Can You Say ‘Sexist’?

Being an assertive woman who makes and achieves goals whether personal, career or political seems to be the ultimate definition. I'm a feminist who believes that every woman should take responsibility for her actions, including having unprotected sex. I'm a feminist that believes my rights are already protected under the constitution, I don't need more government to "give me more." I'm a feminist that believes that families are the foundation to a successful society, not the bane. I'm a feminist that believes burning bras is bad economics and bad breast health--tee hee. And last of all, I'm a feminist that refuses to be placed in someone else's politically partisaned pink box, with or without a bow.

Anna, you're so out of touch. You can't stand a feminist that is not on the Left. You think that women's choice is a privacy issue that extends to a new and distinct life growing within her. Why not just sday it. Women should have the choice to kill their own developing children. Everything else is delusional denial. Can you really tell me when life begins? BTW, the Republican Party overthrew slavery, which was then considered to be a privacy right. While maqny conservatives have been suspicious of feminism, it is because Leftist wingnuts like you have hijacked the movement. When people on the right become more idealistic, then you write them off as Neocons. The truth is that you can't stand anything other than New Left Liberalism. Any republican or conservative opinion will be trashed by the likes of you aging Hippies. (BTW, I came from the same ideology, so I understand it. Guess that makes me a Neocon. - a Unicorn to you, for all you know). The only thing you consider appropriate is an "affirmative action" program that smacks of mandated state fascism. Yes, Anna, you are a fascist, in the truest sense of the word.

The Republican Party hasn't changed. Quindlen is exploiting a stupid and utterly convenient stereotype of Republicans that "feminists," i.e. left-wing idealogues who are women, have used over the years to divert attention from the anti-male, anti-child extremists in their own ranks. It's a caricature, and the fact that Quindlen is reduced to using doesn't make it any more real.

The new sexism by the "liberals" is equally amazing. Amazing to see how many Democrats also said "Hillary is not the best woman choice, their are better women candidates". Too many on both sides hide behind facades of labels. How many feminists turned their heads regarding Bill Clinton's base treatment of women?

TO A DEM A FEMINIST IS ONE WHO accomplishes nothing ...

Whines for more rights ... if they can't earn something - give it to them

Treats children as a nuisance rather than a gift

Aborts children as they are pests - nuisances - it is their claim to fame

Goes along with the "Community Activist" and his approval of infanticide.

Moans about being deprived ... rather than actually accomplishing anything

Obviously, a liberal feminist is a female too narrow minded to take her own side in a quarrel.

Don't lecture us about your so-called GOP hypocrisy. The conservative position in general, and GOP position in specific, has always been pro-woman and pro-minority. It's just that you liberals have such a narrow view of of what "Pro-" means. You limit your feeble definitions to the right to kill your baby for women, and the right to discriminate against non-blacks for minorities.

Don't lecture us about your so-called GOP hypocrisy. The conservative position in general, and GOP position in specific, has always been pro-woman and pro-minority. It's just that you liberals have such a narrow view of of what "Pro-" means. You limit your feeble definitions to the right to kill your baby for women, and the right to discriminate against non-blacks for minorities.

Anna, that's why the choice of Palin was so brilliant. Can you imagine if the Dems had picked a white male candidate who's main governmental experience was running a town that serves a smaller population than some city blocks yet had sucked down over $24 million in federal earmarks (better known as handouts) in the space of a few years, then topped that experience of with slightly more than a year and a half running a state with a population less than San Bernadino, California (a sub, sub, suburb of L.A.) that ranks nationally as the number three recipient in federal earmarks (based on state federal revenues) and tried to run on an anti-earmark, anti lobbyist, government reform platform? The GOP mouthpieces, conservative bloggers and anonymous e-mailers would've torn him to shreds with the mainstream media (much of which is more conservative than the GOP likes to admit) going along for the ride. Throw in a pregnant teenage daughter, and we'd have all heard about the collapse of family values propagated by the liberal elite. But make the candidate a Republican woman, and that same candidate is a groundbreaker, and any criticism can be deflected as being sexism. What a brilliant choice Palin makes for a running mate, although I fear the choice was not made with the best interests of the country in mind. But hey, McCain put his conscience in long term storage when he decided to actively campaign for Bush in 2004 (allowing Bush to follow a policy in Iraq that McCain now admits he knew was wrong for our troops and wrong for our country). America first? Yeah, right.

Dear Ms. Quindlen,

Please continue directing vicious hatred and vitriol at Governor Palin. Not only is it entertaining to read; it has also helped put McCain/Palin in the lead in this race. Your angry words will, no doubt, help Obama carry Manhattan, San Francisco and L.A., but it is likely to have a rather different effect in the rest of the country. Keep it up! You're one of the best friends the McCain/Palin ticket has.

Don't lecture us about your so-called GOP hypocrisy. The conservative position in general, and GOP position in specific, has always been pro-woman and pro-minority. It's just that you liberals have such a narrow view of of what "Pro-" means. You limit your feeble definitions to the right to kill your baby for women, and the right to discriminate against non-blacks for minorities.

Probably the worst assessment of a conservative I have ever read. Full of bias and misunderstanding on AQ's part. Too wrapped up in her liberal thinking, She does not know at all what makes the conservative mind tick. Euphamising "private reproductive decisions" for the choice of ending a life would be laughable if it was not so sad. And calling McCain sexist for referring to Hill as a bitch is more description than sexism.
Guys can't be ***. And Sarah Palin is the beneficiary of affirmative action? Not quite. She would abhor such a description. AQ's way of diminishing Palin's accomplishments.

Here's the Republican version of feminism in a nutshell - Hillary had a vagina and Palin has a vagina. That's enough for you women, right? Now you'll vote for us, right?

What annoys me most is that the GOP really believes that just because Palin is a woman, the women should and will vote for her. I find that demeaning to women who are actually smart enough to know who they want to vote for based on their politics, not their gender.

For all the talk about "change" at the Republican convention, it's clear from reading these posts that the ultra-conservative wing of the Republican party has no intention of letting any change happen.