2004-07-19
10:12 a.m.
Margaret Cho said the most irresponsible thing in her blog. This is the type of thing that makes me not want to have anything to do with feminism: �The problem is that Martha Stewart was not a homemaker. She was an entrepeneur. She was not selling the recipes and party plans and 'good things' in order to promote stay at home moms and give undue labor to keep women's minds from wandering to books and feminist theory. She was promoting the idea of perfection, wherever you could have it. It was about that notion of perfecting something, and then it becoming yours. This was the American Dream as it could be made accessible to American women. You could empower yourself through action, and that is probably the danger that Martha Stewart represents. She is the authority on independence, and that is what we don't want from our mothers and for our daughters....Martha Stewart is a political prisoner. The unceremonious denial of her freedom should make us seriously question our own.� Margaret! The actual problem is that Martha Stewart cheated, lied, and got caught. You didn�t whine when the Enron guys were busted. If women want the same rights as men, we have to play by the same rules. When women whine that they didn�t get special treatment, they�re forcing all women to take a step back after everything we have gained in the last century. Show some dignity and responsibility by playing by the rules graciously. Don�t whine and posture and scream �persecution!� Know that you are equal and act that way. Not cool.
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