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<\/a><\/p>\n“Men were more susceptible to stress during difficult financial periods. But it\u2019s not all bad news: findings show that as you age, your stress decreases,” and you know why? Because when you get older, you just don\u2019t care anymore! Your emotional reservoir runs dry, and you have no more capacity to listen to people complain and whine and moan. But when you\u2019re young and everybody\u2019s out there whining and complaining, everybody thinks that they\u2019re caretakers.<\/p>\n
Everybody thinks they have to fix it. So somebody comes and whines to you and you say, “Oh, my gosh, what do I have to do? I gotta fix it! I gotta stop the whining.” And you do this for most of your life. And then finally you say, “I don\u2019t care anymore. It\u2019s your problem. I\u2019ve tried. You fix it. I\u2019m outta here,” and you don\u2019t worry about it anymore. If more people could do that when they were younger, there would be less stress out there.<\/p>\n
So lower incomes make us stressed out. We had a previous story that lower incomes make us fat. So lower incomes make us stressed and fat. And the answer is the opposite of what we\u2019re doing now as a country. Nothing that the left — Moochelle, Obama, the Democrats, the socialists — is doing is producing any good results for anybody. If you want to know why there\u2019s added stress, it\u2019s the rise of liberalism. And of course they had to toss in here that women are especially vulnerable.<\/p>\n
“Ann Romney Heckles Hecklers.” This is from Jim Hoft, by the way, at Gateway Pundit. “During Mitt Romney\u00c2\u2019s campaign stop in Newark, Ohio, yesterday Ann Romney took a swipe at the Obama protesters screaming outside the rally. ‘We got some distracters out there, but we can be just as loud about how much we love this country.\u2019 The crowd loved it. The Obama Campaign and Democrats have been sending their lackeys to disrupt Romney events across the country,” and this is why Romney is doing the same thing.<\/p>\n
This is why the Romney campaign went and heckled and harassed Axelrod in Boston last week.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s why the Romney bus circled the community college, Cuyahoga Community College, while Obama was inside giving that miserable 54-minute speech.<\/p>\n
The Romney campaign is dishing it right back to them.<\/p>\n
And here\u2019s the Elizabeth Wurtzel story. She, remember now, is a lawyer with Boies, Schiller & Flexner in New York. “1% Wives Are Helping Kill Feminism and Make the War on Women Possible — Being a mother isn\u2019t a real job — and the men who run the world know it.” Those are the headlines. It\u2019s in the Atlantic, by the way. Here\u2019s how it starts: “When my mind gets stuck on everything that is wrong with feminism, it brings out the 19th century poet in me,” she says, “Let me count the ways. Most of all, feminism is pretty much a nice girl who really, really wants so badly to be liked by everybody — ladies who lunch, men who hate women, all the morons who demand choice and don\u2019t understand responsibility — that it has become the easy lay of social movements.”<\/p>\n
Ha! That one word perked Snerdley up.<\/p>\n
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“I am going to smack the next idiot who tells me that raising her children full time … is her feminist choice. Who can possibly take feminism seriously when it allows everything, as long as women choose it? The whole point to begin with was that women were losing their minds pushing mops and strollers all day without a room or a salary of their own. Let\u2019s please be serious grown-ups: Real feminists don\u2019t depend on men. Real feminists earn a living, have money and means of their own.<\/p>\n
“If the movement had been serious about being serious then the idea could not have caught on that equal is how you feel.” All right. I know this is complicated, \u2019cause it\u2019s convoluted. I\u2019ll read that sentence to you again. If the movement [feminism] had been serious about being serious then the idea could not have caught on that equal is how you feel.” And that\u2019s where feminism is: Equal is how you feel, not what really is. “Men know better. They look at numbers, and here is how the statistics are running years after women first started screaming and yelling and burning bras:<\/p>\n
“We still earn 81% of what men do, and an act to make things more fair was blocked in Congress by Republicans. For anyone who doesn\u2019t care to count, but understands traffic signals mixed with policy speculation, I think it\u2019s safe to say that the day is near when a teenage girl will be forced to get a vaginal probe before she is issued a learner\u2019s permit in the state of Virginia. And this is all because feminism has misread its mission of equality as something open to interpretation, as expressive and impressive, not absolute.”<\/p>\n
