Delusional feminist week continues!
The womyn with clenched fists are in fine form lately. Cassy Fiano has a great post up about an article in Glamor magazine by Megan Carpenter about how men get all the attention in the political blog world. Cassy shreds it but as usual I have shit to say, too.
First of all, get a load of Carpenter’s introduction to her thesis:
For political bloggers who happen to be women, such as myself, my colleagues here at Glamocracy and elsewhere, the blogosphere can seem like a very testosterone-filled place. Sure, you’ve got Arianna Huffington and Patricia Murphy of Citizen Jane Politics. But the list of other must-read blogs is dominated by dudes: Andrew Sullivan, Markos Moulitsas (of the Daily Kos), Mike Krempasky (of Redstate.com) and of course Matt Drudge…So, why do the boys of the political blogosphere command so much attention?
A better question is, what kind of a retard would call either Arianna Huffington or Matt Drudge “bloggers”? Is she serious with that? Drudge may be a human news aggregator but he sure as hell isn’t a blogger. Let’s at least get the facts straight.
Furthermore, starting a list of “must-read political blogs” with the names Andrew Sullivan and Markos Moulitsas instantly and utterly destroys your credibility. Sorry toots but if you don’t know about Glenn Reynolds and Michelle Malkin, you really need to get out more. A lot more.
Here’s my favorite part, though. The Glamor article quotes a guy named Ezra Klein and his opinion that “while male political bloggers are known as ‘political’ bloggers, women are more often known as ‘feminist’ bloggers.” Klein then mentions two female bloggers by name (Jill Filipovic and Ann Friedman) as examples of women who are unfairly labeled “feminist” bloggers.
I clicked on the hyperlinks of both those names to decide for myself if they were “political” and not “feminist” bloggers, and in so doing, I discovered the names of their actual blogs. And I shit you not, these two blogs, which it is apparently so very wrong to label “feminist,” are called:
Feministing.com
and
Feministe.us
Bam. Game over, pal. You lose.
It’s like trying to claim that John Hawkins is unfairly labeled a “right wing news blogger,” and then providing a link to his site, which is called RIGHT WING NEWS. Sure, he writes about things other than right wing news, and those female bloggers write about things other than feminism and even women in general, but not a lot.
I just spent some time on both sites and there are categories on one of them like Misogyny, Pregnancy, Reproductive Rights, Domestic Violence, Feminism, Queerness, and Sexual Assault. Not to mention Beauty, Fashion, Dating, Vanity, Marriage, Sex, Singlehood, Bodily Integrity, and Women We Love. There’s a Weekly Feminist Reader feature on the other blog, as well as one called the Friday Feminist Fuck You and one called Hillary Sexism Watch, along with articles about menstruation.
I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with any of that. More power to them, and sometimes I even read that stuff and enjoy it. Because I am a woman. And they do have equal numbers of categories for basic political issues like law and policy. What’s wrong is expecting the same kind of audience for that kind of blog as the audience you’d get for a blog like Redstate, Andrew Sullivan, or even any other blog that is rightly called a “politics” blog.
Surveys have shown that most political blog readers are straight men. Now, why on earth would straight men bookmark sites that have articles about periods and fashion and the Weekly Feminist Fuck You when they could just as easily bookmark a site that doesn’t?
Is it really so hard to figure this out? Seems pretty basic to me.
Flip it around. Let’s say the majority of political blog readers were straight women, as were the bloggers themselves. And say there’s a ton of male bloggers out there, too, trying to “break into” this Girls’ Club. How well do you think it would work for them to name their blogs things like Masculinity.com and had entire categories devoted to hot rods, power tools, mens’ fashion, and things like “The Monday Man-centric Fuck You”?
They’re well within their rights to blog about whatever the hell they want, and they may be fabulous writers, but if all those straight chicks in this hypothetical world who aren’t interested in hot rods and power tools want to save time and effort in their daily political blog surfing, they’re gonna stick with sites like Michelle Malkin’s, not because she is a woman but because she’s not talking about hot rods and power tools. We could be sure that none of the stuff we DO want to read about will be absent from Malkin’s blog and we’re equally sure that there will be tons of stuff on the man-blogs that we DON’T want to read about.
There’s nothing sexist about it. People read what interests them and they don’t read what doesn’t. I frankly expect that dynamic when it comes to my own blog; I know that there are millions of people out there who would never bookmark my blog instead of, say, Instapundit’s, and it doesn’t have a damn thing to do with he’s a man and I’m a woman.
