Posted on 05/01/2008 8:33:17 PM PDT by rface
What happened to the nicey-nice? Usually when I listen to Rush Limbaugh (for research, people), my heart sings when I hear a candidate like Obama labeled a “tax and spend liberal.” Why did I feel so disappointed by his success?.....when Gloria Steinem wrote a widely read opinion piece in the New York Times, you better believe my heart sang. But many women writers in the blogosphere whom I respect and admire called the essay sexist. And racist. And they said very hateful things about women like me who support Hillary Clinton, including that they are sexist and racist. One blogger on Feministing.com called it “pro-vagina selfishness.”.......
When I first started thinking about a Democratic presidential nominee for 2008 (sometime after the weeping stopped in November 2004), my criterion was simple: not another white guy.
I have nothing against individual white guys, mind you. My charming husband happens to be one, and before long my 8-year-old son will be one too. But white guys are way too entrenched. They’ve been running things since the dawn of humanity, despite a handful of anthropological studies that show matriarchies did exist, before patriarchies squashed them like bugs (lady bugs).
So imagine my thrill when Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama looked like my party’s choices for 2008. Joy! Rapture! Why, back in the old days of ought-seven, discussing the candidates was sheer pleasure. No one argued. Everyone gasped, oh my gosh, aren’t we lucky?
Then the calendar flipped to 2008. I wore my Hillary pin at the new Richfield SuperTarget and got looks as dirty as I’ve seen in any campaign season. I attributed this to suburban conservatism. Imagine my surprise when at my precinct caucus, deep in the heart of the People’s Republic of South Minneapolis, I felt the sting of being in the political minority. I haven’t had that experience since I wore my homemade “Dump Reagan” pin to my classes at Edina’s South View Junior High. Suddenly, political discussions were making my stomach ache.
Why? Was it so hard to have people not agree with me? What happened to the nicey-nice? Usually when I listen to Rush Limbaugh (for research, people), my heart sings when I hear a candidate like Obama labeled a “tax and spend liberal.” Why did I feel so disappointed by his success?
I realized that I wanted a woman to be the nominee much more than I thought. I wasn’t satisfied with Obama, who is not white. He’s still a guy, and I am sick of guys.
Yet when I announce this, I am accused of being not only sexist but racist. No, I don’t mean me personally, mostly because I am too mousy to stand up in the public square and talk about how sick I am of men in power (though my supportive husband encourages this). I should defer to the royal “we” here, because when Gloria Steinem wrote about the subject in a widely read opinion piece in the New York Times, you better believe my heart sang.
But many women writers in the blogosphere whom I respect and admire called the essay sexist. And racist. And they said very hateful things about women like me who support Hillary Clinton, including that they are sexist and racist. One blogger on Feministing.com called it “pro-vagina selfishness.”
Oh, dear. No more nicey-nice.
My daughter Miriam will be 3 years old in May. Let’s imagine, shall we? Say Hillary Clinton is elected in 2008 (my best case), proves utterly ineffectual in office (worst case) and is defeated in 2012 by George P. Bush (whose mother is a native of Mexico). My daughter grows until adulthood with a woman president as historical fact, not a figment of her imagination. Any jerk messing with her self-esteem will get a sassy retort about President Hillary from my tough little girl, who is already known in her neighborhood for not playing princess. When my daughter puts on a tiara, she knows to be queen.
By all accounts, Barack Obama is almost as cool a guy as my husband and son. If he’s the Democratic Party nominee, I will happily support him. But these days when I see him on camera, I’m always peeking over his shoulder, thinking: Hmm, that Michelle Obama is one smart and accomplished woman. Why didn’t she run? Damn.
Is wanting a woman to run the show selfish? Yes. I acknowledge that it is. So is wanting 50 percent of the members of Congress and at least three more Supreme Court justices to be women. I also want 50 percent of the parents watching their kids at the park to be men. I want what any parent wants. I want a pro-vagina world for both of my children.
Perhaps the most important lesson of the campaign is that untangling gender, race, class and so many other of the big “-isms” is far more difficult than anyone thought. The shouters on both sides exhort us to vote blind to them all, to cast our ballots on issues alone. OK. I took one of those candidate surveys on the Internet and was given my perfect match: Dennis Kucinich.
Never mind.
Shannon Drury is a self-described radical housewife. She lives in Minneapolis with her family.
Guess the Obama and Hillary voters never matured beyond the 9th grade. That would explain a lot about their stupidity and childishness.
