Welcome to the site that wants to take down the Democratic party. I know, you're as surprised as I am to read that it's due to actions like mine that Democrats can't win.
De-blogrolling Kos is the equivalent to planting a truck bomb under Dem Party headquarters, apparently. (I also de-blogrolled Atrios, Oliver Willis, and a couple others for whatever reasons. That probably means I'm Karl Rove's inside operative he never knew about.)
Imagine, all those years I've spent walking the streets handing out literature, all those days and nights working for Democratic candidates—guys like Bill Richardson, Howard Dean, and Herb Kohl—when all along I was secretly plotting the downfall of the entire party with just a few subversive clicks on my blogroll.
I should have been shaving my legs instead:
And like that, Kos is on the shit-list with the crowd who dares not shave their legs.
Us feminists—or Femi-nazis as Rush Limbaugh cheerfully calls us—are truly the spawns of the Republican devils, despite the fact the grunt work at most Democratic Party offices I've been to has been done by women volunteers, most of whom consider themselves feminists, (albiet some of them still shave their legs). How dare we demand our concerns be listened to, responded to without condescension, even!
(Ironically, the issue that provoked the pie fight at Kos—a semi-pornographic ad—is the type of issue that will win us Republican "values" voters. Feminists are against porn, because it objectifies women. We could turn around and say it's sites like Kos—that peddle "smut"—that are destroying the Democratic party. But we won't.)
Democrats, the natural beneficiary of the estrogen vote, are becoming their own party mascot, the ass, when it comes to women's issues. How many times did the subject of equal pay come up during the election? How hard did John Kerry run away from standing up for abortion rights? How many women did he consider for a running mate? How many times did he bring up child care in the national debates?
And how big a percentage of the women's vote did he win? Less than Al Gore, despite having a pretty good record on women's issues. They were instead shoved under the table, the very table where women were busy manning the phonebanks, while Kerry held forth about national security in case those women in the front row might be Security Moms.
As many of the voters I talked to during the primaries told me, women's issues are everyone's issues—men have daughters whose rights they want protected, spouses who deserve equal pay, parents that need elder care. But women are the ones who occasionally demand these issues be discussed.
When we do, we're told to sit down, raise our hands, and we'll be called on.
Maybe in our women's studies classes that will happen, but it hasn't lately in the Democratic Party. Instead, we're handed another stack of envelopes to stuff, another list of phone calls to make, and told to sit tight while the boys examine the poll results.
The Republicans didn't get where they are by ignoring their base. The Democrats did, however, get where they are—in the minority—by ignoring important issues like child care and equal pay, and the fact we are one Supreme Court justice away from a return to back alley abortions.
So compare us to Lieberman for daring to complain when we see pornography peddled on liberal sites. Call us traitors to the cause for refusing to be condescended to. (Then try to backtrack and call it "humor" when you accuse us of "challenging unity.") And go ahead, make my day: call me "sanctimonious and tedious," at the same time you're referring to your job as "important shit."
Important shit, my ass.
I've got too many envelopes to stuff to worry about your concerns that I'm destroying the Democratic Party, and too many elections to phonebank to care about whatever important shit Kos has up his ass.
So, if you're one of those who've come here to see the site that's out to destroy the Democratic party, go here instead.
If you'd like to read more about why we're so upset (especially at being called "humorless") and discover that some women are better at waxing philosophical than waxing their legs, go to one of these sites and read their wonderful posts on the same subject:
Shakespeare's Sister
Amanda at Pandagon
Lauren at Feministe
Elise at After School Snack
Catherine at Poverty Barn
Tami, the One True
Pinko Feminist Hellcat
