Commentary: Liberal feminists destroy their own cause by diminishing Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ success – TheBlaze.com

With Fridays appointment of Sarah Huckabee Sanders as the new White House press secretary, its never been more evident that liberal feminists are selecting their Joan of Arcs based on their political slant rather than on the fact that they are women.

If youre sitting there, scratching your head, wondering why a self-proclaimed feminist would attempt to diminish another womans successes, youre not the only one, and there is an answer.

Its called selective feminism, and the concept is exactly what it sounds like: Women who support other women so long as they fit into the mold of what they consider acceptable feminist standards.

From the very moment that Sanders was revealed to be the latestWhite House press secretary for the Trump administration, she faced attacks on her education, her qualifications, and perhaps, worst of all her appearance.

See some choice tweets targeting Sanders for shattering her own glass ceiling.

Even an article written by a Mediaite author decried Sanders success, and chalked it up to well, not much at all.

An excerpt from the article titled How Sarah Sanders and the Women of Trumpland Hurt Women reads:

With the decision to promote Sanders, expect the topic of gender and the Trump administration to surface once again, and with this discussion, expect plenty of tokenism. Expect Sarah Huckabee Sanders to respond to every question about imminent future questions about Trump sexism by lavishing praise on the obviously open-minded, pro-woman boss who entrusted her with this high-level position. And expect Kellyanne [Conway] to bring up something about how women dont care about casual sexism from their president because ISIS and violent crime and jobs, but in either case, expect valid criticisms of Trumps sexism problem to be wholly tuned out.

Dee Dee Myers and Dana Perino two previous White House press secretaries who also happened to be female, and maybe just maybe got the jobs because they are qualified were celebrated, lauded for their groundbreaking work in a mans world.

Sanders, however, seems to have gotten the rougher end of the stick, and because she had the audacity to accept a position that many women in the political arena would give their life for no matter what their political affiliation, shes automatically forced to turn in her feminism card if she even cared to carry one at all.

If conservatives or Republicans said even half of the things about prolific liberal Democrats in power that liberals have said about Ivanka Trump, Kellyanne Conway, and now Sanders over the last six months and more, youd have a liberal lynch mob on your hands.

Feminism isnt selective. Feminism is all-encompassing. Its about supporting all women because if its about supporting all women, its about supporting zero women. Picking and choosing which women should be supported because of their race, age, experience, physical appearance, or political affiliation shouldnt fly with die-hard feminists because that boils down to sexism, elitism, racism, and xenophobia all of the important tenets that the most vocal of feminisms claim to be against.

Is Sanders the best choice for White House press secretary?

Only time will tell, and if shes not, its certainly not because shes a woman. But liberals will likely tell you that theyll tell you that should Sanders be forced out of or resign her post, it was because shes a woman, and in Trumps sexist administration, women can never thrive.

But the excoriation of Sanders based on the fact that she is a conservative, Republican woman in power is worse than liberal feminism at its worst because its not feminism at all.

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Commentary: Liberal feminists destroy their own cause by diminishing Sarah Huckabee Sanders' success - TheBlaze.com