"One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete." -- Tammy Bruce
Tammy Bruce (born August 19, 1962) is an American radio host, author, and political commentator. Her nationally-syndicated talk show, The Tammy Bruce Show, airs live weekdays from 11am-1pm Pacific online via TalkStreamLive. A podcast of the show is also available to subscribers at her website. She is also a frequent on-air contributor to Fox News Channel, and writes material for the Fox Forum blog.
Bruce's Web site describes her as "an openly gay, pro-choice, gun owning, pro-death penalty Independent Conservative" who has voted for presidents Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
During the 1992 election season, she worked on the first Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) senatorial campaigns. In 2003 Bruce was appointed to serve on California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Transition Team after the successful recall election against then-Governor Gray Davis.
"Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.""Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are, and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts, affirmative action, and other patronizing measures.""For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.""For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.""From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.""Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.""One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.""Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.""The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss.""The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.""Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.""Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.""When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.""Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility."
Tammy Bruce collaborated with Los Angeles professional women to create one of the first ad-hoc independent pro-choice activist groups. The group's early feminist activism began in 1987. This group confronted anti-abortion group protesters, and helped develop a strategy to stop "Operation Rescue" from successfully blocking the entrance to abortion clinics. During the years 1987-1990 she also participated in the Los Angeles chapter of the AIDS activist group AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP).
For seven years, Bruce served as president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) (1990—1996). Bruce served two years on NOW's board of directors, but later criticized the organization in a book. During the early 1990s, she spearheaded the campaign to alert the public to the sexualized violence in the novel American Psycho, and led an effort to boycott all titles by that publisher, Knopf, for a year.
In 1996, the NOW Executive Board voted nearly unanimously to censure Bruce for what it claimed were "racially insensitive comments" during the O.J. Simpson murder trial. After months of infighting, Bruce resigned as president of Los Angeles NOW in June 1996. Bruce claimed that the censure was due to her focus on domestic violence, as opposed to defense attorney Johnnie Cochran's "racial issues" trial argument. Since then, Bruce has written about the dispute in her critique on what she sees as the failings of NOW, and the political left in general. She believes that the feminist establishment in the U.S. has abandoned authentic feminism.
In 2004, Bruce argued that gay Americans were not uniformly supportive of same-sex marriage and stated that she respected the opinion that marriage should be restricted to heterosexual couples. She described civil unions as an alternative providing equal rights.
In her book The Death of Right and Wrong, Tammy Bruce writes of her involvement with Brenda Benet, who killed herself in a home she had shared with Bruce. They were romantically involved for a time after Benet left Bill Bixby. Bruce had moved out two weeks prior to Benet's suicide. On the day of the suicide, Bruce thought that she would meet Benet for lunch. According to Bruce, Benet was locked inside the bathroom of her home when she arrived. She sensed something was wrong and went to get help. After Bruce stepped outside, Benet shot herself. The book Soap Opera Babylon said that Benet was involved with a male costar on Days of our Lives until just before she killed herself.
Bruce holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of Southern California. In the past, Bruce described herself as a "lifelong Democrat", but FEC records show she has since 2005 contributed primarily to Republicans, and she has stated on both her radio program and blog that she is now registered as a "Decline-to-State" as of February 2008. She considers herself an independent conservative.
Tammy Bruce made her film debut in 2081, an independent film based on Kurt Vonnegut's short story "Harrison Bergeron". Bruce plays the role of Diana Moon Glampers, the United States Handicapper General in a technologically advanced, totalitarian, fascist state. Bruce's character commits murder on live television. The film was released in January 2010.