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The National Organization for Women's New York State chapter president Marcia Pappas just went apeshit on Ted Kennedy for endorsing the "new guy," Barack Obama. "Women have forgiven Kennedy, stuck up for him, stood by him, hushed the fact that he was late in his support of Title IX, the ERA, the Family Leave and Medical Act," and also blah, blah, No Child Left Behind, Medicare something. "And now the greatest betrayal! We are repaid with his abandonment! He's picked the new guy over us." Did I mention she also called it the "ultimate betrayal"? She also goes off on Kucinich lovers, Alternet, Progressive Democrats of America, democrats.com and Howard Dean for tolerating Obama. Why does she so loathe Barack? Well, according to a press release she wrote two weeks ago, it's because he's guilty of teaming up with John Edwards to "psychologically gang bang" Hillary.
We've all witnessed scenarios where, on the playground little girls are being taunted by little boys while both girls and boys stand idle, afraid to speak up or even cheering. Or, in the workplace males tease young and older female co-workers; make obscene gestures, inappropriate comments, laughing and expecting (often correctly) that everyone will join in. Then there was that movie where Jodie Foster portrayed the true story of woman who was ganged raped in a bar while others looked on and encouraged the realization. Still others pretended the rape didn't happen. In short, gang raping of women is commonplace in our culture both physically and metaphorically.Um.
Okay.
So Marcia, I get it. You're clearly a little rage-happy, and this is an emotional campaign — I feel you. But since you decided to bring up not only the concept of Ted Kennedy as a feminist, but society's willingness to stand idly/denial-blinded by as all this anecdotal degradation of women goes down — and seriously, when the fuck did John Edwards and Barack Obama snicker at Hillary's tears? — why didn't you bring up that one time in the Vineyard? Because it reminds you too much of that other time in that Arkansas hotel room? What of, after all this abuse and betrayal, just finally learning your lesson and, I dunno, taking up with the new guy?
NY Now: Betrayal! [Politico]
Psychological Gang Bang Of Hillary Is Proof We need a Woman President [NOW NY]
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Um, I'm going to need a little time with this one.
Nnng!
/head explode
I didn't know that Juanita Broaddrick alleged that Hillary was involved.
"psychologically gang bang"...that's some alexyss tylor shit right there.
geez. this is why people hate NOW. i mean, for fucks sake, i was a freaking women's studies minor, but i hate them. sooooooo first wave.
This is the kind of upbraiding you give someone verbally, not in a press release. Women are already held to a higher standard of behavior, and her behavior would be embarrassing even if that weren't true. I fear the backlash on this one.
whoa this is like next level crazy and i am going to spend my entire subway ride trying to unpack this tonight
A John John/Barry/Hills gang bang? They don't make water hot enough to wash that image away, but damn, I wish they did.
Um, Marcia isn't helping Hillary by going off like this.
oh, NOW, I thought you went lesbian back in the 70s!
She's getting the same treatment (and not terribly bad in my opinion) as any male candidate would get from his competitors. NOW pisses me off - you either want to be treated equally, or you want to whine and cry like a little girl and be treated like a princess. Whatever you think of her politically, HC is perfectly capable of handling a political fight and NOW isn't doing her any favors. All campaigns get ugly, and they are pulling the Woman card.
Ugh, this sucks. Psychologically gang-naged indeed. Precisely what the fuck is she talking about?
@pursewhore: No kidding. She's just going to end up being mocked on the cable news outlets for supposedly reinforcing the stereotype that women are emotionally unbalanced.
Way to trivialize rape..
This is why I can't stand NOW. They have some damn worthy goals, but lately they seem to go about them in the worst way possible.
And, gee, I wonder if women who've actually been raped might get just a little offended when everything from playground namecalling to legit political criticism gets compared to a gang rape.
R.I.P. - Clinton 08'
Right, because the super feminist thing to do when your husband uses his rank and power to get blowjobs in the oval office is to stand by your man and not leave his ass, all in the name of climbing your own political ladder. We gotchya, Marcia. It's a good lesson for all the little girls out there.
Sigh. Even NOW is flinging around the word 'rape'? I need a drink.
@konstantConsumer: you mean second-wave, right? I don't think Elizabeth Cady Stanton would be all "Fuck your psychological gangbangery and your patriarchy, Mr. VAN BUREN."
@Smackdown: OMG, that's hilarious.
@eseleth: i'm just a little confused about the metaphors. like, are "we" women voters, or NOW members, or is it Hillary Clinton herself as the emodied representation of the ur-vagina which encompasses us all? not to mention, there's the sticky problem that women are sometimes rapists as well victims. wait, what am i talking about again? marcia chaos filtered through moe chaos is like, i need an adderall and a cosmo to understand.
