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RUSH: Now, I have here a story, I\u2019ve been holding this, this goes back a couple days ago. It ran in Salon.com. How many of you remember my Undeniable Truth of Life Number 24? (interruption) Snerdley remembers it. This was written in the late seventies. This one established me as one of this nation\u2019s great thinkers and opinion leaders. <\/p>\n

“Feminism was established so as to allow –” and it\u2019s still misunderstood to this day. It\u2019s misunderstood. It is misrepresented. It is true, but it\u2019s simple. “Feminism” — talking about modern era feminism, late sixties, early seventies — “Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.” And wherever you look in the world of feminism you will find that truth screaming at you. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got another example of it here. It is a piece that ran a couple days ago at Salon.com. And the headline is: “Feminism\u00c2\u2019s Obsession with Celebrity: It\u00c2\u2019s time to stop making our pop stars into political icons.” And if you read this, if you read far enough into it, you will find that it is an extension of my Undeniable Truth of Life Number 24, that women still find themselves living under the burden of unattractiveness. I will explain how that manifests itself in this story.<\/line><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, back to this Salon story that I promised you about because it\u2019s related to Undeniable Truth of Life Number 24. What it means is, it\u2019s just another story here that women basically talk about living under that burden of unattractiveness, and the headline of this story is: “Feminism\u00c2\u2019s Obsession with Celebrity: It\u00c2\u2019s time to stop making our pop stars into political icons.” <\/p>\n

Now, why? Aren\u2019t most pop stars liberal? Most actresses, most song stylists, most entertainers are liberal. So why all of a sudden do we have to stop making them into political icons? Well, it\u2019s a very good reason. And it\u2019s right here in the opening paragraph. <\/p>\n

“‘No,\u2019 the actress Shailene Woodley answered recently when asked if she considers herself to be a feminist in the Time interview heard round the blogosphere.” She said no, I am not a feminist. “I love men and I think the idea of ‘raise women to power, take the man away from the power\u2019 is never going to work out because you need balance.” Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Code Red, DEFCON 5, massive, massive, we\u2019re showing Dracula the cross here. <\/p>\n

An actress, Shailene Woodley, said, “No, I\u2019m not a feminist. I love men.” Uh-oh. <\/p>\n

“The outrage soon followed — ‘Shailene Woodley Has Some Thoughts on Feminism, and They Are Not Good,\u2019 said one headline; ‘The Shailene Woodley Uproar Shows We\u00c2\u2019re Getting Celebrity Feminism All Wrong,\u2019 read another — in yet another iteration of the ‘let\u00c2\u2019s debate a celebrity\u00c2\u2019s feminist credentials\u2019 argument. What no one seems to be asking, though, is why we keep making feminist icons out of our celebrities.”<\/line><\/p>\n

Really? Do you have to ask that question? Who wrote this? Rhian Sasseen, if I\u2019m pronouncing that right. “Shailene Woodley, Kirsten Dunst, Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift are not feminists — nor do they need to be.” And that\u2019s a problem. Why do we keep making feminist icons out of our celebrities? Well, uhhhh, because it\u2019s always been the way you did it. <\/p>\n

You may not remember this. Back when Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden were married, and we\u2019re going back to the eighties and prior, they routinely held — what would you call \u2019em? — little miniature reeducation camps. Every young Hollywood male or female, new arriving star, they would have political seminars with them and instruct them how to succeed in Hollywood and what their politics had to be. It was an activist program. Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden did this, and I\u2019m sure they\u2019re not the only ones that did it. <\/p>\n

So there\u2019s your answer. I mean, it was something that was studiously attempted. It was an objective that feminism had. But now all of a sudden some attractive, not unimportant here, young Hollywood actresses are saying, “No, I\u2019m not a feminist. I can\u2019t be. I love men.” After, let\u2019s see, let\u2019s just say 1970, so after 44 years? This is not good. What\u2019s happening is the backlash. <\/p>\n

