So did I (and I still do).
The new face of feminism. Redefined.
Now, THIS is the kind of WOMAN I admire.
Posted on 09/11/2008 10:04:15 PM PDT by goldstategop
Whether or not Sarah Palin helps John McCain win the election, her greatest work may already be behind her. She’s exposed the feminist con job.
Don’t take my word for it. Feminists have been screaming like stuck pigs 24/7 since Palin was announced as McCain’s running mate. (Are pig metaphors completely verboten now?)
Feminist author Cintra Wilson writes in Salon (a house organ of the Angry Left) that the notion of Palin as vice president is “akin to ideological brain rape.” Presumably just before the nurse upped the dosage on her medication, Wilson continued, “Sarah Palin and her virtual burqa have me and my friends retching into our handbags. She’s such a power-mad, backwater beauty-pageant casualty, it’s easy to write her off and make fun of her. But in reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.”
And that’s one of the nicer things she had to say. Really.
On Tuesday, Salon ran one article calling Palin a dominatrix (“a whip-wielding mistress”) and another labeling her a sexually repressed fundamentalist no different from the Muslim fanatics and terrorists of Hamas. Make up your minds, folks. Is she a seductress or a sex-a-phobe?
But this any-weapon-near-to-hand approach is an obvious sign of how scared the Palin-o-phobes are.
Gloria Steinem, the grand mufti of feminism, issued a fatwa anathematizing Palin. A National Organization for Women spokeswoman proclaimed Palin more of a man than a woman. Wendy Doniger, a feminist academic at the University of Chicago, writes of Palin in Newsweek: “Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.”
It’s funny. The Left has been whining about having their patriotism questioned for so long it feels like they started griping in the Mesozoic era. Feminists have argued for decades that womanhood is an existential and metaphysical state of enlightenment. But they have no problem questioning whether women they hate are really women at all.
Since we know from basic science that Palin is a woman — she’s had five kids, for starters — it’s clear that these ideological thugs aren’t talking about actual, you know, facts. They’re doing what people of totalitarian mind-sets always do: bully heretics, demonize enemies, whip the troops into line.
The academic feminist Left has scared the dickens out of mainstream men and women for so long, the liberal establishment is terrified to contradict feminists’ nigh-upon-theological conviction that female authenticity is measured by one’s blind loyalty to left-wing talking points. This is a version of the Marxist doctrine of “false consciousness,” which holds that you aren’t an authentic member of the proletariat unless you agree with Marxism.
It works like this: If you don’t agree with feminist scolds, you’re not a real woman, even if you’re a very feminine working mom. But even if you’re an actual man — never mind a childless feminist who looks like a Bulgarian weightlifter in drag — you’re a “real woman” solely because you nod your head like a windup clapping monkey every time you read the latest editorial in Ms. Recall how they christened Bill Clinton the “first female president,” too.
But here’s the fun part. Feminists are hooked on their own Kool-Aid; they actually believe the stuff they say. The shrill, angry women you see on MSNBC claiming to speak for all women actually think they do. But they don’t. They speak for a few Left-leaning women in faculty lounges, editorial boardrooms and that’s about it.
Mainstream liberals have been in captivity for so long, eagerly accepting their ritual beatings, that they’ve gotten Stockholm Syndrome and convinced themselves that Gloria Steinem and Co. are the authentic voices of women everywhere.
Stop laughing.
The reality is that there is an actual reality out there, and it doesn’t look anything like what feminists see beyond the rims of their ideological blinders.
For instance, immediately after the Palin announcement, the priestesses not only ruled it “sexist” for McCain to pick a woman but also said it was strategically dumb — “insulting to women!” — to think any real women would switch support from the beatified Obama to that old devil McCain.
Well, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll, there’s been a 20-point swing among white women from Obama-Biden to McCain-Palin. Did this “ideological brain rape” suddenly induce an epidemic of false consciousness?
Of course not. Nor are women mindlessly switching loyalties because there’s a woman on the ticket. What the Palin pick has demonstrated, however, is that the Feminist-Industrial Complex is a fraud. Disagreeing with self-described feminists doesn’t mean you’re anti-woman. Usually it just means you’re sensible.
And for that lesson alone, we should all be grateful.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
> Wendy Doniger, a feminist academic at the University of Chicago, writes of Palin in Newsweek: “Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.”
