Gloria Steinem Slams Palin, Bachmann & Perry: ‘People Our Founders Came to This Country to Escape’
- Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:38pm by
Billy Hallowell
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Considering the conservative nature of both Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann’s viewpoints, it should come as no surprise that Gloria Steinem, the nation’s most well known feminist, unabashedly opposes the female politicos.
On Wednesday, Steinem was honored at a luncheon that celebrated a new HBO documentary about her life called, “Gloria: In Her Own Words.” When asked about her thoughts on both Palin and Bachmann, she was candid, saying, “They‘re there to oppose the women’s movement. That’s their job.” Below, watch her discuss Palin, Bachmann and plenty more in an interview with ABC:
While it is unclear exactly what the advocate meant by her statement, she also went on to accuse the two politicians of “selling out” the women’s rights movement. These statements are likely rooted in the fact that both Palin and Bachmann oppose abortion and embrace traditional societal values. In a speech that followed these comments, Steinem continued to pile on Palin and Bachmann, among others:
“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.’”
In her talk, Sheinem went on to call Palin, Bachmann — even Rick Perry — “people our founders came to this country to escape.” Below, watch a TIME Magazine interview with Steinem:
Concerning Bachmann’s unflattering Newsweek cover, the woman’s rights aficionado couldn’t bring herself to defend her fully. In an e-mail to Salon’s Joan Walsh, she refused to call the image “sexist” (though she admitted it was “borderline”), saying:
It‘s so hard for feminists to prove that we’re even-handed — because right-wing anti-feminist women so rarely do anything defensible — that this may be grasping at straws.
Comparing Palin, Bachmann and Perry to the people America’s forefathers sought to escape is a bold statement — one that some will surely find unfair and rooted in political disagreement more than anything else.
(h/t New York Magazine)
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Comments (496)
Patrick in AZ
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:55pmIn Sheinem’s world, the “women’s movement” is about growing the welfare state and murdering babies.
Report Post »XScramblerX
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:43pmNo kidding! She’s got it completely backward! OMG!
She will keep repeating this kind of nonsense until she actually believes it.
The American people took care of people like her and the Monarchy during the last revolution……
I think it’s time for….
TEA!
Report Post »woodyl1011fl
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 10:02pmLiberals do believe their delusions they are all pathologically mentally and emotionally sick! maybe Ann Coulter is on to something with the title of her new book. I think “Legion” is on the loose in all democrat areas of the nation!
Report Post »BellaMia7
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:55pmWow, these coyote ugly witches sure are angry. Gloria has no decency or respect for another opinion – especially not one that threatens her sacrament: abortion. Gloria Steinhem , Jane Fonda, and ______________(fill in the blank with your favorite liberal banshee, HIllary comes to mind) are the ORCS of feminism.
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:25pmWhy do Lesbians care about Abortion ?
Report Post »if your truly a Lesbian your not getting pregnant.
Just askin
TruthSpeaker
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:37pmflipper1073- they won’t touch the tool but will take all the drool.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 10:36pmTINA oy FEY,Joyless Beehair,MeeekaVIACuppaJoe,Whoopseed Goldburger,Diane Seeyawar,Katie CoorRack,DebbieWaspySchultz,SheeelaJackoLee,BabsBoxer,BabsStreesand,ReetaWilsonMarried2DoofusTommyHanks and the list just keeps ON GOING………..SIGH they know NOT what they do
Oh yeah FrancyFoxyPiven (Sillarys Favorite) and BernieDorhrn……
ALL pathetic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO BO in 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »pschlentz
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 1:11amShe reminds me of an old Sham-Wow. Pretty tough ol’ piece of leather and stuck in her Liberal mindset till the crows come home to roost. She lives and breathes Liberalism and there is no room for anything or anyone that doesn’t agree with her. Could hardly make it through the Dog-Feed-Doggie-Show.
Report Post »Hollywood
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 4:25pmGloria always had penis envy,in my opinion. She didn’t have one,so she just straps one one when needed,so she can pretend!
Report Post »mcpbob
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:54pmSteinem represents everything a woman has worked to get away from….she is a dinosaur when it comes to her thinking of what woman look at as being sucessful
Report Post »oldchevyguy
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:54pmGloria you are a phoney
Report Post »Sicboy
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:02pmThis woman is blinded by her own hatred.
Report Post »jcldwl
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:53pmSo she is really upset because Sarah and Michelle aren’t baby killers. That is all it comes down to.
Report Post »ITGuy
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:05pmYeah, the only way this freek would defend them is if they got pregnant, reached in and pulled the baby out of their uterus and stabbed it in the head with a pair of sissors. Why would you want to destroy your life so you’ll need her defense. Moron!!
