Category Archives: Feminism

Roar No More, Nancy

Democrats, Feminism

If I hear Nancy Pelosi, or any of her acolytes, roar once more about her womanhood, I’ll be sick. To listen to Bill Press, Arianna Huffington, and other left-liberals, Pelosi’s election as “the nation’s first-ever female House speaker” should mean a great deal to me as a woman. That’s a whole lot of nonsense. Anyone, man or woman, who intends to increase minimum wage, further socialize medicine, and make global warming the official state religion, doesn’t make me proud.

Here’s Nancy roaring:

Today I thank my colleagues. By electing me as speaker you have brought us closer to the ideal of equality that is America’s heritage and America’s hope,” Pelosi said. “This is an historic moment —for the Congress, and for the women of America. It is a moment for which we have waited more than 200 years. Never losing faith, we waited through the many years of struggle to achieve our rights.

Now put a sock in it.

‘A Christmas Story’

Feminism, Film, The West

Set in the 1940s, the film ‘A Christmas Story’ depicts a series of family vignettes through the eyes of 9-year-old Ralphie, who yearns for that gift of all gifts: the Daisy Red Ryder BB gun. This was boyhood before ‘bang-bang you’re dead’ was banned; family life prior to ‘One Dad Two Dads Brown Dad Blue Dads’ and Christmas without the ACLU.

‘A Christmas Story’ is also film before Dakota Fanning (that prototypical, barf-making, American child actor). All the more reason to savor it.

Merry Christmas to all,
ILANA

'A Christmas Story'

Feminism, Film, The West

Set in the 1940s, the film ‘A Christmas Story’ depicts a series of family vignettes through the eyes of 9-year-old Ralphie, who yearns for that gift of all gifts: the Daisy Red Ryder BB gun. This was boyhood before ‘bang-bang you’re dead’ was banned; family life prior to ‘One Dad Two Dads Brown Dad Blue Dads’ and Christmas without the ACLU.

‘A Christmas Story’ is also film before Dakota Fanning (that prototypical, barf-making, American child actor). All the more reason to savor it.

Merry Christmas to all,
ILANA

Letter of the Week: The Banality of Feminism in All Permutations

Feminism, The Zeitgeist

ALEX WRITES:

I never really cared for Paglia. I thought her another feminist, and I guess these comments make it so.

When I read how she felt that a majority of men envied women’s reproductive ability—to have children—I scratched my head. I can’t remember the last time I felt the need to become pregnant.

I never liked Tom Cruise until his excellent performance of the contract killer, “Vincent,” in the terrific Collateral. His glib nihilism and ruthless zeal was conveyed with a subtle performance that some might miss. It was a refreshing and surprising turn from an actor who had given us such dreck as Top Gun and that awful, can’t-remember-its-name, Daytona movie.

Back to Paglia: how is the trumpeting of sex by Britney Spears and her ilk bad for the sex movement? Isn’t that what the sex movement is all about? And what’s with this mundane “pro-sex” ideal that she speaks of? Is she a libertine? Gross. [Related read: “On Sexual Bombast and Bliss“]

For another taste of the nasties, check out the posts from other feminists on the board, who are complaining and wailing that public crotch shots and nudity are, “Like, soooo tame, and like, get over it already—it’s HER body, after all.”

Wonder if the same thing could be said if a disgusting, overweight plumber was caught flashing his penis in public. Would the hip press be debating whether or not it was a career move, or would they state that he was a disgusting and disturbed man? Would these women come to his aid, because it was, “Like, HIS body, ‘after all’?”

—Alex