Hillary Clinton is a woman, but is she a feminist? Was she a feminist when she sat on the board of Wal-Mart and pushed the same anti-worker agenda as her male colleagues? (Two-thirds of low-wage workers are women, after all.) Was she a feminist when she voted to invade Iraq, pushed military intervention in Libya, or backed a coup in Honduras, during which the new U.S.-backed government murdered opposition political candidates, including peasant organizers and LGBT activists?
Feminism has never been about merely allowing women to serve in combat or as commander-in-chief, though certainly they are capable. Feminism is much more radical than that; it is about fundamentally changing our concept of security and building a foreign policy that actually makes American’s lives safer, rather than one that destroys lives (disproportionately women’s lives) at home and abroad.
Hillary Clinton is a woman, but is she a feminist? Was she a feminist when she sat on the board of Wal-Mart and pushed the same anti-worker agenda as her male colleagues? (Two-thirds of low-wage workers are women, after all.) Was she a feminist when she voted to invade Iraq, pushed military intervention in Libya, or backed a coup in Honduras, during which the new U.S.-backed government murdered opposition political candidates, including peasant organizers and LGBT activists?
Feminism has never been about merely allowing women to serve in combat or as commander-in-chief, though certainly they are capable. Feminism is much more radical than that; it is about fundamentally changing our concept of security and building a foreign policy that actually makes American’s lives safer, rather than one that destroys lives (disproportionately women’s lives) at home and abroad.