A National Course in True Women's Studies

Sarah Palin is taking Feminists to school. On the lesson plan: how to be a strong, powerful, compassionate woman who strives and struggles to balance family and work as she serves principles and a God beyond herself and her self interest. You do not need to give up being feminine, a mom, or a wife to be powerful and successful.

Many women already quietly know this. They are typically younger than 50 and were raised seeing the sense of entitlement of their mother's generation and saw it as playing the role of the victim. They wanted true equality, and quietly began going about it. These are the real studies in women.

Here's more information that you ever wanted to know about me. I doubled majored at university, one of them being a women's studies major. That was an adventure! I was the first male to graduate with such a beast from the University of Denver. Why did I do this? Because I wanted to understand the feminist movement. So I entered the lioness' den.

There are one story which sums up my lessons in my research.

The professor drew a spiral on the board, describing how women's lives in the past always revolved around a man. First her father, then her husband, and that her life was never her own. The professor's answer? Put "self" in the center.

At the end of class, I went up, erased "self" and put a cross. Anything less and we serve a false god. Be wary of anyone who puts themselves in the center. That's the beauty of Palin and the myriad of other women who are the true women's rights advocates -- they serve God rather than themselves and women's rights. Perhaps they serve through raising a family and supporting their husbands. Perhaps through a career. Perhaps both. And sometimes they answer the call of a town and a state crying out for leadership.

Whatever your stance on her politics, we are all in school with Professor Palin. Not only can she teach us what it is to be a woman in today's world, she can reveal what it is to be human.