Dear The Internet, This Is Why You Can't Have Anything Nice

[DonCoquixote]

32. like any war

It depends on if the army is defensive, or has dreams of empire. Everywhere there is power of any sort, there will be those that seek it and will twist it. As far as prisons go, I remember an article by Susan Faludi, called "matricide." In the article, it talked about the , if I may dare use a male analogy, "pissing contest" there was between "third way feminists" and older feminists. It gave examples of people from both camps that meant well, and both sides that had hot malice.

The prison analogy comes in when, in the article, the older feminist castigates a younger one for wearing high heels. Now, High heels did mean a sort of mad men bondage to older feminists, who remember when the crap in "Mad Men" was common. To some younger ones, high heels are used to stand taller than men, or to remind them that they can stomp holes in their feet with their nice Titanium heels. Now, I say that one person's bad memory of the "Mad Men" era can be another girl's "I dominate the idiots at work" shoe. The idea should be that women, or for that matter, all human beings, should be able to wear a shoe that fits them. But, sadly, because of silly details like that, people that should be fighting for each other fight with each other.

And as far as us vs them, we often get fixed on who us and them are, and do not update that definition. Yes, the feminist has to fight patriarchy, however, patriarchy is not just a matter of gender, it is a matter of power. The people who take advantage of this difference are Sarah Palin, Laura Ingraham. Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter and other Right Wing Valkyries. They get to live the dream of being people that are listened to, respected, read, and then say "see my sister, I am what a real woman is, at the very least, you must admire me, if not submit to the right wing politics that did after all, empower me."

Now, I know that folks like you, seabeyond, and your average DU feminist will NOT fall for that crap. I repeat, I know you do not buy this crap, because you know these people are puppets of the patriarchs. However, as we found out in Wisconsin, the DU reader is a bit smarter than the masses. There will be people who think the enemy of feminism will always be a male, and they might see these people parading around in their blazers and go "wait a minute, they are like me, if they command such respect, maybe they have a point." And then the Fortress walls come crumbling down from within, as many people accept these Trojan Horse feminists. I say this as a Latino that remembers when W. worked hard to cultivate Latino votes, until the folks from Arizona could not hold their breath and demanded a war on immigration. This from a party that gained Florida, and the nation, because of Cuban Immigrants, and their progeny, like our would be veep Marco Rubio.

Again, my goal is not to slam your points, or deny the validity. I just bring up details that I think arrant addressing, because, well, let's be honest, the right did not get to where they are because they are smart, they got there because there was always a detail or two we overlooked, and they crawled in. The Walls of Troy resisted the Greeks, but the trojans made the mistake of thinking the Greeks would be good honorable losers.