Headline: The disturbing rise of the “Hillary Harridan”.
Well, disturbing to some, I suppose. I hate it when harridans don't know their place.
I like the alliteration, though. Clever.
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Marine slang: A clusterfuck was any group of Marines big enough to draw enemy fire, or several Marines close enough together to be wounded by the same incoming round. More generically, a clusterfuck was something that was all screwed up, i.e. "That blocking operation was a giant clusterfuck!" Whenever three or more CAP Marines gathered in the open, talking or working on something, somebody was sure to call out "clusterfuck!" and one or more guys would walk away. (Capmarine.com)
Clearly, Bush's war of choice in Iraq is "all screwed up"; that makes it a clusterfuck by definition. However, the term is even more a propos. Tactically, Bush's war of choice in Iraq is a clusterfuck. The analogy to "Marines close enough together to be wounded by the same incoming round" is clear. In Vietnam, "in the open" meant being exposed in the rice paddies or jungles. In Iraq, "in the open" means (1) urban warfare where (2) troops (and contractors) must be supplied by trucks which (3) are not armored thereby making them vulnerable to (4) the "incoming rounds" of IEDs placed along the roadside. Nice work, Inerrant Boy. (And the resonance to the words of Matthew 18:20, "wherever two or three are gathered together," is heartbreaking.) NOTE: A tip of the Ol' Corrente Hat to the man in the grey turtleneck for mainstreaming the word "clusterfuck" when applied to Bush's war of choice in Iraq.
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I Would Agree
that the stereotyping of women who are angry is disturbing. I think the focus on women swinging the election (or having the potential to swing the election) is a good thing. Nothing gets a party's attention like pain.
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. " - Eleanor Roosevelt
Lithwick's jealousy is showing
IMNVHO.
The women who are fed to the teeth with the treatment they received -- not just Hillary received, but women in general received -- in the primary campaign are not uniform in anything other than their general fed-upness. The degree varies; the reaction varies; the action it spurs varies.
Lithwick would like to be part of anything that powerful.
We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
1 John 4:18
Life's little ironies
Lithwick burbles:
Indeed. But you know how women are.
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I started reading the link and thought
are they talking about me?
Messy hair, stains...
I thought Lithwick used to post on legal issues, not literature, could be wrong, don't go to slate much unless someone links.
Anti-woman tripe
Lithwick is echoing "you're getting raped anyway, so you might as well relax and enjoy it" sexist rhetoric. Women who are angry and want to stand up for themselves in the face of sexism and injustice -- who do blog posts with titles like "NO MORE MS NICE GIRL" -- are designated as "harrdans".
This is the exact same rhetoric that anti-feminists have used to describe any woman who stands up for herself and her rights. Lithwack should be ashamed of herself.
"Only Obama can sell Obama to the American people."
--a much more accurate take that isn't about blaming everyone else on Earth for Obama's obvious flaws and weaknesses.
It's up to Obama to erase the doubt -- http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/08/21/its_up_to_obama_to_erase_the_doubt/