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TexasCrude
08/27/09

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Whoa, whoa. Frank may not be down with the women's movement but let's keep his skin intact! He's only a baby!
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Beets.Go.On is the Fat Yogini
08/27/09

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That's right ladies, every time you drive, God slaps a baby.

what does this have to do with hot dogs? are skinless hot dogs made of babies? Whaaaaaaa?
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Princess Leela
05/07/09

In reply to The Tragic Failure Of America's Women
Actually from a historical perspective, this is fascinating. Consider the date: 1947. All the boys had come home from the front to find that while they were off being heroes, their womenfolk had kept their homes, taken care of their kids AND at the same time ably taken over all the factory jobs and other work the menz weren't around to do. The Establishment was flipping its collective shit about how it could most effectively get the ladies to sit down, shut up and go back to the kitchen. Hence such cultural artifacts as this rag of a magazine, its contents alternating between Caitlin Flanaganesque, underminer-y screeds and flat-out misogyny.

Of course what our excuse is for the same things 62 years later, I'm not really sure ...
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RedVelvetCake
05/07/09

@Princess Leela: Ack! I just posted the same thing 2 posts later. I guess you and I posted around the same time.
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Princess Leela
05/07/09

@RedVelvetCake: Great minds and so on etc ... :-)
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Jack_Burton
05/07/09

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I knew Richie was ahead of his time:

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BlowJoy
05/07/09

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Kali Mama
05/07/09

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I'm a low paid working mom with a shitty wardrobe.

I'M LIVING THE DREAM!
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rocknrollunicorn
05/07/09

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"The Tragic Failure of America's Women."

Because we set up the whole system while men just stood by whistling and glancing about.

I'm sure the entire article is a giant fail, but this is one of the biggest headline failures I've ever seen.
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PreposterousHypothesis
05/07/09

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Bah wait. How did I miss this? The subhead:
"A shocking indictment by a noted woman physician"

Methinks 1) she's unhappy, and projecting, 2) she will cut any bitches who are threatening to be in her field as well, so she'll shame them back home, 3) since she can't tell that women experience PAIN DURING CHILDBIRTH, she must not be all that knowledgable of a physician.
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msAnthrope
05/07/09

@PreposterousHypothesis:

i can't get over the hypocrisy of this "noted woman physician" nor the coronet for assuming all women would be stupid enough to not notice this!

so what's this "noted woman physician" saying? that she's not really that much into her career? great! that's just what i want~~ a physician caring for me who doesn't really give a shit about her career.
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happysquid
05/07/09

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The best thing about this post was Dalton in ROAD HOUSE.

PAIN DON'T HURT!

another great Dalton quote: "Be Nice, Until it's time to Not be Nice."
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Jack_Burton
05/07/09

@happysquid: Swayze FTW!
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misspell
05/07/09

@happysquid: Road House is maybe the worst movie that I can still accept watching. Sweaty tai chi in the sunshine? Bring it on.
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Anne is Spiderman
05/07/09

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This was my favorite:

"The pet fantasy of the feminists is that childbirth is a period of horrible agony to which women must submit while their carefree husbands pass out cigars. Actually, the entire process is as natural as breathing. The healthy, normal young woman feels little pain, even without anesthesia, unless she has had her wits scared out of her by the warnings of emotionally unstable female acquaintances."

Really? No, wait. REALLY?
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
05/07/09

@Anne is Spiderman: That's right! If childbirth hurt, that means you are an unhealthy hysterical mental patient.
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Laulau
05/07/09

@Anne is Spiderman: I want to use that passage in a logic class. "Natural" and "not painful" do not necessarily cotravel. And appealing to the "normal young woman" is a classic "no true Scotsman". I swear, misogynistic screeds are hands-down the easiest place to find logical fallacies.
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Eleanor Ramilly
05/07/09

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Childless and fashionably dressed? Where do I sign?
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RoxNminral
05/07/09

@Eleanor Savage (Shannon): I just want to know how I can be MORE childless. What does that even mean? I didn't realize that child-less-ness had a continuum, but if I can more childless than I am now? I want in.
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argle-bargle? or fou-ferraw?
05/07/09

@RoxNminral: would that entail dealing with neither children nor adults who behave like children? if that's what it means, i want in too.
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save jinger
05/07/09

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Uh, news flash! Everyone has troubles, regardless of whether or not they have a career, or children, or fashionable clothes.
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
05/07/09

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Yeah, whatever, Voice. Aren't you the same Voice that let Nat Hentoff go at the end of last year/beginning of this one as a New Years' gift to all of us?

You were as relevant then as you clearly are now.

*eyeroll, w/a side of midweek venom*
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Anna
05/07/09

@Rooo sez BISH PLZ: The Village Voice didn't write that passage; they are linking to an old magazine article.
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Flackette Goes Retro
05/07/09

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How can I be both involved in my career and idle? I WISH I had time to be idle.
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PreposterousHypothesis
05/07/09

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Probably because "longer is the list" of things going on in their lives.
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