Remember, These Women Claim To Be Speaking For All Women

Code Pink took to Capitol Hill to protest over women's rights and the usual litany of demands.

And to be noticed, they dressed even. . .  Pinker than usual.  

Valiant, brave members of Code Pink chanting, "Respect Us!"  

From Protein Wisdom:  

Representatives of Code Pink, NOW, Planned Parenthood and Rock the Slut Vote were scheduled to speak on the west lawn of the Capitol, addressing the issues of reproductive rights, equal pay and the Equal Rights Amendment.

 And as always, claim to represent all women when they speak.  

Word Policeman Passes Away

The woman behind the movement to turn 'fireman' to 'fireman and firewoman' has shuffled off this mortal coil.

The stated goal of the manual was to encourage mutual respect and equality between boys and girls, but Ms. Swift and Ms. Miller, who died in 1997, concluded that the author’s intent was being undermined by the English language.

“We suddenly realized what was keeping his message — his good message — from getting across, and it hit us like a bombshell,” Ms. Swift said in a 1994 interview for the National Council of Teachers of English. “It was the pronouns! They were overwhelmingly masculine gendered.”

Those pesky words!

The obituary closes with this:

“We just wanted to give people the background, to make them aware of what was happening right underneath their noses,” she said of the handbook. “We didn’t want to tell people, Do This or Don’t Do That!” [emphasis mine]

But that's just what she did.

The gender equalizing of words always struck me the Political Correct thing to do rather than actual equalizing of words.

Closing Out National Offend A Feminist Week With Tina Fey

Update: Linked in the sidebar at The Other McCain. And after a long and arduous search, I did find the demographic that does find Tina Fey hysterical.

Update II: Josh Painter at Texan's 4 Palin links as well as Mr. Belvedere over at the Camp of the Saints.

The original posting below:

The soft bigotry of low expectations. The new sexism. And what better time to do so than during National Offend A Feminist Week.

I'm sure Tina Fey is funny in person. But not the laugh out loud funny that people strive to credit her for. Should she tell a joke, it's more of a "Hmmm, that's funny" rather than the "Haha" funny. And she did make some success in the male dominated world of comedy writing. But most of that was because she is a funnyish woman. Not in spite of it. Succeeding up the ladder of success the Politically Correct way.

She's also fallen prey to what I call the "Martin Short Effect". At one time, early in his career, Martin Short was funny. As his success grew, he went from Martin Short the man to Martin Short the image. Where no matter what he did, it was supposed to be funny because he is Martin Short. Jiminy Glick is the best example of that.

But like any good liberal, nothing is ever her fault. If people don't care for her, it's because of sexism. Not because of the way she polarized 50% of the population.

The former “Saturday Night Live” performer and head writer became a household name during the 2008 election, when she returned to the show as a guest with a pitch-perfect impersonation of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Week after week, she poked fun at the Alaska governor for everything from her family foibles to her lightweight answers to reporters’ questions. “I believe marriage is meant to be a sacred institution between two unwilling teenagers,” Fey-as-Palin deadpanned during a spoof of the vice-presidential debate
[. . .]
“No one ever said it was ‘mean’ when Chevy Chase played Gerald Ford falling down all the time. No one ever accused Dana Carvey or Darrell Hammond or Dan Aykroyd of ‘going too far’ in their political impressions. You see what I’m getting at here,” Ms. Fey writes.

She spent her tour of duty on SNL making fun of the Right to a canned, liberal audience. And those who weren't liberal were being polite in laughing with the crowd so the tires on their car wouldn't be slashed later.

Not just Sarah Palin but Republicans in general. That's not really being funny as much as it is pandering. Edgy, edgy stuff for a mainstream show.

With 30 Rock, she is in essence a newsreader who passes the broadcast off to the Sports, Weather, Traffic and whatever Special Reports are going on.

Tracy Morgan, Alec Baldwin, the blond chick, the actors who play the writers and the dude who plays Kenneth the Page are the ones who bring the funny to that show. And mostly because they pretty much play themselves.

Morgan plays someone who has a tenuous grip on reality and sanity. Baldwin plays a megalomaniac. As I said, not much of a stretch.

Anything really gut busting funny that ever came from Fey on 30 Rock, I chalk it up to coincidence.

But it's not her fault people on the right don't get her ironic jokes. You sexists.

Pneumonia Is Fun Until Someone Gets Hurt And Loses A Lung

If Robert Stacy thinks Percocet is good stuff, try some Versed.

That really takes the edge off.



And like I said earlier. I'm off my game (I've been sucking at blogging this past week). I missed the kick-off to the National Offend a Feminist Week.

There's a lot of catching up to do.

Why It's Difficult For Me To Take Many Of Today's Progressive "Feminists" Seriously

Because they take issue with the term, "Man Cave".

Props to my girl Erin for finding this gem at Home Depot – that’s right, the store is offering the “Top 10 Man Cave” paint colors, hence making the “no women allowed” den of sports, beer and manly brouhaha to escape the oppressive forces of their wives an official room of the hetero household…and to be painted bold, masculine colors.

Yes, because there is the word 'man' in the title, it automatically means 'no womyn allowed'.

I contend that if a woman can walk through her house and not see any evidence that a man lives there, then the house is clean.

Let the man have his cave.

Feminists Object To Taylor Swift's New Song

Via Cassie. A good kind of feminist.

And by feminist I mean ugly, liberal, progressive women. As if there are any other kind.

It's a good song too. Surprisingly for how pop/rock country has turned into. It tells of the same story time and time again. Boy meets girl, fall in love, fight, and do they or don't they get back together? Taylor Swift wrote the song so, yes. They do get back together.

The part of the song that's tying the feminazi's panties into knots? The chorus here:

You said, "I remember how we felt, sitting by the water.
And every time I look at you, it's like the first time.
I fell in love with a careless man's careful daughter.
She is the best thing that's ever been mine."

Cassie quotes the reason why it's "objectional":

This song is rife with freaky-deaky, weirdo language that frames Swift as someone perpetually under the ownership, or at least care, of a male authority. The lyrics describe her as not a woman, but as a “careless man’s careful daughter” that her new boyfriend has “made a rebel of.” This is problematic to me, in the sense that it implies a transfer of her ownership from one man to another. I think it’s weird in this song that she doesn’t seem to have any sense of her own identity away from the love interest, or her father. I do, however, give her props for the use of the line “we got bills to pay.” Though grammatically incorrect, it implies that Taylor will be helping to pay the bills though some means of gainful employment. Let’s go back in time 50 years so that I can congratulate her on being progressive!

Notice how the songwriter's desire for a normal relationship is marginalized for the feminist version of "ownership".

Can't Jamie Keiles of Teenagerie leave a song well enough alone? Read Cassy's take on it. She has much more to say about it.

The video is posted below so you can listen to it and enjoy it for what it is. A love song.

Taylor Swift - New Music - More Music Videos

Taylor Swift: The object of hate and envy for every feminist in the blogosphere.