The progress is made by women in America, the more feminists like Steinem keep moving the goal posts.  Until it becomes clear they’re more interested in power and advancing their political agenda than standing up for women’s rights.

Gloria Whinem is such a boring drag. Worse, now she’s a boring old drag. What a waste of a lifetime.

What is it about these gyno-saurs (LOL, btw) that renders them incapable of seeing that their “castration first” agenda is freakishly violent? Could it be something as simple as penis envy, after all?

Gloria Whinem’s mother was institutionalized w/a severe mental illness .. something that Whinem refused to be even factually honest about for quite some time - and clearly has not been spiritually honest about it even today.

She’s a classically un-mothered female who, unlike psychologically and spiritually braver women in her sad position, didn’t dare seek help for her damaged femininity. Instead, she spewed her anger about her sick mother and ineffective father over an entire generation, doing, in the end, far more harm than good.

Steinem and company seem so bitter and removed from reality.  It is dispiriting to see so many, mostly older and well educated, women claiming Hillary, because she is a women, is somehow ‘owed’ the Presidency.

IIRC, didn’t Hillary once boast she sought to sign up for the Marines?

but without the Gloria Steinem’s et al, was the white male establishment going to just hand out rights to women, including opportunities that Michelle Malkin takes for granted?  It reminds me of the whining about environmentalists (or “eco-terrorism” as the right likes to slander ‘em)—was the white male establishment going to care about cleaning up the mess they’ve made?  hell, just like at the Supreme Court Chief Justice crying crocodile tears for the “horrible fine” to Exxon recently (which amounted to two weeks of profits for the Exxon Valdez mess in Alaska).

Carl - Rights are enshrined in the Constitution, not handed out to people by other people.

You mention “rights” and “opportunities” that Gloria Steinem wrested from the “white male establishment” as if such things are common knowledge and your statement is to be taken for granted, however I really don’t know what you’re talking about. Could you illuminate us as to these “rights” and “opportunities” that Gloria Steinem procured for women?

I just wonder ...the article claims that the : “American women are the freest, wealthiest, most educated in the world.”...makes me wonder because as far as I have seen it here, American women are handicapped with a low education and a huge image of themselves.

Please go to Europe, visit Holland, Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, etc...and then re organize your ideas....compared to your siblings in Europe, you are deeply lacking in freedom, wealth and education.

Loco-S,

You need to look past your own parochial nose. American women and their European counterparts are both gaining college degrees in higher percentages than their male cohorts. What this actually signifies remains to be seen. Personally, I think there’s good reason to believe that University standards have become degraded in the past twenty or so years and that students are being under-educated both in the U.S.A. and Europe. But that’s another subject.

http://www.reason.com/news/show/124402.html
“The number 1.5 is, in this case, a ratio. According to projections by the National Center for Education Statistics, in 2017 half again as many women as men will earn bachelor’s degrees. In the early 1990s, six women graduated from college for every five men who did so; today, the ratio is about 4-to-3. A decade from now, it will be 3-to-2—and rising, on current trends.”
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http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:K4tNehVUKGgJ:www.city-journal.org/html/17_4_new_girl_order.html+How+many+female+c

A significant difference between American and European women is that Americans, no matter how highly educated, seem to know how to re-produce and work at the same time. Educated European women are clearly disabled in this regard ; they seem to lack to lack the coordination to work and have children at the same time - and so, have chosen work in place of family. Even a person w/elementary math skills ought to be able to predict that this spells trouble. No European Babies= No More Europeans.

I’m disregarding your comments on wealth and freedom. I could have addressed them as delusional, but I’ll be more polite, consider you possibly homesick (or educated in Europe) and leave it at that.

Dear Daisy, your post only validates my point of view, when the average American don’t have a concept of geo politics, economy, culture, geography, mathematics, history, command of our own language ( as in spelling) or an insight on the way of life of other countries, or basics as how to manage your own budget, it is why the vaunted education claimed by the article flops like a house of cards, freedom is not freedom to have babies,or to work at a Starbucks with your PHD in Ukulele design and tuning, I am American by choice, not by birth, and I believe there is a lot to be done to elevate US to an international level. Education is not going to college to learn “English literature” or “Psychology” or “Dental assistant” or funnily enough some other arcane “arts” as “study of the tse tse fly and its derivatives” ...its to learn and expand your horizons in regard to the world as a context of where you live opposed to how the rest of the world works and lives...it gives you a “license to learn”. And you still haven’t.

I can give you lies, damn lies and statistics ( Mark Twain) but I would prefer you to investigate more about the concept of what makes other people wealthy, educated and free. Consider that your homework.

