Hopium Smokers who Hate Women
By medusa on November 12, 2008 at 10:20 AM in Barack Obama, Chicago politics, Hillary Clinton, Misogyny, Race Card, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Sarah Palin, Sexism, Women, Women and Children
The Geneva Convention, as I understand it, is a contract among signatories that, among other things, obligates them to the humane treatment of prisoners of war, military and civilian. Most importantly, the treatment is a guarantee that these nations do unto us as we do unto them.
Feminists, and so-called feminists, and even those who don’t call themselves feminists but who claim to treat women with respect, need to study this concept of reciprocity.
I’m thinking particularly of the fauxgressives: those from Huff-Chuck, the Daily Voldomort, the more feminist-than-thou feminists, the maenads who in the Bacchic euphoria of their messiah, rip other women into shreds.
ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE SO-CALLED LIBERALS, DEMOCRATS AND PROGRESSIVES: Once you engage in the free-for-all of sexism and misogyny, everyone is fair game, even those hurling venom themselves. Once sexism and misogyny are qualified as weapons, anyone and everyone will use them.
Those self-righteous hypocrites who sit in judgment of Sarah Palin, reveling in their foul-mouthed insults of her intelligence, her family and her politics, etc, will squeal like bullies when someone insults them. Going after Hillary, going after Geraldine Ferraro, going after Harriet Christen, going after any woman who had the courage to speak out in public about Barack Obama’s PROFOUND LACK OF EXPERIENCE; HIS ASSOCIATION WITH RACISTS, WITH TERRORISTS, AND WITH CROOKS; HIS CONSTANT ACCUSATIONS OF RACISM; AND STATING THE OBVIOUS FACT THAT OBAMA GOT WHERE HE IS BY MANIPULATING, LYING, AND RACE BAITING.
So what do the schoolyard bullies do? They name call and insult. But like all bullies, they direct their worst attacks on those with innate characteristics. Just as schoolyard bullies love picking on the little guys with glasses, or the kid with the funny teeth or who’s overweight, these election bullies have gone after women. The fact that they are women is seen as a weakness to exploit.
What is most galling is that the so-called liberals, the ones smoking the Hopium, feel justified in doing it.
Driving a wedge between women of diverse political positions, races, and religions has a long and shameful history. This wedge disappears in the shared female experiences of child birth and nurturing, caring for the sick and aging, rape and domestic abuse, and attending the dying and mourning the dead.
Historically, women and children have been collateral damage during wars. The image above “Widows and Ophans” is by the German Expressionist, Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945). Kollwitz’s son died in WWI and her grandson in WWII. Her painting below, “The Survivors” was used in a 1922 conference at The Hague.
Women have suffered far too much and for too long while putting the needs of men first. Although male supremacy was the prevailing narrative of this campaign, many women and men are horrified that so-called progressives would subject women — specifically Senator Hillary Clinton and Governor Sarah Palin — to such vile and violent language. Bitch is the “N” word, but the so-called progressives may have awoken a sleeping giant, namely 52% of population. And she’s pissed.
Other excellent No Quarter posts on the sexism in the 2008 campaign:
Palin In The Aftermath by Texas Hill Country
“He had me until he picked the dummy” by NewHampster
Knock It Off Already by Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy
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