"There is a
war against women. It is something comparatively new in our national life, and
we have to start noticing it.
It is not a 'Republican war on women.' It has nothing to do with White House
attempts to paint conservative efforts to protect religious liberty as a war
against women's rights to contraceptives. That is a mischievous fiction, and
the president's polls this week suggest it isn't working. Good.
But the real war is against women in American
public life, in politics and media most obviously, but in other spheres as
well. In this war, leaders who are women are publicly demeaned and diminished
based on the fact that they are women. They are the object of sexual slurs, and
insulted in sexual terms. The words used are vulgar, and are meant to tear down
and embarrass."
So why are some people demonized for these insults but others like Bill Maher continue virtually unscathed? I think Peggy answers that question.
Peggy Noonan: America's Real War on Women - WSJ.com
