evolution

Because every good feminist knows that if you leave your high-paying and prestigious job to raise children you:

• Are being oppressed by your evil man-boss,
• Are a traitor to the cause, or
• You don’t have any Mexican wait-staff at your house.

Vargas said she’d felt no pressure from above to step down, but did so for the good of her family. “Every woman has the right to make that decision for herself and her family without anybody judging it,” she told The Associated Press at the time.

Feminist groups say Vargas is just being publicly graceful about what was really her abrupt removal from the job.

“We see it as a demotion,” says Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation and one of the country’s most recognizable feminists. “We’re worried. Is this a return to the days when it was tougher for women to get ahead?”

Smeal was one of three feminist leaders to sign a letter this week to the heads of ABC, asking them to reinstate Vargas.

“This clear demotion signals a dispiriting return to the days of discrimination against women that we thought were behind us,” said the letter. It asked the network to find a work schedule that would allow Vargas to be both a dedicated mother and a dedicated journalist — and even brought a little show business into the equation, decrying ABC’s cancellation of “Commander in Chief,” starring
Geena Davis as the first woman president

It’s pretty clear that Smeal’s feminism isn’t at all about empowering women. I’d guess it’s more about partisan politics and power for her and her fellow identity-narrative hustlers, but you might have a different view.

It all makes me wonder how this story even got into the national media. The story comes right out and says Vargas is not well known to Americans as the World News Tonight anchor, thus diminishing the story’s national interest. It’s as if the media displayed a … bias of some sort.