What Feminism Used to Be

Because Laura Bush has been an advocate for women across the world who have been truly abused or marginalized, a historian is designating her an "international feminist."

Funny -- the kind of basic principles of equal opportunity and equality under the law that Laura Bush is championing used to be the hallmarks of feminism generally. Of course, that was back in the days when people like Susan B. Anthony (a pro-lifer, incidentally) were trying to redress real grievances against women, rather than simply cloaking themselves in the mantle of "victimhood" and "opression" -- like so many of the coddled creatures who claim to speak for American women today.

Could it be, given the strides that American women have made and the full panoply of rights that they enjoy, that "international" feminism is really the only legitimate kind of feminism left?