Thank you Dana Perino!
October 17, 2010
by Amy Siskind
|I had the misfortune today of reading Maureen Dowd’s latest masterpiece in misogyny: Playing All the Angles.
I was steaming – even took to my Facebook page to say out loud what I was feeling: “Okay, I just have to say it: MAUREEN DOWD SUCKS! There, that’s better.”
I happened upon an op-ed response by Dana Perino on RealClearPolitics: Mean Maureen. Thank you Dana for stating what I was thinking and feeling so eloquently. I am so thoroughly sick and tired of women being women’s worst enemies.
Dana – Thank you for standing up for women in your party. Thank you for all women. Here’s some highlights:
That’s exactly what her column about mean Republican and conservative women is — stereotypical and uncalled for. She lists the usual suspects — as in, those expected to win. Yet reading her piece I keep thinking, has she met any of those women? Does she still feel that way after walking away? I’m fortunate to meet a lot of women from both sides of the aisle — and with few exceptions I like them all. I certainly don’t think any of them are mean. Can women have moments they aren’t proud of? Sure. But to write all conservative and Republican women off as mean is . . . mean.
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Perhaps she was a mean girl. Or maybe mean girls picked on her. Not in high school, but in adulthood — and now she can think how powerful she is by writing catty columns on America’s most liberal editorial page. A column like today’s keeps those cocktail-party invitations coming.After the mid-term election, you can guarantee that she’ll write about how the Republicans are standing in the way of progress and so pig-headed they just won’t compromise and support the liberal agenda. And she wonders why conservatives increasingly believe that liberal elites can’t relate to America?
Usually I’d ignore her. But most conservative women running for office don’t have time to stop and be petty. I can do that for them.
Let me add this. Women from the left are constantly asking: Where’s our Sarah Palin? Well, let me give you a hint. She ain’t coming yet. Here’s why: the women of the left refuse to stand up for women. Just ask Joan Walsh who can’t even figure out that the word ‘whore‘ is sexist. Shame on you Joan!
Hat’s off to Dana. I hope more and more women speak out. THIS give me hope!
I have a bright shiny nickel and unending gratitude for ANYONE who can find me something nice that Maureen Dowd said about any woman running for office anywhere. Let’s make it three women — to balance out the nice things she’s said about men running for office.
Has she ever given an unalloyed compliment to a woman candidate?
I’ll say it again and again. I am impressed by conservative women. They have confidence, dignity and courage. They support each other because they don’t feel threatened by each other. The (liberal=submissive) left has become a sess pool of hip gutter misogyny. At what age do these liberals stop caring about being cool. REALLY Maureen GROW UP!
Thanks Amy, for telling it like it is, and fear not, the tragically hip liberals will get spanked Nov. 2.
I haven’t seen Dowd’s column and I will be sure I don’t now. But this was a good column by Dana Perino and I could also really relate to the column that Tammy Bruce put up on FoxNews.com regarding NOW’s endorsement of Brown and the fact that NOW has become irrelevant to women and sold out to the Dems.
Dowd is engaged in some serious projection. She is the mean girl, the one who just can’t seem to stop attacking other women to try and score points with her clique.
Dowd is a tool.
Where were Dem women when Dowd did this stuff (repeatedly) to Hillary? Not a word!
Dem women need to learn to stick up for their own too if they’re ever going to advance candidates!
I have never liked Maureen Dowd, and as a liberal Dem I am “supposed to”…Maureen has always struck me as completely disempowered…a woman who prefers to write about us in a kind of victim-y way. She has always bothered me; she dosen’t support members of her own gender, regardless of which side they are on.
Amy, isn’t that it. It was horrible to see so many Dem women silent in regard to the treatment of Hillary! Oh, I know some did speak up (mostly PUMAS)… but across the board there was barely a peep coming from Dems. Dem women are (mostly) concerned with racism, xenophobia and gay rights. But very disinterested in women’s rights aside from the pink ribbon (save the ta tas) campaign and abortion. I keep on wondering when Dem women are going to see a woman like Dana Perino and think of her as a role model for sisterhood. Instead, they simply despise all Republican women without thinking that there might be SOMETHING that they can learn from them.
She’s just the latest incarnation of Louella Parsons, only now since she writes about politics and not movie stars, she thinks she’s important. At least Hedda Hopper knew she was just a hack. Dowd thinks she’s a journalist.
Unfortunately, Democratic women are more like June Cleaver than they admit…. Like Cleaver, who put everyone else’s interests (husband and kids) before her own, Democratic women identify as Dems first at the expense of the female sex.
Women first, then party affiliation.
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