The Neo-Feminist

There's probably nothing that can be done to stop Sotomayor's path to the Supreme Court, thanks to the liberal drones in the senate. She will likely be treated with kid-gloves because any hard questions lobbed at her will be deemed "racist." I'm sorry, but I'm not racist, I just want someone qualified and dedicated to upholding the constitution to be on the Supreme court. I don't care what color skin they have, or what "richness of experience" in life that they have. AND, I don't care what gender they are. In fact, I think that treating her the way they have and her own comments about being the perfect affirmative-action baby are stunting women in America.

As a young woman, I am completely opposed to any kind of affirmative action for genders. If I'm qualified for the job, hire me, if I'm not- don't! Sotomayor even said herself that, " My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale." If I was another woman (even a minority woman) who DID have those comparable test scores and got into Princeton or Yale, I would be very annoyed. In fact, because I am Alaska Native, Stanford University sent me email after email trying to get me to finish my application to their school- simply because I am Alaska Native. Never mind that I was actually smart enough to get into Stanford without my Native blood.

I ended up not going to Stanford, but it still annoys me to this day that they pretty much begged me to finish applying just so they could fill their Alaska Native quota. When I say I have Native blood, I don't expect people to feel like they owe me anything. But with Sotomayor bragging about her affirmative action past and the rude and uncalled-for comments about Palin, I think it's a bad era for women in America. Any woman in America who has worked her butt off to get where she is should be very concerned about Sotomayor. Throw me in with the sharks, if I sink, I sink because I wasn't qualified; if I swim, it's because I was- NOT because I'm a woman.

This should be a new era for feminism. Traditional feminists have let women down in this new era. Feminists didn't stand up for Sarah Palin when Maureen Dowd called her "Caribou Barbie" or told to take her tanning bed with her when she leaves office. Feminists were deafeningly silent when Letterman said she had a "slutty flight attendant look" or when her 14 year old daughter was the butt of a knocked-up joke. Neo-Feminists should stand up for their right to equal treatment- not treatment with kid gloves. I'm don't want to be babied because I'm a female, or told that I am a bad feminist because I choose to stay home and raise a child instead of try to become a CEO, or told that I'm a bad mother because I choose to have a career, or because I'm pretty.

All my life I've been opposed to calling myself a feminist because of the liberal associations that word brought with it. Not to mention the bra-burning, masculine, angry image of a feminist. No, the Neo-Feminist is every normal American woman who is tired of this double standard upheld by the mainstream media. We are mothers, small-business owners, college grads, high school grads, valedictorians, cheerleaders, PhD's, PTA members, CEOs, bloggers, beauty queens, teachers, and so on. We are American women, and we are tired of the elite liberal feminist women letting all of us down. If Palin does run for president, her slogan should be "We can do it!" instead of "Yes we can,"

In other news, the shadow government growing in D.C. is pretty frightening. One look at Science Czar John Holdren should scare any freedom-loving American.