Sarah Palin has dismissed Gloria Steinem’s brand of feminism as very passé. Steinem has argued that Palin and Bachmann sold out the women’s movement. Palin pretty much dismissed Steinem by saying that she was so yesterday. Are Bachmann and Palin even feminists or do they want to be? I would say no. However they can reap the rewards from the feminist movement. Perhaps that is what it was all about.
Steinem was was feted at a luncheon on Wednesday in celebration of the HBO documentary about her life, Gloria: In Her Own Words according to New York Magazine:
Steinem elaborated. “I can testify, the very same things people were telling me 30 or 40 years ago — it’s against nature, you can’t do this, my wife is not interested — all these [people] are now saying, well, feminism used to be necessary, but it’s not anymore. That is the new form of obstruction. And, of course, it’s accompanied by the other natural thing that happens if you have a big social justice movement: You make jobs for people who sell it out. So we have Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, who are on my list of ‘the women only a man could love.'”
