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...weeks ago, Republican Club President Karen E. Boyle came out on the pages of Lighthouse magazine to announce that she was indeed a feminist. Or, as she goes on to explain, a "conservative feminist...
Plagued by the rhetoric of campus feminists, Boyle is tired of hearing so much about "terminology and text," about how "modern woman" in all her glory of Choice, Choice, and More Choice can't "have it all." Boyle claims that for campus feminists striking a blow for sexual equality means rejecting the "traditional' feminine roles" of mother and homemaker for the sake of succeeding in the work place." To her, being a feminist demands assuming these roles in addition to a career...
...exclude either personal or professional role from my life experience," writes Boyle, "would be to reject my definition of feminism." For Boyle, being a "conservative feminist" means a career as "wife, mother, doctor, and soldier...
Boyle thinks she's saying something new-- or interesting, for that matter. Reacting against academic feminism, or what she thinks is academic feminism, Boyle concludes that being a "conservative feminist" means not only living the life of tinker, tailor, soldier, spy, but also wanting children and baking for them "the best cinnamon oatmeal chocolate chip cookies." (Did you get that recipe from Hillary, Karen?) To her, being a mother isn't enough, and a woman who wants to stay at home with her children simply isn't fighting the good fight. In short, it's difficult to place a distinction...
...Adams? According to judge Brent McGuire, it was "refreshing to hear a feminist not only recognize the protective impulse in a man, but also invoke the name of God." Mrs. Adams apparently once wrote to her husband that she (as a woman) was "placed by providence under your protection..." The lazy reader might think that McGuire just meant to call her "a noble but submissive product of her time...