Hold your tongue, Serena Joy
by Natasha Chart, Wed Sep 10, 2008 at 09:08:36 AM EDT
It's always funny, ha ha, when the female enforcers of gender repressive groups come out to complain about sexism. My mental hamster wheels crash. Laughing rodents can't run.
Like Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), who praises Hillary Clinton while 'defending' Sarah Palin. Oh really, Blackburn?
As a trailblazer in her own right, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) was not impressed with Hillary Clinton's crybaby performance following the most recent Democratic presidential debates.... "For women to achieve as men achieve, we have to realize we have to be smarter, think faster, work harder," said Blackburn. "A term that I use a lot is -- leadership is not as it appears, but as it performs."
She said that while leadership can be assigned, the action required to lead is earned -- and when it comes to "piling on" -- she said, "sometimes you have to hold your tongue and work your way through it." ...
And Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin needs to be defended against the same things that were done to Hillary Clinton, whom she admires so very, very much. Funny though, Palin didn't seem to think Clinton was being attacked at all back when she was running, and certainly not that she should have said anything even if it were true ...
Palin says, "When I hear a statement like that coming from a woman candidate with any kind of perceived whine about that excess criticism or, you know, maybe a sharper microscope put on her, I think, man, that doesn't do us any good. Women in politics, women in general wanting to progress this country. I don't think it's, it bodes well for her -- a statement like that."
These conservative women do this all the time. They attack other women for arguing against sexism, ignore actual sexism, then when people confront them with their records, they lie about being attacked in a sexist way. They're always against feminism, until they're for it, but only because it allows them to be against it. And still, still, they ignore the sexism practiced and spoken by the men in their cohort, like John McCain.
John McCain, to crowd: "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno."John McCain, to wife: "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt."
You can come up with your own guesses as to why women who like to call themselves feminists support a man who finds rape authentically funny. I say it's because conservatives just don't understand what feminism means, and seem to confuse it with freeloading, though conservative women would probably miss feminism if it were gone. And not just because they have fun using it as a club to beat people who protect women's rights over the head with.
Update [2008-9-10 13:21:53 by Natasha Chart]: Both Gov. Huckabee and Howard Wolfson disagree with Sean Hannity about the meaning of Obama's use of the common trope, 'lipstick on a pig.' And one of McCain's press aides used the phrase as the title for her book on political spin.
Tags: "lipstick on a pig", feminism, Republicans (all tags)
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