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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I thought all the Thatcher hate was coming from the Labour Party fanboys who claimm that Thatcher’s attempt at monetarism and “neoliberalism” made the economy worse off, despite other people saying that Britain has outperformed most countries in Europe since 1980. The unemployment rate in Britain was a little bit above that of most European countries in the 1980s. The poll tax and the miners’ strikes and riots of the mid-1980s seem to be her most controversial policies. There are other people accusing Thatcher of not having done enough to deal with the apartheid regime of South Africa despite being openly opposed to what the country was doing at the time. Thatcher’s repuation seems very mixed.
I’m starting to have mixed feelings about Thatcher myself, but I liked her appreciation for Hayek and ilk.
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Ann Coulter will say anything as long as it helps sell her books. Don’t mind her.
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Your readers should read the McEwan’s post. This is not as bad as you thought.
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It is as bad. She lists every single degrading insult Thatcher ever got. Everybody has long forgotten these insults, yet she makes them live on and on. This is a very crafty strategy.
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I think it’s more for a “blaming men” purpose than for a misogynistic purposes. And I disagree with her on the idea that mysogynistic attacks should never be used.
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And she’s clear about it: she hated Thatcher.
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Yes, for not being as womanly as other wives and mothers. What a profound criticism. And it’s not sexist at all.
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But some comments there are plainly stupid.
Thetis: “It’s useful to remember that the vast personal hatred of her on the Left, which has become almost an article of faith for some, was and remains hugely driven by misogyny.”
Historienne: “But, lo and behold, Facebook is full of people celebrating her death, and, on my wall at least, largely young, white, American men – who have been feminist allies more often than not – but who seem in this case hell-bent to celebrate. It’s possible, as you’ve so beautifully shown, to hold two ideas – political disagreement and gendered violence – about someone at the same time. I wish more people would do so.”
McEwan: “Right. And imagine if all the energy wasted on misogynist attacks on her had instead been used to level fair and accurate criticism of her garbage policies.
Instead, so much valid criticism was buried beneath a metric fuckton of the wholly useless observation that she is a woman, as if that’s a valid criticism itself.”
Sarah: “I’m reminded of when you pointed that when we criticize misogynistic language against US-Conservative women, like Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin, it does not mean that we endorse their politics. That point seems to get lost sometimes in the wide, wide world (though not here, of course ^_^ ).”
I have no problem to use misogynistic language against mysogynistic people. Feminists should reappropriate those words for herselves. Unfortunately, Thatcher was a cunt, not as cunt as Sarah Palin and Ann Coulter (Thatcher was not anti-abortion and she was way smarter than those two bitches), but she was a cunt.
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http://www.shakesville.com/2013/04/rip-margaret-thatcher.html#comment-856385456
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I never read the comments of McEwan’s crowd of empty-headed sycophants. They are too depressing.
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I can’t read any of the “feminist” blogs anymore. What the hell are they talking about? I think the main difference between me and this group of people, the current generation of cultural moderns, or what have you, is that I take a very long term view of anything I set my hand to. I don’t care about small victories or small defeats so long as I win the war. My tenacity and endurance are my strengths. By the same token, I can’t understand short-term opportunism. If somebody’s down (read: in the grave), you start shooting at them? Or you call them by misogynistic names because they hurt your feelings? I quite literally don’t understand short-term viewpoints. I’m not built that way for sure. I’m built for the long hall and all of my thinking is geared in relation to the longest term endurance possible. I also build up my perspectives on things and people very slowly. Modernity, however, is a quite a madness: at times a vicious, but mostly effete pop and fizzle.
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