What she said
Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs on feminism:
I don't need equal rights....I'm already equal. I don't need somebody telling me something that's already a fact. All these women like Gloria Steinem, "Oh, we made it happen for you!" You didn't make it happen for me. That whole movement...is rooted in Marxist-Leninist propaganda....I'm not a feminist, I'm an anti-feminist. I think it has hurt women enormously.
One of the few complaints that the feminists have always had about the way that women used to be treated was the denial of basic rights such as property rights. However, which institution was most capable of effectively denying them these rights? The government, naturally, and that's what makes the left-wing orientation of the feminist movement so ironic. Women were better off under the "oppressive patriarchy" than in any of the Marxist experiments of the 20th century.
Everything women need to be free and productive is already provided for by basic libertarian principles. Beyond that, it is just pure collectivism, and any libertarian in the right mind would correctly reject feminism as an ideology. This is one of the reasons why I find the tolerance for feminism at libertarian publications like Reason to be so disheartening.
