Berlusconi: Margaret Thatcher was one great piece of “gnocca”

If I recall correctly, Berlusconi has generally been the official court jester of Italy for quite a while. This isn’t the first stupid thing he’s done or said.

BKennedy on July 4, 2007 at 10:40 PM

This one? “Is Margaret Thatcher a Woman?”

Obviously feminism hasn’t changed much since then–no matter how much a woman achieves, all that matters to feminists is whether or not she spouts the proper leftist ideology.

Wow, you weren’t kidding about not changing. Feminists still think if they get anywhere in life it’s because they had to work “twice” or “ten times” as hard as a man would. They still want Big Brother to take the place of husband and daddy. That really crystalizes it for me, even though I had already thought feminists were throwbacks from the 60′s.

BKennedy on July 4, 2007 at 11:31 PM

Back in the 80’s women didn’t think much of feminism, a lot has changed.

Fragility on July 5, 2007 at 12:16 AM

Yeah, now NOW’s membership is at an abysmal low, and most women want nothing to do with thier quest to make every woman’s breadwinner uncle sam.

From your same link:

“Even though many women value the achievements the women’s movement has made, most are reluctant to call themselves a feminist outright. Just a quarter of women say they consider themselves a feminist; 70 percent do not. These numbers have changed little over the years.”

It goes on to give a watered-down definition of feminism, which would be akin to asking someone if you thought you were a skinhead if the definition of skinhead were “someone who supports the protection of traditional american culture from percieved negative cultural changes.”

Its standard liberal bile. If something has a negative connotation, just change how you spin it and reframe it as something else.

For instance, a modern day feminist is not defined as “someone who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes,” it is someone who believes that women work the equivalent of 16 (or 80) hours to men’s every 8 for the same pay [twice or ten times as hard], who believes the government is preferable to a man for monetary stability, and in general only talk about equality when they can twist numbers. For instance, in family law where rulings are overwhelmingly in favor of women and essentially strip men of their right to see their children, the feminists are mute. That isn’t the kind of “equality” they want. They want animal farm type equality, where “all genders are equal, but some genders are more equal than others.”

That is why no-one wants to be a feminist unless you redefine it as something it stopped being long, long ago. I support the women’s movement: specifically the era of Susan B. Anthony and women’s suffrage. There are already equal pay laws, and compared apples to apples women make the same as men. Feminism has now moved from a truly virtuous movement to a morally bankrupt arm of socialism, just like the Civil Rights Movement has morphed from bringing true equality to blacks to becoming an excuse for race-baiters like Sharpton and Jackson.

BKennedy on July 5, 2007 at 7:11 AM