Posted on 01/13/2011 7:51:06 PM PST by Islander7
When I was in college, I read a book that changed my life. It was Susan Brownmiller's tome, Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, which explained rape as an act of power instead of just lust. What I found particularly chilling was the chapter on war -- how rape is used to terrorize a population and destroy the enemy's spirit.
While edifying, the book magnified the vulnerability I already felt as a female. Fear of rape became a constant dread, and I sought a solution that would help shield me from danger.
The answer: seek safe harbor within the Democratic Party. I even became an activist for feminist causes, including violence against women. Liberalism would protect me from the big, bad conservatives who wished me harm.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
*Excellent* article. Nails it.
All the author thinks or cares about is the “oppression of women”.
She brings her Feminist baggage with her as she switches sides to be with the “cool girls”.
The Republican Party already has enough RINOs.
This article is the EXACT reason the political left MUST destroy Sarah and do everything they can to keep her from running.
This is from a Berkeley feminist... Holy smokes... Nailed it
You described my over-educated, miss-educated, fully indoctrinated, 3 Masters and a PhD cousin to a tee.
Oh wow! That’s good, that’s really good!
If Sarah Palin is attacked, the MSM and liberals will declare that she asked for it.
Yeah, women are not oppressed anywhere in the world. We all know that, right?
Perhaps you should re-read the article. She is recovering from all the lies the left has used to diminish marriage, motherhood, femininity, and family.
Recovery takes time; this article is a year and half old. Cut her some slack.
She actually does address your points further down in the article:
These "progressives" are so alienated from the sacred that they perceive nothing as sacred. And they will destroy anyone whose goodness shines a mirror on their pathology. The spiritually barren must annihilate the vital and the fertile.It has been almost two years since I woke up and broke up with liberalism. During these many months, I've discovered that everything I believed was wrong.
But the biggest shock of all has been realizing that the Democratic Party is hardly an oasis for women. Now that it has been infiltrated by the hard Left, it's a dangerous place for women, children, and other living things.
In the wilding of Sarah Palin, the Left shows its true colors. Rather than sheild the vulnerable, leftists will mow down any man, woman, or child who gets in their way. Instead of a movement of hope and change, it is a cauldron of hate.
Womens’ Lib allowed a lot of guys to get out of a marriage they were tired of, and never would have escaped under the ‘’old’’ system. I new several guys whose wifes just cut out and said forget it Jack.
Palin is not the only intended victim. As Against Our Will described, the brutality is also aimed at men. By forcing men to witness Palin’s violation, the Left tries to emasculate conservative men and render them powerless.
I dug up something I had read earlier that this reminded me of:
http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/15616.html
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Consider for a moment what Ann Marlowe, in the article I linked to earlier, said here:
Success at the Palin level in politics or business takes a level of blinkered self-confidence that comes mainly to (a very few) men. A lot of the people with this quality are annoying to be around. Maybe they aren’t very happy with themselves. But it’s not a surprise that a vice presidential nominee should be one of them.
The bold above is Ann Marlowe projecting herself and her class on Palin.
Women in female social groups lack self-confidence and are unhappy to stand out. Approval of the group is everything. They are outraged when a pretty women who does stand out, who does not dress or act like them, who does not kowtow to them or their conventions, gets ahead without their regard.
It means they are irrelevant and they know it.
That is death to their social standing.
They can never forgive that, any more than Southern men can forgive Sherman for destroying their great grand daddy’s patrimony, for much the same reasons.
When I first mentioned that in a 2009 e-mail list conversation on Palin-hate, I got this response that has stuck with me since:
What’s funny is that it continues to exist, no matter how old we get. At a thirtieth year reunion a few years back, several of the not so attractive girls who hung out together noticed that one of the really hot girls from the class was showing some age; a little more than most. They were absolutely giddy about it. In a group they were very catty. Alone, they were sort of okay, but still bitter, having that stuff go back to early teenage years. The men didn’t care what the one woman now looked like. She still had a great personality and all of the guys wanted to hang out with her. It’s all about the joy of life that she reflects. Sarah Palin has that and they don’t understand it.
In the end, we are all social creatures and our early adolescent/young adult moments of acceptance and rejection stay with us our whole lives.
That is why Left of Center Ruling Class women will go off their meds, bat s***, crazy if Palin gets the Republican Presidential nomination and they will be even worse if she wins.
The best and most concise explanation of the reasons why Leftist Ruling Class women lose it so completely over Sarah Palin also came to me via that same e-mail conversation. Science fiction writer John Ringodeconstructed that same Ann Marlowe piece for Forbes as follows:
http://www.forbes.com/2008/10/06/sarah-palin-elite-oped-cx_am_1007marlowe_print.html
Okay, let’s break it down.
A few thoughts ahead of that.
