Amanda Marcotte is “pissed” again! News at 11
The X-Edwards bloggers is having serious PMS. This post below from her site Pandagon, her latest rant.
Sphere: Related ContentOur troll infestation is now about half what it was, but we still have some nimrods hanging in. As Lindsay pointed out to me, one of the great things about male privilege is the ability of some men to believe they are smart, despite all the evidence to the contrary. Anyway, one of idiots buys into the conservative belief that if you pay a woman to mouth sexist things, that renders them magically less sexist and leaves this comment that I thought somewhat deserves addressing.
By the way, does it bother you that one of the major architects of your demise was herself a strong woman, Michelle Malkin?
The question, coming from a false premise, is utterly meaningless. But I do want to address this false premise that someone like Malkin is a “strong woman”. Women who kow-tow to male dominance by aggressively attacking women who actually do rebel against oppression can expect to have sexist men blow this particular “strong woman” smoke up their ass all the time. It means nothing. To the degree that these men mean it, they are mistaking assholery for strength.
But they don’t really mean it, and we all know it. There is nothing strong about the ladies of CWA or IWF or assholes like Ann Coulter or Michelle Malkin. There is nothing strong about selling other women down the river so that sexist men will pat you on the head and say, “What a gooooood woman you are. Now go attack another uppity bitch and maybe this time I’ll give you a cookie.” Sexist men may praise you for your obsequiousness, but they don’t actually think you’re strong, and they don’t respect you. Look at the way the men at NRO can barely conceal their contempt for K-Lo—and for that, I don’t blame them. She is a contemptible weakling, with the way she constantly pushes Victorian ideals of sexuality that exist to control and shame women, all with her desperate hope that someone will congratulate her for her servility.
There’s no strength in selling out other women for the approval of sexists, and not only is it not strong to begin with, every time you do it, you become weaker and more dependent on that approval, which can be yanked at a moment’s notice. Like I said back with Ana Marie Cox sold out Katha Pollitt in order to get a book review run in the ever-sexist NY Times:
Well, one thing I’ve learned that Ana Marie apparently has not is that if you smile at sexist pigs and play their games, they may be nicer to your face, but they’re still going to call you a “cunt” behind your back.
And that is the golden rule to remember when the Oink Patrol dangles money and praise in front of your face, or will even call you strong, so long as you agree to suck up your dignity and promote sexism—they still think you’re a cunt. The commenter who called Michelle Malkin “strong” would flip around and call her a cunt so fast it would make your head spin, if she ever showed a sign of a real backbone and stood up for something real for once in her life. So the real question is, “By the way, does it bother you that one of the major architects of your demise was herself a sniveling sell-out, Michelle Malkin?” And really, I think that answers itself.
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