It reminds me of what Groucho Marx said about politics:
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies."
This is gross. I see where she started, but holy fuck, what a stretch.
Also, I do not need to be reminded of The Accused. That shit traumatized me for years.
Hillary needs to tell her supporters to zip it.
Such ridiculosity. NOW is one of those organizations that gives a good cause a bad name. I wonder if they realize that this isn't helping Hill-hill at all. Either women can play in politics, or they can't. But you can't use the "they ganged up on me" argument. that's the whole point of NARROWING DOWN COMPETITORS.
*Stabby*
@Archetype: or else Marcia needs to hire a super smart young feminist to be her assistant and edit her shit before she makes it public.
@J.D.Regent: Given how NOW's New York chapter reacted to Kennedy's endorsement ([www.commondreams.org]), I'm going to vote for the ur-vagina theory. Apparently we've all been betrayed on top of being raped.
And what does it say abotu NOW's moral principles that they have "Women have forgiven Kennedy, stuck up for him, stood by him, hushed the fact that he was late in his support of Title IX, the ERA, the Family Leave and Medical Act," and also blah, blah, No Child Left Behind, Medicare something. "? They should be disgusted with themselves.
@J.D.Regent: Agreed, yes. Or that.
Man, you know.....I still love Hillary. But I am very curious to see how this election unfolds.
@eseleth: "Ultimate Betrayal Felt by Women Everywhere". Um, okay...?
That is some kind of bullshit. Hilary is no little girl, she can play with the big boys just fine.
What a fucking nutty thing to say. NOW comes off like the PETA of feminism sometimes. Shit. I thought they definitely went after her...and like Hillary herself said...because she was the front-runner at the time.
And fuck you lady. I love Ted Kennedy. And I feel more for the poor people that he tries to help.
@TruculentandUnreliable: Actually, I kind of feel betrayed by NOW for assuming that I would feel betrayed by Kennedy endorsing Obama. Such as.
see i saw ted's endorsement of barack as more of a hannibal lecter/clarice starling thing.
OMG- it is not cuz she's a woman. Stop playing the "woman" card, NOW. She is just a bad candidate for so many reasons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
really the thing that makes my jaw drop a little is the weird divorce imagery. ted "abandoned" us? um, save it for your couples counseling, lady! i know the personal is political and all, but ted did is not your husband who just went on the DL with his hot muslim cokehead boyfriend. wait, why am i not voting for obama again?
Wow. Just. Wow.
She's living up to the stereotype that all feminists are shrill alright. "Gangbang"? Is she really saying that Obama and Edwards are RAPISTS? That's not only insulting to them but to the millions of women who've been sexually assaulted.
Hillary Clinton is a politician. She plays the game as hard and fast as the boys do and can take her lumps all the same. This kind of bullshit hyperbole from NOW just makes them seem all the more irrelevant. Bordering on Andrea Dworkin territory here.
@TruculentandUnreliable: but do you feel GANGRAPED by them?
Ahh, Juanita Broaddrick. Ever since hearing that a few days, I have been truly befuddled. It's one thing for Hilllary to "stand by your man" when he's cheating on you with anything that moves, but quite another when he may have raped someone.
Again. Maybe he didn't. We'll probably never know. But there aren't too many holes in the story as far as I can tell.
And this is what my mom was talking about when she said "Women are too emotional" to be president. Jesus, NOW. Thanks for giving people like that fuel for the fire.
Sometimes people shouldn't open their mouths.
Jesus, first Bill Clinton and now NOW (pardon the wording).
With friends like hers, I don't think Clinton really needs enemies...
@J.D.Regent: No, but I am OFFENDED by the implication that a gang bang=gang rape. It's the ULTIMATE betrayal.
@TruculentandUnreliable: touche. you mean, maybe Hillary LIKES it?
oh shit. i didn't even see that "the personal is political" is like, the headline. damn those easy jokes!
Look, no one pays attention to NOW, esp the local chapters. As stoopid as the above is, I still would be impressed if it made it past LGF and some regional late night cable play.
And I do think it would be hilarious if the NY staff of NOW stood in front of Obama HQ with a shitty Time New Roman/MS Word sign saying 'We love gang rapists'.
She's really not doing Hillary any favors here. She gives feminism a bad name. I know soo many conservatives will jump on this shit as proof feminists are all insane.
@J.D.Regent: Oh, I would never go there, but women who have consensual sex with multiple male partners during one session might have a thing or two to say about this. I make no claim about HRC's sexual practices.
Okay, I need to stop posting goofy shit and go work out.
Also, guess what? Only got about 3 hours of work total done today. Probably better than usual, though. I am bad.