HOW SMART CONSERVATIVE GIRLS MOVED INTO THEIR RIGHTFUL PLACE IN POLITICS
By Irene F. Starkehaus -
The greatest irritation that exists for conservative women is the general view that NOW, Planned Parenthood and the League of Women Voters speak for them. It's a perception that has been permitted to take root and flourish in our culture for some fifty years with little opposition from conservative women because those women have not necessarily been inclined to focus on such matters for the sheer fact that this would draw them away from the things that matter most to them – family, friends and community. For this reason, conservative women have traditionally resisted organizing to rebuff the popular myth that all women link arms and walk in lock step with progressive leadership.
Conservative women – by their very natures – disdain the three ring circus that liberal feminism has always been. They see the Sandra Flukes of the world and immediately reject association with the gimme-feed-me-indulge-me debauchery of such histrionic displays. As ridiculous as our nation's Flukian journeys into free sterilization or our excursions into VMA pornography have been, the truth is that the negative imagery of liberal feminism isn't as new as it is…well, wearing thin with all the shock and awe. Fluke and Cyrus are perhaps less ambiguous symbols of liberal feminist goals but the goals remain the same. It is and always has been about the degradation of the culture through the debasement of women.
In the past, conservative women have coped with all of this by simply trusting that the chaos would resolve itself on its own, but the unbridled force behind this culture shift now precludes conservative women from hoping for the best. Sandra Fluke and Miley Cyrus force an unwanted culture war upon conservative feminists, but they also represent an opportunity to highlight the destructive nature of liberal feminism.
Taken from Illinois Review
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