Maybe they don’t like dogs and get bored having to scroll past The Daily Dog pics. Maybe they want nothing but a variety of solid news links and a some calm commentary, not occasional news links interspersed with some chick’s stories about her boyfriend and rants about American Idol and stupid people she used to work with. And that’s all right, and I sure as hell am never gonna bitch if people label me an “entertainment” blogger or a “dog” blogger. If I wanted to be called a political blogger, I’d ax half the categories I use.
It’s kind of a no-brainer, as long as you’re not forcing yourself at gunpoint to view every fucking thing in the whole WORLD as sexist and oppressively discriminatory. Christ on a surfboard, people really need to lighten up.
Methinks masulinity.com would need the “Monday MILF”
April 16th, 2008 at 3:16 pmIf I were to label this blog - well, shit - I can’t. But it is entertaining.
April 16th, 2008 at 3:19 pmSorry, Jesus on a muffin still wins. Good try, though.
April 16th, 2008 at 3:21 pmMe man. Hot rods? Not one fucking clue.
April 16th, 2008 at 3:23 pm!David!, I heartily agree. Somehow I think that would make a good T-shirt.
April 16th, 2008 at 3:28 pmI agree with hM. You need shirts with the following quotes:
Jesus on a muffin
Jesus in a meadow
Christ on a surfboard
…and all the others - with graphics!!!
April 16th, 2008 at 3:34 pmRock Lobster!
April 16th, 2008 at 3:43 pmI still think the best way to deal with women like this (once they have been identified) is to say this in as condescending a manner as possible:
“So, you’re a feminist. Well, isn’t that precious.”
It works out okay, because women who think like this usually don’t own handguns.
April 16th, 2008 at 3:48 pmOh God, now thats funny!
April 16th, 2008 at 3:53 pmWonderful smack down. I can’t believe the bit about the “why do they call my feminist.com blog feminist?” bit. Beyond parody. And I think I have Monday MILF bookmarked somewhere…..
To go off topic with a request.
With Rupert going off to serve (God bless Rupert!) I would love your take on this news story.
Men Steal Bullet Parts Intended For Iraq, Afghanistan From Army
They are looking at 30 years for stealing copper. Granted they stoled a LOT of copper, $45,000 worth over the course of a year. The charge they are facing is “sabotage of war materials” and I intend to watch this story as closely as I can, waiting for the first libtard to come forward complaining that “They only stole some copper! Cruel and Unusual Punishment!!”
I hope their punishment is as cruel and unusual as the judge can make it.
April 16th, 2008 at 4:02 pmCommon Sense. Rachel Has It.
April 16th, 2008 at 4:05 pmAs always, Rachel’s logicality rules—revealing, again, that liberalism is, or requires, a disorder of intellect.
It is a “language game”…
http://phili.blogspot.com/
…that rests on false premisses and therefore leads to false conclusions.
This is acknowledged by all the nibs.
…when a man’s fancy gets astride on his reason, when imagination is at cuffs with his senses, and common understanding as well as common sense, is kicked out of doors,
the first proselyte he makes is himself… [Jonathan Swift. A tale of a tub. 1704]
It is not materialsm that is the chief curse of the world, but idealism. Men get into
trouble by taking their gaudy visions and hallucinations seriously. [H.L. Mencken. From the Smart Set, June, 1920.]
Words, words. High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words,
The words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar;
wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.
[Thomas Carlyle. Sartor resartus. 1836]
Yes, That about covers it.
But more about me…
I once tried Snowdog’s line with my wife, Lucretia Carmelita Husqvarna Borgia de Boyle….
“So, you’re my wife? Well, isn’t that preeeeccccious.”
I was off life supports in less than a month.
April 16th, 2008 at 4:09 pmChrist on a surfboard, people really need to lighten up.
No. Not people. Just feminists and their effeminately apologetic male friends (what’s the male counterpart to a fag-hag?) like Ezra Klein.
April 16th, 2008 at 4:16 pmAll you had to do is start with “article in Glamor Magazine” and any other refutation wasn’t really necessary after that. . . . but I still appreciate your smackdown.
April 16th, 2008 at 4:22 pmOK, you’re killin’ me with these. Seriously! They crack me up.
April 16th, 2008 at 4:44 pmI have bookmarked, and rather enjoy reading Tammy Bruce, Debbie Schlussel, Michelle Malkin and Laura Ingraham….but I guess they don’t count because…well, you know.
April 16th, 2008 at 4:46 pmWell, there you go…that IS how these people view their entire world. As “us” against “them” - “them” being any supposed victim class. Those of “us” who don’t view life like that see “them” as rather nutso.
April 16th, 2008 at 4:49 pm…I swear I thought that first one said “femifisting” when I first read it.
