The Silence of the Feminists

Betsy Newmark, guest-blogging at Michelle Malkin’s place is less than impressed with the vaunted idea of “sisterhood” since, once again, we find that it only seems to exist for certain sorts of women – in which case, should their advancement come as a product of the resolve of one George W. Bush, well, there is nothing to be applauded or celebrated, here.

Her observation is based on this story about the advances for Afghani women:

Female candidates have triumphed in Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections, with one bidding to become the new parliament’s speaker.

After a delay in counting of more than a month, official results show women secured seats ahead of male candidates in a quarter of the 34 provinces, while in one a woman was outright winner.

This is REALLY, a very big deal! Good heaven’s if Bill Clinton had managed to do this, we’d be watcing Mount Rushmore get ready for a fifth head!

Writes Betsy: Think of the amazing courage of these women. They are risking their lives and the lives of their families in order to try to build a stronger, more moral country. I don’t think that I would have that brand of courage. I think of the feminists who fought for women’s suffrage in our past. They often made a similar sort of argument that women would clean up politics because they would bring a new morality to the election booth. Well, that certainly hasn’t happened here. Maybe, this new women’s caucus in the Afghan parliament will be able to band together against the warlords and remnants of the Taliban.

Indeed.

But we can’t only blame the feminists and media for not covering much of this story (and not at all in the US press) – the blogs aren’t saying much about it, either, except to note the silence of the feminists, which Dr. Sanity calls deafening:

The problem is that today’s feminists have a vested interest in maintaining the vicitmhood of women; because how can they be the champions of oppressed women …if they aren’t being oppressed anymore??

And since the feminsts have committed to the idea that those evil oppressors of women are (courtesy of Marxist and Leftist theories in general): Bush, Republicans, Capitalism, and America (not necessarily in that order). If you ain’t on that list, you get a pass.

Feminists today can’t be bothered with the women of Afghanistan and their incredible courage in standing up and risking their lives for freedom– they are too busy fighting the delusions that are part of a carefully contructed alternate reality.”

Game, set, match, to the doubles team of Newmark and Santy.