S.E. Cupp, a newly minted contributor to Fox Forum, is
happy that Ms. magazine has run a cover with Obama
sporting the "this is what a feminist looks like" t-shirt. It's
an acknowledgement that women's issues can be advanced from men,
and a positive sign from feminists. Does this mean that Obama is
clipping the wings of civil rights profiteers both of racial
minorities and women?
Ms. magazine has offended a lot of women in the past - both by
glorifying and, in fact, celebrating abortion as an act of
defiance against men, and by appearing anti-Semitic in refusing
to run an ad honoring Israeli women. If the election of Barack
Obama is opening feminists' eyes to the realities of the world
- that men are valuable and important, and shouldn't be
excluded from our fight for equality - then I am now a huge
supporter of Barack Obama. Here's hoping the new feminist
mantra can be "I Am Man, Hear Me Roar."
I sincerely doubt that American feminists, under current
leadership, are ever going to consider the human rights side of
their movement before the bra-burning part of it. If it were to
step outside of the narrowly-defined box (we'll call it the
Kitchen of Liberalism), left-leaning organizations that assert a
right to abortion and mandated sick leave would drop their
support and supposedly "delegitimize" them.