April 16th, 2008 at 4:50 pmJesus Tits! is my favorite blasphmeous epithet, one I use often, and one I first heard in 1976, when I was a 4th grader. But there is gold in all the countless variations of this profanity, which is all part of why my wife believes I’m heading straight for hell.
Quick, Brian, copyright “femifisting.” Great name for a band.
April 16th, 2008 at 4:56 pmI think it is so sexy to see women actually use LOGIC in their discussions.
April 16th, 2008 at 5:14 pmGlen Reynolds is about as much of a blogger these days as I am an astronaut.
He’s now a news aggregator every bit as much as Matt Drudge. His only blogging seems to consist of the words ‘Heh’ or ‘Indeed’.
April 16th, 2008 at 5:30 pmI love intelligent women that can hold a good, reasoned, rational conversation.
Feminism, while it may have started with good intentions, has been bastardized and perverted into man-hating, etc. Unfortunately, the perversion has resulted in gender warfare where both sexes are negatively impacted. Sad, really. The lefties, unfortunately again, keep perpetuating the problems and stereotypes and contribute nothing of value.
Femifisting, huh Brian? Not EVEN going to go there!! LOL
April 16th, 2008 at 5:39 pmWill all those fem-bloggers visit my new blog if I make it about
April 16th, 2008 at 5:46 pma) my opinion that crypto-Marxists shouldn’t run the country
b) men’s issues.
amyep, couldn’t you totally see a T-shirt with Jesus and an English muffin?
Though I have to admit, the image of Jesus in the middle of a pipe on a surfboard doing that hang-loose thing with his hand would probably have me rolling on the floor.
April 16th, 2008 at 6:01 pmOh good God. Not another idiotic rant about “sexism” in the blogosphere.
Did it ever occur to these imbeciles that maybe the reason why there are less female political bloggers than male political bloggers is that women are generally less interested in politics than men?
It’s really quite simple. Politics, at its very core, is just a giant pissing contest. Most of it is nothing more than posturing. And men excel at posturing. We love it. We crave it. We can’t get enough of it. We pride ourselves on the social status derived from male posturing. If we can’t intimidate or impress others through posturing, we believe we have failed in some way and we must take steps to re-assert our masculinity. Ladies, the next time your boyfriend/husband has a group of male friends over, watch the way they interact with each other. How many times does one man make a joke at the expense of another? How many times does one man finish a personal anecdote, only to have another man chime in with another anecdote of his own? Eventually you’ll realize they aren’t really having a conversation. What they’re really doing is competing with each other. Each man is trying to assert his own masculinity over the others and dominate the group. It’s basic primate psychology.
So is it really so surprising that most political bloggers are men?
April 16th, 2008 at 6:06 pmDoes anyone else think of Kathy Griffin’s impersonation of her mother when Rachel says a “Christ on a cracker” type statement? It’s from her standup routine. Kathy doesn’t say anything about Jesus and meadows, surfboards, muffins, etc. but for some reason it just pops in my mind everytime I read one.
April 16th, 2008 at 6:21 pmElme WTF!
Was that spam?
And by the way getting off coal to go to nuclear is closer to giving up cigarettes to take up lolly pops.
[LOL - you commented too soon - that was way too spam-like for me so I deleted it. A long diatribe about coal and Obama on this post? No thanks. God I hate people. Anyway Nylecoj, I didn't want your comment to make no sense so that is why I am adding this to it.
- Rachel]
April 16th, 2008 at 6:34 pmRachel,
April 16th, 2008 at 6:45 pmI love your ‘feminist’ columns. Females like that give us all a bad name.
Don’t worry folks, we have the Black Helicopters watching elme.
-N. O’Brain
NWO Operative
[cue scary music]
April 16th, 2008 at 6:46 pmJesus on a muffin is still the best I must agree, but they all crack me up!! Oh yeah, and I am a Christian too; no offense ever taken.
April 16th, 2008 at 6:56 pmAs a SoCal native and resident, I like “Christ on a surfboard” best. Not that it matters.
The image that comes to mind isn’t much different than Buddy Christ from Kevin Smith’s “Dogma.” Almost bought that hoodie while in Jay & Silent Bob’s Secret Stash last week.
April 16th, 2008 at 7:44 pmI totally thought of the Buddy Christ, too!
April 16th, 2008 at 8:42 pmWho’s the hottie in the helmet on your site?
April 17th, 2008 at 12:58 amDon’t worry Rachel, some of dudes visit you because, well, you are Rachel and you love dogs, guns and are a funny smart ass. Like I have said before, Rupert is one lucky man.