I return to the article here: “The cycle by now is familiar: Every few months, an interview with a female celebrity goes viral, on the basis of the celebrity\u00c2\u2019s disavowal of the word ‘feminist\u2019 or conservative approach to gender. Sometimes a pop star is involved — Katy Perry, Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga spring to mind — while other times, it\u00c2\u2019s an actress — Woodley, now, and Kirsten Dunst and Susan Sarandon before her. Yesterday it was Miley Cyrus, slammed for telling a terrible rape joke and riding an inflatable penis. Tomorrow, someone new will go though this veritable rite of passage.<\/p>\n

“But why does this keep happening? From a business point of view, it makes sense for all parties involved: the publication that initially publishes the interview is guaranteed page views, the op-eds that follow from all corners of the Internet piggyback on this and the starlet in question has both headlines and an opportunity to distance herself from the hairy-legged feminist stereotype. Maybe she\u00c2\u2019ll see the light in a couple of months, as Perry did. More headlines will follow. Rinse, repeat.<\/p>\n

“What\u00c2\u2019s missing from this equation are the women who don\u00c2\u2019t star in Hollywood blockbusters or go on world tours following their album release — the women that have, historically, been the focus of feminism. Class becomes a dividing line: what does the woman struggling, say, to afford childcare — the cost of which, the National Women\u00c2\u2019s Law Center reports, ranges from $3,900 to $15,000 a year — have in common with the Hollywood star who can actually afford nannies? Celebrity feminism is one that seems only to demand that the one percent affix themselves with the label ‘feminist,\u2019 with little regard for the lives of ordinary women who are silenced.”<\/line><\/p>\n

Look, it goes on. It\u2019s a long piece. I\u2019m cherry-picking pull quotes. “It is, again, another trap for women.” They\u2019re so victimized. Even after all this emancipation. Everything out there is a trap for women. And here again is another one. “It is, again, another trap for women, both celebrity and ordinary: we want icons, not human beings — is it any wonder that the celebrity\u00c2\u2019s answers are always contradictions? The feminist question is simply another example of the impossibilities that we demand from women. Forget the virgin\/whore complex: today\u00c2\u2019s woman must simultaneously prove her apparent agency and independence while continuing to embody an appealingly prostrate version of female sexuality and womanhood.”<\/p>\n

So what you have, if you can weed through this, what\u2019s happening is that more and more young female starlets are disavowing the feminism of the era and they are identifying it in ways in which they\u2019ve always perceived it: anti-male. They don\u2019t perceive feminists as wanting anything to do with men. They don\u2019t perceive feminists as wanting anything to do with relationships with men. And they want that. So they don\u2019t want to be called feminists. This has caused DEFCON 5 panic in the upper levels and reaches of liberalism. <\/p>\n

And so, if you read this through, you find out that one of the things that they\u2019re criticized for is, look, they\u2019re not like real women. They\u2019re beautiful, they\u2019re famous, and they can afford to be feminist without having to say they are. They can afford nannies. They can afford abortions if they need them. They can afford all of this. They can say what they want, and they\u2019re traitors and they\u2019re phonies. <\/p>\n

And at the root of it, don\u2019t doubt me, is that they are beautiful. And these other women aren\u2019t and are burdened by it, and that\u2019s the dividing line, and that\u2019s what makes it tougher on the other women who aren\u2019t the celebrities. It all loops back to Undeniable Truth of Life Number 24. But at the root of this is also the breakdown of the cause. It used to be automatic, new Hollywood starlight, guaranteed, gonna be the next feminazi in waiting. Now it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, these young, beautiful, actresses are denouncing feminism, so the militant feminists say, “You know, we don\u2019t need these young — we would love to have them — but we don\u2019t need these pretty women, we don\u2019t need these pretty women.”<\/p>\n

All back to Undeniable Truth of Life Number 24. Fascinating to me to watch all this, and try to chronicle it each day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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