Why do left-wing women hate their counterparts on the conservative side? A number of conservatives have endeavored to explain the phenomenon. Our fellow Texans at
Lone Star Times are the latest to give it a shot, and we think they are right on target:
What is it about the female of the species on the port side of the ideological divide that allows them to be seized by fits of hysterical snarkiness and trivial banalities like post-pubescent 14 year old girls ? Maureen Dowd, Jane Hamsher, Ana Marie Cox, et al all seem to regress into a state of suspended eighth-grade angst when confronted by a Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman or now, it seems, Liz Cheney, the latest source of their paroxysms.
The LST piece quotes
Ron Radosh, who opines that Liz Cheney's opposition to Obama's foreign policy is what has Mo Dowd's undies in an uproar. Next it references
Noemie Emery, who says Liz Cheney is a pedigreed Palin -- a Super Sarah with beltway, rather than backwoods, roots. Finally, the article links to
Jennifer Rubin, who believes that strong, successful, feminine, conservative women with loving alpha male husbands and gaggles of children so challenge the leftist stereotype of feminism that liberal women just can't deal with it and lash out those women on the right who have everything the leftist women don't:
Liz Cheney has a husband and five children. So does Sarah Palin. So does [Michele Bachmann].
Hmmm.
And all three of these women manage successful public careers, are fearless in defending their opinions and find no obstacles in their chosen positions as leaders in the conservative movement.
Who would have thought it ?
- JP
Thanks for posting this! It reminded me of something I posted at the Palination earlier this month, an interview with Michele Bachmann on this very subject!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thepalination.com/2009/10/congresswoman-bachmann-on-why-thes-left.html
The Left's double-standard sexism is appalling; she's "dumb" because she's a happy and attractive Christian, who enjoys being a mother?
ReplyDeleteReal feminists need to be angry, wear combat boots, no make-up, short hair, and live alone in a studio apartment in the East Village?
She's not the right kind of example because she doesn't support affirmative action... but instead went out there and just kicked butt?
Sarah Palin has been highly successful in life while ignoring the left-wing feminist model... this helps to explain the extra dose of venom in the attacks.
Alaska was a pretty corrupt system until she stepped in. Her reforms took on entrenched politicians (inc. Republicans), a mafioso-style union boss, and Big Oil.
Wouldn't it have been nice if Obama had been principled and brave enough to confront the corrupt Chicago Democratic Machine?
Or shady political operators like Tony Rezko?
Racist preachers?
Instead of doing business with every last one of them?
Go get em, Sarah-
You know what Chairman Steele needs to do?
ReplyDeleteOrganize a photo shoot with Cheney, Palin, and Bachmann and put together a Repub ad campaign:
"This is the face of the new GOP"
"You've come a long way, baby!"