Are you following this? (interruption) Well, that\u2019s your problem, then. I mean, this is a serious feminist. She is livid, she is angry, she is outraged, she is stressed out, she\u2019s perpetually on edge. (interruption) Well, this comment, “For anyone who doesn\u2019t care to count, but understands traffic signals mixed with policy speculation,” I don\u2019t even know what that means. I don\u2019t even care. She writes, “I think it\u2019s safe to say that the day is near when a teenage girl will be forced to get a vaginal probe before she is issued a learner\u2019s permit in the state of Virginia.”<\/p>\n
That\u2019s because of the sonogram legislation prior to an abortion. She\u2019s really ticked about that. And then she says, “Don\u2019t agree? Try this: Smart is how you feel, pretty is how you feel, talented is how you feel — we are all beautiful geniuses. Feminism should not be inclusive, and like most terms that are meaningful, it should mean something. It should mean equality.” What she\u2019s ticked off about here is that any woman can claim she\u2019s a “feminist” simply by exercising a choice; that that alone makes her a feminist.<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t matter what the choice is? You can choose to be a stay-at-home mom and call herself a feminist? No, she can\u2019t! A stay-at-home mom is the problem. A stay-at-home mom betrays feminism. There is no such thing. She wants feminism to have a rigid definition where not too many women qualify. That\u2019s what she wants, if I understand this. She\u2019s all upset. “Smart is how you feel”? No, it\u2019s not. Smart\u2019s measurable. “Pretty is how you feel”? No, it\u2019s not. Tell that to the people at a bowling alley. “Talented is how you feel”? No. Tell that to people who are on off-Broadway by three or four streets.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019re all beautiful geniuses”?<\/p>\n
No, we\u2019re not. We might lie to ourselves and tell us that we are, but we\u2019re not. “Feminism should not be inclusive,” it ought to be rigid. Membership requirements ought to be very difficult (with Elizabeth Wurtzel in charge). “And there really is,” back to her piece, “only one kind of equality — it precedes all the emotional hullabaloo — and it\u2019s economic. If you can\u2019t pay your own rent, you are not an adult. You are a dependent. But because feminism has always been about men — our relationships with them, our differences from them — as much or more than about money, it\u2019s had few consistent tenets.”<\/p>\n
So remember Catharine MacKinnon saying all sex is rape even in marriage? If it involves a man, you can\u2019t be a feminist. This woman\u2019s a throwback. She\u2019s going back to the late sixties, early seventies. She\u2019s a purest. This is what it was back then. You\u2019re not supposed to take your happiness from a relationship. You\u2019re not supposed to be linked to a man in any way. And if you\u2019re married and you\u2019re a woman and you\u2019re not paying your own rent, you\u2019re “kept.” You are dependent. You are not independent. You are not a feminist.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re living with a husband or a man and he\u2019s paying the freight, you are nobody; you are not equal, you are dependent. And, as such, you are betraying feminism. Then later on in the piece, she says, “Failing as a feminist is a unique problem of the wealthy, but consequences impact women all the way down the line. … To be a stay-at-home mom is a privilege, and most of the housewives I have ever met — none of whom do anything around the house — live in New York City and Los Angeles, far from Peoria. … These women are the reason their husbands think all women are dumb, and I don\u2019t blame them.”<\/p>\n
I gotta take a break \u2019cause I\u2019m a little long. But don\u2019t worry, we will circle back to this.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: The babe who wrote what I\u2019m reading to you is Elizabeth Wurtzel. She\u2019s a lawyer and author of Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America. And she admits that she discovered that she was depressed when she was ten. And I think that she still is. I should also point out, Elizabeth Wurtzel — I\u2019m pretty sure about this — is not a mother. Now, what have we been told about that? If you\u2019re not a mother, you\u2019re not qualified to talk about mothers or child rearing. Have we not heard that? And if you\u2019re not a soldier, you can\u2019t talk about the defense budget. But here she is, seems to be pretty depressed, to me, professionally depressed. I mean I think it\u2019s her job to be depressed and angry and write about it. <\/p>\n
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<\/a>By the way, she\u2019s so depressed that she admits she only got into Yale Law School because of affirmative action. But again, folks, this is original feminism. This is the feminism of my late teens and early twenties. This is what it was like. This is what the pressures on young women were back then. Failing as a feminist is a unique problem of the wealthy. “To be a stay-at-home mom is a privilege, and most of the housewives I have ever met — none of whom do anything around the house — live in New York City and Los Angeles, far from Peoria.” These women, these stay-at-home moms, these rich, wealthy, kept women, these dependent women, are the reason their husbands think that all women are dumb. <\/p>\n