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:53pmms. steinem never has “gotten it”. Waaaay too many drug, waaaaay too much of everything EXCEPT humility and loyalty to AMERICA.
Go away, gloria, far, far away. I think you and hillarybillary and bigsis and all other waaaay out there liberal women should do a decade long study on the subservience of a female in the muslime society: NO cellphones; no vibrators; no internet; just smelly, stinky, HOT burkas…..
Now, that picture, I could agree with in spades.
Report Post »ezeewhiz
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:53pmOh really? Some folks look into a mirror and see what they want to see too. Just saying!!.
Report Post »michaele6
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:52pmYou know it amazes me how these people get air time. They say we are anti feminist, but what about the burqa ladies, they are really over the top, but these lefties would never go against their own PC crap.
Report Post »Patriot Z
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:52pmof course gloria hates them. they completly disprove her theories. gloria has made a career out of hating men and making women look like complete B****. Palin and bachman prrove that you can be a strong and successful woman, and a lady at the same time. That a woman can retain the good parts of being a lady while showing strength and intelligence. Gloria equated feminism with man hating nasty women who think they have to do the opposite of what a man says or tradition says even and especially if it actually works shows real feminism
Report Post »lonewolf57
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:52pmIs this old sea hag still making news?I see time hasn’t been nice to her,mentally or physically.Crawl back to your crypt granny.Nobody cares.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:44pmSea Hags everywhere are pissed that you compared them to Gloria S.
Report Post »Seamstress
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:41pmShe’s still mad because the house landed on her sister
Report Post »lonewolf57
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:59pmI love guys!FUNNY!:)
Report Post »MHP
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 12:14amToo bad the old hag didn’t OD
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:52pmShe’s a hypocrite,when Palin or any conservative woman is savaged in the press you don’t hear a peep
Report Post »out of NOW or any other nut job so called feminists groups.Women in the ******* movement can say any idiotic thing and the so called press never challenges anything they say.Steinem knows nothing of our history she learned the revisionist form of history.
USAqh
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:52pmYep … met her at my ex’s house for an afternoon party … slobbering, washed up, self involved woman that had no interest in men … must be why she is so FOR women … Her date wasn’t anything like a good looking Palin or Bachmann ….
Just another libbo that figured out how to suck off of people …
Report Post »Slayer
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:50pmGloria Steinem is still alive?
Report Post »republapig
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:56pmYou can’t tell by looking at her. What a dried out piece of beef jerky. Hose bag.
Report Post »Mtroom
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:57pmThat’s what i was thinking
Report Post »Hollywood
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 4:32pmNot REALLY! Just goes through the motions of her failed ideology,pretending she matters. Sad,pathetic person,who does nothing to really help women! Maybe President Bachmann,or Palin, will invite he to the White House,and explain how REAL women empower themselves!
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:49pmWELL…from a woman’s point of view…Palin and Bachman are real women…women like Gloria are not…the so called feminist movement, burn your bras and so forth has downgraded women, not to mention the American family.
Report Post »Look4DBigPicture
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:38pmI agree. I was in college back then and remember thinking she and all of her bra burning friends were absolutely nuts! In retrospect, I have to give them credit for generating the conversation of women’s rights, because things are much better for women today. Because of these strong women of the 60′s, time has allowed Palin and Bauchman to become strong political women, who have achieved their goals based on the merits of their knowledge and skills, not because they’re “women”. This equality should make the Gloria Steinem proud … but instead … she seems jealous!
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on August 12, 2011 at 12:34amShe does seem jealous…what’s that about…I wouldn’t trade being an American woman for anything…all through our history, we’ve always been strong, Martha Washington, Betsy Ross, Abagail Adams, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman…Now Palin, Bauchman, Alot of the ladies on Fox News….seriously American women rock!
Report Post »rja444
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:49pmTalk about an agenda, Here we have two successful, highly intelligent women, everything I thought Ms. Stienem would espouse. Everything I though the woman’s movement was about. Oh I forgot their Conservative Women, I guess politics trumps everything. I guess the womans movement is not really about women afterall. Hypocrites
Report Post »lovebunny
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 9:25pmExactly…You wrote everything I wanted to say…thanks
Report Post »LibertyGoddess
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:11pmYou nailed it. As for Gloria, I hope you read this. I love being a woman. I love being a good wife and mother to my family and putting them first. I love the divine gender I have been blessed with and no, I would never stain that blessing with immorality, abortion, or rebellion against the God who gave it to me.
Report Post »Rapunzel
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:49pmShe and Noam Chomsky ought to get together; their positions make the same amount of sense…that is, none whatever.
