Gloria Steinem Singlehandly Subverting Civilization?
From Catch.com
"Rick Santorum was on George Stephanopoulos' This Week this morning promoting his new book It Takes a Family and, man, was it a horrible performance. After a brief discussion about Bill Frist's flip-flop on stem cell research, George read the following passage from the book:
"Respect for stay-at-home mothers has been poisoned by a toxic combination of the village elders' war on the traditional family and radical feminism's misogynistic crusade to make working outside the home the only marker of social value and self-respect."
And then the fun began:
STEPHANOPOULOS: Let's get specific here, name one or two of these radical feminists who are on this crusade.
SANTORUM: Well, I mean, uh, you know, you have, you go, you go back to, um, ah, what's her name, well, Gloria Steinem, but I'm trying to remember, ah, [tsk], eh, can't remember the woman's name. That's terrible—anyway...
STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, that's kind of an important point. You point this broad brush ... radical feminists, village elders ... name one.
SANTORUM: (talking over Stephanopoulos) There's lots of, there's lots of, well, Gloria Steinem, there's one.
So I'm trying to research Gloria Steinem's "misogynistic crusade to make working outside the home the only marker of social value and self-respect," but I keep getting bogged down (Googled down?) with sites that reference things like Ms. Magazine, her books, her introduction to "Free To Be You and Me," her expose about the poor and oppressive working conditions of Playboy bunnies, and her efforts to draw attention to the issue of underrepresentation of women in politics. I never thought she was particularly radical, but if she scares Rick Santorum that much, she must be doing something right.
Update from Dr. Bitch: *Actual quote by Gloria Steinem:
"We also have to re-define work, so that the work of caring for children and doing human maintenance in the home is counted as productive work, has attributed value."