1 posted on
01/21/2005 10:39:10 AM PST by
presidio9
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To: presidio9
We've seen this pattern time and time again, and we should understand it by now - it is a NOW power play, they want to see if they can use raw political power to influence an event - flexing their muscles so that others heed and fear them.
That's all there is to it - it has nothing to do, really, with Summers, what he said, or advancement of women's issues.
Sometimes this strategy backfires, like it did in the California recall election, and like it did in the November presidential election. As such, it is a risky maneuver - it is a significant force multiplier if it succeeds, but in the event it fails, then folks tend to start to think about how little support NOW really has from the general population.
I have observed so many times that politicians shy away from anything that might offend the fems - not that they agree and support the fem issues, but because they don't want to have the harpies organizing demonstrations (and expressing the predicable and tiresome "outrage") against them.
Most pols, whether dem or rep, lib or con, have decided that this is not the hill they want to die on.
36 posted on
01/21/2005 11:11:28 AM PST by
Fido969
To: presidio9
Why should he? He apologized. When they call for the resignation of Ted Rall, Sly Sylvester,etc. I'll consider their opinions worthy of my attention.
46 posted on
01/21/2005 11:30:25 AM PST by
cyborg
To: presidio9
Kim Gandy = Number One NAG HAG.
47 posted on
01/21/2005 11:31:57 AM PST by
Polyxene
(For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
To: presidio9
what about the theory that people who have descended from the Incas are better at math...? or that black people have a better aptitude at computers... ?
I mean, debate the issue... but don't call for a man's resignation over this.
interesting to see that NOW has finally gone after someone from the clinton years.
nick
To: presidio9
The NOW nags are probably one of the biggest reasons for the existence of misogynist ideology. People hear them whining and mistakenly think that all or most women are like that.
I would guess that at least 80% of women think the NOW nags are idiots.
To: presidio9
How about the innate differences between the life of freedom for women in the non-Moslem world and the life of slavery for women in the Moslem world?
Does NOW have any opinion about that?
To: presidio9
Hey Kim, go get pregnant.
Then again, never mind, please don't breed.
55 posted on
01/21/2005 12:07:53 PM PST by
Danae
(Dims, making the world brighter by comparison)
To: presidio9
Summers...has offered a series of increasingly contrite apologies. As if that will do him any good. He should have just stuck to his guns and defended himself on scientific grounds.
60 posted on
01/21/2005 12:21:45 PM PST by
Plutarch
To: presidio9
NOW Says Harvard President Lawrence Summers Should Resign
Nice to see the liberal nutburgers consume "one of their own" for a change.
62 posted on
01/21/2005 12:24:00 PM PST by
VOA
To: presidio9
Feminists are not amused.
To: presidio9
Why aren't scholars with conservative views better represented in top positions (or any positions) in universities? Is there some deficiency in the conservative brain that makes them less capable in academic work?
To: presidio9
>> The National Organization for Women has called for the resignation of Harvard University President Lawrence Summers.
Summers should have raped a woman, like Bill Clinton did, and NOW would have proclaimed him a hero.
71 posted on
01/21/2005 9:37:10 PM PST by
PhilipFreneau
(The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. -- Psalms 14: 1, 53:1)
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