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Groovy Blogger: Proud Mysogynist

by snork ( 319 Comments › )
Filed under LGF, Open thread, Progressives at February 9th, 2010 - 7:00 pm

This isn’t any news to anyone who has been paying attention, but just for the record, naked misogyny is proudly on display here:

Pamela Geller Shrieks on Joy Behar

Blogosphere | Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:10:19 am PST

Pamela Geller’s appearance last night on the Joy Behar show with Ron Reagan and Stephanie Miller perfectly demonstrates why Geller has become known on the Internet as the “shrieking harpy.”

Geller actually seems to think she came off well on this show, in which she tells Ron Reagan what his own father would have thought about Sarah Palin, and rants continuously like a howler monkey on crack for the whole segment. Notice that it ends as Joy Behar tells Geller, “You have not shut up.”

His defense will be, of course, that this was a debate that involved other women who weren’t being called harpies. That would be like Robert Byrd saying it was ok for him to use the “N” word, because he’s sitting next to Jesse Jackson. Non-sequitur. But notice, also, that his stated justification is that other extreme left-wing fanatics on the internet also do it, so that makes it ok.

This shouldn’t be surprising, given the classless way that this (these?) blogger(s?) also uses the homophobic term “teabagger” routinely. And as we all know, one of his favorite sockpuppets regulars has been caught planting n-bombs on other sites.

Memo to whomever is writing that blog: you don’t have to use such juvenile, bigoted, and offensive language, if you have an actual point to make. But if you don’t, shutting up will make less of an ass of yourself(ves?) than displaying your bigotry and childishness.

There. Somebody had to say it. This is an open thread.

Extra: It appears that the time has finally come when Islamist talking points are openly discussed there:

235 jamesfirecat Tue, Feb 9, 2010 12:12:49pm replyquote

re: #232 JeffM70
I simply don’t understand this obsession the far right has with Israel. It’s almost as if the United States has to subordinate its interests to those of Israel’s, at least in instances where there is a disagreement.

What I never got about Israel is if we were trying to make up for the horrors of the holocaust, why we didn’t just give them a part of Germany…

25 comments go by before someone responds lamely to this:

260 JeffM70 Tue, Feb 9, 2010 12:22:49pm

re: #235 jamesfirecat

They wanted their ancestral home land returned to them, and Germany was not it, so why would they want it?

Soon, Mearsheimer and Walt will be respected scientists there. Just watch.

Extra Extra: Speaking of misogynists at the BVoAF, it seems like their misogynist-in-chief is leaving the farm due to lack of internet:

43 Cato the Elder Tue, Feb 9, 2010 5:02:48pm

Just to let you all know, I will soon be losing my internet account for lack of funds. It’s been real, but don’t expect to hear from me in the foreseeable future.

Bubye, dick. Just because you were never able to get any doesn’t mean you should hate women whom you’ve never met.

JihadTV Sued By Useful Idiot

by Phantom Ace Comments Off on JihadTV Sued By Useful Idiot
Filed under Media at September 10th, 2008 - 9:36 am

Al Jazeera, the terrorist’s favorite news channel, is being sued by one of the Western idiots who accepted their money, but now says they’re biased against Christians and women.

I wonder what tipped her off?

A British woman who worked as a television executive at Al-Jazeera has taken the Arab news channel to court, alleging religious and sex discrimination on the job.

Josephine Burgin, 49, is appearing before an employment tribunal in London this week. She claimed in testimony on Tuesday that she suffered discrimination as a woman and a Christian at the broadcaster’s English-language service, where she worked for two years as head of planning

(Hat tip: Charlie the Fake)

 

Feminist Makes Excuses for Misogyny

by Phantom Ace ( 7 Comments › )
Filed under Islamists at August 31st, 2008 - 9:03 am

One of the most bizarre manifestations of leftist cognitive dissonance occurs when hardcore feminists like Naomi Wolf abandon all their principles and twist themselves into philosophical knots, in order to make excuses for one of the most misogynistic belief systems on Earth: Behind the veil lives a thriving Muslim sexuality.

Ideological battles are often waged with women’s bodies as their emblems, and Western Islamophobia is no exception. When France banned headscarves in schools, it used the hijab as a proxy for Western values in general, including the appropriate status of women. When Americans were being prepared for the invasion of Afghanistan, the Taliban were demonised for denying cosmetics and hair colour to women; when the Taliban were overthrown, Western writers often noted that women had taken off their scarves.

But are we in the West radically misinterpreting Muslim sexual mores, particularly the meaning to many Muslim women of being veiled or wearing the chador? And are we blind to our own markers of the oppression and control of women?

The West interprets veiling as repression of women and suppression of their sexuality. But when I travelled in Muslim countries and was invited to join a discussion in women-only settings within Muslim homes, I learned that Muslim attitudes toward women’s appearance and sexuality are not rooted in repression, but in a strong sense of public versus private, of what is due to God and what is due to one’s husband. It is not that Islam suppresses sexuality, but that it embodies a strongly developed sense of its appropriate channelling – toward marriage, the bonds that sustain family life, and the attachment that secures a home.

(Hat tip: Nancy@LGF our #1 contributor)