Bad Feminist=smart thinking
I came across this post this morning on the “Bad Feminist” blog.
She questions the progressives’ constant attacks on Wal-Mart, citing the recent example in Chicago, in which “just sixteen months after Chicago aldermen blocked a Wal-Mart in Chicago’s South Side, 25,000 people applied for just 325 jobs in a suburb right over the Chicago border; accosording to The New Editor, all but 500 of the applicants live in the city, which lost an estimated $1 million in property and sales tax. The Chicago Sun-Times has more on this story.”
(Full disclosure, my firm does work for Wal-Mart, but this isn’t what this post is about).
The larger question, for many women these days, is how do our deeply-ingrained feminist, progressive principles jibe with how we feel now? Where the country is headed? The deep polarization of both parties when real life is JUST NOT BLACK AND WHITE. I’m a feminist who believes in chivalry, and a Democrat who believes in capital punishment.
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