April 17th, 2008 at 1:58 amI would say the blogs I visit are pretty evenly slit between guys and gals with you, Pamela Geller and Michelle being everyday reads, along with Mary Katherine Ham, Amanda Carpenter, yeah even at glamocracy, and several lesser known blogs. Y’all rock, what else could I say?
Rachel Fembots would never mention your blog:
1. Your funny
2. You aren’t victim minded
3. You like guns
4. You like men (or at least some Army guy named Rupert
Another blog they will never mention is Cassandra’s
April 17th, 2008 at 6:47 amhttp://www.villianouscompany.com
because she is an older (more refined?) master of snark.
FWIW, since I’m a noob commenter (albeit a reader ever since I had to find out what all the raucous laughter was about when my husband was reading your old blog — thanks, BTW, for the addition of “Asstastically Asshatted Assclown” and “Stupid steppy-stool — who made you? A monkey?” to our family lexicon; my kids are well schooled!):
Re Jesus, I vote for ‘Jesus on a muffin’ — with or without art!
Who doesn’t love Michelle Malkin and Mary Katharine Ham (esp. Hamnation :)), but don’t forget Ann Althouse and Kathryn Jean Lopez!
The thing about feminism that upsets me the most is when men start internalizing it, as here:
April 17th, 2008 at 7:25 amhttp://www.miami.muohio.edu/news/article/view/4890.html
Sluggo, I think your link mis-directed. Can you check on that?
April 17th, 2008 at 8:32 am“Christ on a surfboard, people really need to lighten up.”
T-shirts with the entire slogan = high art (with a blunt instrument of course)
April 17th, 2008 at 11:14 amEzra is not saying there is something wrong with calling these blogs “feminist blogs.”
Ezra is saying that these blogs are often erroneously considered feminist RATHER than political. Feminist blogs ARE political blogs, but people often do not consider them “real political” blogs. (Do you think any feminist blogs were included in the survey which found that most political blog readers are male?)
Granted, Ezra’s statement could have been clearer but, c’mon, did you REALLY think that he was saying that Feministing and Feministe shouldn’t be considered “feminist?”
April 17th, 2008 at 12:58 pmTO: Rachel Lucas
RE: Look Who’s Talking
“Christ on a surfboard, people really need to lighten up.” — Rachel Lucas
By that do you mean you won’t kill people because of their expression of religious beliefs relating to the One you just blasphemed?
Just ask’n….
Regards,
Chuck(le)
April 17th, 2008 at 5:26 pm[A free society—or blog—is one where it is safe to be unpopular.....with the hostess.]
P.S. If you don’t recall, you killed me within 30 minutes of my identifying your form of ‘Faith’.
April 17th, 2008 at 5:27 pmP.P.S. Does the beret on the figure on the shirt bear a Commie ’star’?
April 17th, 2008 at 5:28 pm“Christ on a surfboard” - you’re talkin’ about Laird Hamilton, right? Or do you mean Eddie Aikau - who certainly had the Passion…?
April 17th, 2008 at 6:21 pmRachel,
That was a well-reasoned post, amusingly written to boot.
Best of all, it’s filed under “Category: Girl Stuff“.
Good thing that womyn like Jill and Ann are blessed with an excellent sense of humor.
April 17th, 2008 at 7:11 pm“as long as you’re not forcing yourself at gunpoint to view every fucking thing in the whole WORLD as sexist and oppressively discriminatory.”
Remarkably, these ‘feminists’ do not fight the one thing that actually WOULD treat them with genuine mysogyny : Islam.
I used to think that Islam’s growing presence in the West was 100% bad, but now I think it is only 98% bad and 2% good. The 2% good comes from the fact that the first people that the Islamists will scare into silence are ‘feminist’ nuts.
April 17th, 2008 at 7:15 pmBTW, are ultraleftist females truly even identifiable as females?
This picture (scroll down to see) says NO.
April 17th, 2008 at 7:18 pm“(what’s the male counterpart to a fag-hag?)”
A “dyke-tyke”.
A “Les-Bro”.
April 17th, 2008 at 7:24 pmHmm.. There are also fewer female :
Pro Wrestlers
Firemen
Snipers
Navy Seals
Boxers
Butchers
Simply because they are less interested in these fields.
If there was a pro football game between female teams, and if tickets for that game don’t command the same prices as a male NFL game would, is America sexist?
April 17th, 2008 at 7:26 pmSullivan and Moulitsas are dudes?
Huh. I’ll be damned.
April 17th, 2008 at 7:28 pmDamn good ones. I humbly submit…chick prick.
April 17th, 2008 at 8:36 pm“chick prick.”
Except that ‘Chick’ applies to all women, not lesbians.
