show magazine, Steinem was employed as a Playboy Bunny at the New York Playboy Club.[14] The article featured a photo of Steinem in Bunny uniform and detailed how women were treated at those clubs.

In 1969, she covered an abortion speak-out for New York Magazine, which was held in a church basement in the Village.[20][21] Steinem had had an abortion herself in London at the age of 22.[22] She felt what she called a “big click” at the speak-out, and later said she didn’t “begin my life as an active feminist” until that day.

As she recalled, “It [abortion] is supposed to make us a bad person. But I must say, I never felt that. I used to sit and try and figure out how old the child would be, trying to make myself feel guilty.

In later years, Steinem became an outspoken supporter of animal rights, writing letters to the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health urging the office director to end the “cruelty, fraud, and waste” of NIH-funded experiments on animals purportedly conducted in the name of advancing women’s health.

During the Clarence Thomas sexual harassment scandal, Steinem voiced strong support for Anita Hill and suggested that one day Hill herself would sit on the Supreme Court.

Steinem defended Clinton against allegations of sexual impropriety that had been made by White House volunteer Kathleen Willey.

On September 3, 2000, at age 66, Steinem married David Bale, father of actor Christian Bale. The wedding was performed at the home of her friend Wilma Mankiller, the first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Steinem and Bale were married for only three years before he died of brain lymphoma on December 30, 2003, at age 62

On June 1, 2013 Steinem performed on stage at the “Chime For Change: The Sound Of Change Live” Concert at Twickenham Stadium in London, England. Chime For Change is a global campaign for girls’ and women’s empowerment founded by Gucci.

In the run-up to the 2004 election, Steinem voiced fierce criticism of the Bush administration, asserting, “There has never been an administration that has been more hostile to women’s equality, to reproductive freedom as a fundamental human right, and has acted on that hostility.” She went on to claim, “If he is elected in 2004, abortion will be criminalized in this country.” At a Planned Parenthood event in Boston, Steinem declared Bush “a danger to health and safety,” citing his antagonism to the Clean Water Act, reproductive freedom, sex education, and AIDS relief.

Both Senators Clinton and Obama are civil rights advocates, feminists, environmentalists, and critics of the war in Iraq.... Both have resisted pandering to the right, something that sets them apart from any Republican candidate, including John McCain. Both have Washington and foreign policy experience; George W. Bush did not when he first ran for president.

Steinem endorsed Senator Clinton, citing her broader experience, saying that the nation was in such bad shape it might require two terms of Clinton and two of Obama to fix it.

Steinem again drew attention for, according to the New York Observer, seeming “to denigrate the importance of John McCain’s time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam”. Steinem’s broader argument “was that the media and the political world are too admiring of militarism in all its guises.”

Steinem was vocal in criticising the media treatment of the Clinton campaign as sexist. Following McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate, Steinem penned an op-ed in which she labeled Palin an “unqualified woman” who “opposes everything most other women want and need.” Steinem described her nomination speech as “divisive and deceptive”, called for a more inclusive Republican Party and concluded that Palin resembled “Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.”

Steinem’s social and political views overlap into multiple schools of feminism. This problem is compounded by the evolution of her views over five decades of activism. Although most frequently considered a liberal feminist, Steinem has repeatedly characterized herself as a radical feminist.

In 2005 Steinem characterized her abortion as a “pivotal and constructive experience.”

Steinem has been a vehement critic of pornography (she was a Playboy Bunny).

In a 2,200-word essay published in Time magazine on August 31, 1970, “What Would It Be Like If Women Win”, Steinem wrote about gay marriage in the context of the “Utopian” future she envisioned:

She said feminists are right to feel uncomfortable about the need for and uses of transsexualism.” The article concluded with what became one of Steinem’s most famous quotes: “If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?”

She said, “Nobody cares about feminist academic writing. That’s careerism. These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted.

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Steinem is a NUT case who can’t keep her story straight.