Feminists

I've seen some of the back and forth and I have to say - she 'speaks' to me. In regards to different classifications -

Women first.

I'm an affluent multi-racial gen x woman whose net worth is at the million dollar mark. I'd be lying if I told you I did not love the man I do - because he IS such a man's man. I'd also be lying if I told you I didn't think that Feminism made a critical mistake during the suffragist/temperance movement s- actually - several critical mistakes. I'd be lying if I didn't say: When non black feminists applaud the book and movie The Help - they do a disservice to black women in America.

Those are just a few thoughts I have/things I have to share.

But at the end of the day - I know in THIS group I can share the personal in the political from the perspective of a woman who has to compete EVERY SINGLE DAY in the good old boys club and that I can get support for Equal Pay For Women . . . Not lesbian, straight, latina, Korean, bi-racial, caucasian, etc. etc. wome - but WOMEN. And if that is not one's allegiance - i.e. identifying inequities and trying to discuss how we can make even the tiniest of personal changes to give EVERY woman a fair shake regardess of race, religion, sexuality, socio-economic status - then I'd say one is not here to discuss feminist issues.

We don't need group think - but we do need a common thread amongst us all. And that common thread requires that a lesbian woman is asked throw a gay male Republican under the bus who votes against WOMENS' interests - then I respectfully ask she do that.