(NOTE: This is, by the way, a liberal feminist blog. Just so you know.)
by Molly Ivors
I'm not going to parse what must have been the highly interesting contents of Maureen's stomach when she wrote today's imaginary chick flick starring the scrappy-yet-terrifyingly-unqualified Sarah Palin. But this line caught my attention, partly because it seems to have been delivered largely without self-awareness of any kind.
(Why do men only pick women as running mates when they need a Hail Mary pass? It’s a little insulting.)
This from Dowd, who has spent, conservatively, the better part of the last year explaining to us why a competent woman is a dominatrix wielding a whip, why women only succeed because they've been wronged by men, why women who continue fighting primaries when they're garnering votes are "emasculating" and "suffocating."
If women have been delegitimized as political figures in their own rights, Mo, look in the fucking mirror and your own archives.
You called it. As usual.
Posted by: Hecate, Runnymead Conspirator | August 31, 2008 at 07:26 AM
Damnit. I really want to leave all that behind, but they keep sucking me in.
Posted by: ql | August 31, 2008 at 07:42 AM
She actually used the word "uppity."
Not to describe her own feelings. No, it's some invisible "them."
Posted by: Roxanne | August 31, 2008 at 09:53 AM
Here is the line delivered largely without self-awareness:
The guilty pleasure I miss most when I’m out slogging on the campaign trail is the chance to sprawl on the chaise and watch a vacuously spunky and generically sassy chick flick.
Posted by: The Kenosha Kid | August 31, 2008 at 10:07 AM
Somebody get MoDo into a psychiatric lockdown unit, stat.
Posted by: DrDick | August 31, 2008 at 10:33 AM
You know, might have been interesting if she'd gone to "Mike Murphy, the peppery Republican strategist and former McCain guru" (and, she forgot to mention, still an informal McCain advisor) to ask about this one.
I guess that could have been awkward.
Posted by: julia | August 31, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Why not deprive MoDo of the attention she so craves by just ignoring her? As far as I can tell, nothing she has to say is worth reading.
Posted by: BettyB | August 31, 2008 at 03:13 PM
Thank. You.
Posted by: Kate | August 31, 2008 at 07:10 PM
Maureen likes watching crappy chick flicks? Who knew?
Posted by: Mo MoDo | August 31, 2008 at 08:58 PM
If women have been delegitimized as political figures in their own rights, Mo, look in the fucking mirror and your own archives.
Hmmm....big leap there Molly.
Ariel capable of self awareness and self reflection?
Not anytime soon....
Posted by: flory | August 31, 2008 at 10:59 PM
A-fucking-men, Molly. Well spoken.
Posted by: actor212 | September 01, 2008 at 08:06 AM
Why not deprive MoDo of the attention she so craves by just ignoring her?
Because that never works.
If you can give me an example of a time when that strategy did in fact work, I'd love to see it.
Posted by: spencer | September 01, 2008 at 10:34 AM
all i can say is that i'm very glad not to feel compelled to read modo at any time. my life is richer, for the use of my time to better purpose, and i thank you for going places that i just can't bring myself to go.
Posted by: chicago dyke | September 02, 2008 at 02:14 AM