Feminism dies from global warming

The sexual allegations against Al Gore would be hilarious if they didn't involve harm to an actual woman.

Instead, they are yet another datapoint proving that feminism is nothing more than a hobby for upper-middle class white women.

Mark  Steyn has noted many times that the same double standard about "women's rights" comes into play in the Muslim world - even when that world comes to the United States.  Beaten by a husband?  Trapped in an arranged marriage?  Threatened with death for speaking with your own voice?

Don't call NOW, they aren't interested.  They're busy watching re-runs of "The Burning Bed" on Lifetime.

What is so striking about Al Gore is not the allegations, but the reaction to them.  The victim was held up to ridicule, urged to keep quiet - in short treated just as predicted by stereotypes that 40 years of feminism were supposed to destroy.

The ever-pithy Hated Instapundit nails it:  

“Suzy, if you tell what Joe did to you after the dance, we’ll lose the big game!“

Comments

[apetra]

Feminism died with Bill Clinton.

Didn't Carville say something like "look what comes out when you drag a dollar on a hook through the trailer park" about Troopergate?

But for the stained blue dress, Monica Lewinsky would have been the poster child for delusional overweight younger career chicks obsessed with their upstanding bosses.

[Chuck Pelto]

TO: K.N., et al.
RE: Heh

"What is so striking about Al Gore is not the allegations, but the reaction to them. The victim was held up to ridicule, urged to keep quiet - in short treated just as predicted by stereotypes that 40 years of feminism were supposed to destroy." -- K.N.

Nothing surprising here. Typical hypocrisy. And the sooner everyone recognizes it, the sooner we'll be able to deal with it properly....that is calling it and the people who practice it out in the public venue.

Regards,

Chuck(le)
[Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.]

[Occam's Beard]

Instead, they are yet another datapoint proving that feminism is nothing more than a [hobby for upper-middle class white women] ...make that ..."vehicle for communist agitation." Just like environmentalism, peace movements, and contemporary civil rights organizations, to name a few.

[f1b0nacc1]

Feminists are nothing more than the ladies auxilary for the DNC

[Seerak]

Of all the charges to be laid at the feet of the Left, hypocrisy is pretty weak tea. If you operate on the premise that the Left's main, original and only goal is the destruction of political liberty and its secular Enlightenment roots, everything they do is just about 100% consistent with this goal.

[Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.]

Funny, I didn't know that conservative Roger Kimball was an atheist.

[Seerak]

And now that I have found that this site is stupidly set to kill HTML without warning, here's the URL missing from "Roger Kimball" above:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/03/dont_let_spitzer_get_away_with.html

[Rick Caird]

apetra makes an excellent point. Linda Tripp told Lewinski to keep the dress and not to get it cleaned. I remember they were just starting to trash Lewinski with people who had "known her in high school". But as soon as the blue dress came out, all that stopped. Carville, et al, didn't want to make her any angrier than she already was.

[Chuck Pelto]

TO: Seerak
RE: Hypocrisy....

....is hardly 'weak'. Indeed, it is the stuff that makes those who practice it abject liars.

If you doubt this either (1) re-read your own statement, as well as the others here or (2) go back to Vulcan.

Indeed, you're pointing out Kimball as a 'hypocrite' marks your own hypocrisy where you say it means nothing and then use the same tool to attack someone else.....hypocrite.

Regards,

Chuck(le)
[The Truth will out....and sometimes even in one 'breath'....]

[Chuck Pelto]

P.S. If you don't quite 'get it' about being a hypocrite....

....it means your credibility in any serious discussion just developed a sucking chest wound from a 125mm depleted uranium SABOT round.

[Chuck Pelto]

P.P.S. Just like the so-called 'feminists' being addressed in this thread.

[Jimbo]

Which is the bigger business, preaching about global warming as a result of human excesses or the current manufacturing conglomerates of the world collectively producing products for human consumption? Then, who has the bigger reason to lie?

[Micha Elyi]

Feminism dies?

Ha ha ha. Feminism has been a movement of the living dead since its mid-1970s 180 degree turnabout from Divorce Is Liberation to Divorce Is Feminization Of Poverty.

However many times it dissolves into dust with a scream at the touch of sunlight, feminism will return again and again until its crypts in government offices of "equal opportunity" and university grievance studies departments are destroyed for all time.

[papertiger]

Doesn't Oprah have a blog?

So wtf. Put her on notice.
Check her into the boards.

If Orka doesn't have pretensions of feminism to bellow about, doesn't that mean she folds up the moomoo and goes home, never to plague humanity again?

Either that or she trashes Fat Albert.

I like both options.

We aren't playing chess here. This is a hockey match, politics I mean.

If we score it's mostly by accident, but in the meanwhile you don't let the other team skate clean.

Check her into the boards.

[Chuck Pelto]

TO: Jimbo
RE: The 'Liars'

Rather than lying vis-a-vis 'big business', consider who wants more 'control'.

The government WILL control the 'big business' through the passage of such acts as Cap & Trade. And YOU and I and EVERYONE ELSE will pay the price.

Regards,

Chuck(le)
P.S. When did you graduate from high school?