Reply #4: I was unaware that "Girls Gone Wild" was trying to sell itself as empowerment

[Chulanowa]

Seriously, I always figured it was reveling in its own misogyny.

Anyway, people like Palin basically believe that since a woman should be subordinate to man, it is "feminist" to support that "ordained role" because to do otherwise upsets "god's order" or something. Thus they feel they are protecting women from god's wrath, and that by kowtowing to men, women can avoid any sort of "punishment" from those men, leading to harmony that's supposedly good for everyone. It's very 1950's.

But don't get too self-righteous. There's a pretty prevalent feminist "scam" on the left, too. Ever run across a self-proclaimed feminist, who is certain that all other women are stupid beasts who must be led around by the feminist in question, and her "enlightened" compatriots? I see it with alarming regularity here on DU, the whole "you don't know what's good for you, so you should do what I say is good for you"