On the day Margaret Thatcher died, the Conservative woman-hater Ann Coulter blasted her for not being a fan of Sarah Palin and the Liberal woman-hater Melissa McEwan blasted her for being an unwomanly wife and mother.
Thatcher must have done something really significant for women’s rights for these two champions of female subjection to get so rabid.
Read McEwan’s article for the perfect example of one of the most insidious forms of sexism. What McEwan does is a strategy Peruvian a friend of mine used to term “How to slaughter a person’s reputation without seeming to do so.”
“You approach a group of people,” my friend would tell us, “and say, with a tragic look on your face, “Poor Clarissa! Oh, poor, poor Clarissa!””
“What happened?” the people will ask.
“Oh, so you haven’t heard? Some nasty people are saying horrible things about her. They say that she is sleeping with the Dean to get a better scholarship and ghost-writes articles for the Chair to get good recommendation letters. They also say that she is an alcoholic and had two arrests for prostitution. And do you know what they say about why she was accepted to grad school? She is a long-time mistress of the head of the admissions committee! But, of course, I don’t believe any of this and would never participate in spreading such horrible rumors!”
“And that’s it!” my friend would say. “I just slaughtered a person’s reputation while making myself look like a decent person who would never do something so mean.”
This is the same position as the one taken by Melissa “All women have to be victims all of the time and if they are not, I will make sure they are” McEwan.
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