Posted by
Andrew Roman on Sunday, September 14, 2008 12:58:50 AM
One of my favorite writers, Jonah Goldberg, has a terrific article this week that is definitely worth your time. Entitled “Feminist Army Aims Its Canons at Palin,” it’s everything I wish I could have written about the constant barrage of attacks on Governor Sarah Palin by the feminist gaggle. Quoting his piece:
Gloria Steinem, the grand mufti of feminism, issued a fatwa anathematizing Palin. A National Organization for Women spokeswoman proclaimed Palin more of a man than a woman. Wendy Doniger, a feminist academic at the University of Chicago, writes of Palin in Newsweek: “Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.”
(I’m still giggling at the “grand mufti of feminism” line, but I digress).
Personally, I could easily be held directly responsible for the death of three entire trees with the amount of paper I could fill up commenting on that paragraph.
Take note, if you will, of the second sentence. (You just can’t make this stuff up). How deliciously ironic it is that the National Organization for Women would have the ... well, let's say "audacity" to criticize Palin for being too much like a man. (I don't wish to be accused of adding any more manliness to the mix).
I have to wonder sometimes what planet I am on.
Since no one with any reasonably functioning set of eye balls could ever accuse Governor Palin of looking like a man, her masculinity must lie elsewhere. Perhaps in her accomplishments? Maybe in her impressive litany of achievements by the tender age of forty-four? Possibly in her ability to talk tough, be firm and exude confidence?
That must be what makes her more of a man than, say, Barack Obama.
(No comment).
In that respect, the feminists do make a point worth stating. The feminizing of America is an all-too-real phenomenon. The emergence of the metrosexual as the ideal man, the cultural adulation for the overly sensitive anti-cowboy type, the wimpy touchy-feely guy – all have served to demonize, deconstruct and redefine what being a man has always been.
Moreover, modern feminism was never about anything other than making women more like men. Feminism, in all actuality, is anti-feminine. It’s more accurately defined as pro-masculine.
It is obvious that Sarah Palin is, indeed, all woman. Maybe her "masculinity" derives from her refusal to succumb to the endless attempts at the “wimpifying” of the United States by elitists, artists, intellectuals, professors and Aquarius-age relics.
As Goldberg writes in his article:
But here’s the fun part. Feminists are hooked on their own Kool-Aid; they actually believe the stuff they say. The shrill, angry women you see on MSNBC claiming to speak for all women actually think they do. But they don’t. They speak for a few left-leaning women in faculty lounges, editorial boardrooms and that’s about it.
Amen, brother.
Andrew Roman, Brooklyn, NY