'...her pretense that she is a woman'?

Bill Kristol:

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... he chose as his running mate Sarah Palin, one of the least-known outsiders to be picked in modern times, and the first woman on a Republican ticket.

This in turn sent other establishments into a frenzy.

The media establishment was horrified. Its members expressed their disapproval. Palin became more popular. They got even more frustrated. And so we had the spectacle last week of ABC’s Charlie Gibson, one of the most civil of the media bigwigs, unable to help himself from condescending to Palin as if he were a senior professor forced to waste time administering a Ph.D. exam to a particularly unpromising graduate student.

As for real university professors, especially the academic-feminist establishment, they’re even more upset. Wendy Doniger of the University of Chicago’s Divinity School wrote last Tuesday of Palin: “Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman. The Republican Party’s cynical calculation that because she has a womb and makes lots and lots of babies (and drives them to school! wow!) she speaks for the women of America, and will capture their hearts and their votes, has driven thousands of real women to take to their computers in outrage. She does not speak for women; she has no sympathy for the problems of other women, particularly working-class women.”

Doniger might have been further discombobulated to read a report the next day by McClatchy’s Erika Bolstad about a McCain-Palin rally: “For most women attending the event — many waited two hours in line to get into a field house at Franklin & Marshall College — Palin was a bigger draw than McCain. ... Women wore pink ‘Hot Chicks Vote Republican’ buttons; one hoisted a McCain placard bearing a hand-scrawled message: ‘Guns, God, Lipstick.’ ”

“Guns, God, Lipstick”? This is what feminism has come to? One can only imagine how many feminist comp lit professors are walking around campus, muttering to themselves the lines from T. S. Eliot’s “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”: “That is not what I meant at all. That is not it, at all.”

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"... she has no sympathy for the problems of other women, particularly working-class women." Let's see, she has five kids and she works full time and she has no sympathy for working-class women?

It is hard to imagine a professor so disconnected from the facts of her argument. Doniger reminds me of the arguments between al Qaeda and other groups of Muslims arguing over who is a true Muslim. At least they are arguing over a religious belief system and not something as apparent as gender.

But, it has come to this with some feminist, if you don't agree with their belief system you become an "other" to be despised and reviled. That tells you more about the lack of understanding of the Donigers of this world than the Palins.

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