Tuesday, June 23, 2009

"Two-Faced Feminism"


A funny column by S.E. Cupp on the death of "Two-Faced Feminism." Here are the opening graphs:


Thank you, Barbara Boxer, for hammering the final nail in the coffin of angry and irrelevant pseudo-feminism. If any life were left in its wheezing and flailing body, her latest experiment in the utterly ridiculous effectively pulled the plug.


The venomous brand of feminism that cuts men off at the knees to make women arbitrarily taller is no longer credible. When Boxer had the audacity — and some would argue, questionable mental clarity — to scold a U.S. Army general publicly for calling her “ma’am” instead of “senator,” it telegraphed to the rest of the world the sheer inanity of today’s modern feminism, a rusting relic of the '60s that’s been pushed so far to the extreme borders of relevance that it actually has Boxer hearing things. Yes, in today’s feminism, calling a woman “ma'am” is a mark of disrespect.


But calling another woman a “slutty flight attendant” is apparently hilarious. Never mind that the woman is a governor, the first woman to hold that post in her state, and the youngest. Never mind that she’s an accomplished and hard-working, self-made woman and mother of five. Because she’s a Republican, she’s fair game for those on the lunatic left who, when it comes to Sarah Palin, seem to have forgotten their Feminism for Dummies handbook at their beach houses.



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