Here's a classic Jonah Goldberg piece. It discusses the feminist-left's response to Sarah Palin being the nominee. "She's not a real woman." So, in essence, Obama--who thinks like they do, is a woman, and Palin is not--because of what she thinks. Classic lefty thinking.
Here's a preview of Goldberg reviewing some of the feminists' takes on Palin:
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.
He then takes us through a few other feminists' comments, and provides a nice insight into their tactics:
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.
Read the entire piece, it's insightful and entertaining.
Thomas More
I'm so glad I'm not a feminist. It sounds exhausting....
Posted by: Philomena | September 17, 2008 at 01:18 PM