{"id":782,"date":"2007-05-02T08:37:04","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T14:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/05\/02\/vexed-lilliputians\/"},"modified":"2007-05-02T08:42:44","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T14:42:44","slug":"vexed-lilliputians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=782","title":{"rendered":"Vexed Lilliputians"},"content":{"rendered":"

The local Sorosphere continues to huff and puff at the notion that a conservative might claim – rightly – to be not only a feminist, but the very best feminist in the Twin Cities.<\/em>\u00a0 George Soros’ money is being well-spent, and I for one am having a lot of fun watching the local lefties jump up and down and spatter spit all over the place and demand that I leave “their” sandbox.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Like this woman<\/a>, most famous for being enraged all the time and…well, that’s about it.\u00a0 (Note to Ms. Furious; “truthiness” is so <\/em>2005).<\/p>\n

Or George Soros’ #1 local temp, Robin, who can’t leave well-enough alone, when she stomps her feet and gets mad that I…:<\/p>\n

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    1. \u00a0write a satirical poem<\/a> about online dating (in the third person, nonetheless)<\/li>\n
    2. make critical and non-reverent observations<\/a> about the contributions of a young woman with some deeply fascist ideas<\/li>\n
    3. point out<\/a> that the fabled “women earn 3\/4 of what men earn” is a misleading mangling of number (she cites an AAUW study<\/a> which purports to show that women do <\/em>earn less than men.\u00a0 While I’m waiting on information from the AAUW on the study’s methodology, it doesn’t matter – it’s one of the reasons I am <\/em>a feminist; I don’t want my daughter to get any less than she deserves!)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

      …which sends that message that I shouldn’t criticize any woman <\/em>in any way,\u00a0or claim that they’re\u00a0not <\/em>eternal victims – which is a pretty Victorian, paternalistic attitude for one who’d style herself a “feminist”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

      If my daughter grows up to be a whiny rage-o-holic, I’ll truly know I’ve failed, both as a father and as a feminist.<\/p>\n

      It’s been an interesting exercise, watching all these paid operatives\u00a0<\/strike> people hop up and down like monkeys on espresso over my simple – though utterly true – little claim.<\/p>\n

      My inner experimental psychologist is having the time of his life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The local Sorosphere continues to huff and puff at the notion that a conservative might claim – rightly – to be not only a feminist, but the very best feminist in the Twin Cities.\u00a0 George Soros’ money is being well-spent, and I for one am having a lot of fun watching the local lefties jump […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,24,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-culture-war","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}