Ladies Against Women: The Next Generation

[Norseman]

So I was mucking about the blogosphere when I found this little gem. Now untill I watched this I had always considered myself somewhat to the right, not to mention leaning towards the "Nature inclines, but does not determine" point of view. Then I watched this video and for a moment I wondered if I was back in the 1950s. I mean I'm not sure if I'm overreacting but I feel like this is beyond the normal level of idiocy from the reactionary wing, I mean I have a fairly high tolerance for that sort of thing but this...

I'm not sure if I want to subject anyone else to this, but could someone watch this and tell me what they think?

[CaptainChewbacca]

I can't watch 'Dr. Helen Smith' for more than 10 seconds without laughing. There's something seriously wrong with her face.

Edit: I can't speak to the rightness or wrongness of the message, because I'm not a woman, but it seems to me that among many women there is a bit of a backlash towards the 'new feminists' of the 70's and 80's who tended to view family and childrearing as an obligation or punishment, and these gals seem to be saying that being a wife and mother can be feminist.

[Lusankya]

Some of what she said would have made sense had she not been arguing against a horrible strawman of liberal positions. How many modern feminists actually believe that a career is the only rewarding and appropriate path for a woman to take?

The mindless attacking of the left also got me thinking that she had "non politically-correct" views on other issues as well, so I looked at the NEW website . Here's a sample from the NEW blog:

What does a conservative woman look like today? Doug Patton's article in Human Events traces the key components of a conservative woman in his article, "The Rise of the Conservative Woman." Here are the hightlights:

1. These female leaders believe that marriage is a sacred bond between one man and one woman and anything else is a counterfeit.

2. They believe in allowing families to keep as much of their hard-earned income as possible.

3. They support true energy independence, and they know that the best way to get there, as Sarah Palin echoed the chants of many last year by saying “Drill, Baby Drill!"

4. These women have faith in America’s small business owners and believe that they should be free to grow their businesses without excessive government taxation and regulation, and to access the entrepreneurial opportunities this nation affords.

5. They are adamantly opposed to the Obama-Pelosi-Reid takeover of health care, believing instead that the American people should be given more choices, not fewer, and that government involvement inevitably means government control.

6. They believe in school choice so that America’s children — especially minorities — are not trapped in the war zones that are too often our public schools.

7. They understand what the Founders knew instinctively — that the First Amendment is worthless without the Second Amendment, and the Second is constantly under attack by those who favor big government.

Do you know her?

They have a few anti-healthcare posts, a few anti-abortion posts, some abstinence only and a whole bunch of pro-Palin stuff. Oh, and they're quite proud to have been referenced in a positive light by Mallard Filmore (twice). These people aren't feminists: they're conservatives with a pink banner.

Of course, I didn't really need to go to the website to know that - I figured it out with her strident opposition to the "hook-up culture" and her insistence that it was somehow degrading for me to go around wearing a short skirt, which it clearly isn't, because I have great legs.