Not mine; Carmonn’s. Sisterkenney treated us all to a really spectacular display of her latent hatred for other women, and Carmonn responded with this:
Her grasp of domestic or foreign policy? Her understanding of economics? Her deep identification with women of color? Her empathy with people who are suffering under the yoke of the new Depression II? Naah. She’s a female. All she needs.
Have you ever heard of Barack Obama or George W. Bush? It appears that you haven’t, so let me fill you in. They’re frighteningly unintelligent, craven, useless, unempathetic men. Who happen to be Presidents of the United States. It’s been established that the President doesn’t need to have any grasp of policy, deep identification with anyone, or empathy in any form. All he needs is to be male, which makes your statement that being female is “all she needs” slightly puzzling. All she needs to be savaged and held to gross double standards, perhaps? If Palin were male, all of this would be moot. She’s probably the second most charismatic politician to come along in the past 50 years, and we’d also have to pretend that Samuel Palin was “brilliant,” the way we have to pretend with Obama. We’re not allowed to call stupid men stupid, we’re allowed to call them the political leaders of the United States.
I care because writing answers TO QUESTIONS YOU KNOW AHEAD OF TIME on your hand smacks of the low-rent, high-school level of discourse and education that she has.
I never knew frat boys had such gravitas, but I suppose her low-rent, high school level of discourse will be profoundly abashed by our “wee-wee’d up,” “dirt off the shoulder,” “retards,” political culture. I’ve got 99 Problems and I’m still trying to figure out if she might be one, but dear god I hope she doesn’t drag our discourse down too far.
and is hot to some,-watch out, that might bite ya
Interesting observation, that. Of course, those beefcake shots of shirtless Barack running didn’t seem to have a downside.
It’s a measure of what a total mindfuck patriarchy is that someone who actually reads feminist blogs (and I’m referring now to the hapless sisterkenney) can be so confused. She mistakes sexist double standards for fairness, and thinks that Sarah Palin is a grasping uppity bitch for complaining.
I think a lot of unfeminist women (and that sadly includes some women who think they’re feminists) are operating on a scarcity model. It’s the Russian peasant mentality: goddamn if anybody is gonna get more than me. (Or, as a Lithuanian writer once said: “Every Lithuanian secretly hopes his neighbor’s horse dies.”) It just enrages them for some woman they don’t like to buck the patriarchy.
