For her final question, McCullough was asked whether she considered herself a feminist, responding that she preferred the term "equalist."
"I try not to consider myself this die-hard, 'I don't care about men' (type)," she said. "Women, we are just as equal as men when it comes to opportunity in the workplace. Firsthand, I've witnessed the impact women have in leadership in the medical sciences as well as in office environments."
Good for her. Feminists and feminism should be rejected consistently. This is nothing new and is something I've posted many times on this forum, but it's nice to see a high-profile female say that it isn't right. Voted FF, but with reservations. (I wish she had a better grasp of the English language. "Equalist" isn't a word. Well, it probably is now, because it has made its way into the urban dictionary and some other websites at least five years ago, but a word already already exists for what she's trying to say: egalitarianism. Egalitarianism is, in my opinion, a superior objective to feminism or masculinism. I think she's trying to say that she's not a feminist, but an egalitarian. Good for her.
I don't know much about her, but after reading the article, I find other reasons to regard her as a freedom fighter as well. She seems very opposed to political correctness and other newspeak. We tend to think of "miss america" as a dumb blonde bombshell who looks good in a bikini, which is very unfortunate because a number of them have been exceptionally talented and insightful. Kara McCullough clearly breaks the mold in so many ways and shows that Miss USA has a mind of her own.
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