The obsessive hatred of many on the left for Sarah Palin is sick. I'm referring to a soon-to-be-published book of gossip, of which many salacious details have already been revealed. You've probably heard of it. If not, you can easily find out. It gives me a tiny bit of satisfaction not to identify it or its author.
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I think female politicians generally come in for a special visceral kind of hatred, particularly if they are successful. Margaret Thatcher and Hillary Clinton both got it. Somehow it’s deeply galling to the pundits to see a woman they disagree with leading people her way. But the hatred seems far more intense when the woman is conservative–which I suppose is really just another way of saying that the media lean liberal.
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Conservative women get that special feminist venom. And liberal men who would otherwise carefully toe the feminist line feel free to unleash all manner of obscenity on conservative women. I have heard of at least two discussions–I think one or maybe both were on MSNBC–where the men talked about wanting to “hate f***” various conservative women.
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My husband’s theory is that to diehard liberals, it’s absolutely inconceivable that a rational woman should hold a conservative position, and especially not on anything having to do with sex. She must be stupid or evil or both; there’s no other possible explanation. Somehow that makes it okay to treat her like dirt.
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I think “stupid or evil or both” is the view of liberals in general about conservatives in general, but it does apply with special force in that situation. And there’s the whole feminist attempt to equate “women” with “feminists”, which means non-feminist females don’t actually count as women.
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Yes, and feminism in practice reduces to support for abortion. Otherwise conservative women who aren’t pro-life get cut a lot more slack.
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The sine qua non of feminism–as the word is commonly understood–I have on occasion gotten an angry email when I criticize feminism, from someone saying “it doesn’t necessarily mean…”. But in common usage it does.
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