Did Bush declare today National Feminist Just-Shoot-Me-Now Day and not tell me?

By Kathy G.

Meanwhile, I just learned that The Atlantic's twisted, hate-filled, overprivileged antifeminist-superhack-in-residence -- in other words, Caitlin Flanagan -- has won a major national magazine award.

The judges called Flanagan's work "thoughtful and bracingly honest, filled with humor and empathy, and free of cliches and political correctness."

Excuse me while I barf.

"Thoughtful" -- only if you consider it "thoughtful" for a writer to display stunningly shameful levels of ignorance not only of feminist writings and scholarship but also of the most basic social science research on the subjects she writes about.

Filled with "empathy" only if you think that smug, vicious attacks on working women are compassionate.

And "free of cliches and political correctness" -- what the hell? Flanagan gleefully traffics in every goddamn wingnut antifeminist cliche in the book! Both the ones that date back at least as far as the antisuffragist movement of the 19th century (i.e., women as keepers of home and hearth), as well as the more newly minted ones, such as that HIllary Clinton is a hateful ballbusting bitch.

To paraphrase a line from Zoolander, is everybody on crazy pills today, or what?

Comments

[DrDick]

I am afraid that under Bush (and our oh so illustrious MSM) *everyday* is feminist just-shoot-me-now day.

[Mike]

Did you ever see the slate dialogue between Barbara Ehrenreich and Flanagan? Flanagan's ability to make her 'argument' falls apart in the face of actually having to defend it in front of a non-straw person. (And Ehrenreich is as sharp as ever.)

http://www.slate.com/id/2095545/entry/2095848/

[JL]

For reasons known only to God and Dana Perino, Laura Bush was trotted out today on our behalf to commiserate with the people of Myanmar (sic) over the cyclone that wreaked havoc on that country.

Of course, being a gal, she couldn't resist gabbing about her daughter's wedding dress.

"You've come a long way, baby, to get where you've got to today.. You've got your own cigarette now, baby, you've come a long, long way".

[whetstone]

Oh, if you think her regressive views are impressive, her husband thinks that God meant him to make Barbie videos for Mattel. I am entirely serious about this. Second link from here:
http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2006/05/21/whod-have-thunk-it-flanagans-a-thumper/

It all makes sense, really.

[Sir Charles]

This on top of Schlafly -- someone just shoot me.

The Pulitzer to Laura Sessions Stepp can't be far behind.

[Rob]

"The Atlantic's twisted, hate-filled, overprivileged antifeminist-superhack-in-residence"

See, I read that and thought Andrew Sullivan. Ahh, The Atlantic!

[Roger Ailes]

"The Atlantic's twisted, hate-filled, overprivileged antifeminist-superhack-in-residence"

Sounds more like McArdle. Sully's more middle-class.