Feminism Schmiminism.

A real feminist.
Many people would read that and immediately think unshaven armpits, bra burning, and blasting "I'm an independent woman" music from Beyonce, Joan Jett, Sapphic poems, and...Hilary Clinton?

Hilary Clinton the feminist.
Hilary Rodham-Clinton, in fact.
A real feminist always hyphenates her husband's name and her own--a gesture that shows remarkable "I don't bow to the man" independence.
Hilary is heralded for having so much independence and feminist qualities.
So much independence that even after he had several affairs on her...
So much that even after he completely embarrassed her and ruined any trust that not only she, but the country had in him...
So much. That even though she had the "credentials" and "experience" to "make it" on her own as a politician...
She stays with him?

How so "feminist" of her to "Stand by her man."
Or, well...not.

Being a feminist means more than hyphenating your name.
Much like true conservatism (the past few years), feminism has lost its true meaning.
Feminism is about promoting women as equals to men--not shoving "rights to choose what to do with my own body" and "I can buy my own diamonds and keep my last name" down every man's throat.
"I believe in the rights of women — that we can do anything. My philosophy is based on 200 years of feminism that supports the rights of all human beings...Feminism properly defined is about the rights of all human beings, and that genuine equality doesn't come at the expense of anybody else. It was originally about the expansion of rights of people and that included the rights of the unborn, to-be-born. The early feminists talked about abortion in the most scathing terms as a reflection of women's weakness."
(I couldn't say it better than that, so I just quoted it.)

"Also, abortion violates the tenets of feminism, which are non-violence, nondiscrimination and justice for all. The National Organization for Women replaced a patriarchy which the early feminists would have chosen to reject, with a matriarchy that said women were more important than men. It wasn't even that men and women were equal for the feminists of the early 70's. Women were more important because if you have life-and-death decision-making over your child and you don't have to include the father in that decision-making, then you have total control. This is illusion. In reality we know that women have abortions out of desperation, not because women are in control."

Why then do women feel that killing the world's daughters makes them independent and "in control?"
India and China make up over 40% of the world's population--and every day many babies are killed JUST because they are female babies. Girls are discarded, left to die because families prefer male babies.
A real feminist would find this as a cause to support. Instead of promoting the philosophy that these babies should be adopted and accepted into society, they prefer to allow the women to choose to terminate these lives?
While women are forced (by men) to give up their children in these countries, women express their independence in the U.S. by killing their child(ren) just because it's their "right?"
How many women are in Congress? Senate? So...it's MEN that are giving women these rights?


Here's a few excerpts I found at http://www.feministsforlife.org/ :
(All quotes on this blog were taken / borrowed from this website)

How did feminism go from being pro-child to pro-abortion?

The number one goal of feminism in the '70s was to have equal rights with men in the workplace. Initially, Larry Lader and Bernard Nathanson had been going around the country saying that they wanted to repeal outdated anti-abortion laws. I don't even know if they knew that the anti-abortion laws that were enacted in 48 states were the result of work by feminists. The male-dominated medical profession and the media got together in the 1800s to make these consumer protection laws for women, as well as for children, because women were being coerced into abortions. [Also], because they believed in the rights all human beings, including the unborn, to-be-born. Women were very loud, especially in the 1800s about how abortion was wrong and at this was an evil crime. These two thought that anti-abortion laws should be revoked — Nathanson because he had seen botched abortions and Lader because [of a fear of overpopulation].

"I remember my mom told me that there were these two kooks running around saying that women should be able to kill their unborn babies. Because they weren't getting anywhere and were seen as pariahs by the governors, they went back to the drawing board. They went to these woman and told them, "If you want rights like a man, you have to pass like a man in the workplace." They basically sacrificed their children to gain entrance to the executive washroom. When Betty Friedan started hearing that 100,000 women had died from illegal abortion she said, "Oh, then we'd better do it to have it safe." That number was simply made up by Larry Lader and Nathanson after they met with resistance from Betty Friedan initially. I mean, we notice when 36 kids die of a car seat that was not installed properly. We would have noticed 100,000 dead people. But nobody questions this stuff."

So back to my original point.
Is Hilary Clinton really a feminist?
I'll let you be the judge.

Just because Sarah Palin doesn't hyphenate her last name--and she stands up for the rights of unborn daughters around the world does not mean she is betraying the feminist cause.
If anything, she is promoting female equality.
These feminists are killing their own cause by "raking her through the coals." With every insult, with every low, untrue blow, these extreme abortion-supporting feminists are ruining their cause, and instead proving the "hormonal woman" Mean Girls stereotype.