They Don't Get it
A few days ago the wonderful feminist blogger Echidne of the Snakes posted something she titled They Don't Get It #1. She wrote: This is a new weekly series I'm planning to begin right now. The idea is to pick something I come across in my surfing on the net that shows why feminists are still very much needed. Not something big and obviously relevant, but something that might not even seem sexist, something that will make people tell me that I have no sense of humor or something more important to do. Something to put a little thorn under our collective fingernails. Why not?.... Ok. Here's number one. It comes from one of Saturday's Eschaton threads: Democrats: always on the defensive. Always worried about what other people will think, or how something will "look". Grow some balls and fight like a man.
I think her idea is great, so while watching for her future contributions, I'll be posting my own as well. Here is today's nominee. It is a posting by Ezra Klein at Pandagon on 11/22/04 called "Clear The Zone" that begins: "Democrats, we all know, have the message clarity of a coed at her first kegger." It inspired a comment exchange that reads in pertinent part:
Ezra, sometimes you have the best similes. :) "Message clarity of a coed at her first kegger" That conveyed the precise idea.
Posted by Ted at November 22, 2004 08:18 PM
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Could we maybe lose the sexism? Co-ed at a kegger? Sheesh.
Posted by arna at November 22, 2004 10:57 PM
and like a coed at her first kegger the democrats always wake up the next day with their panties off and a vaguely familiar taste in their mouths.
Posted by pablo at November 22, 2004 11:00 PM
I rest my case.
Posted by arna at November 22, 2004 11:03 PM
Boy I can't wait for an entire productive discussion to get derailed over one goddamn simile.
Posted by agrajag at November 23, 2004 12:35 AM
Newsflash, fellows, there are more female Democrats than male ones and you do no service to party unity when you alienate people you otherwise might inspire and lead.
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