"the feminist movement itself is a deception"

Caroline Glick:

Since the height of the feminist movement in the late 1960s, non-leftist women in the West and Israel have been hard-pressed to answer the question of whether or not we are feminists. Non-leftist women are opposed to the oppression of women. Certainly, we are no less opposed to the oppression of women than leftist women are.

But at its most basic level, the feminist label has never been solely or even predominantly about preventing and ending oppression or discrimination of women. It has been about advancing the Left’s social and political agenda against Western societies. It has been about castigating societies where women enjoy legal rights and protections as “structurally” discriminatory against women in order to weaken the legal, moral and social foundations of those societies. That is, rather than being about advancing the cause of women, to a large extent, the feminist movement has used the language of women’s rights to advance a social and political agenda that has nothing to do with women.

So to a large degree, the feminist movement itself is a deception.

The deception at the heart of the feminist movement is nowhere more apparent than in the silence with which self-professed feminists and feminist movements ignore the inhumane treatment of women who live under Islamic law. If feminism weren’t a hollow term, then prominent feminists should be the leaders of the anti-jihad movement.

That there's a truth slap.  Go and read the whole thing, then pass it on... preferably to a self-avowed feminist you know.  Maybe it'll wake them up.

Or not.

Crossposted at Wizbang.

Comments

[Locutisprime]

So....feminists only support other feminists? Is that the premise? I suspect that many people have long since realized that truth.

It was glaringly obvious during the Clinton years that culminated in the Lewinski affair. And where was Gloria Steinham and the others then? Certainly not calling for impeachment, but rather deafeningly quite as I recall.

So, feminists avert their gaze from the religion of peace and the way women are treated by Islam.

Is anyone really surprised. I'm not.

A good presentation of the facts none the less in this piece.

[chuck aka xtnyoda]

Had to share it.