I can appreciate an intellectually honest liberal, like Kirsten Powers, who wrote this article and appears regularly on Fox News Watch. For a similar and more provocative take on this issue, I highly recommend this article.
I don't know when this trend started -- perhaps with Bill Clinton's frequent use of the sluts-and-nuts defense -- but it is now an accepted tactic of the Left to villify and demonize its female opponents with sexist slurs. Sexism is evidently perfectly acceptable to many, if it is deployed to elect Democrats or help them stay in power. An intellectually honest liberal -- that is, one who is genuinely concerned about rooting out sexism -- should share my sadness about this development.
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It does not take long to find liberals willing to excuse this kind of behavior, as long as it is in the name of electing a Democrat. See today's column from Meghan Daum, calling the issue a "yawner" http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-daum-20101014,0,7036600.column.
ReplyDeleteThis so-called "yawner" is a candidate for governor of California agreeing with an aide to release a television advertisement that calls their female opponent a whore. Somehow I doubt Daum would have "yawned" if the same conversation had taken place between George W. Bush and Karl Rove instead of Jerry Brown and his aide.
People of all political persuasions should be disgusted.
Excellent article. Here is my favorite quote.
ReplyDelete"Liberals need women dependent and scared so that women, like blacks, will vote Democrat".