Far-left Amanda Marcotte launched her own war on women in a Thursday article for the Alternet website. Specifically, she targeted nine conservative women who, in her view, "have made a career out of opposing women's struggle for social, political and economic equality." Marcotte asserted that the nine "argue for continuing social systems that perpetuate women's inequality, male dominance, and even violence against women."
The radical feminist's list of women "working tirelessly to screw over other women" included NewsBusters contributor Jill Stanek, author Christina Hoff Sommers, pro-life activist Lila Rose, and longtime conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly. Marcotte first zeroed in on Sommers:
Sommers is a pioneer in the art of arguing that it's men who are actually the oppressed class in modern society. Her 2000 book The War Against Boys tried to argue, falsely, that feminists are ruining young men's lives by oppressing them through the educational system. (Somehow those distressed young men continue to graduate and go on to have better job opportunities and make more money than their female peers.)....
After ripping Cathy Young (whom Marcotte accused of "minimizing the problems of sexual abuse and harassment of women"), the Alternet writer continued by going after Stanek:
Many women have found their calling in attacking contraception and abortion access, but Stanek, an ardent blogger, brings a hatefulness and obsessiveness that helps her stand out from an already unpleasant crowd. After getting old enough that unwanted pregnancy stopped being a personal concern, Stanek "discovered" that contraception has been evil all along, dedicating much of her blog to arguing that pregnancy prevention is a uniquely modern evil....
Marcotte then devoted two paragraphs to hammering four conservative online activists: the three "Politichicks" (who supposedly argue that "feminists are actually 'sexualists' and that feminist insistence that women like sex just like men do encourages violence against women") and Janet Bloomfield ("[S]he has a lot of status in the misogynist movement, because she provides cover for men who want to deny they hate women."). The far-left activist's final picks were Rose and Schlafly:
Rose concentrates most of her energies on demonizing Planned Parenthood in hopes of cutting off state and federal funding, so that low-income women lose access to affordable contraception and reproductive healthcare services. Rose's strategy is to do "undercover" videos, which are usually deceptively edited, to build the claim that Planned Parenthood's services are evil and need to be terminated. While a couple of employees have, in the many years of Rose's activism, been caught on camera doing a poor job and were subsequently fired, most of the people Rose targets on camera are only saying "shocking" things if your audience already believes women should not have access to contraception and sex education....
Phyllis Schlafly is the OG (original gangster) of women who hate other women, spearheading the fight against the Equal Rights Amendment and helping invent the modern conservative movement in the process. Schlafly was successful in her fight to keep a ban on sex discrimination out of the U.S. constitution, but she didn't just rest on her laurels, continuing the fight against women's basic human rights to this day....
The Alternet writer concluded with a final attack on "female misogynists" in general, in which she tried to explain their anti-feminist behavior:
What makes some women so nasty toward other women that they would actively work to deny women equal rights, or even access to healthcare and basic safety? For some, it’s religious conviction. Some like to imagine they're somehow special and better than all other women. Some enjoy the easy attention they get from sexist men by bashing women and others enjoy the financial perks of being the woman who is willing to speak out against feminism. But regardless of their reasons, female misogynists are putting personal gain ahead of the health and wellbeing of average women, and for that they should be held just as accountable as men who attack the equal rights of women.
