Do You Hear That Rumbling of Anger? It's the Beginning of a New Feminist Revolution

Ms. has attempted to play down the chorus of concerned and angry voices who have begun to analyze the deeper meaning of having a man on the cover of Ms. who told the first woman in history to win a presidential primary that she was "likable enough", that when "she was feeling down" the "claws come out", that abortion shouldn't be available to women who are just "feeling blue", whose surrogates lashed out at Hillary Clinton for crying before the New Hampshire primary as somehow racist because she didn't cry for the victims of Katrina.

Those who worship at the altar of Obama and see nothing wrong with his stance on gay marriage, his invitation to homophobe Rick Warren to speak at his historic inauguration, his comments about women, Hillary Clinton and abortion during the primaries, are saying that those who oppose the Ms. inauguration cover are overreacting.

Well, let me tell you that PUMAs (Clinton supporters who protested the election by abstaining their vote, voting for McCain, or voting for a third party candidate) aren't the only ones who disapprove of the cover. Feminist Law Professors (pro-Obama), Heidi Li Feldman (who did not vote for McCain), and Shakesville (pro-Obama), among other feminist blogs, have questioned the cover and its intentions (besides the obvious goals to try and increase subscriptions and profits).

Ms. screwed up big time and if they want to maintain their credibility, they need to own up to their mistake before it's too late. Whether or not they believe Obama is a feminist is irrelevant. They received what must have been thousands of angry letters and emails from their readership which is why it made the news. Those people should have their concerns addressed rather than be brushed aside.

If Ms. doesn't publish a respectable response in their next issue that takes into consideration valid reasons why Obama should not have been portrayed as a superman feminist on their cover, they will suffer the consequences. I'm willing to predict that Ms. subscriptions and sales will plummet within a year once those who only bought a copy or a subscription for the Obama issue and poster don't renew. Not only that, if and when Obama makes another Rick Warren type of blunder or turns his backs on the feminist agenda to appease his conservative supporters, Ms. will be disgraced, embarrassed, and irrelevant. Or is that the risk they are willing to take in order to make a temporary profit gain and stay on the good side of Obama and his young female supporters?

We thought things had gotten bad enough after having to endure a slew of sexist attacks on Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and their supporters. But to have those same nasty attacks come from women feminists of all people has become the breaking point for many.

Ms. has no idea what they've started and I expect the dissent to only get louder in several years once more and more realize they've been bamboozled and who has been doing the bamboozling to further their own agenda and career. Just as with Bush, the media can only protect their chosen candidates for so long. The truth will eventually come out and organizations like Feminist Majority will reap what they have sown.