Gloria Feldt: An Embarrassment to Women and Feminists Everywhere

The hypocrisy of most - if not all - liberal feminists was exemplified tonight by one of their token leaders, Gloria Feldt.  Laura Ingraham, guest hosting on the O'Reilly Factor, brought Feldt on the show to witness the demeaning treatment of Miss California Carrie Prejean.  

Ms. Prejean, a 21 year old woman from Vista, California, has faced several personal attacks after standing up for her belief in traditional marriage at the Miss USA pageant this past April.  (Side note:  if Perez Hilton is so gay, why is he spending time looking at so many females in the Miss USA pageant anyway?)

Even though Prejean respectfully articulated her opinion, (an opinion that is shared by the majority of the country, no less!) instead of debating her on the issue adversaries have decided to attack her looks and her intelligence.  Not only does this show that clearly they have no good logical argument against her, it also exemplifies the challenges conservative women face today when attempting to voice their opinion.

When offering her opinion on Prejean's treatment Gloria Feldt failed to stand up for women and instead shot back her own low blow aimed to demean Prejean, drawing the focus away from the argument and instead to Prejean's physical appearance.  This epitomizes the inherent hypocrisy of liberal feminists.   (Another Side Note:  Gloria doesn't care if a woman has surgery to kill a baby, but breast implants she takes issue with.  Double standard or is she just trying to control women's bodies?  So much for having a "choice.")

What's even more hypocritical is Feldt's blog post about Hillary Clinton showing cleavage last year in Congress.  While she appropriately stands up for Clinton, she states:  

The focus on physical appearance, especially sexuality, is a time-honored way to demean women.  It's the verbal equivalent of patting them on the head dismissively. 

Really, Gloria?  So apparently it's not acceptable if men do it, but it is acceptable if you do it to women who you disagree with.  Sounds like you've got a great feminist philosophy.

Feminists everywhere should be outraged.  But I will not be surprised when they say nothing.  The fact of the matter is, liberal feminists are afraid of conservative women; especially those that are successful.  I won't get into it here (we'll save this for another, even more lengthy post!) but a prime example of this is the treatment of Sarah Palin, a pro-life and extremely successful woman who not only approved of her daughter choosing not to have an abortion (imagine that!) but also chose to bring a child with down-syndrome into the world so that she could care for him and love him.  Her courage to make those tough choices while simultaneously earning tremendous success in her career makes her the antithesis of liberal feminist arguments and puts them all to shame.

Feminists and women everywhere should call on Feldt to retract her vicious attack on Prejean's physique and urge her to treat Prejean respectfully and answer her argument with the intelligent debate that every woman deserves.