Last Monday, The New York Times reported:
Seen but not heard?
Michelle Obama joined Senator Barack Obama at a rally Sunday, but she did not speak. That was hardly unusual, particularly because Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. was on hand to intorduce the man at the top of the Democratic ticket.
But Mr. Obama went on to offer an explanation anyway.
"Michelle decided she wasn't going to speak today," Mr. Obama told a crowd in Detroit. "She just wanted to sit there and look cute. That's O.K. It's O.K. with me!"
Mrs. Obama smiled, but it was unclear if it was O.K. with her.
Reading's so hard for our faux feminists. Of course, had Robin Morgan and others seen it, they would have just stayed silent the way they have ALL DAMN YEAR.
It was more sexism on the part of Barack, driving home yet again that his repeated reference to women as "sweeties," that his non-stop sexism (and that of his surrogates) throughout the primary campaign (and ongoing in the general) was O.K. with him. Or, as he would put it, "That's O.K. It's O.K. with me!"
(For the non-readers, Jeff Zeleny wrote the item which had the headline "Silent Partner" and ran in the sidebar titled "THE CAUCUS" on A17.)
Is that O.K. with Robin Morgan? Is it O.K. with the feminist leaders and 'leaders'?
It's amazing what the Trash From Chicago has gotten away with repeatedly. Homophobia didn't bother our so-called leading feminists so it's no surprise that they've REFUSED to call out a candidate so sexist he makes Clayton Williams fade from memory.
Long before Bob Packwood got exposed, it was well known he wasn't a man any woman wanted to be alone with. The 'feminist' answer was not to meet with him solo but in teams. Bobby was a friend! Bobby couldn't be called out! Bobby would protect Roe v. Wade!
Packwood was disgusting trash and it's not all that surprising that the same feminists who knew that and refused to call it out are running interference for Barack today.
I don't understand,
Why do I stress a man,
When there's so many better things at hand,
We could have never had it all,
We had to hit a wall,
So this is inevitable withdrawal,
Even if I stop wanting you,
And perspective pushes thru,
I'll be some next man's other woman soon,
I shouldn't play myself again,
I should just be my own best friend,
Not fuck myself in the head with stupid men
Fuck themselves in the head with stupid men is what too many supposed leaders continue to do. And who knew Amy Winehouse would offer a stronger feminist statment ("Tears Dry On Their Own") than anything Robin Morgan, Gloria Steinem, Kim Gandy, et al could offer in all their de-clawed meekness?
Remember how Gloria's claimed for years that women get more radical with age. Robin Morgan made the same claim in Janaury in her "Goodbye To All That No. 2" but somehow, like Diana Ross, we're left singing, "I'm still waiting . . . still waiting . . . I'm just a fool . . . to keep waiting . . . for you." We're seeing the same Democratic cheerleader and apologist we saw in 1968, 1972, 1976 . . . get the idea. As Mother Jones infamously pointed out in 1992, the role of Catwoman (independent actor) at that year's DNC convention went to Maureen Dowd not Gloria. And as Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente run for the White House, we're not only aware of how they are ignored and ostracized by the so-called feminist establishment but we're really reminded of 1972 and Shirley Chisholm's condemnations of so-called support from some feminists.
That's right, the same crowd that couldn't support Shirley (except in swing-states!), the same crowd that served shit at the 1976 DNC convention but thought they could plop a cherry on top and call it an ice cream sundae is doing what they do so well and so very often.
Try to make us swallow sexism
We say no, no, no!
Yes, he used homophobia and won't get our votes
We say no, no, no!
Get your ass to feminist rehab
We say go, go, go!
