Despite an eleventh-hour ambush by the Los Angeles Times, Arnold
Schwarzenegger won in a landslide victory last week.
Arnold's triumph is the latest proof that the feminist house of cards
is beginning to collapse. Women shrugged off the LA Times' groping
allegations and turned out in droves waving their "Remarkable Women for
Arnold" placards. And when the dust had cleared, 43% of women had voted
for Schwarzenegger, compared to only 36% giving the nod to Lt. Gov.
Bustamante.
Clearly, the radical feminist message no longer resonates. A series of
highly visible setbacks illustrate the point:
Item: A year ago, the US Senate failed to ratify the Convention on the
Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, the UN's aborted attempt to
give women more rights than men.
Item: Despite all the flag-waving at the New York Times, Martha Burke
could entice only a handful of women to show up to protest the all-male
membership of the Augusta Golf Club.
Item: On May 15, the Independent Women's Forum announced a frontal
assault on the National Organization of Women. That day, the IWF issued
a press release that read, "Memo to NOW: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid."
Item: Tammy Bruce, former president of the Los Angeles chapter of NOW,
is revealing the inside scoop on the divisive NOW agenda. Just last
week, she deplored the "hypocrisy of the Left, and of Democrats and the
feminist machines in particular."
Item: Soccer has long been considered the crown jewel of women's sports.
But on September 15, the Women's United Soccer Association announced it
was closing up shop. And 3 weeks later, the women lost to Germany 0-3 in
the World Cup semi-finals.
But radical feminism is like a malignant cancer. Even after the
primary tumor has been removed, we find that it has spread to other
vital organs. In particular, 3 institutions in our society have been
infected by radical feminist ideology:
1. Legal System: The legal system is riddled with laws, policies, and
judicial practices that give women more rights than men in the areas of
family law, domestic violence, sexual harrassment and assault, health
care, and others.
2. Mass Media: Gender bias in the media is pervasive. As Brian Goldberg
put it in his acclaimed book, Bias: "there's too much male-bashing in
our culture -- too many TV shows that demean men in general and fathers
in particular and too many professional feminists who see men as dumb
jerks who 'just don't get it.'"
3. Higher Education: Just as Stalin's ideologues infiltrated
universities in the Soviet Union, feminism has established hundreds of
Women's Studies programs across the land. But as
one critic put it,
these programs are "narrow intellectual prisons presided over by
matriarchs of mediocrity who mistake ideology for learning and
scholarship."
But the most disturbing developments are taking place at the United
Nations. The United Nations has abandoned even the pretense of gender
fairness by establishing a broad range of programs that would deprive
men of even
the
most basic of human rights.
Just a couple weeks ago, James Morris, the head of the UN World Food
Program, made this remark: "My narrow perspective is to make sure that
women and children don't starve." Apparently, the specter of men who
work long hours in the hot sun, and then go home to sleep on an empty
belly troubles him not in the least.
So here's California's message to radical feminists in the United
States and at the United Nations: a total recall election may be coming
your way.
