{"id":2198,"date":"2006-03-25T03:40:16","date_gmt":"2006-03-25T10:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2198"},"modified":"2006-03-25T03:40:16","modified_gmt":"2006-03-25T10:40:16","slug":"spotlight-on-liberal-sexism-not-my-wife-and-rifle-dude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2198","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on Liberal Sexism: "Not my wife and rifle dude!""},"content":{"rendered":"

So I was doing some web surfing which I tend to do nightly, or at least when the kidlets and life in general allows for it. Some masochistic part of liberal me keeps surfing on over to DailyKOS<\/a>, which I’ve done for several years now, and it never ceases to amaze me how often sexism finds its way into the subtext of the blogging that goes on there.<\/p>\n

So yeah, we’re all pretty much aware that conservatives don’t have the market cornered when it comes to sexism, but it still rankles when I come across the more blatantly sexist remarks that are left completely unchallenged at DailyKOS. At this point, I’ll explain what it was I saw, and let you all be the judge as to whether I’m being perceptive or judging too harshly.<\/p>\n

Ever since last years repeated snarks against women and women’s issues on KOS, I’ve taken the time every now and again to search for keywords to see if the tone has improved any. Suffice it to say I’ve rarely been pleasantly surprised; however I did find a little gem<\/a> tonight that I had to share.<\/p>\n

In a nutshell; a Kossack named Arion (I wasn’t sure at this point of whether they were a man or a woman) decided to analyze the decision to use ‘choice’ as the tag name for abortion. They felt that we should address the issue more honestly and call it the ‘freedom of abortion’ movement, since the real question was one of liberty. Well, the argument wasn’t that strong, and I found myself kind of bewildered at some of the comments, but they weren’t all in left-field. One person (woman I think) replied with ‘I’ll stick with choice thanks’, and another explained that the word ‘choice’ is hard to twist. Another person felt that the term had been tarnished because choice wasn’t implying enough seriousness to the issue “\u201c they suggested ‘motherhood choice’. About here I went from kind of bored browsing to furrowing my brow and muttering at my screen ‘wtf?’ Are feminist blogs so secret and rare that our fancy-schmancy terminology of ‘reproductive choice and freedom’ is just our well kept little secret?<\/p>\n

At this point is where I started reading with a lot less charity. So the thread continues on to claim that really ‘we’ need a new frame for the issue that will work. It was then suggested that perhaps we ought to make inroads through pointing out gun control as being a potential ‘next’ on the chopping block with regards to personal liberties and rights, since the government cared that much about what wives are doing with gynecologists. That seemed a reasonable enough reminder when taking on the issue of abortion. Next came the part where I began to cringe as the fog was lifted and I was faced with some commentary that was absolutely idiotic, sexist and patronizing. Bottom line, we’re totally screwed if this is the average representative of the moderate democrats that should be our allies on these issues. Why, oh why, do the big name networks and politicians think that DailyKOS is all that.<\/p>\n

good point! and it brings to mind my contention that somehow women really ought to be much more welcoming. I’m happy to give women pride of place on this issue, but there are lots of men who want to get on board. They need to be made more welcome than in the past. No way big gov. is going to take over my rifles or my wife.<\/div>\n

…I mean really. Thanks, chum, for giving us women a place of pride on this issue. WTF???<\/p>\n

So here’s the question, am I just being a judgmental meanie, or does this sort of commentary come off as chalkboard torture to anyone else? Or am I simply spoiled at the level of intelligence and freedom from sexism that feminist blogs offer compared to our generic liberal contemporaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So yeah, we’re all pretty much aware that conservatives don’t have the market cornered when it comes to sexism, but it still rankles when I come across the more blatantly sexist remarks that are left completely unchallenged at DailyKOS. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-reproductive-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}