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:08pmNow if this old gal was in bed with George Soros i could understand but i don’t think she likes men period,she reminds me of a lesbian couple that were customers in the store i managed for a few years, every animal they had were females, they would not allow any males of any kind on their little farm.
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:14pmAnd they would make such a cute couple
Report Post »Rapunzel
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:47pmShe is really deluded.
Report Post »ROMANS 10-9
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:47pmIf you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 10:9
Read it out loud if you dare.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:02pmObey Act 2:38
Report Post »Tyr
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:07pmI did! I said it aloud. What now? Is something supposed to happen? Does God give me a new car or a winning lottery ticket now? Is this like some sort of magic spell or something? I still don’t get it. Please, Ir eally want to know. Do I need to stand on one foot or swing a dead cat around my head or what?
Report Post »We are Americans
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:30pmTyr. Nothing will happen if you
Report Post »don’t mean it. Well nothing except
you won’t be saved. Off topic
anyway. You would think this
woman would respect their accomplishments.
Do people ever think before they speak?
Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:46pmIs that why so Many Russian Immigrants vote Republican?I Do not think anyone misses Communism,just Democrats.
Report Post »likwidlizard
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:46pmCould this nasty sap get any uglier? OMG! Her face looks like a skull with stretched over botoxed ratskin. Someone mail her a sample of Summer‘s Eve too because I’m sure she needs it.
Report Post »bumpside
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:45pmWomen opposing women … doesn’t sound like what Palin is doing, but what Steinem is doing.
Report Post »gobnait
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:10pmBINGO! It’s women like Steinem who made a career out of belittling men and demeaning stay-at-home mothers as unfulfilled and useless who have done more to destroy our nation’s spirit than anyone. She doesn‘t even realize the damage she’s done.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:44pmgloria who?
Report Post »eagle2715
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:50pmDon’t discount her; she is enormously powerful and influential…
Report Post »sizzler2220
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:44pmGloria is one sick puppy! What a creep.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:48pmThis woman just doesn’t get any smarter with time does she?
Report Post »Hickory
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:41pmWe would all be better off if Gloria would just escape to somewhere else. What’s with this stringy hair?
Report Post »highcarry
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:47pmyeah, back to the kitchen.heh-heh-heh.
Report Post »Nlitend1
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:53pmso much sexism here. Is this normal among conservative sites? sTeinem is 72 yrs old. How does your grandmother look? Should I let her blow me (for the poster above)? The article didn’t really address it, but Steinem does give more reasons, outside of abortion, why these women are not friendly to the feminist movement. Get back to the kitchen? Can you even comprehend the irony of your statement? You are insulting a leader of the feminist movement by being sexist in your defense of women who the leader says are anti-feminist. That probably doesn’t make sense, but neither do you, so touche. I’m not a liberal, just an embarrassed conservative. I regularly perform research on public opinion, and ‘the blaze’ is new to me. Do you think you are alone…that no one can see your deep-seated hatred for women and african americans(the other article i read today)? I honestly shouldn’t be contaminating my sample like this, but I have never seen anything, anywhere, that is as patently awful as this forum has become. Maybe Blaze posters should read about Gloria Steinem, learn something about her struggles (and her sexuality) before they make complete fools of themselves. Nevertheless, you are entitled to your opinions, just as she is, and maybe with some education, you will not represent them with such ignorance and hatred. I’m beginning to realize that the right…the political ideology I subscribe to…is not friendly to women. Maybe my beliefs are no longer conducive with this ide
Report Post »CrazyTexan
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:54pmWho is not friendly to women? The group who slashes and burns every successful, working mother and wife who dares to challenge the Feministra Mantra? Woman good, men bad….It has deprived more children of the opportunity to live with both parents in the same house than can be counted and made marriage into a disposable commodity. She helped to create a society where children are likewise disposable from the time they are conceived ‘till the time they enter schoo (just drop them off at the local rent-a-mom shop). We always wonder where are these parents who’s children are running rampant all over the streets in Philly at 11pm? Where were these parents of the Columbine shooters, or the Arizona shooter, how could they be so blind? Children are not the responsibility of the government, paid strangers at a daycare or the teachers, you chose to have sex, so “man-up” and take the responsibility if that means one parent has to stay home to take care of JR. make the lifestyle adjustment. Choosing to have a family with two parents working should never be about a bigger house or a better car (they just tax the snot out of you anyway). The value of raising your own blood to be the best they can be is far greater than being able to give them the latest video games. I don’t care what the woman looks like, it is what comes out of her brain that is twisted.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:39pmHUH?? Is she still high?
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