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Misogyny was the central narrative of the Obama campaign »

(image from Post Secret)
The image above was posted on Post Secret on November 8, 2008. I have no doubt that the dominate narrative of this campaign — the forceful suppression of women — is responsible for the author’s “secret.” In the Obama-realm, feminism isn’t just bad, it’ll ruin your life. One only need to look [...]

Cry, Baby, Cry »

For the past few days, my phone has been buzzing with calls from devastated volunteers and celebrating friends. In the accelerated world of the blogosphere, writers have begun to rationalize the demographics of the vote and to anticipate the future.
Important new groups like The New Agenda have raised significant concerns about the Obama administration [...]

OPEN THREAD: Democratic Women Respond to Obama’s Latest Sexist Gambit [VIDEO UPDATES x2] »

Obama’s unrestrained misogyny rears its ugly head in this unabashedly sexist advertisement:

Mary Wollstonecraft comes to mind unbidden. I quote:
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
Please offer your analysis of this advertisement in [...]

“WOMEN: IS THIS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE AND HAS IT BEEN ANSWERED TO YOUR SATISFACTION?” »

Like many of you before this election cycle, I never watched Fox News. In my naivete, I believed they were the bad guys and MoveOn were the good guys. Boy have things changed.
I now go to Fox before any of the other MSM, and while there are several excellent reporters there, my favorite is [...]

The Secrets of Capt. Fumio Nakahira Or Why I’m Leaving the Democratic Party but Keeping my Principles »

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” — Elie Wiesel
It’s clear to many Democrats that a radical clique has taken control of the Party. Democratic ideals once held to be sacrosanct, including [...]

Palin’s Message to Women Bears Repeating »

Governor Palin smartly spent most of her Henderson, NV campaign rally yesterday talking about women. Way to engage those Hillary voters, Sarah. You go, girl! The Democratic Party has offered us nothing but threats if we don’t get in line to support their selected messiah, while John McCain stepped up to the [...]

Feminists Stand Behind Sarah, And Sarah Fights For All Women »

Sarah stands up for all women: “"When it came time for choosing, somehow Barack Obama just couldn’t bring himself to pick the woman who got 18 million votes in his primary, and that seems to be too familiar a story isn’t it? … How it is for so many American women that the qualifications are [...]

Standing Up to the Feminist Left * Open Thread »

Greta aired a great segment last night, showing a group of prominent female Democrats and feminists who literally stood with Sarah Palin on stage yesterday. I wonder what Bill Maher would have to say about these women. Actually, I’d rather not hear him. I’d rather hear these women each speak:

“The Coming Liberal Thugocracy” »

(bumped up by SusanUnPC)
My aunt sent me an interesting piece by Michael Barone on Monday, Oct. 13, entitled, “The Coming Liberal Thugocracy.” Huh - so I’m not the only one who thinks so. Like so many other concerns about Obama, this originates from something Obama said. Big surprise. Oh, don’t take my [...]

Easy Targets »

I’m trained in philology–the study of words–and I began to wonder about Obama’s supporters’ favorite word for Sarah Palin, the one we’ve seen on the tee-shirts of men and women: Cunt. Going to my trusty OED, I found a bit of history, which is repeated on the online etymology dictionary. I will paste here, for [...]