Re: [Pen-l] song about Palin

[ravi <ravi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 20, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Shane Mage wrote:
> On Sep 20, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
> > I know that the GOP use of the term "sexism" to defend Palin has had
> > the beneficial side-effect (for them) of undermining and discouraging
> > any future use of the word...


I think it helps us. No longer can the right accuse us of playing the  
sex/gender card or ridicule our complaints of sexism. IMHO, this whole  
line of argument of theirs has been the only +ve outcome of the Palin  
affair.


> But how *does* one refer to a female pit bull?


Well, yes, but that's a serendipitous technicality, yes? You use it, I  
assume, and it works for you readers, because of the *other* usage of  
the word "bitch".


> I remember that, at the time of Le Feuilleton Monique,  I got quite  
> a few laughs with the line "That all the media types are talking  
> willy-nilly about Willie's willy just gives me the willies," but  
> never was I accused of sexism.


Disagree somewhat: Sexism towards Bill Clinton? Discrimination  
(criticisms of it, that is) cannot be symmetrically applied, can it?


> > IMHO, it's much better to make _substantive_ criticisms of Palin,
> > McCain, Obama, and Biden (remember him?)
> Obama and Biden are appealing, dishonestly to be sure, to people  
> that one can hope will be responsive to substantive criticism.   
> McNothing and his pit bull bitch, not so.  They deserve all the  
> ridicule they can get (Editorial cartoonists and Stewart/Colbert are  
> doing a really great job of it--from the Dumbocratic campaign,  
> bupkis).


Agree entirely (with Shane).

	--ravi

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