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Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
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The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Rick brings us a link to a wonderfully worded piece by Jonah Goldberg which, arguably, stands guilty of belaboring the obvious. But being “plainly linkable,” in Rick’s words, it could have saved me some typing in some places…like here f’rinstance…and perhaps some other works I don’t feel like hunting down at present.
Goldberg’s words speak for themselves and need no introduction. Although I couldn’t resist putting bold on the especially scrumptious tidbits.
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.
Feminist author Cintra Wilson writes in Salon 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 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 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. 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. [emphasis mine]
It’s got nothing to do with the broads.
If you’re a dude, and you happen to be the President of the United States, using your office resources and your authority to scare up some oral sex from your office interns, and committing perjury to cover your tracks and deny the other women you’ve abused their day in court…feminism will protect you.
As long as you are faithful to the agenda.
If you’re a strong-willed, intelligent, articulate woman and you manage to shatter a glass ceiling or two…feminism will be there to trip you up, to attack you, to slander you, to lend aid and comfort to your enemies.
Provided you aren’t friendly to the agenda.
It’s all about the agenda. Supporting women, increasing the standard of living of women, safeguarding the rights and privileges of women, looking out for equality of women…that’s got nothing to do with it at all.
There can be no denying this.
And there really has been no meaningful metamorphosis.
Which, of necessity, must raise the question about whether feminism had anything to do with defending or offering any help to the fairer sex, going all the way back to Day One. Women were just a means toward a desired end…the entire time…the entire forty years plus.
And our society fell for it. What a twisted, disgusting, sick joke. What a national disgrace.
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Right to the “rape” card. Wow. Why does everything boil down to some sort of “rape” to these people?
“Oh my GOD, she’s forcing her IDEAS on us!!! NO MEANS NO!!!!!”
The world according to feminists seems to be
and of course, the rest of that goes:
- philmon | 09/17/2008 @ 10:47Modern feminism has morphed from being ‘pro-women’ to being ‘anti-men’. That’s assuming that they ever were ‘pro-women’.
If feminists were actually advocating the advancement of women, Sarah Palin’s success would be just another accomplishment achieved by another successful woman. Moving the ball forward a few more yards, if you will. Unfortunately, her success has come from a more ‘traditional’ feminine position; she hasn’t trashed men on her way up.
Her success gives hope to women everywhere that you can be a successful woman without following the feminst playbook. Who needs Grrrl Power!!1! and all that angry shit anymore?
The feminist’s real enemy has been masculinity in all its forms. Now the mask is slipping. Their movement isn’t about the advancement of women, it’s about the destruction of traditional masculinity and the society that breeds real men.
Almost all liberal/Leftist thought and action is, at its heart, really the advocacy of the destruction of the existing social order. All else is a mere progressive mask to fool the idealist rubes into believing that this ongoing destruction will actually make things better. It hasn’t yet, and it won’t.
- emj | 09/17/2008 @ 12:03