Feminists' biggest nightmare: Stepford Sarah
FEMINISTS were spitting-mad at Barack Obama the other day.
Gloria Allred held a news conference at which she excoriated the Democratic nominee for implying that Sarah Palin, a sitting governor, was a cosmetically enhanced pork chop.
Kim Gandy spoke for the National Organization for Women when she said, "All women should be outraged at this affront to an accomplished professional and loving mother."
Nancy Pelosi, fresh from giving theological lessons to Pope Benedict, issued a statement: "I am deeply disappointed that Sen. Obama has shown such disrespect towards the hottest guv from the coolest state."
You can wake up now.
What really happened is that all those high-profile women who usually attack any conservative who fails to worship at the Altar of the Ovary kept mum. Even worse, they said that Obama's "lipstick on a pig" comment was really directed at John McCain.
Anna Quindlen, the sassy Pulitzer Prize winner who has hoodwinked some folks into thinking she's a good Catholic, had this to say about Palin: "Amid the drumbeat of female Amazonian competence occasioned by the Palin nomination ran one deeply discordant assumption, the assumption that women are strong and smart and sure and yet neither sentient nor moral enough to decide what to do if they are pregnant under difficult circumstances."
THERE IT IS: Unless you agree that women have the right to derail a pregnancy, you're a knuckle-dragging misogynist.
Even if you yourself have a uterus.
Yup, Palin just can't win. She's got the plumbing for NOW membership, just not the lemminglike philosophy. And because of that, making fun of her isn't sexist. For feminists, and the men who want to date them, it's a sworn duty.
The Obamazons believe that Palin will be vice president only when pigs fly. Imagine their faces when they look up on Nov. 5 and see lipstick in the trees.
excerpted from No Stepfords For Sarah
by Christine M. Flowers
published Friday, Sept. 12, 2008
Philadelphia Daily News
semi-related:
the flying pigs campaign