THE TYGRRRR EXPRESS

Now that President Obama has held a beer summit on race that was complete and utter nonsense (after all, if it was truly important, Joe Biden would not have been invited), liberal New York Post columnist Kirsten Powers wants to hold a sexual summit. I was excited until I was informed that it was just a summit on sexism.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08032009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/time_for_a_summit____on_sexism_182682.htm

Yes Lady Pandora, your box is wide open and waiting to be penetrated my men (and women apparently) bearing gifts in the form of stupid ideas.

Every activist group in the country is now gearing up for the next Yalta. Lesbian Vegans for Libya have already begun printing the flyers.

For the sake of full disclosure, I confess that by left of center standards, Kirsten Powers is reasonable. She is not a wild eyed leftist nutcase. She can be quite thoughtful and sincere. Yet in the end she is still left of center, and her arguments are still fatally flawed.

She expresses dismay over an article that describes Hillary Clinton as a word that rhymes with witch. Yet what really dismays Ms. Powers is that the article was written by what she considers to be a “respected” (translation: (liberal) publication. The Washington Compost was the offending rag, with Dana Milbank being the offending liberal.

“This isn’t some random blogger or even an opinion columnist expressing vile views. This is a reporter at one of the nation’s top newspapers making a sexist joke about a woman he covered during the presidential race.”

Oh those bloggers, those low class plebeians incapable of quality journalism. They always get the story wrong. They don’t have the training and pedigree of the Jayson Blair Times or the Dan Rather and Mary Mapes version of 60 minutes.

I could generalize in the same way that Kirsten Powers does and point out that liberal snobbery is redundant.

So is blaming sexism against an entire gender on what may be contempt toward a particular individual who happens to be a woman.

“Conservative commentator Alex Castellanos defended this on CNN saying that Clinton deserves to be called a ‘bitch.’

For what? Running for president? How dare she!”

No. For being a nasty individual that has built her entire career on the success of her husband while claiming the mantle of feminism. Or perhaps for helping her husband destroy the reputations of other women and blaming it on a vast right wing conspiracy. Or for claiming that she has 35 years of experience when simple math says that she is simply adding 35 to the year she graduated law school to reach what was her present age at the time she ran for president. Or for being, as one conservative columnist put it, a “congenital liar.”

This is not about her right to lie her way into the Oval Office. This is about being criticized for calling a woman one when she acts like one. Is it a nasty word? Sure. Is Hillary a nasty woman? Yes. Perhaps Ms. Powers can explain why other political women are not referred to this way.

Again, she implies that she expects that behavior from heathens and conservatives, but when a liberal newspaper columnist says a politically incorrect word, then intellectual Armageddon is upon us.

Yet at least Ms. Powers, in her own way, is at least consistent. She is willing to do what most fake feminists would not dream of doing. Ms. Powers defends Sarah Palin.

“The only thing worse would be running for vice president. Just ask Sarah Palin.

I’m no fan of the former governor of Alaska, but as a life-long feminist I can’t ignore the endless stream of sexism directed at her.”

Then criticize the people actually doing it Ms. Powers. They are called liberals. They are the same women that claim to care about the rights of women while ignoring the fact that while Bill Clinton was abusing them, George W. Bush was liberating them from brutal beatings in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Sure, a few conservatives attacked Sarah Palin, but most of them are connected to McCain campaign consultants that need to place blame away from McCain, and who know that if Palin gets the nomination in the future, these same consultants are finished. The bulk of the vitriol is not conservative rational self interest, but irrational liberal ideological bigotry.

“Friday on MSNBC, guest host Donny Deutsch… was adamant: ‘The only reason we are so fascinated, the American public has never seen a woman that looks like this in power. That’s where the fascination starts.’

Where was this insightful analysis when the vapid JFK-wannabe John Edwards and his silky hair ended up as the Dems choice for VP in 2004? Or was everyone too dazzled by his completely undistinguished one term as a senator?”

Where were you Ms. Powers? You were supporting the Kerry-Edwards ticket because you put style and partisanship over substance. John Kerry stood for everything and nothing, yet you supported him and his even less substantive running mate.

Yet Ms. Powers really goes off the track when she blames the behavior at the wrong culprits.

“There is something profoundly juvenile about adult men in the media grouping powerful women by crude stereotypes like ‘bitch’ or ‘hot chick.’”

Women are far more abusive to their fellow sisters than men ever could be. Men could never get away with such boorish behavior without the tacit approval of women. Meny women find brutes sexy, and nice guys boring.

The problem with attitudes toward women are virtually solely at the feet of women. They sexualize themselves. and then blame men for being guily of enjoying eroticism. They put on the tough guy gloves and then try to play the girly girl routine when men defend themselves.

Either are women are clear thinking individuals that have the power to say “no” when they choose, or they are mindless automatons.

Ms. Powers, as previously stated, is better than most liberal women. Yet make no mistake about it. Being reasonable compared to other liberal women is like Fatah being less murderous by a small degree than Hamas.

In the same way the Palestinians wake up and blame the Jews, liberal women blame white, conservative male oppressors for everything from world hunger to shooting Santa Claus.

White male conservatives are not the culprit. If anything, we are scared stiff of being called racist, sexist, homophobic bigots the minute we walk out of our homes and breathe air within fifty feet of an aggrieved victim group.

It is politically correct liberal hypocrites that cannibalize their own when they run out of conservative flesh to tear to pieces and devour.

Ms. Powers is totally right to demand that women be treated with respect.

She is totally wrong in understanding the cause and the solution to the problem.

We don’t need a summit for the grievance mongers. We need the grievance mongers and the people using the offending words to shut up.

The Jews call it Loshon Hara. It hurts the speaker of the words, the person receiving the words, and those that overhear the words.

Everyone should stop it.

Then again, what do I know? I am just a white, male conservative blogger with a fabulous smile and (by the grace of God) good hair.

eric

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