AN UNREPENTANT IDIOTARIAN
Jane Fonda may claim to have become a Christian, but she remains an apallingly lousy thinker and a flaming feminist at war with masculinity. Roll tape:
It's possible that the extreme, neo-conservative version of Patriarchy which makes up our current Executive branch will over-play its hand and cause the house of cards to collapse. We know that this new "preventive war" doctrine will put us on a permanent war footing. We know there can't be guns and butter, right? We learned that with Vietnam.
Stop the tape--this is Hanoi Jane talking, brazenly referring to Vietnam without any mention of her own treasonous role in that war, nor any mention of the consequences paid for our eventual pullout. The Stalinists won, enslaving millions of their fellow Vietnamese. Many tried to escape on shoddy boats, and some made it our shores while many drowned or ended up in prison. Hanoi Jane is directly responsible for that. Anyway...she goes on to promote some sort of feminist revolution, which as she describes it is a war against all traditional roles, a war against masculinity, a war against everything she doesn't like. And she seems to mean it; she's a peacenik who wants to wage war on her fellow Americans. But as is typical of the lefty concept of war, it basically boils down to some sort of glorified sit-in, a lot of feelings and emotions, and an atmosphere of hot air:
So our challenge is to commit ourselves to creating the tipping point and the turning point. The time is ripe to launch a unified national movement, a campaign, a tidal wave, built around issues and values, not candidates.That's why V-Day, The White House Project and their many allies are partnering to hold a national women's convention somewhere in the heartland, next June of 2004. Its purpose will be to inspire and mobilize women and vagina-friendly men around the 2004 elections and to build a new movement that will coalesce our energies and forces around a politic of caring.
"...vagina-friendly men." What do you suppose that means? Straights only? Just guys who are good in bed? Dick Gephardt? No, no, apparently it's nothing like that:
And then, of course, there are what Eve Ensler calls Vagina-Friendly men, who choose to remain emotionally literate. It's not easy for them – look at the names they get called: wimp, pansy, pussy, soft, limp, momma's boy.
Emotionally literate. M'kay. Whatever. So what will this intimidating alliance of radical womyn and flaccid girly-men and snivelling sissy-boys do once they're all in a big hugging circle of transcendant New Age power?
There will be a caravan, a rolling tour across the country, of diverse women leaders, celebrities and activists who will work with local organizers to build momentum, sign people up, register them to vote, get them organized and leave behind a tool kit for further mobilization through the election and beyond.This movement will be a volcano that will erupt in a flow of soft, hot, empathic, breathing, authentic, vagina-friendly, relational lava that will encircle patriarchy and smother it. We will be the flood and we'll be Noah's arc. "V" for Vagina, for vote, for victory.
"Relational lava" to smother patriarchy? Ya just can't parody these people anymore.
UPDATE: I forgot to mention where I found this story in the first place. Democrats.com sent a link to it in their newsletter.