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Feminists are a Bunch of Irrational Ninnies
I’ve been waiting all day to unload this, so
sit down and get ready for a good
belly-laugh…
Remember Susan Estrich? She was Michael
Dukakis’ campaign manager for his disastrous
presidential run in 1988. But washed-up liberals
don’t shrivel up and blow away, they reinvent
themselves as pundits and news analysts.
Apparently Ms. Estrich, the Grand-Dame of
feminist victimology, has taken great offense at
Apple Computer’s decision to name its newest
electronic gizmo, iPad. So last week she penned a
column called “The Value of Diversity.”
Blazing away with her gendered six-shooter, Estrich
issued this scathing pronouncement:
“Is there a woman in America who did not
laugh, or at least roll her eyes, the minute she
heard that the newest, hottest tablet computer from
one of America's most ingenuous companies was going
to sound like a feminine hygiene product? The
iKotex is what most people I know are calling it,
with apologies to Kotex.”
The moral of Estrich’s preposterous
complaint? That Apple needs to bring more women
into the upper echelons of corporate
decision-making.
Really, how can anyone with a claim to sanity
come to view the name of a cute digital device as
proof of gender oppression?
This isn’t the first time Ms. Estrich got
her wires crossed.
Eight years ago Clara Harris ran over her
ex-husband David, as their daughter sat in the
front seat of the car. I’ve seen the tape,
it’s sickening to watch the violent woman
repeatedly drive her car over David’s
prostrate body. The woman was later convicted of
manslaughter and sentenced to hard time.
But Estrich thought the woman’s actions
were completely justifiable. “Who could blame
[Clara] for getting into her Mercedes and
running him over?,” Estrich later asked.
Lindsey Harris, who had pleaded with her mother
to cease the slaughter, took issue with
Estrich’s bizarre rationalization. The young
woman denounced her mother’s rampage as
“the ultimate act of selfishness, caring only
about obtaining revenge and thinking not one bit
about how her horrible act was going to affect me
or my brothers, Brian and Bradley.”
Amazingly, there are other persons out there who
believe Clara Harris was doing what any woman in
full possession of her senses would do.
One such person is Regina Barreca, PhD
(gb@ginabarreca.com),
professor of feminist theory at the University of
Connecticut. Berreca bills herself as putting the
“funny in feminism” -- but a passing
glance at the titles of her books reveals a lady
with a well-honed ax to grind: “I’m With
Stupid: One Man, One Woman, and 10,000 Years of
Misunderstanding Between the Sexes Cleared Right
Up,” and “Perfect Husbands (and Other
Fairy Tales).”
And what does Berreca have to say about
husband-killer Clara Harris? Repeatedly running
over her ex was a “great moment of
revenge,” she lucidly explains. That
adumbration of the truth graces the current issue
of Psychology Today.
And then the grand brouhaha over the recent
Super Bowl ad featuring former Florida quarterback
Tim Tebow and his mother Pam. Conveying a soft-sell
pro-life message, the advertisement shows the
muscle-clad football player playfully tackling his
mother.
Almost everyone in the universe knew it was a
joke.
Except for National Organization for Women
president Terry O’Neill, who pitiably
proclaimed herself Highly Offended: “I am
blown away at the celebration of the violence
against women in it.” Railing against the
network airing the ad, O’Neill exclaimed,
“I think CBS should be ashamed of
itself.”
Five years ago Susan Estrich had a very public
hissy-fit when she discovered only a fraction of
the L.A. Times op-eds were written by women. A few
days later the Times ran a piece by Charlotte Allen
explaining the relative dearth of female writers:
“Ideological feminism has ghettoized and
trivialized the subject matter of women's
writing.”
Once upon a time, feminists haughtily proclaimed
their movement was intended to eradicate the
stereotype of air-headed women who couldn’t
think calmly or act rationally. Funny how feminism
has become a gaudy parody unto itself.
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Carey
Roberts probes and lampoons political correctness.
His work has been published frequently in the
Washington Times, Townhall.com, LewRockwell.com,
ifeminists.net, Intellectual Conservative, and
elsewhere. He is a staff reporter for the New Media
Network. You can contact him at E-Mail
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