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So much of the femisogynist movement today involves denying everything that a woman is. The idea that pregnancy and childbirth somehow makes you a non-functioning member of society — treating expectant mothers as victims just because they are expectant mothers — is a slap in the face to all of the women who actually are empowered enough to not see pregnancy as victimizing. Pro-life conservative women don’t look at children as punishments, or as slaves to their hormones. That’s one of the major differences between conservative women and the femisogynists. Conservatives don’t see themselves as perpetual victims. Conservatives believe in personal responsibility, and that they are the masters of their own lives. The pro-abortion fanatics can’t seem to realize that women don’t just get spontaneously pregnant; it isn’t a random condition that unpredictably happens. Women get pregnant from having sex, and 99% of the time, they chose to do so. If a woman doesn’t want to get pregnant, then there’s a simple solution: don’t have sex. Femisogynists want women to be able to have abortions — to “control their reproductive rights,” as Grabenhofer phrased it — because it’s too much of a sacrifice to ask women to control their desire to have sex. They reduce women to nothing more than slaves of our hormones and desires, and then package us as victims of our own irresponsibility.
These fascist feminists aren’t out for equality anymore; if they were, then why would they have such a problem with dissenting opinions? They require women to walk in unwavering lockstep on the left. In order for them to defend you from disgusting misogynist attacks (like the ones Sarah Palin has endured since bursting onto the national stage), you have to be pro-abortion and in love with Big Daddy government. And let’s not forget, you also have to constantly consider yourself a victim and whine about the big bad patriarchy. Yet conservative women are the anti-feminists? Conservatives are unempowered?
I, along with Sarah Palin and millions of other conservative American women, don’t see myself as the product of an outdated orthodoxy. Conservative women don’t feel the need to worship at the altar of a movement that requires blood from the murder of the unborn and give it thanks for lives that we have built for ourselves. We see ourselves as masters of our own fates, and really, isn’t that what bothers the femisogynists so much? They want us to just shut up and get back in the kitchen and let them do all of the talking. Problem is, they don’t speak for American women anymore. They don’t fight for them. They speak for themselves and they fight for themselves, and they only think you deserve equality if you’re one of them. They either conveniently ignore the beginnings of feminism and what it originally stood for (the original feminists were ardently pro-life) or they just lie about it. Meanwhile, they can’t let go of their victimhood mentality because it makes them feel like they still have something to fight for, like they’re still somehow relevant.
Conservative women like Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann are more relevant than ever. American women identify more with them than they do with today’s rabid femisogynists — and I think that is exactly what their problem is. Grabenhofer, along with Jessica Valenti, Amanda Marcotte, and their ilk, can’t stand that the tables have finally been turned.
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