Liberal Sexism

This is the kind of nasty, extremely sexist post that gives all Liberals a bad name. Right now, I'm completely ashamed to be on the same side of the political fence as somebody who wrote this atrocity:

Boy this last 24 to 48 hours have not been very kind to poor Sarah Palin. . . Then you send out a bitter, and clearly insincere tweet (and follow upFacebook post), in which you thank the troops for killing Osama Bin Laden while denying any credit to the Commander in Chief, which once again identifies you as a hateful, immature attention whore, and which receives richly deserved  condemnation from all over the blogosphere. And just when you believed that things could NOT get any worse, somebody posts a picture of you on the Internet with food stains (At least we hope they're food stains!) ALL over your expensive outfit. Okay I don't want to start any unnecessary rumors, but exactly what was on the menu at that Vanity Fair after party? 

This just makes me want to vomit all over that inexpensive blog. People who have been around my site for a while know that I have been consistently critical of Sarah Palin and have expressed my criticism in very harsh terms. However, calling a person a whore and making ridiculously stupid suggestions about stains on her outfit is simply not right. This is sexism, and I don't give a rat's behind where it comes from. It's just so sad that wherever you turn, you find some sexist shit like this. 

I am very disgusted right now.

On Militant Liberalism

Michael Alan Miller's blog always has the best quotes ever. Thanks to him, I discovered the following beautiful manifesto. This is truly one of those things that are so well-said I really wish I'd said it first:

Over the last few years, and in particular in the last couple, I’ve noticed something about myself: I’ve become a lot more rude in my political dealings, including with many people I used to consider allies.  At first this worried me a bit, because I couldn’t quite pin down why, beyond the fact that I was angry. Now I’m not someone who believes anger is always a bad thing.  I think certain things should make you angry, and if they don’t, something’s wrong with you.  When people are dying, being raped, being tortured, being denied basic rights, being beaten and so on, you should get angry.  You should use that anger as a weapon and as fuel for the fight. So screw politeness, and screw reasonableness. Reasonableness in the current political environment means “willing to sell out the people whose interests she or he is supposed to care about.” . .  So count me out. I’m not interested in being reasonable, if reasonable means “a spineless sell out”. I’m not interested in being pragmatic, if pragmatic means “understands that nothing can actually be done to fix any problem”, and I’m not interested in being polite to people who make their living by destroying lives or apologizing for those who destroy lives. America is going down, and the world is spiraling into an age of war because everyone wants to be “reasonable” rather than do the right thing for their own people.

Here is more of this great post. I might not agree with some of the things this blogger says, but the core idea of militant liberalism appeals to me on a very deep level. Liberals are often branded as wishy-washy and spineless and not unreasonably so. We put liberal politicians in office only to see them immediately start bending over backwards in order to accommodate everybody and offend nobody's sensibilities. Of course, as we say in my culture, trying to sit on two chairs with one ass will end up breaking the ass in two. I'm tired of being constantly shushed by people who believe that expressing any opinion strongly and forcefully is wrong because it might alienate someone who might potentially (in some convoluted universe where the impossible routinely takes place) become an ally. So let somebody else curtsy to everybody in sight in the futile hope of generating allies. I, however, reserve the right to get angry and to express my opinions passionately and forcefully.

 
Trying to make everybody happy hasn't produced any positive results for the liberals yet. Isn't it time that we abandoned this useless strategy?