Well-honed knives
This bit by Michelle Malkin is so gleefully snippy that I laughed right out loud, and then when you consider that she’s providing links to some excellent female bloggers to boot, well, why would I not excerpt it?
From her high perch at the Times, (Bushate-obsessed harpy Maureen – ed) Dowd calls on her liberal colleagues to “find and nurture” female commentators. We know, of course, that these tough women thinkers and writers on the right don’t count in Dowd’s eyes. Nor do the many conservative female columnists at Townhall.com or Jewish World Review.
Conservative women aren’t real women according to the liberal feminist establishment’s definition. Remember when Gloria Steinem called Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson a “female impersonator?” Or when curdled NOW leader Patricia Ireland instructed Democrats to vote only for “authentic” female political candidates? Or when Al Gore’s fashion consultant Naomi Wolf described the foreign-policy analysis of Jeane Kirkpatrick as being “uninflected by the experiences of the female body?”
So, you can see why I normally greet these MSM harangues about the lack of gender diversity with a hearty, male-sounding snort. In this case, though, I’m going to take up the invitation to spotlight many, many women writers in the blogosphere who are far better investments of your time and attention than the self-appointed representatives of gender diversity in your newspapers. I don’t read them because of their reproductive organs. I read them because they are sharp. Funny. Incisive. Informative. And because, unlike the Times’ resident harridan, these women know what the hell they are writing about–from politics and culture to law to terrorism to military affairs.
“Curdled NOW leader”? “Resident harridan”? Whoa, that’s good squishy!
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