"That's sexist!"
Posted on 06/08/2010 12:01:24 PM PDT by FreeManDC
The preening liberal media loves to fancy itself an elite bunch, the epitome of correct thinking, good intention, and unassailable virtue. That comfortable notion took a broadside earlier this week when it became known that liberal icon Helen Thomas had remarked Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine" and "go home" to Germany or Poland.
It should be noted that Thomas was well-known for her anti-Israeli views, often peppering administration officials with long-winded questions that came across as pro-Palestinian tirades.
But Helen Thomas isn't the only female journalist who recently indulged in bald stereotypes.
Last Thursday journalist Andrea Mitchell channeled her inner psychologist, pontificating on the causes of American wars. And Mitchell came to the conclusion that war, for all its complexity, its ebbs and flows, its bravery and tragedy, could be boiled down to a single word: "testosterone."
The context was an Andrea Mitchell Reports interview with historian Evan Thomas about his recent book, The War Lovers. Casting aside historical nuance, this is what Ms. Mitchell had to say (the full interview can be seen here: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2010/06/03/nbcs-mitchell-what-it-about-testosterone-gets-us-war#ixzz0qFbIJf9x):
"And it is men — not to be too gender specific here — but there, there is a male factor here... I've we seen it in our own recent history. What is it about testosterone that gets us into war?"
Thomas countered such generalizations may miss the mark, describing Elizabeth I, Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir as "pretty tough women out there fighting."
But Andrea had her mind made up, wrapping up the discussion with more male-bashing innuendo: "I'll let the readers...draw their own conclusions about men in our recent history and their role in getting us into wars."
For us hoi-polloi who want to draw our own conclusions, there is no better place to start than political scientist Joshua Goldstein's thoughtful analysis, War and Gender.
Goldstein documents how in the Revolutionary War, pro-secession women withheld their sexual favors from reluctant freedom fighters. During the Civil War, Southern belles refused to accept suitors who did not take up arms. In World War I, British women organized the White Feather campaign, calculated to shame able-bodied men into uniform.
And three days after the 9/11 attacks, an Authorization to Use Military Force was brought before Congress. All but one female member of Congress voted to authorize to "use all necessary and appropriate force" to wage war on terror.
Goldstein also explains, "since mothers control child care, they could change gender norms, training girls to be aggressive and boys to be passive. But in fact mothers worldwide generally reward boys for being tough and girls for being nice."
Based on his exhaustive analysis, Goldstein reaches this tart conclusion: "Most women support most wars." Ms. Mitchell, is it possible that women also suffer from testosterone-poisoning?
During an appearance on MSNBC on June 5, 2008, Andrea Mitchell referred to the voters of the southwest Virginia region as "rednecks." She later apologized for that.
Nearly a week after her intemperate remarks, half the American population is awaiting a similar apology. In the meantime, here's where you can make your complaint: mediainquiries@msnbc.com.
“testosterone.”
Something that your Krypt-Keeper husband has none of at this point Andrea!
"That's sexist!"
Guess Andrea never heard of Bloody Mary. Then again she sleeps with a corpse, Alan Greenspan, so her judgement can’t be all that its cracked up to be.
The main reason they don’t let women in Combat Roles is because they know all the rules of Warfare and the Geneva Conventions would be violated. Men can’t hold a candle to women when it comes to viciousness.
Seems like most of the fights in schools these days are between girls.
Men also won the wars that give Andrea Mitchell the freedom to be an ass on TV every day.
Maybe she will be next to leave the stage, I can only hope.
And, yes, most us Rednecks are of Scots Irish decent.
“Miss Bobblehead”. Man, Andrea got that big old head alright.
Looks like dog track time for Mrs. Greenspan.
And it was female traitors like Jane Fonda and Mildred Gillars who appealed to American women to get the US out of wars on behalf of their friends the North Vietnamese Communists and Nazi Germany...
Now that Helen is gone, Andrea is officially the Ugliest Media Skank. Competition is heavy on the left, but Rachel Madcow doesn’t count because of her indeterminate gender.
Women tend to forget that in less civilized times, the only thing that can defeat an army of men, is another army of men. Women in conquered countries don’t fare to well, and I think as things get worse, American women will have to relearn this lesson the hard way.
I think Andrea Mitchell should replace Helen Thomas on FR. There is something cold and artificial about her. I laugh everytime I think about her being buried in balloons, trying to cover the Republican Convention. LOL People were batting balloons at her and you could tell she was getting pissed.
yes we are, and, in the immortal words of Charlie Daniels, “what this world needs is a few more rednecks.”
Damned straight! You don’t even want to know what I’d do to a child rapist if I got to decide the punishment. Same goes for Muslim terrorists.
That is the principle problem, Andrea isn’t getting any!
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