Whoah... my mind just boggled. And I thought that most Radical Feminists were the hypocrites pretending to be women...
I learn something new on the FRee Republic every day.
S.P. is I.D.D.G.!
(With apologies to the Gillian Anderson Fan Club)
“Sarah Palin and her virtual burqa have me and my friends retching into our handbags. She’s such a power-mad, backwater beauty-pageant casualty, it’s easy to write her off and make fun of her. But in reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.”
Hyperbole much????
And all because Sarah refused to abort a human life.
These peoplea are living at the very edge of accepted sanity, aren’t they?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Feminist women can’t live without their alters on which they sacrifice (abortion) little babies.....I guess.
Boy isn't that the truth. They are absolutely exposed through Sarah's courageous, intelligent, God fearing/loving example for the vile, empty, killers that they are. I am astounded at those comments in the article. Wow.
So did I (and I still do).
The new face of feminism. Redefined.
Now, THIS is the kind of WOMAN I admire.
Women and Guns...Nothing finer..Great COMBO
Inspired by Chuck Norris Facts...Sarah Palin “FACTS”
Native animals to Alaska aren’t ones who evolved just one’s SARAH PALIN hasn’t hunted yet!!
Not my best I will work on them.
The biggest bunch of Obama supporting hypocrites are those old Hogs who bought into this feminism con and now find themselves dried up and alone looking at a very distasteful and hate filled end to their pitiful lives.
Palin Envy proves you can not make a Silk Purse out of a Sows Ear.
Thanks. I resemble that remark.
Sarah Palin is a role model.
Hey look, you just don't know conservatives as well as liberals know them.
If you allow conservatives to enact any kind of restrictions on abortion at all - eg parental notification, no partial-birth abortions, waiting periods, etc, the very next thing that will happen is that they'll build concentration camps with gas chambers all over the country and throw women into them in massive numbers.
Honest. It's a well known fact.
Similarly, if you pass any kind of anti-gay-rights law of any kind, eg "marriage = one man + one woman" law, then the very next thing conservatives will do is build concentration camps for gays and start gassing them too.
This is not hyperbole. It's 100% certain this stuff will happen. Everyone who matters knows this is a simple fact of life. Liberals have no illusions about conservative's intentions.
Of course, liberals don't know any conservatives personally (except for a few odd relatives, who they are not on speaking terms with naturally, so it's the same as not knowing them), but that doesn't matter, because liberals watch a lot of movies and tv dramas that portray conservatives with stunning accuracy, so they know everything there is to know about conservatives. Nosirree, you just can't pull the wool over their eyes; it's amazing how well informed they are about us.
Palin is stronger than the left. They don’t understand but she wants to fight. She lives for the fight. That’s what’s Reaganesque about her.
The fact that they have no dirt on her so far. What ever they try just bounces off and she ignores it. That shows more character than Obama/BIDEN put together. Her town loves her and their may be dirt but they wont allow an outsider to slander “One of them” for their dirty money. She can inspire that kind of loyalty as a Mayor. Could Barry find one person to stick up fro him in Chicago were the DNC to DECIDE TO DITCH the loser? I doub’t it.
I can see a band of Militant Feminists marching into her town to take on SARH PALIN. She probably would just start conting them 40 of you? NO guns huh? Well if you want come back when the odds are better. That’s just target practice!! HAHAHAHA
Radical feminists simply cannot tolerate any candidate, male or female, who doesn’t toe their militant pro-abortion line. That’s it in a nutshell. If Olympia Snowe were the veep candidate, they would have been showering her with praise. Even though I would bet Snowe has voted with Bush on most other issues. These hags simply can’t see the harm they’re doing to their hero with their over the top smears. I can only say, keep it up ladies.
Mainstream liberals have been in captivity for so long, eagerly accepting their ritual beatings,
lol. so true, lol
The feminists of now are sounding so much like the Chauvinist Pigs they were so busy deriding during the 70s. Cosmic Justice Strikes Again!
Wow. I knew they had a strict orthodoxy, but I had no idea they had issued canons. (The Catholic Church once again lets one slip by the old spell-checker.) (...and yes, I did have to read the article to know Jonah wasn’t making a pun.)
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