There are a lot of regular blogosphere "features" out there already, more than I can easily name. There's the Daily Wanker, or best demonstration of what makes winger "logic" the joke it is. There's the Five O'Clock NewsDump, when some embarrassing detail of Republican malfeasance is swept under the rug by our Famously Free Press. I now propose it's time we bring back and Oldie but Goodie; one that has a special relevance in this new year.

Your Moment in Misogyny, brought to you by the ever relevant HuffPo:

As I watched Nancy Pelosi on Sunday morning, and I was stunned to discover that she and I both seem to have had the same haircut this week. It was a mistake for us both, in my opinion. How Nancy Pelosi had time to get her hair cut I don't know, but I know how I did: I went to have my annual mammogram, and it was (as usual) so painful and horrible that I emerged completely deranged onto Madison Avenue, bought three pairs of shoes and wandered into my hairdresser's, hoping she was free. She was, and as a result, my hair is too short. So is Nancy's.
I have had a lot of haircuts that were too short in my life, and I know that eventually, in a couple of weeks, it will grow in and I will feel better. In the meantime, though, a bad haircut takes a toll. It's depressing. It makes you feel powerless. It makes you a kind of muted version of yourself. So I like to think that that's why Nancy seemed so powerless, depressed and muted on Face the Nation Sunday, especially when she said that President Bush was going to have to justify himself in order for Congress to consider his impending request to send 20,000 more troops to Iraq.

Wow! There's almost so much anti-feminist claptrap I'm impressed she squeezed it into such a small space. But that's a key feature of our press corps: endless room for endless amount of Repubican/procorporate elitespeak BS. Bulky, meaningful things like fact and logic don't make it in, often.

This is Double Dogwhistle time. Here we have all the reminders of "femininity" (shopping, shoes, haircuts) cast in the self-depreciating negative. That way, women who hate themselves/others for both of the prevailing antifeminist narrative reasons can find a reason to dislike Nancy. She's a Bad Woman (thus unfit leader) because she is concerned with ungovernmental things (as a woman can only be) like shoes and haircuts, and she's a Bad Woman because she made poor choices in the realm all women must be good at, regardless of profession or interest.

This essay also whines in the ears of the male dogs. Nancy is a woman (gasp!) who is better for little more than shopping and nelly hair sessions, who makes "mistakes" and will probably die from one of them dirty-pillow diseases because she will get a "mammogram" and it will tell her she's old and dried up, "impotent" and "powerless" and who should be "muted" whenever she's on the TV the better not to annoy the Great White Armchair Dweller with her whining, feminine voice.

But you have to love the "cover" Nora gives herself:

Bob Schieffer asked Nancy Pelosi if she thought that she would be held to a higher standard let's create a wholly irrelevant talking point we've never applied to Republican men as the first woman Speaker of the House; see, she's a woman, we've never had any of those, we can't trust them. he asked whether she thought that if she failed you just know she will, it might hurt other woman candidates god, let's not have any of those. "I'm not going to fail," Pelosi replied. I liked that answer, it was spunky, spunkier gack, gack, what's this in my mouth? than anything else Pelosi said, and I applaud her for overcoming her haircut and having a spunky moment treat her like a bitch and she'll give you some too. But there's no question that women are judged more harshly than men, and not just by men. ha ha, isn't this 'reverse psychology' stuff funny? I mean, look at me. it's always been about me anyways, you know that. I am actually blaming the disappointing behavior of the first woman Speaker of the House on her haircut. This is worse than inexcusable, it's unjustifiable.ha ha, look at me. me so clever, me so smart. this be irony, me know! it funny!

I will be better in a couple of weeks, and I hope Nancy will be too. No, you won't, you'll still suck as hard.

Hopefully, we can kill this "Nancy is a woman, the horror, the horror" meme early on, but somehow I don't have a lot of faith that the SCLM is going to quickly relearn its feminist groundings. I don't doubt there will be at least one daily: some member of the "liberal" press who willcontribute to the reanimiation of this old corpse, this dead weight of the past that once many of us believed we'd killed. Vigilance eternal, and all that. But look for me to try to add one of these as often as it takes to remind some progressives that misogyny is as unsexy, unacceptable, and rendering instantly suspect any and all who propagate it. IIRC, that is the purpose of "killing Loud Obbs" and other blogosphere movements to eradicate by the death of the Thousand Mocking Posts.