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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: one_less who wrote (17060)6/18/2001 4:47:58 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
I think early feminism had a point. For example, the sufferage movement. Although our country's greatest prosperity, growth, and sense of national pride came during times when women weren't allowed to vote, I still think it was only fair to let women have the vote and have a fair chance to elect scoundrels and cheats to undo all the good that the male-elected politicians had created. (After all, if women couldn't vote, Clinton would NEVER had been elected President.)

But I agree with you; once feminism accomplished its important goals, it didn't just declare victory and dissolve; the people who had become prominent in it had gotten used to being prominent and affecting the national debate, and cast about for other things to keep them in the limelight. Sometimes quite absurd things. That's much the way of movements like that. Sadly.
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