Some excellent
advice by dissident feminist Camille Paglia in the Sunday
Times. And note the feminists' howling response:
In the US, the ultimate glass ceiling has been fiendishly
complicated for women. Our president must also serve as
commander-in-chief of the armed forces, so a woman candidate for
president must show a potential capacity for military affairs and
decision-making. As a dissident feminist, I have been arguing for
20 years that young American women aspiring to political power
should be studying military history rather than women's studies
with their rote agenda of never-ending grievances.
The gun-toting Palin is a brash ambassador from America's
pioneer past. She immediately reminded me of the frontier women of
the western states, which first granted women the right to vote
after the civil war - long before the federal amendment
guaranteeing universal suffrage was passed in 1919. Frontier women
faced the same harsh challenges and had to tackle the same chores
as men, which is why men could regard them as equals - unlike the
genteel, corseted ladies of the eastern seaboard… Feminism,
which should be about equal rights and equal opportunity, should
not be a closed club requiring an ideological litmus test for
membership.
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