BRANDON B. writes:

In regard to your post on Elizabeth Cady Stanton, just last night while watching election coverage, I saw Sarah Palin and Geraldine Ferraro interview together. The topic was women who run for public office and the so-called “discrimination” they face. Palin first praised them and said they were carrying on the legacy of Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Then she launched into a tirade that made her, the “social conservative,” sound like a garden variety progressive liberal. After using the phrase “glass ceiling” a number of times, she basically said that those who think wives and mothers shouldn’t run for public office are (her exact words) “Neanderthals” who need to “evolve” to have a more “modern” view of things. 

What a disgrace.

Laura writes:

Unfortunately, many conservative women do not see this talk for what it is: an insult. It’s an insult to their husbands and sons, and to traditional women. Palin can’t have it both ways. She can’t exalt female achievement outside the home and then say she is a spokeswoman for family values. The phony “glass ceiling” she mentions is nothing but a cheap dig at men and empty pandering to women. The idea that Stanton and Anthony serve as some kind of worthy model for women is laughable. They helped to institutionalize female selfishness and resentment, as well as force many women into lives of unnerving exhaustion. Stanton and Anthony had the freedom to be women. Many women today do not. Before they know it, they’ve lost the qualities, character traits and time to be normal mothers and wives.

What would a genuinely conservative woman say about women running for office, assuming it is possible for a genuinely conservative woman to run for office? 

She would say, “Men are better at politics. That’s a fact. After all, look at what men did for this country during the many years when there were no women voting and no women running for office. But there are exceptions. I want to hold office so I can make it possible for men to achieve and for both men and women to lead normal and happy lives. Maybe someday fewer women will have to leave their homes and communities as I have done. Insulting men has become commonplace in the public sphere. I reject these phony conspiracies and the unbecoming superiority complex of feminists. I want to promote mothers and wives in their efforts to honor their husbands, protect their children and restore their communities.”

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