I could say a lot about Hillary’s various anatomical nicknames, but this woman’s column points in that direction. Pro-V, pro-Hillary - same old, same old.
Reading this makes me wonder why anyone around here bashes Big Pharma. It makes drugs that can help this looney woman.
Mingie: What the? Haha! You missed me, you stewpid buggers! You see that Gary? They can't even aim! Gary: [softly] Min... [louder] Mingie. Mingie: Gary, what's, what's wrong? Gary: They got me, Mingie. Mingie: No... Oh no! Gary: Aye. They got me bad. Oh, the blood. Mingie: Try to hang on, Gary! Gary: Ih... It's gettin' dark, Minge. Mingie: Oh Gary! What have I gotten ya into? Gary: I've seen muh life flash before me eyes. Mingie! Mingie: I'm 'ere, Gary! Gary: Where... where are we, Mingie? Are we in Paris? Mingie: Yeah. Yeah, we're in Paris, mate. Gary: Ahhh... Is it as wonderful as I 'oped? Mingie: Ih, it's beautiful. We've finally made it! Gary: Tell me what you see, Mingie. Mingie: [getting emotional] Well, there's the... Eiffel Tower right in front of us. The Louvre, right over there behind ya. And f-fresh baguettes all around. Gary: Ahhh... I can smell them, Mingie. At least I got to see Paris before I- [and no more is heard from him]
Should have told the “left wing family member” the Democrats were the creators of the Klu Klux Klan!
she needs to iron a shirt somewhere. i feel sorry for the 8 year old boy. yikes
ROFL vagitarian..
Can we skip the likes of Shannon for at least a year on Free Repblic. I can only think of one word to describe her. It has the same meaning as her favorite word, vagina.
To borrow a quote: “Shannon, you ignorant s!ut”
I hope she irons better than she writes.
This (four letters, starts with c)’s poor husband is certainly vagina-whipped.
So she likes Hillary just because of what is between Hillary’s legs?
The thing about Hillary is that she violates the feminist creed regarding relationships. Namely, feminist women do not tolerate infidelity, domestic violence, etc. from the men in their lives. Hillary endured the most public of humiliations and stayed with Bill Clinton. By definition, Hillary is not a real feminist woman.
And Hillary is only a serious candidate because of the man she is married to. This man hater is in favor of a candidate who is only there because of the man in her life.
I sure don’t understand this pride in the vagina. Can you imagine if men said how they have pride in the penis? Where can I see the play “The Penis Monologues”?
To Clinton supporters, even the males, anything derogatory you say about her is sexist. To Obama supporters, anything derogatory toward him is racist. I even read a post on a lefty board that stated saying Hillary wears pantsuits is sexist. When we have two candidates from each of the victim classes of the dem party, women and Blacks, this is what happens. It’s fun to watch.
And, Shannon? Do me a favor and drink a big glass of STFU.
If the author of the piece supports Hillary Clinton, I don’t necessarily consider her a sexist or a racist. I DO consider her an idiot.
I wanted a woman to be the nominee
That statment right there shows me just how high your IQ is. I mean most people want a President that will run the country and do a good job of it, NOT voting because of their gender but because of their agenda. I really think that stupid votes like yours should be outlawed.
I wanted a woman to be the nominee
That statment right there shows me just how high your IQ is. I mean most people want a President that will run the country and do a good job of it, NOT voting because of their gender but because of their agenda. I really think that stupid votes like yours should be outlawed.
Just for the record: ALL ideas are of equal merit, and everybody should be sufficiently open-minded to entertain, except that is, those ideas that are clearly NOT "progressive" liberal (pronounced "socialist"), Democrat talking-points, or in some fashion self-national loathing.
Those ideas are to be rejected as extreme, radical (not reactionary which connotates only "exhuberant" liberal ideological principles), and elitist hate-mongering, class-warfare instilling diatribe of the most vile and repugnant type.
Koom-by-ah (pass the purple Kook Aide drink, wanna hit this?). Trust me, these 'Shrooms are O.k., they're not dried (they're fresh).
Just another example of the liberal, Democrat, and other "progressoive" ideologies (further left than Democrat) free-pass on everything.
Don't even begin to whine about some purported double-standard; there is no such thing. There is NO other standard than the ONE; all other "standards" are nothing more than mirages.
I hope I don't have to exhale my doob toke to repeat yet AGAIN what the ONLY standard is. I do concede that it does depend on what the definition of "is" is though.
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I know that women like this do exist. It’s just hard to imagine they are actually married and having offspring.
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