The feminist blogger Dr. Violet Socks gets it right, and it’s always gratifiying when lefties figure out how many sexists they are harboring in their own ranks:
Other former vice-presidential candidates or potential presidential candidates whose entire email archive from their time in office has been released so the press (or just people who read the WaPo online) can comb through looking for something interesting
By Violet Socks
You know, I can’t think of any. Nope, not a single one.
Look, we’re all feminists here. We all know the real reason for the Palin email panty-sniffing extravaganza. I’d just like to know what excuse, if any, the trash-pickers are using for treating this email archive like it’s the fucking Pentagon Papers. I haven’t seen anything online.
I wonder what they tell themselves in the privacy of their own minds, or on whatever has replaced JournoList. “Oh, it’s important that we do this because, unlike every other ex-governor/senator/congressperson who has ever run for vice-presidential or presidential office, Sarah Palin has been genetically determined to be the spawn of Satan—it’s a scientific fact!—and so we must be vigilant for the sake of our republic.”
That’s it; the whole thing is just woman-hating. And while it’s soooo important to go through a former governor’s emails with a fine-tooth comb that WaPo is enlisting help from the general public in this important endeavor, it’s apparently not important to find out more about Anthony Weiner’s serial sexual harrassment of young women.
So the mainstream media is worthless lately, even for them, and this makes me even more appreciative of Kristen Powers’s willingness to say what needs to be said about Rep. Weiner.
I’d rather hear from the honest people on the left and the right, versus those who lie for the sake of “team spirit.” Politics is not a freakin’ football game, people.
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Amen.
The only sane Lefty is named Dr. Violet Socks?
Good for her.
What Cass says
Thanks, Joy!
The question is, will this lead feminist women to actually change the way they ACT? I remember when we were promised all the fired-up womyn and gays were gonna teach Obama a lesson in 2008. (PUMAs, anyone?)
Crickets and coyotes in the voting booth. They never showed.
Violet has always seen the Palin hysteria for what it was, and for that matter, the Obama adoration and Clinton hysteria. “Hyst” being the operative term there. I don’t believe she thinks Palin is what she’s looking for in a politician, but Palin’s no worse than the average Republican and certainly not worth all this fuss.