Posted on 09/14/2008 11:31:45 AM PDT by markomalley
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 its patriotism questioned for so long it feels as if leftists 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 children, 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 - nevermind 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. Remember how the magazine 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 select 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.
By the way, did everyone see this post from last night?
Is it Salon or Slate that is published from an insane asylum?
The skanks have been exposed as hypocrites and frauds. Their days are over.
Must be the All American First Cavalry Amazon Battalion, led by Molly Yard.
And not all Lesbians are anti-Palin. The very pretty Tammy Bruce put the harridans in their place the other day on her radio program.
The hard core left has been exposed for what it is, a sham of shill marxist oriented women who have disquised themselves as everyday women only seeking a chance in life. Their whole movement is actually based on politics and not gender. If you are a leftist, elitist woman, you are ok, should be liberated and ready to lead a Fortune 500 business. But if you have traditional views and dont subscribe to Marxism, you better remain in the kitchen and keep your mouth shut. Its all about power, nothing more or less.
These women hate motherhood.
Even if you betray the sisterhood by procreating - you sure as hell better not have as many as FIVE!
I remember telling a feminist professor I was going to delay taking a math class of hers as I had just found I was pregnant.
Her response?
“oh my! I am SO SORRY to hear that!”
She was truly saddened by the news.
Futher evidence of the hate=filled, childish, warped mind of the left.
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It’s not my video. It’s NewLand’s.
“Feminists” are actually grossly immature women who are obsessed with “Don’t tell me what I can or cannot do.” As if their fathers are eternally scolding them.
The focal point of feminism is, of course, abortion. Feminists want the right to abort right up to the moment of birth, no matter how horrific, disgusting and murderous it is.
Men is our society take the responsibility of raising and protecting their families. I choose to be responsible (we all have temptations, but the responsible ones just grin and keep on target). Feminists view any responsibility as a male-imposed cultural law to which they must rebel. So, they will murder unborn children in their childish retaliation against their Daddies.
Feminists - grow up and try to act responsibly. For once.
I'm sorry, I just can't.
The Femanazis have finally peaked. The grand plan of feminism is the rubber room where they are legend in their own mind and bent Bill Clinton is a woman, not just a wuss.
The NOW gang was just looking for useful idiots to vote for woman liberals. They are (surprise!) liberals first and women second. (Per Wikopedia, Lenin is credited with coining the term "useful idiot" to describe those that naively supported communists, even though they were held in contempt by them.)
This is totally consistent with their vigorous defense of (liberal) woman Anita Hill and their hostility toward Paula Jones and Kathleen Willey in defense of (liberal) Bill Clinton.
It is good to have a current reminder of the left's hypocrisy.
1. pants suits
2. those klutzy plain wedge "pumps"
3. the chemo-look hair (unless of course, a woman is going through chemo. In that case, hair is a triumph)
4. snide looks and comments when one encounters a large family
There's more, but that's a place to start.
“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.”
ROFL. These fembots are stark raving mad.
Enjoy the meltdown folks.
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