Could Ann Coulter have had her successful career, were she not the beneficiary of changes made by feminism?

Question

If we classify any woman as feminist, strictly by the career she has, which:
1. previously was dominated by highly educated men,
2. or who as a women has proved herself successful pursuing goals fundamentalists or conservatives would pronounce as unacceptable for women;
how many prominent Republican women would have to be declared as feminists.

Shingoshi Dao

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Answer 1

Very interesting questions. Her and the rest of those that lamb baste feminism would not have their careers nor the opportunity to choose the husband, the number of children or whether or not they could stay home and raise them. They could not decide when they wanted to have sex nor would they be ALLOWED access to a computer.

Answer 2

Well, I have no idea who Ann Coulter is.
She probably had a successful career because she worked hard at it.
If she came from a privileged background all the more harder for her to prove her worth.
It is very hard for women to succeed.
They have to be so much better than their male counterparts.
As I am not American I do find The American political system baffling; however I would be a Democrat as I believe in equality of opportunity.
I feel Republicans do not sing from that hymn sheet.
I have no idea how many Republican women would have to be declared feminists.
However I do admire Pat Nixon.
As a woman she stood by her husband when times were so difficult.

Answer 3

Many (if not all) women enjoy certain rights that were afforded to them by the efforts and struggles of feminists. It is too bad that some women do not seem to realize this or care! Many are complacent these days...they think we have security in what we've fought for...that we "don't have to worry" that our rights will be taken away. The truth is, heavy debate still continues, esp. about matters of abortion, and this right could be revoked. If women aren't careful, we could lose some of the things we've fought so hard for. Feminism isn't just about gaining equality, it is about protecting it, as well. Regardless of a woman's particular political ideology, women (in general) need to realize the value of what we have, and the importance of protecting it.

Answer 4

Firstly, Ann Coulter is not a feminist. And I think she would agree with that. However, she had most certainly benefited from feminism. Before the feminist movement took hold, a woman's opinions, even if they agreed with patriarchal standards, would not have been listened to or respected. She has made oodles of money on the backs of the women that she denigrates.

Answer 5

no, she defintely would not be as successful as she is now. i often wonder if she realizes that when i read her books. there was one line in "how to talk to a liberal, if you must" that went, "most women i know would die for their children, but a feminist is more likely to be found throwing their children in front of a train." she can say such things because she is lucky enough to have born in a time when she could go to law school, and be taken serioulsy as a pundit.

she spends so much time talking about how much she hates feminists, but would never have been able to do that if not for the advancements of feminism. it is really unfortunate that she doesn't get it.

Answer 6

She has stated that she would give it all up if she got married. However, she's had three fiancés before and it's still never happened, so she must not be taking it that seriously.

If not for feminism, would she have achieved the infamy she enjoys now? I really don't think so. It all started when she was a lawyer for Paula Jones and made up stories about the appearance of Clinton's unit. How do you think she could have gotten that law degree?

Answer 7

Feminism isn't monolithic, as the feminists here keep insisting.
___In earlier times, feminism was reasonable and a good thing, but in recent decades, feminist theory has come to include a lot of extremism, and even the mainstream hasn't disowned that extremism in any convincing, active way. Instead, it makes verbal denials of extremism, but then continues its advocacies as if feminists believed the extremist doctrines but just wanted not to admit it. (But just for perspective's sake, first wavers were the movers and shakers in bringing us Prohibition. Feminism has always had a bit of a control-freak-streak in it--sometimes this has some merit, but most often not.)
___Virtually all men are behind the prosecution of male criminals who victimize women, but Andrea Dworkin and Naomi Wolf have had fairly respectable careers, instead of being ridden out of town on a rail, as they should have been, by any feminists who had an authentic concern for reason and intellectual honesty.
___It's the later, more corrupt form of feminism that Ann Coulter attacks. And there's no hypocrisy in her disowning it.

Answer 8

i have a theory that if the women who are using the equal opportunities that feminism won for them were to lose those opportunities, they would be finding themselves in the feminist camp rather quickly.

as far as mrs coulter is concerned, if she really believes all those things about a womans place and how our lives should be, why isnt she doing just that? why isnt she staying home, taking care of her husband, raising a family and staying confined to the private sphere? she has that choice. why advocate removing choices for the rest of us who disagree with her, and in doing so become a hypocrite?

Answer 9

Wow, ignorant question

so any conservative woman ultimately does not deserve any women's rights just because they don't advocate feminism in today's sense?

wow

dude, pick up a book and realize this is not the world that existed 100 years

Answer 10

She is a hate spewing piece of crap that have to be publicly bull- whipped . In a attempt to carry anything optimistic again into American politics. "Poor humans aren't irresponsible animasl" as she calls them