Was he ever picky?
Posted on 04/10/2008 5:58:56 AM PDT by FreeManDC
Dee Dee Myers has just come out with her amusing tale, Why Women Should Rule the World. You may recall Mrs. Myers was the first female White House press secretary, appointed during the first two tumultuous years of the Clinton administration.
Simply put, Myers is a female supremacist. "Women tend to be better communicators, better listeners, better at forming consensus," she argues. That entitles women to run the world because they do everything better than those power-hungry men, Myers believes.
As the unsmiling Myers goes about promoting her book, one wonders what led her to pen a tome filled with crude gender stereotypes and doubtful claims.
After Myers left the hurly-burly of the White House in 1994, Myers married a handsome (and well-paid) magazine executive. They moved into a tony Washington DC home and had two children together.
But 14 years after leaving her heady White House post, Myers' career has stalled out. She has only managed to land a few part-time consulting jobs, like advising the now-defunct NBC series, The West Wing.
Hardly an inspiring role model for the female global domination wannabes.
If you go out and get Myers' book, don't expect to find a watertight argument.
According to Myers, women create a nurturing, idyllic work environment — well, with a few exceptions. In a 2000 Frontline interview, Myers made these remarks about her White House encounters with a devious Hillary Clinton:
"Hillary tended to kind of campaign against people behind their back, and that was certainly my experience."
Women are the peaceful gender, as well. To prove the point, Myers highlights on page 125 how Queen Elizabeth I arranged to have Mary Queen of Scots beheaded, Indira Gandhi pushed for a sharp increase in nuclear arms, and Margaret Thatcher went to war in the Falklands.
Women never abuse their power, either. That's true for every woman in the world except Indira Gandhi who "used emergency provisions to grant herself extraordinary powers and quash dissent," Myers admits.
Women are gentle consensus-builders, as well. Myers recounts the story of Alexis Herman, former Secretary of Labor, who tried her hand at resolving a labor strike. Frustrated by the lack of progress, Herman grabbed one of the negotiators by the lapels and issued this threat: "Don't f_ck with me."
Perhaps we should be grateful that Mrs. Meyers does not make the claim that women are the logical sex. And some of her factual statements raise eyebrows, as well.
Myers says back in 1998 the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition brokered the historic Good Friday Agreement, a claim that presidential candidate Hillary Clinton also stands by.
Unfortunately, no one else saw it that way. As Irish historian Tim Pat Coogan noted, "It was a nice thing to see [Hillary Clinton] there, with the women's groups. It helped, I suppose, but it was ancillary to the main thing." The Women's Coalition disbanded in 2006 after its candidates lost in two straight elections, an inconvenient truth that escapes Meyer's notice.
There's this chestnut on page 56: "until recently, all the research into [heart] disease was conducted on men." But somehow that doesn't square with the FDA analysis that found, "women have been included in drug development studies at least since the early 1980s in approximate proportion to the prevalence of disease in them." [www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2006/0412roberts.html]
And as we all know, women are victims of the gender wage gap. Want proof? When the 31-year-old Myers worked at the White House, she was paid a measly $100,000. But there was another deputy assistant, he was paid $10,000 more.
True, he was far more experienced and qualified. He took a big pay cut to come work for President Clinton. But that didn't matter — Dee Dee was entitled to that extra 800 bucks in her paycheck.
Go call the lawyers!
Lest you suspect that Myers is totally unsympathetic to men, she proffers this reassurance on page 128: "That's not to say women should replace men altogether." And yes, she does thank her husband in the Acknowledgements.
See, not all men are that bad.
Dee Dee Myers comes across as a woman who hasn't figured out whether she wants to be a stay-at-home mom or go back to being a 60-hour-a-week workaholic. So every road bump in life is blamed on the heartless patriarchy. She publishes a book filled with odious stereotypes and half-truths, and then wonders why her colleagues don't take her seriously.
