Mark Steyn: Idea of 'women's issues' a lie

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 11/17/2002 | Mark Steyn

[Paul Ross]

Ah, you got that interpretation reversed, Pelosi arguably, looks better in a bikini...at least so the raft of leftwing dingalings in the Press are so swift to tell us that she is 'gorgeous' 'beautiful' 'lovely' 'glamourous' etc. And that is just the SHORT list of adjectives they have employed. I think Steyn is right exactly on the mark to smirk over these inane irrelevancies the 'establishment' press has disgorged as 'news' content. Mark has done nothing to diminish his own gentlemanly reserve in noting this observation.

[Gritty]

Mark has done nothing to diminish his own gentlemanly reserve in noting this observation.

Sorry.

I should have added the */sarcasm* tag for clarity (my remark was tongue inserted deeply in cheek).

[Dog Gone]

This guy rarely fails to hit a home run. Donating to FR is worth it, just to find his columns in one place.

[McGavin999]

The Dems are the party of old women. Oh, OK, ''mature'' women

Oh, I like that one. We have to start getting that one out and around.

[Fifth Business]

That's likely to prove more relevant in the two years ahead than whether she looks better in a bikini than Walter Mondale.

I could have gone the rest of my life without that image and not felt the loss. That's just irresponsible journalism.

Please put me on your Steyn ping list.

[Reagan is King]

I ran across and bookmarked this article awhile back regarding the bogus membership numbers purported by NOW. Here's a blurb:

As Ragab notes, almost all nonprofits exaggerate their membership figures somewhat, but NOW appears to be one of the select few who take such exaggerations to outrageous levels. Ragab notes that in its 501(c) filing for 1999, NOW reported income from memberships at $2,903,383. Since a yearly individual membership to NOW costs $35, that would yield about 89,500 paying members.

Possibly less than 100,000 members and they are considered the "voice" of the American woman by the media. Yah right!

[Torie]

Silly piece really. It is one of his worst, sadly. Single woman were as Dem as ever, married woman were not, and where woman won or lost was due to the partisan balance in their districts mostly, or due to having to face a strong GOP incumbent like Leach in Iowa. Overall, the gender gap did decline apparently, with men a bit more Dem, and woman quite a bit more GOP overall, but that is based on a poll, and not on the evidence Steyn adduced. This piece would have had more traction if it dealt with Dem primaries, where Emily's List struck out.

[GOPJ]

bump

[Rummyfan]

Thanks Pokey - Another great Steyn!

[Dan Day]

suddenly decided that there was a pressing need to discover how ''women'' were doing in this election and commanded the back-room psephologists to unearth the relevant data.

Wow, it's been a long time since I've had to crack a dictionary to look up a word I've never seen before.

pse-phol-o-gy (see fol'uh jee) n.

1. the study of elections. [1950-55; < Gk psêpho (s) pebble + - LOGY; so called from the Athenian custom of casting votes by means of pebbles]

[mrustow]

Thanks for the ping, Pokey.

[lainde]

ping...Steyn is the best way to finish off the day!

[JohnHuang2]

Thanks, Pokey =^)

[JohnHuang2]

Mark Steyn, the MASTER, MEGA PING!!

[Mo1]

. But the media keep yakking on about ''women's issues'' and all the other pre-9/11 trivia as if all the king's cliches and all the king's bumper stickers can put Humpty Dumpty Democrat together again.

LOL .. Thanks for the Ping John ..That was FABULOUS !!!

[JohnHuang2]

You're welcome -- Mark Steyn is always -- ALWAYS -- a MUST-READ. =^)

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for another great read from the master.

There is so much truth in Mark's final statement, and the left wing media has no idea that its refusal to document what the libs are really like, is hastening the end of 1960/70's lunatic lib party.

Remind me never to complain about ''liberal media bias'' again. Right now, liberal media bias is conspiring to assist the Democrats to sleepwalk over the cliff.

[ValerieUSA]

Hey! That's the line I liked!

[thedilg]

"I'm not interested in the right to kill my unborn children, and I never depended on the government to feed my children or provide child care for them,"

Amelia, you're a nifty Lady.

Godspeed, the Dilg