As a female I must state with pride that the women’s movement achieved significant rights and advancements. The fight for suffrage and equal rights was a fabulous and novel concept, but women like Nancy Pelosi, Gloria Steinem, and Eve Ensler have since hijacked the cause. One of the most infamous examples of how women have betrayed other women is the play The Vagina Monologues, by Ensler. In the play, females scream “vagina” at the top of their lungs in a call for “ending violence against women.”
Women, our movement is about choice, and it is your choice to combat this type of feminism and reclaim its original purpose.
The radical wing of the feminist movement champions abortion as the biggest issue facing women rather than national defense, healthcare, or impending taxation because of liberal spending programs. It is to a young conservative’s despair, however, that women like Steinem and Ensler are welcome to college campuses across the nation to perform the Vagina Monologues in an effort to save women from violence. Young women, I invite you to really “take back the night.”
One of the greatest opportunities I ever had was to intern in the Washington, DC area this summer for a conservative women’s organization called the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute. These savvy women gave me a balanced education in women and gender studies where I read both conservative and liberal feminist texts. The difference in their feminist method, however, was that the genders are equal. Women don’t demand special privileges above men, and it’s all right to want to be a stay-at-home mom or go off to your career.
One of the best role models was Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington State, who told me her story of winning a contested Republican election – while pregnant. Rodgers is a strong example of how men and women can and should coexist equally, rather than each gender demanding privilege.
The Luce Policy Institute also gave me an eye-opening glance into the V-Day campaign and The Vagina Monologues, a play that promotes sexuality more than defense for women. It’s a dangerous world out there, and screaming “vagina” at the top of your lungs is not going to stop an assailant from mugging or attacking you. Rather than viewing a play that talks about the rape of a minor and suggests that the only normal male is a pervert who likes to look at vaginas, find a self-defense class and take it. Better yet, sign up for your concealed carry license.
To quote Ann Coulter from her new book, If Democrats had any Brains They’d be Republicans, “Mass murderers apparently can’t read, since they are constantly shooting up the gun-free zones.”
Christina Hoff Sommers, author of the book Who Stole Feminism: How Women Have Betrayed Women, sums it up best by saying, “Now you ask a group of young women on the college campus, ‘How many of you are feminists?’
Very few will raise their hands because young women don’t want to be associated with it anymore because they know it means male-bashing, it means being a victim, and it means being bitter and angry.”
College women and gender studies departments are filled with patriarchy-bashing cynicism rather than a celebration of women and their accomplishments.
Gloria Steinem, journalist and feminism even accused Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of not being a real woman because of her conservative political views. It’s no wonder that women like me are ashamed to be referred to as feminists.
The women and gender studies departments don’t do much to ameliorate the general views of the feminist movement. In late September, the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Women and Gender Studies department co-hosted an event with the National Council of La Raza, a radical Left and separatist organization. The purpose of the event was to discuss “Chicanas Righting History,” another feminist faction of the open borders radical Left, On the Border. The event did little to change the image of the feminist movement.
Lucky for men, organizations like the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute are out there to help leading ladies (and gentlemen) bring female speakers to their college campuses to help bring balance to the anti-male women and gender studies departments. These speakers are traditionally shunned by women and gender studies department and include blogger and journalist Michelle Malkin, author and journalist Amanda Carpenter and equity feminist Christina Hoff Sommers.
Ladies, the “real” way to start taking back the night is to learn to accept both genders as equal beings. And never forget the power of a good Glock and some trips to the shooting range.
-Laura Elizabeth Morales
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