My GF says that when women are in public they are in competition for attention. I think that is, at least in part, self-reflection but that’s something to keep in mind with that sub-set.
Subsets:
1. Abortion flinch. Many liberal women of the 30-60 subset had abortions or were ‘supportive’ with friends on abortions. Palin’s clear ‘walk the walk’ position puts them in an automatic guilt condition. They can try to spin it but at 3AM the ghost of children lost come back to haunt them. Especially the ones that are past reproductive and ‘choice’ is just a word from their past.
2. Baby-envy: Call it a voice from the past but alot of women who ‘never had time’ for children miss them. For males, the cultural and biological imperative, whatever feminists and new-age guys might think, is ‘get the girl.’ For women it’s kids and to a lesser extent a good husband. We’re culturally and biologically wired for it. Palin has gotten the kids and…
3. Husband-envy: Just as a bunch of conservative males are going ‘Where is Wasilla and are there any more like her around?’ women of all strains are looking at a long-running marriage between a hard-working but only moderately successful man and a female powerhouse who still cooks and takes care of the house and are just shaking their heads in envy. Todd is one of the unsung heroes of this thing. He doesn’t seem to have a trace of envy for his power-house of a wife (which is really rare) and whatever their internal strife’s they’ve made it through alot of rough times together and are still ‘fun’ enough to take bets between each other with a tatoo as a pay-off. They survived the birth of a Down’s Child. That’s a major hit in any family no matter how devoted.
For ‘First Wives’ (or second or third or fourth) that has to hurt.
4. Homecoming Hate: Face it, most liberal women are dogs. They may or may not have been quite as abused by the ‘prep’ girls in school as they whine about but they certainly weren’t in the in-crowd.
There’s plenty of evidence that neither was Sarah Palin but she has that look. She was a beauty pageant contestant, a jock and still has the ‘hot’ look in her forties. For the unwashed, patchouli-smelling ‘I-don’t-shave-my-armpits’ liberal type female that has to just piss them off.
5. Out-cliqued: This is, at base, one of the things I think is going on in this article. The elite women, the ‘lunching ladies’ from WaiterRant, the hyper-feminists, the media elite women, have their clique and it has its specific dos and don’ts and they decide who is and is not a female elite.
Suddenly along comes this…hick who has just totally thrown off their control of the process. She can’t even be dismissed as a Gold-digging little whore like that bitch who slept with Husband One. She’s a successful woman who has clawed her way up through the ranks of the political process and even if she skipped a few steps at the top she still can’t be totally dismissed.
It’s a loss of control over who’s who. Which is, for them, all they really have left.
6. ‘Did it all’ envy: Faced by a person who just shines who has some similarities to the viewer, people who are clearly extraordinary cause automatic envy. ‘There is no admiration without scorn.’ Studies of monkeys cover it nicely. Betas constantly test and pester the alpha because they feel they should be alpha. Happens with males and females. We call it ‘envy.’
Palin has done it all. Happy marriage, kids, good husband, successful career… and she’s done it all from the ‘enemy’ camp.
This is what the article is saying is the basis of Palin-Hate but I think it’s only one part.
There are others and I may not have articulated the above well.
But the real killer is unified and overlapping sets. Say that each of these has some ‘hate’ numeric against it. Give each a rating of 1-5. But they’re not additive, they’re more like a log function as is any psychological response. ‘Stress is not additive it’s synergistic.’
Say you’ve got a woman who never had an abortion but has been a strong ‘pro-choice’ proponent her whole life and has emotionally supported and encouraged friends who had abortions. Give her a 2 on that. She, herself, is childless. 3 numeric. She was once married to a power-husband who ditched her and got Wife Two. 5 on that one. She’s probably fairly good looking so give her a 1 on Homecoming. Etc.
Eventually she’s seeing red.
This is especially going to be the case among the lunching lady set. The ones in this article, as described, mostly are childless and that is rarely from 100% successful birth control. I would guess that most of them are divorced at least once (and not ‘starter’ marriages but are discards from ‘power’ husbands.) Ditto the core of women in the media, most of whom hit two or three, even five, of the above.
At a certain point you hit full-out, 100%, eye-searing, blood-blind hatred.
Which works for me because nothing spells disaster for her own side like a woman who is acting scorned while the men in her life are going ‘Jesus, she’s off her meds again…’
John
You reread it. She is just bringing her hatred of men with her to spread it around.
Correct. The enemy within is progressivism, liberalism, elitism, call it what you wish. Until it is utterly discredited and destroyed we will not be able to save our country.
I think you’re being unfair. The writer is addressing the clearly misogynistic elements in the Left’s assault on Palin.
Ping to read latter
Amen. All you had to do was empathize with them and you were going to score.
Brilliant post! What even confounds the logic of the left more is that Sarah Pahlin has achieved what the Women’s Movement was all about...you can have it all! And she does and as you said they are now envious!
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