Consider the distinct difference between the term ‘Fag Hag’ vs. ‘Tomboy’ or ‘Groupie’. Totally different.
I guess the best place to start is to list all the names for lesbians, and then match rhyming names for beta-males.
I came up with two more :
Butch Hutch
Queen Nebbish
April 17th, 2008 at 8:58 pmI guess the best place to start is to list all the names for lesbians, and then match rhyming names for beta-males.
I got it!
Diesel weasel
April 17th, 2008 at 9:35 pmJunx, there are NO female Navy SEALs. No woman could cut it. That’s as it should be. All we need is the Wussification of the Navy SEAL.
I’m female and I read almost exclusively political blogs, which are 98% male. Doesn’t bother me because most (not all, as evidenced here) women have mush for brains when it comes to politics. Most women’s political discussions sound like “The View.” Gag me!
Malkin and MANY other female bloggers rock. It’s just that the good, rational and realistic female blogs are not run by feminists or lefties.
I was a total feminist back in the day. Feminist blogs could not interest me less now.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:47 pmPeg C,
You are right.
There are fewer female football players and UFC contestants due to less market demand to attract an audience.
There are fewer male supermodels than female, for the same reason - less market demand for their images.
Professions that don’t depend on audience demand, like snipers, Navy seals, butchers, etc. are just inherent personality differences between men and women. There are more female than male midwives, seamstresses, Avon salepeople, etc. Men *could* do these things. But not many want to.
I never figured out why there are so many more female librarians than male, though.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:57 pmYou’d be cranky too if you were a man trapped in a woman’s body and were butt ugly and had no sense of humor and no one read your GD blog.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:58 pmI hope I’m not the only one here who considers Althouse and McArdle A-list bloggers?
April 18th, 2008 at 2:27 amLOL, I’m not the only one, Felicity mentioned Althouse. I should read more carefully.
April 18th, 2008 at 12:45 pmThe real problem with Glamour I suspect is that they lack certain attributes necessary for the appreciation of an intellect of Ann Althouse’s caliber.
Perhaps if Paris Hilton started a blog Glamour might notice it.
Just a minute.
Did that woman really use the word “testosterone” in connection with Sullivan and Moulitsas?
That is completely mysterious to me.
April 18th, 2008 at 1:05 pmTood says:
Remarkably, these ‘feminists’ do not fight the one thing that actually WOULD treat them with genuine mysogyny : Islam.
This is a lie. To give just one example, before 9/11, practically no one except Mavis Leno and the Feminist Majority Foundation was talking about the Taliban’s misogynist practices. Feminists have ALWAYS spoken out against misogyny around the world (including but not limited to the Islamic world) and have acted to support the women struggling against gender apartheid and other gender-based human rights abuses in other countries. This conservative talking point Tood references is unadulterated bullshit and a perfect example of why you shouldn’t believe everything you read.
See Katha Pollitt
I used to think that Islam’s growing presence in the West was 100% bad, but now I think it is only 98% bad and 2% good. The 2% good comes from the fact that the first people that the Islamists will scare into silence are ‘feminist’ nuts.
Also a lie, since even the most repressive Islamic countries have plenty of their own feminists who speak out and act out despite the enormous risks they face. But how lovely of you to fantasize about the day when we uppity women will be silenced by the threat of lashings, genital mutilation, honor killings, beheadings, and beatings by the religious police.
April 18th, 2008 at 1:49 pmBull puckey, Margeret. Feminists have spent more time, effort and money defending Bill Clinton’s indiscretions (ones that would have gotten a CEO fired, if you recall) than they have attacking people who keep women veiled.
They’ve spent more effort attacking Bush Jr. for his efforts in Iraq, then they have spent ensuring that this once-a-century (if that) opportunity for a spread of basic women’s rights in the region does not go to waste.
Whenever a choice arises between mindless leftist partisanship and genuinely helping women’s rights arises, the modern feminist movement has chosen the partisanship.
Every. Single. Time.
So spare us the lies.
April 18th, 2008 at 10:06 pmRachel, my first visit: Excellent blog with interesting comments. Thank you.
One question for the UFC and football folks: Gender related preferences explain why someone would want to participate, but why do men want to watch? As a gay man, I know why I’m watching (HD rocks!)…
On topic, political blogs are overrated. Christ shredding a half-pipe (trying to get into the spirit, here), it’s spring in the snow-covered, global-warming-passed-by Rockies, don’t we have better things to do?
April 18th, 2008 at 11:44 pmP.S. The first I heard of what the Taliban was doing to women was an episode of 7th Heaven; hardly a feminist bastion.
April 18th, 2008 at 11:46 pm