Feminism isn't a label Republicans can slap on when it's convenient

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In the lead-up to 2016, Republicans are going to have to perform some serious magic with female voters. They’ll have to make all those pesky rape comments disappear, use sleight-of hand to distract us from their idiotic beliefs about women’s biology and the fact that the core of their platform is about maintaining inequality.

But the GOP’s real abracadabra moment will come if they pull off the trick they’ve been working on for years: convincing Americans that Republicans are not only good for women, but actual feminists.

Last week, presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina was anointed a “real feminist” by The Week, even though “she has no use for laws mandating ‘equal pay’ or paid maternity leave or contraceptive coverage.” In Jeb Bush’s Liberty University commencement speech over the weekend, the likely Republican presidential candidate told his audience that “wherever there is a child waiting to be born, we say choose life,” and in the same breath added, without irony, that he derided the “arrogance” of treating women and girls “as possessions without rights and dignity.”

And next month, the Independent Women’s Forum - a powerful conservative women’s group based in DC - is hosting a “Women Lead” summit to “move forward with a positive agenda for women.” The speakers include Christina Hoff Sommers (who has defended the misogynist horde known as GamerGate), Naomi Schaefer Riley (who wrote that a woman who was raped and murdered “should have known better” than to be at a bar alone), and Katie Pavlich (who says feminists oppose guns because “modern feminism can’t survive without victims” and the movement would rather see women raped than armed). These are the women, we’re told, who will “discuss the progressive women’s landscape.”

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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/13/feminism-isnt-a-label-republicans-can-slap-on-when-its-convenient

Those who are predisposed to do so will fall for it.

[onecaliberal]

1. I'm sorry but republicans are anti woman.

They are quite in your face with their demonstrations. You'd have to live under a rock to think republicans give two rips about women or our rights.

[treestar]

2. They have an insidious way of twisting things

Using another issue. The Second Amendment - if women can have guns they are equal to men. But then they shouldn't be in bars alone. I guess they don't have that right. Maybe if they have a gun when in a bar alone?