Where have all the feminists gone.

This isn't a snark post, it's a sad one. So many of us took a long time to react pro-actively to the sexism, media bias and hate against Sen. Clinton and all women during the primary, I believe because it was so shocking, some of it unbelievable. Similar to watching the towers fall and not having believed it happened. But it did. But surely some were prepared, even if just to be able to recognize it for what it was, and they would be the ones front and center in the debate on sexism. But those who we might have suspected to speak up for us never showed up. N.O.W., The Feminist Majority, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein. Absent then and absent now. Instead what emerged were a few we didn't expect. Greta Van Susteran (read her latest and right on rant here), Hillary Voters, Women Count Pac, Geraldine Ferraro and a handful of others who did not choose to lick Obama's ass before he's proven himself. Only they spoke out against the sexism then and now perpetrated by the Media, Barack Obama and Obama supporters. The saddest part of all, this new feminist brigade are sneered at and looked down upon as bitter lunatics and those that struggled to gain acceptance have turned their back on women. No mention from the former so-called feminist groups about Hillary Clinton receiving more votes in any primary in history, about her never giving up and fighting against it all. And not even a mention of Obama's new semi-pro-life chair of the DNC. Feminism is not just dead, it's being murdered. The groups that couldn't be bothered to recognize the dismissal of women, and if they did, were certainly too scared to speak out, now stand behind the man, paint him as their saving grace and tell young women that this is their new hero.

Case in point. Ms. Magazine, owned by the Feminist Majority, recently put together a special edition Inaugural issue with Barack Obama as superman (SUPERMAN!) opening his shirt to reveal he is not just ANY superhero, but that he is a feminist super hero who is going to save us little women. Oh thank goodness! Save us! No matter how you treat us, we'll come grovelling back to you!


So now we have to go back in time to remember what a feminist looks like.

"Periodically when [sen. clinton] is feeling down, she launches attacks" -Barack Obama
"The reason that I make a decision to support the choice position is not because I don't think it's a moral issue but because I trust women to make a prayerful decision about this issue." -B.O.
"You challenge the status quo and suddenly the claws come out" (Obama and Edwards constantly referred to Sen. Clinton as the Status Quo). -B.O.

Apparently Ms. wants us to know that a feminist referrers to a sitting Governor as a "mayor of a small town". And a feminist brushes off their shoulders in response to getting their ass kicked in a debate by a woman.

Does a feminist fight to keep a millions women's votes from counting? Perhaps Ms. Readers and other people who catch the cover will think one does.

I am saddened today after seeing that cover, maybe even more than I was saddened by N.O.W. choosing to endorse Obama/Biden as their first all-male ticket endorsement.

And then there were none.

A quick read from the NYT, December 2007:
"It's that experience, that understanding, not just of what world leaders I went and talked to in the ambassadors house I had tea with, but understanding the lives of the people" Barack Obama referencing Senator Clinton's trips abroad.

Later on, the Clinton campaign released a statement from Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state who is supporting Senator Clinton. She wrote: “Senator Clinton has been in refugee camps, clinics, orphanages, and villages all around the world, including places where tea is not the usual drink.”

Mr. Obama scoffed at the response, of course, and said he was not referring to Mrs. Clinton’s gender when he made the comment. “Those folks must really be on edge,” he said, smiling.

And please read this incredible post by RiverDaughter. Watch both videos if you can.
http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/saturday-in-case-you-have-forgotten/

UPDATES! I decided that it couldn't be true, that it couldn't be that all the fighters in the fight had sold out. And I wrote to a state NOW chapter and told them how upset I was, she said that she was too. So i kept writing. I wrote to 32 state chapters and a number of state chapter Presidents wrote back. They were also very unhappy to see such a cover. Responses included:

"To be complicit and condone the misogyny the Obama campaign perpetuated is incomprehensible"

"I am disgusted with the Ms. Magazine cover..."

"I too was horrified at the picture of Obama as a feminist superman.."

So go ahead and sell some mags Ms., N.O.W. Presidents everywhere are spreading the word that you're just a bunch of sellouts. Oh, and by the way Ms, THIS is what a feminist looks like: