Note to mainstream media: Sarah Palin is NOT a feminist

Feminist Community ^ | 9/8/08

[BelegStrongbow]

Orwell was well aware of the power of controlling the terms of the debate and it’s time we took some of it back. Perhaps a movement to adopt specific terms to express conservative values could come together if enough of us worked on it.

I think we're already using them. The trick is getting the liberal media to have to use them also. So long as they can slide sideways into sort-of synonyms which do not really amount to the same degree of meaning, but aren't different enough to call out as distortions, then they'll do what they can to preserve those differences and to avoid being caught using our terms of reference. After all, they define what is proper, not us, yes?

Also, I have been trying to inject the notion that Orwell has become the source text for how to manipulate populations rather than the apocalyptic warning against being manipulated which I believe he intended. But the difficulty is that citing him is transactionally equivalent to citing someone's behavior as Hitlerian. You don't do that. It's the adult version of going from 'I dare you' to 'I triple-dog dare you'. It leaps the intensity level from simply engagement to open warfare when one does not actually know the firepower or moral intentions of the opponent. So one treads carefully. Rather than point out the open Orwellian aspects of current liberal media practice, we limn the details of actual manipulations the media have carried out. Separately we would then discuss the topic of what really mattered in 'Animal Farm', 'Down and Out in Paris and London' and '1984'. The connection is left as an exercise for the student.

This is not to say that occasion will never arise for the writings of some especially imprudent liberal media person to be identified as Orwellian. Any time you see some article using words improperly (like 'legendary' for 'prototypical' or 'seminal'), especially when the use incorporates an untrue inference that the usual word in the case does not(like insisting on modifying 'pro-life' with 'rabidly'), you know that Orwell's warning has been used as a hammer rather than a shield. Then it's pretty safe to make the point, but the comment starts with the comparison and ends with the accusation. To begin with the accusation only gives the Alan Colmes of the world the chance to launch a noise-making interruption with spluttering indignance and ruins the opportunity for clarity. I hope it's a trick our side is learning.

As for Beren, he sleeps in joy with his beloved Luthien sleeping at his side. Only Eru knows the ultimate plan for them, but it is sure to be glorious. Luthien was a feminist for life too, you know.

[fullchroma]

That’s beautiful and it all rings true. Children are life’s flowers.

The Left truly has twisted out-of-shape whatever reverence for life they have. They condemn Gov. Palin for shooting game AND for protecting unborn human life!