A couple of generations ago, US people ( men and women) had a much higher level of education as of today, economy back then was stronger, and there was a thousand fold more freedom than today, you can blame it of the political correctness being shoved down your throat by people with a political agenda ( a “violent minority” if you like), nowadays you can not say or do many things your grand parents had the freedom to say or do, we are headed ( the US) to a post nazi society where if you are not with the system, you are against the system, and that my friend its scary, a place where the neo fascists have the right to bash you under the pretext of “thought crimes”, starting with the same people you harbored which have the victimology down to a nick:
“in the spirit of fairness you must respect my cultural differences even though I am not required to respect yours” BS.

Loco,

You seem to have an identity crisis. You veer back and forth between Americans as “the other” ("you") and then claim that you are “an American by choice”. It well may have been a choice Loco, but it’s primarily a privilege to be an American. You appear to have that fact backwards in that you positively ooze the notion that America ought to consider itself lucky that you chose to reside here. Why don’t you ponder that for awhile? In fact, you can contemplate that truth as your homework assignment.

You distain Americans (and therefore yourself, by the way) when you claim, “the average American don’t have a concept of geo politics, economy, culture, geography, mathematics, history, command of our own language ( as in spelling) or an insight on the way of life of other countries, or basics as how to manage your own budget,.. “ In my experience, some of the most obnoxiously parochial people on the face of this earth are Europeans. Parochialism is not necessarily a negative quality. In fact, to some extent, it’s probably a natural quality - a simple part of being human. What makes parochialism insufferable is when whole peoples are in sanctimonious denial of their own parochialism. We can look to Europe for a prime example of this smug phenomena. It’s easy to grow complacent about peace when one does not pay for one’s own armed forces, for instance - relying instead upon the bad old USA to come to the rescue - and when one forgets who helped save Europe from Fascism - a tired, commonplace Euro-forgetfullness and ingratitude.

I’m not prepared to outline all the reasons the rest of the world seems to have more of a fixation on the culture of the USA than the average citizen of the USA is fixated on, say, the multitude of ways herring is prepared in Sweden. One of the most basic reasons (outside of our current status as a major world power .. duh) is that we are a country of immigrants and as such, we all have the rest of the world on our own tables (so to speak) via our more or less proximate ancestral histories and social mores. We learn those histories through shared customs that become amalgamated into a unified whole (e pluribus unum). In this humble way, a sophisticated world view comes easily to us. Americans, by nature, are exploratory (this really ought to be self-evident ) so don’t waste too much time worrying about our lack of curiosity about the price of tea in Timbuktu. 

Of course, this process of amalgamation is not possible in “multicultural” European systems - where for the most part, immigrants come .. not to become “European” (which they will not authentically be allowed to become, in any case) but instead, to take “their” welfare money and then attempt to impose their own troubled cultures on top of the perpetually guilt ridden former Colonialist psyches - psyches that appear too enfeebled to throw off those feeding on the useless guilt of Imperial Colonialism.

Don’t concern yourself overly much with the ‘thought police” that pre-occupy (what could be) a peaceful place in your mind. Instead, practice the God given freedom that has been granted to you when you “chose” (ha!) to become an American. And go forth and reproduce if you’re capable- and Gloria Steinam be damned. It’s something your European siblings seem to have lost the knack to do - in the most astonishing display of collective cynicism and social despair I’ve ever witnessed.

I bet you are upset...he he...Gloria for what is worth, was a misdiagnosed basket case, as I said before, if you think that freedom is only to make babies, more power to you.

Welfare...Here in the US we have much more people in welfare than you ever thought possible, and the guilt ridden psyche you seem much upset about is much more prevalent here, about black people, about Mexicans, about Cubans, about what you did for lunch....

I am not European, and according to you, I will never be American, but according to me and the INS I consider myself American, and given the choice, I will fight for you so you have your “birth privilege to be free” wether you like or not. Freedom is not free and somebody has to pay the price...of course you will not volunteer because you will be too busy being “free to have babies” and pretending you deserve what you haven’t fought for.

Regarding your misconception of Identity crisis, its not, its pure observation, when I see people I work with who cant spell, or rely on a calculator to add single digits, or use google to figure out which side of the US is Florida, or can’t figure out a simple rule of three problem, I see a huge problem.

Regarding your self appointed expertise on military matters...no one asks the US to police the world, and in the case of the invasion of Afghanistan and Irak, I truly believe it would have been cheaper and cleaner to oops, fire a couple of nukes and then apologize, than go full out on the mobilization of troops and spend a couple of trillion dollars that could have made a huge difference in public education for the next couple hundred years.

Be free, reproduce yourself as many times you want, but give thanks to God and the US Armed Forces that you are free to do what you please, even feeling better than you really are.