Tight-Waist

The Four Stages of Conservative Female Abuse
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008

There’s something about outspoken conservative women that drives the Left mad. It’s a peculiar pathology I’ve reported on for more than 15 years, both as a witness and a target. Thus, the onset of Palin Derangement Syndrome in the media, Democrat circles, and the cesspools of the blogosphere came as no surprise. They just can’t help themselves.

Liberals hold a special animus for constituencies they deem traitors. Minorities who identify as social and economic conservatives have left the plantation and sold out their people. Women who put an “R” by their name have abandoned their ovaries and betrayed their gender. As Republican officeholders and conservative public figures who are women have grown in number and visibility, the progression of Conservative Female Abuse has worsened. The astonishing vitriol and virulent hatred directed at GOP Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is the most severe manifestation to date.

The first stage of Conservative Female Abuse by the Left is infantilization. Right-wing women can’t possibly believe what they believe about the sanctity of life, self-defense, free markets, or foreign policy. They must be submissive little dolls of the White Male Hierarchy. Or, as a far Left (is there any other kind of Left in San Francisco?) San Francisco Chronicle columnist wrote of First Lady Laura Bush, they must be put in their place as “docile doormats” with no brains of their own. True to form, no sooner had John McCain announced Gov. Palin as his veep pick than jeers of “Palin = neocon puppet” sprouted across the Internet.

The second stage of CFA is sexualization. A conservative woman is not merely a sellout. She is an intellectual prostitute. Unable or unwilling to argue with them on the merits, detractors resort to mocking the physical appearance of their ideological opponents in skirts and denigrating them with vulgar epithets. MSNBC hosts insulted former GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson’s accomplished wife and mother of two, Jeri Thompson, as working the stripper pole. Newspaper cartoonists Ted Rall, Pat Oliphant, and Jeff Danziger caricatured Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as a mammy, thick-lipped parrot, and Bush “House Nigga” armed with “hair straightener.” New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd derided former GOP Florida secretary of state Katherine Harris for applying “her makeup with a trowel.”

True to form, Dowd was first out of the box to snicker at Gov. Palin’s beauty pageant past, ridicule her “beehive and sexy shoes,” and compare her path to the vice presidential nomination as a “hokey chick flick.” Joe Biden backhandedly praised her as “good looking.” And left-wing bloggers worked overtime on lurid photoshops of Palin as a bikini model and porn star. At the Democratic Underground, a highly trafficked liberal website raising money for Barack Obama, members held a contest to come up with nicknames and posters to slime GOP Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — and then to “spread [them] all over the ‘net.” Among the “nicer” entries: “Cruella,” “Gidget,” “Governor Jesus Camp,” “VPILF,” “Fertilla the Huntress,” “Iditabroad,” and “KILLER PYSCHO FUNDIE BITCH FROM HELL!!”

The third stage of CFA is demonization. When the Left tires of hurling whore insults, it turns conservative women in the public eye into nefarious creatures. Bill Maher called Laura Bush “Hitler’s dog.” George Carlin attacked Barbara Bush as “the Silver douchebag.” A Huffington Post website member wrote of Nancy Reagan: “Like her evil husband, she has lived far too long. Here’s hoping the hag suffers for several weeks, then croaks in the tub.” Another added: “I feel no pity for the bitch who took delight in watching thousands die of a horrible disease and watching the poor having to eat out of dumpsters because of her husband’s political beliefs.”

True to form, rumors of Palin being a crypto-Nazi surfaced on the Internet and the fringe media. And liberal critics used her gun-rights record to smear her as bloodthirsty.

And the final stage of CFA is dehumanization. Conservative women aren’t real women according to the liberal feminist establishment’s definition. Remember when Gloria Steinem called Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison 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?”

Echoing the bottom-feeders in the liberal blogosphere, mainstream journalists and Obama water-carriers now question Palin’s commitment to motherhood and even challenged her pre-natal care decisions in an effort to destroy her. Forget about questioning their patriotism. I question their sanity

BonnieJ2

Us and them. The evil, sell-out Liberal Elite them. The Phyllis Schafley Pie-Bakin' them.
A lot of us don't hate Hillary OR Sarah Palin. Some of us don't identify with them either. We don't all fit into neat little boxes like that.

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Tight-Waist

Show me the post where you have said ANYTHING positive about Palin.

BonnieJ2

Show me the post where I have said ANYTHING positive about Hillary.

Doesn't mean I hate them, I just don't identify with either one of them.

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fanforlife

I agree with Bonnie in that we do not all identify with these candidates. Just because we are female does not mean we have like them.

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FloggingSully

Couldn't everything in the above post also be said about Republicans and Hillary?

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BonnieJ2

I don't know, Sully. My eyes glazed over about four sentences in. I guess I'm starting to get to the point wherer I'm tired of the bickering and divisiveness already. Glad I don't live in a battleground state whre I'd get bombarded with the commercials, but I might still have to start listening to music on my way to work instead of news.

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Tight-Waist

How in the HELL did you score 5800+ in Diamond Mine??

That score isnt human!

Did you rig your lap top to play in or something? If not your mouse must be atomic powered or something.

I've busted my ass playing that and havent even topped 4 grand.

*Bowing down to you*

What is your secret?

Tight-Waist

Show me what in that article have republicans said about hillary?

There has been ALOT said about Hillary by GOP types, but I really dont see how this relates to her and the GOP on anything more than a coincidential basis.

FloggingSully

Let's see:
"The first stage of Conservative Female Abuse by the Left is infantilization. Right-wing women can’t possibly believe what they believe..."
-I remember reading several times (on these forums no less) that Hillary is just saying what she has to say to get elected. Obviously she couldn't possible believe what she claims to believe...

"The second stage of CFA is sexualization. A conservative woman is not merely a sellout. She is an intellectual prostitute. Unable or unwilling to argue with them on the merits, detractors resort to mocking the physical appearance of their ideological opponents in skirts and denigrating them with vulgar epithets."
-Republicans have never mocked Hillary's physical appearance? No comments about her pants suits? No doctored pictures to make her look like a cariciture?

"The third stage of CFA is demonization. When the Left tires of hurling whore insults, it turns conservative women in the public eye into nefarious creatures. Bill Maher called Laura Bush “Hitler’s dog.”
-Bill Maher called Laura Bush "hitler's dog", republicans call Hillary "the Hildabeast" I don't see any similarities at all.

"And the final stage of CFA is dehumanization. Conservative women aren’t real women according to the liberal feminist establishment’s definition. Remember when Gloria Steinem called Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison a “female impersonator?” "
-You've never heard anyone call Hillary a 'transvestite'? what about all the 'she wears the pants suits in that house' jokes?

TW, can you name a single republican woman that all 4 of those 'phases' has been applied too? The article gives examples for all of them but there aren't any women mentioned in all four phases. Seems to me that Hillary was getting it worse than any of the repbulican women who the democrats 'abused'.

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