Feminism, the Mainstream Media, and Pop Culture.
A depressing number of conservatives treat the above three things as, if not equivalent, then at least collusive. I don’t see it, myself.
The problem is, you have a mainstream media outfit–let’s take the New York Times–who hires, say, Maureen Dowd, and she writes in a stereotypically feminine, that is, girlish, way, and sometimes she talks about the dreaded Women’s Issues.
“Oh,” goes the reaction in some quarters, “Here we have a woman, writing for the New York Times, talking about things that don’t always include men. I know what that is! That’s a feminist!”
Of course, there’s more.
That is not what I think when I see an article from Dowd….I think OH here is a socialist who is a hypocrite. That’s what I think. I have the same feeling about Krugman….one is female and the other is male. Both idiots. :) See equality.