I mean, the feminists are mad because Sarah will not give the old guard their props on what they did and yet, i don’t really recall any of them giving out props to the people who made it possible for THEM to exercise a freedom of speech to achieve what they achieved in their lives. ironically enough, they spent their time bashing the men who made their accomplishments possible and they bash them to this day. i’m sure they use the line “they didn’t do any of that for woman’s freedoms!!” line to justify this rubbish. which of course begs the question “do they really think we’re stupid enough to believe Steinem and her crew did all their work just to see a REPUBLICAN woman in the White House?” yeah, i didn’t think so either.

so, just as the old feminist guard feels no obligation to toot the horn of the old white men who worked to achieve rights and freedoms they have benefited from and used to accomplish all they have in their lives, i see no reason Sarah should feel any obligation to toot the horns of some women who didn’t work to give the White House to a woman who loves the bible, hates abortion, and feels that she can be a worker AND a mother.

And this is where the factual content of your argument breaks down, at least to the point that you can substantiate the statement to any certainty. While it is true that everything that has come before has an impact, or perhaps because of that, you cannot trace an individual’s success to any particular person. Who is more important in the scheme of the things? The women who campaigned for the vote, or the men who approved the legislation that gave them the vote. (And I wish to stress at this point that I do not believe that it was fair, right, or moral that women were denied the vote, any more than it was right for any other group to be denied basic rights. I am simply referring to the facts. Women did not have the vote. They did not take it by force of arms. They were dependent on using the legal process and men.)

By saying this, I am not implying superiority of men or inferiority of women. My firm believe is that the sexes are equal, though certainly not “the same.” So, in the same way that you cannot say technically that anyone made it without some kind of help from the past, it is equally foolish to claim that the loudest or most noticeable voices were the truly influential. I read that the publisher who received “Harry Potter” threw the manuscript in the discard pile. His daughter pulled it out and read it and told him he had to publish that book. The rest, as they say, is history. If you wish to assign high adulation to a particular few, that is your privilege. To me, the past and current crop of loud, shrill types do far more harm to the cause of equality than the most blatant chauvinist.

But my original point is that you can’t say that you got somewhere *all on your own* because no one has. Nearly everything I am today is because of the sacrifices someone made yesterday. From my clean water to my education to my right to vote, they are all due to other people.

Of course Cassy climbed to the top because of her own hard work but the foundation for her success was put there by feminists.