I should really stop reading the news. Its either depressing (Afghanistan, job reports, endless wars, political ineptitude, etc.), ridiculous (celebrity news, reality shows, Grammy awards, etc.) or just plain stupid and pisses me off. The news article that has prompted this pronouncement is the following, from the normally sensible Christian Science Monitor:
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2010/0129/Is-Sarah-Palin-right-Did-feminist-groups-overthrow-the-Tebow-ad-attack This article, entitled "Is Sarah Palin Right?" suggests that we seriously investigate Sarah Palin's ludicrous announcement that the proposed Focus on the Family anti-choice Superbowl ad is somehow "pro-family" and "empowering for women." Here, I can put an end to all of this nonsense right now!
No.
This bizarre article then goes on to explain that if the National Organization for Women (NOW) hadn't have called so much attention to the proposed ad, then no one really would have noticed it. Even more bizarrely, some dude from the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University goes so far as to admonish NOW for even getting upset about the ad before having seen it. The implication being that its possible that the proposed Focus on the Family ad actually didn't (and won't and would never) contain anti-choice messages. Dude doesn't even stop there! He concludes his insightful analysis of the supposedly wacko anger of crazed feminists by saying, "That's not a very intelligent way to approach it [the ad]."
Hey! Thanks, dude! Its so great when some douchebag steps in to explain to women how to do feminism right, because we just can't seem to figure it out. If feminists were somehow just more....well, intelligent, we wouldn't have to point out that the chances of Focus on the Family running an actually women friendly ad are approximately zilch.
Palin, whose personal Facebook page now somehow counts as a sound news source, tops the Blier Center dude: "My message to these groups who are inexplicably offended by a pro-woman, pro-child, pro-life message airing during the Super Bowl: please concentrate on empowering women, help with efforts to prevent unexpected pregnancies, stay consistent with your message that for too long women have been made to feel like sex objects in our ‘modern’ culture and that we can expect better in 2010.”
Inexplicably offended? How about just opposed to a certainly anti-choice, anti-woman, anti-feminist ad running in a coveted national advertising spot that will reach millions of people?
Yeah, inexplicable and above all, remember, feminists just aren't very intelligent.
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