I was having a conversation with my stepmother about the DNC (she was a Hillary delegate). At one point she was telling me about another delegate who was involved in an organization who supports females running for office. I asked her if said organization was supporting Palin, and of course it does not. The organization only supports candidates who are strong on women's issues, which of course means candidates who support the liberal position on issues involving women.
That's kind of what I came to the conclussion of when I was takling to a liberal women on this board about "women's issues"
Its ont "women's issues" to them, its "liberal womens issues".
For example, she stated childrens health care and education were "women's issues" because women care about their children. HOWEVER...that same theory, that women care about the health and life of children and thus are pro-life can't be a women's "issue".
I think there are "women's issues". Just as there ARE men issues, and youth issues, and black issues, and elderly issues, and white issues, and anything else. Issues that, generally, people of that group
may care about more than another due to stereotype. These don't apply to everyone of that group, but they do apply in some cases.
What I
DON'T agree with is there's only one way that these issues can be done to make them "good" for that group. For example with education...why is wanting more government involvement and money funneled into public schools being "good" on a "women's issue" of education but wanting your money returned back to you so you can pick the school you want to send your child not being "good" on a women's issue". Who deems it so? Why is it that LIBERAL women believe they can control, subvert, and belittle conservative women by telling them their views on an issue isn't "good" for women.
Ditto goes to health care. Why is the belief that the government should provide everyone the same basic health care "good" on a women's issue but believing that you should be free to use your money to buy the best healthcare for your child as possible instead of giving it over to the government to get whatever they give you as being "bad" on a women's issue.
I'm sorry, I don't buy it. Actually, frankly, it seems insulting that LIBERAL women will say that if you don't agree with them, you're bad on women's issues. That somehow they believe and have the hubris to state they speak for all women. To the point that they call a conservative woman someone that "is really a man" when they don't agree with the LIBERAL point of view on women's issues.
Health care, Education, Abortion, Equal pay, these things ARE important to women. However, women...last I checked...are not robots. Last I checked, part of feminism I thought was that women were able to choose and think for themselves without being told what they had to think. If that's the case, why is it that women are trying to tell OTHER women that you're not truly "for women" if you don't think exactly like us on the issues we deem important.
