Miscellaneous Commentary

If a daughter of a man who has trafficked in the exploitation of women, albeit "legitimately," can call herself a feminist, why can't Sarah Palin?

The blog post makes a lot of good points about what litmus test, if any, qualifies somebody to be a "feminist."

I never had any problem with Palin identifying with feminism. After all, despite her abortion stance and a couple of other things, her life and career have closely paralleled the non-traditional family lifestyle. She has basically lived the feminist ideal of taking on a non-traditional career and doing it without having to rely on a man to achieve what she wants.

As for Christie Hefner, she wouldn't be where she is without her daddy and his money. By traditional feminist standards, she didn't get to where she is on merit. She is a classic nepotism hire, first and foremost. The only reason anybody even cares about her at all is because of who her daddy is. It isn't reasonable to expect her to have killed the golden goose of Playboy Enterprises by having ditched the t&a and turned it into some kind of feminist think tank. Of course she stepped down from the company early this year to devote herself to other causes.