Recently on Twitter, Dana Loesch, (television host for The Blaze and spokesperson for the National Rifle Association), announced she was moving due to threats from gun control advocates. Madmen have hunted down her private cell phone number and home address, threatened her with death and rape threats, and she’s had to work with her children’s school to ensure their safety as well.
The entire thread is worth reading. Loesch points out the feminist movement, whose banner is “equality,” remains silent when it comes to the equal rights of a conservative woman promoting her Second Amendment rights:
11 If “inequality” was truly a concern for modern feminists, they’d defend, not shame, women for making choices antithetical 2 progressivism
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) October 16, 2017
Loesch makes an excellent point in her tweetstorm, one that conservative women have been making for the last few years. Since the third wave of feminism became as vocal and rabid as any other lobby, one thing has become clear: Because they already enjoy equality, they cherry-pick their causes based on ideology.
For example, notice how during the Women’s March in Washington, D.C., women marched with signs and complained about taxes on tampons, but nobody protested outside the Qatari or Saudi Arabian embassies where women truly have few rights and hardly any voice whatsoever? (Even the Saudi Arabian women’s “new” right to drive is quite limited.)
Notice how women’s rights to join, for example, the Boy Scouts, are viciously defended, but the rights of the little unborn baby girls to life (or the conservative women defending them) are not. Ever notice how women’s rights to pray to Allah or Buddha are fiercely championed, yet the voices of Christian women are often marginalized?
Though this dichotomy is blatantly obvious (particularly now in light of the threats and abuse conservative Loesch is facing), it dispels the myth that feminists are still oppressed and still hankering for equality under the law and equal opportunities. Feminists have been enjoying equality for decades; they’ve just now decided to support women of their own progressive bent based on ideology. This is why feminists come out to support Amber Rose’s “slut walk,” but can also spew hate and threats at Dana Loesch.
A movement which once yearned for equality has earned that and then some. Now, they want entitlement based on their gender to the point of marginalizing those with a slightly different ideological point of view. This is not only the exact opposite of the first wave of feminism, which lobbied for a woman’s right to vote a century ago, but much less productive and downright hypocritical.
In the face of hate, all women, regardless of ideology, should support and defend a fellow woman, mother, and activist such as Dana Loesch.
Nicole Russell is a contributor to the Washington Examiner’s Beltway Confidential blog. She is a journalist in Washington, D.C., who previously worked in Republican politics in Minnesota. She was the 2010 recipient of the American Spectator’s Young Journalist Award.
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