In the end, Myers' book becomes a feminist fairy tale that provokes sadness, not outrage. In its over-wrought quest to promote female empowerment, her work becomes a parody of the very movement she has chosen to embrace.
Was he ever picky?
Dumpy and ditsy and scrambling for an answer between a non-apology apology and a non-conceding denial.
So she figured out Hillary knifes you behind your back while being nice to your face--she's a freaking genius, a genius, I tell you.
Now she can go tell Vince Foster, and Ron Brown, and Jim McDougal.
Her career is obviously as dead as they.
It's actually D.D. Myers, for Dumpy, Ditsy.
Dee Dee was born in RI, married what appears to be a member of the active old aristocracy, and probably comes from the same social background (which is not infrequently down-on-its-heels along certain bloodlines.) Her profile bears this out. (Vedy Old New England, suggestive of establishment Protestantism, witch trials, and the slave ships.)
To the manor born, in her own mind, if not her very bones. Sent down to us by way of the Chappaqua Movement and all things trendy, ‘spiritual’, ‘enlightened’, ‘Progressive’ and ‘socially conscious’; whatever Puritanism has morphed into this season or generation. Dee Dee chose Feminism, but was a little late (and maybe a little lightweight) to catch the ride up the career ladder. Too young to succeed by screeching shrilly and too old to do so by abasing herself before Earth Mother.
I am ashamed to admit just how delighted I was when she lit her career on fire earlier this year. It was so un-Christlike of me.
It isn’t their puffery that bothers me so much as that they seem to believe it. True, I never liked Bill’s seeming belief in his own lies, either, but his politics were never very ideological. We all have suffered his type, albeit seldom so utterly shameless. He seems to genuinely want people to like him, without being disturbingly creepy about it. Hillary, though, has the same hero as Hitler: Margaret Sanger.
Maybe not so “over the top.” After all, theirs will be a kinder, gentler totalitarianism.
Agree, Time has not been kind to her.
I’m pretty sure that the Veep’s offices are elsewhere than the WH, perhaps the OEOB. For security and political reasons.
When I was there (early Clinton years), the Vice President himself had an office in the West Wing. I don't know if he used that office much; I was only in it a couple of times or so. But his staff operated out a section of the OEOB.
sitetest
I’ve known guys who could get just about any woman into the sack based solely on their rap. I don’t think it would ever occur to the average man to turn their back on a single one of them. So much for the superiority of women.
I’ve met distressingly few women who didn’t cringe in horror when I quoted Robert Heinlein to the effect that boys should be sealed up in a cask when they reach puberty and checked again at the age of majority. Thereupon tested for the success of their ‘attitude adjustment’; fail the test and the bung is pushed firmly into the hole. Most guys, especially the fathers, see both the humour and the wisdom in his suggestion.
Women at close quarters in an office is like their HS lavatory. The brutal establishment of their pecking order. (Those working hours were taken to be reflective of status.) I’m told that the same holds true for academics, bureaucrats, and the erstwhile ranks of middle managers who disappeared into the HQ’s of the larger Corporations during bygone days of overstaffing.
It’s a life-and-death struggle faught with pillows stuffed with marshmallows. The stakes are everything and nothing. Guys live with a strong sense of limits that were hard-learned. Every guy knows that ‘the Champ’ is always ‘the Champ’, even if he’s now a rum-dum. ANY man can be pushed too far, as too many acid-tongued women have learned to their last regret. Most grown MEN don’t STUMBLE into fights unless they’re flat out wasted.
When a female friend of mine first got to the level where politics were an integral part of the work load, I told her the one thing that I thought screwed up the most women. Everybody runs the risk of having to use the knife one day, I said, so just be sure that you only ever get caught using it head-on. If the boys think you’re a back-stabber, then you’re done.
God help me, I’d watch that.
You got it at least half right. Except when it comes to prostrating himself before the descendants of the Prophet and bowing towards Mecca.
another failed feminst.
(or feminazi club reject)
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