Mean Girls
Maureen Dowd accused a wide variety of female Republican candidates for office of being "mean girls" on Sunday. I think she was alluding to the 2004 film about how awful some adolescent females could be. I would explain why she said this if I could decipher the mysterious code of the Dowd column. I stopped trying during the Clinton administration. But it's something about how she fantasizes that Sarah Palin wants to push her up against a locker or something.
But if speaking clearly in a debate is enough to get you the "mean girl" slur, as it did for Sharron Angle, I wonder what Maureen Dowd would make of the nice ladies over at Jezebel. They're asking readers to help them give Christine O'Donnell the "Santorum" treatment. What's that, you ask? You'll probably wish you hadn't (warning: link includes explicit detail).
See, gay activist Dan Savage so objected to Sen. Rick Santorum's legal views on homosexuality that he renamed a mixture of bodily fluids after him. More oddly, Savage thought that informing people of this byproduct would somehow help his cause and hurt Santorum's.
Anyway, the lovely ladies at Jezebel are engaged in some odd projection themselves. Their early candidates for redefining O'Donnell would make a medieval misogynist blush. It's almost as if they believe that their own body parts are disgusting or that women's body fluids are evil carriers of death. Just like the previous example, I don't think they quite get who they're harming when they carry on this exercise.
But at least they're not being mean, right, Maureen?
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Jul '10
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See, gay activist Dan Savage so objected to Sen. Rick Santorum's legal views on homosexuality that he renamed a mixture of bodily fluids after him. More oddly, Savage thought that informing people of this byproduct would somehow help his cause and hurt Santorum's
Oh, man, I could have done without that!
Edited on Oct 19, 2010 at 2:26pmJul '10
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By the way, Dan Savage is now the leader of the "It Gets Better" outreach program to gay teens.
May '10
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Egad! I did read Savage's column "Weiner Love" (or was that savage love?) back in the day when The Onion was an actual printed newspaper in Chicago. Jeez louise, thanks for the reminder.
It is highly entertaining to read Maureen Dowd, the Rita Skeeter of the NYT, accusing people of being mean.
I prefer the original Heathers anyway.
Jun '10
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He also considers President Obama to have been a "one-night stand"
Aug '10
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Maureen Dowd is a walking ad for HRT.
Aug '10
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Kennedy Smith:
I prefer the original Heathers anyway. · Oct 19 at 1:14pm
I think we are veering into "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane " territory here, with MoDo playing both parts.
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I once got in trouble for asking a liberal friend why their side seems to have the monopoly on outspoken perverts.
Jun '10
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Dowd's dictionary: "Mean girls": "Conservative women who have the gall and audacity to disagree with moi."
Conservative's dictionary: "Maureen Dowd": "New York Times columnist who makes Joe Klein, Frank Rich, and Bob Schrum appear to be fair and dispassionate."
Edited on Oct 19, 2010 at 1:24pmJul '10
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Arrested development. Toddlers, once they discover there is something "special" about their private parts,delight endlessly in displaying them.
Some folks just never grow out of it.
Jun '10
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Palin's feminist liberal activist enemies are fulfilling a tired old stereotype--not Palin.
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Jun '10
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Goo! I'm not sure what the grossest part of that was... perhaps the word "fluids".... Please excuse me while I go wash my eyes out with bleach.
Jul '10
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There's a word for women like Maureen, and it's not a word I like to type or that Claire would let me type, but she's been inexusable for some time. Dan Savage is a pompous windbag, what he's doing right now with the "It Gets Better" project may be the sole truly redeeming thing he's ever done in his life, but I would argue that he's had a LOT to do with the sputtering out of Rick Santorum's career. Rick will never hold high office again and we can't pretend that isn't linked to what you get when you google him.
Which perhaps is just to say that while Maureen is odious...people like her can have enormous influence. I think the "Man up" comments of late from our side have been a great way of countering this without sinking to the same level.
Aug '10
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Why isn't Ann Coulter on Ricochet? She may be mean, but she is good!
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I think I just fell down the rabbit hole. Back in the day calling a woman "mean" because she was a tough, outspoken opponent was called sexist. Now that's only true when you're on the right. Can you imagine the outcry if the MSM called Nancy Pelosi "mean" and threatened to sodomize her because of the tough tactics she used to convince members of Congress to vote for Obamacare. I'm embarrassed that the hard work of feminists from Elizabeth Cady Stanton through Betty Friedan resulted in a smutty, slutty undignified site like "Jezabel."
Aug '10
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MoDo is in campaign mode.With 13 days to go, she's really working it. Today (Wed) column is another lesson in the need for menopausal restraint.
With Marilyn Monroe as her vehicle, she trots out the Arthur Miller story once more for the world to marvel at, while forgetting that Miller has been pretty much discredited as a dysfunctional hack (NYT for Great American Playwright). That Marilyn took to heart something she read in Miller's diary can only mean two things: she was used to reading the NYT and believed lies on a regular basis, and that Miller ,keeping a diary, had the ego of a 12 year old girl. A mean 12 year old girl.
It's best when she accuses Michelle Bachman of a spoonerism.
What a bean mitch.
May '10
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Is it just me, or does Ms Dowd resemble Germaine Greer more and more with each passing year, and more grey.
Jul '10
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I can't help but think it's only a benefit to Palin to have Dowd as a declared enemy. To the average American voter who actually KNOWS who Maureen Dowd is, this isn't going to seem like a bad thing. The only people who'd care were never going to vote for Palin to begin with...