Conservative girlpower quote of the day
Kathryn Lopez to Ellen Goodman:
It’s 2007, you live in the United States. You have a pen, phone and Internet connection. Stop whining. It’s unattractive. If you want to have an impact, just work. That’s how the guys do it. That’s how we gals do it.
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Ouch…. that B-slap is gonna leave a mark….
BONK!
So, Ellen….more chardonnay?
On 8/15, I emailed Shorenstein Center Executive Director Nancy Palmer and Publications Coordinator Tezeta Tullock, in an attempt to have the “intrepid graduate student” mentioned in Ellen Goodman’s piece contact MM directly. No luck, I guess, although Ms. Palmer did write to say she would forward the request to Ms. Goodman. Great!
The whine by feminists such as Goodman is only a ruse. The Goodman brand of feminism today has more power than ever. They control and dictate the agenda of the Democrats with respect to their special interests. And when was the last time you saw any criticism of the NOW agenda in the MSM?
Ellen Goodman is disturbed in my opinion. Not evil or mean. Just deeply unhappy.
But Will Conservative Women Keep Their Heads In The Voting Booth??
Well, I just hope conservative/Republican women don’t go weak-knee with the giddy thrill of helping to create history by pushing the lever for the first woman president (Hilary) just for the cozy feeling of helping make it happen. I’ve never been more concerned of her getting in than now, swept in on a tide of impulsive mass defections of women across the political spectrum, especially since the alternative candidates are so damn cardboard. Even Rush has stopped making jokes about Hillary’s chances of getting in. Time for some serious campaigning. Try this; ask a student whether they’d like to keep 90% of their paycheck and take care of themselves or keep only 40% but someone will take care of you. Free no-brainer campaign slogen, guys!!
James Greenidge
Queens NY
I’m a male blogger who stands in awe of blogger Michelle Malkin, the informative and fun reports of Mary Katherine Ham, and the body of work of Kathryn Jean Lopez. In addition, I greatly admire the powerful commentaries of Debra Burlingame and Peggy Noonan and the fine reporting of folks like Audrey Hudson.
The only glass ceiling above women journalists today are the false ones the “victims” create hoping for an “equal” opportunity. Sure, some of them might get a job so their boss can check that block off on a federal reporting form. Maybe one will even say enough stupid stuff to even get a column no one reads and a picture there wearing dark red lipstick. Yet if they stop looking to live be someone’s leave and actually do good work, they’ll find many will value them for their work. The EO women ought to stop begging not because it isn’t lady-like, but rather because if they don’t, they’ll never know the pride of achieving it own their own. Buck up “intrepid graduate student” and stop whining.
Kathryn Lopez wrote in her artical:
I can’t remember if it was Ann Richards or Kay Bailey Hutchinson when asked about women’s issues asked back (paraphrasing here) that is national security not a woman’s issue? or the economy?
Womens issues, black, African American, colored issues, immigrant issues, children’s issues,the poor issues….
Utter. Nonsense. Everyone.
Divide and conquer is the goal of these socialist memes and the sooner the above groups learn that, the better.
Hey Ladies, how about a little “what is good for the U.S.A” issues?
Yeah, what she said.
Goodman also makes the very huge mistake of assuming that mommy blogs are about nothing more than graham crackers and potty training. I follow a lot of mommy blogs, and trust me, the way a woman raises her children is a HUGE political statement. These women have very strong opinions and political leanings too.
Just because a woman is not a political commentator, doesn’t mean she is not making political comments and observations. If Goodman had respect for women who choose to be “mommies” and blog about it, then maybe she would find some value in what they had to say.
We are great-grandparents who do not want our four great-granddaughters wearing burkas. We’ll do everything we can to ensure that won’t happen. Keep up the good work, Michelle!
Cheers…uuuggh sends chills down your spine.
I smell a rat, if she didn’t something to hide the authors referral would have come along with the first response.
Kathryn Lopezs’ response article is priceless.
Care for some cheese with that whine?
I have no reason to doubt the veracity of Ms. Goodman’s data, either. I can whole heartedly agree with her statement ‘…half of all 96 million blogs are written by women.’ So what’s her point?
How about a little word gender association? Politics & sports. Relationships & fashions.
Or how about these? Math & science. Literature & humanities.
There’s no big mystery here, and most can agree on a cohesive answer, not based on bigotry or prejudice, but on rationality & common sense.
Time magazine wrote a no-brain headline based upon this anthropology; Harvard president Larry Summers got fired. So what’s Ms. Goodman’s point?
Issue licenses? Enact regulation? Info-czar approved bloggers? Is Ellen applying for a job? Bad ideas all, and all are nefarious workings the oh-so-tolerant-open-minded-non-judgemental leftist swear lurks in every secret neo-con heart.
So what’s Ms. Goodman’s point? The market place of goods, services & ideas is an egalitarian success, yet she implies something must be done!
Her article illustrates a stark contrast in worldviews: Kathryn Lopez vs Ellen Goodman – ‘just do it’ vs ‘what have you done for me lately?’
I say Ms. Goodman’s worldview is an adolescent self-delusion which afflicts many on the left: let me do what I want, when I want, as often as I want, with little or no consequence or responsibility, yet when I don’t like something, some all-knowing, unseen guiding authority needs to fix it.
That must be Ms. Goodman’s point. How could she doubt the veracity of my data?
Ok. Now that that’s solved, will SOMEBODY please repeat the same thing to our black perpetual victims…
@James#6
You are kidding right? Do you honestly believe that a regular follower of MM would be stupid enough to vote for Hillary if she was the ONLY candidate for office?
pleezze…
I think I’ve just been insulted
@armymom#10
+1 Ms Goodman obviously hasn’t been around many ‘Mommy’ blogs if she thinks they are all toliet training and baby talk.
Overall I’d have to say ‘heck ya’ to Katheryn Lopez. Just do it. I’m going to. Just as soon as this blog software stops kicking my butt hehe. Hardware I know backwards and forwards… but this stupid HTML stuff is boggling me
But if I can do it. Someone like Ms Goodman certainly can.
Good lord, how many times have I wanted to say this to so many women throughout my life?
Way to have the nuts and bolts to say that, Kathryn!
That’s precisely it, locomotivebreath1901. The Lopez v. Goodman repartee isn’t just about male/female opportunities, it’s really about worldviews: conservative v. liberal. Conservatives (men and women) don’t wait for government or laws or daddy (”sugar” or otherwise) to make things available to them, they act, they WORK on their own to get them.
Lopez succinctly lays out the “conservative’s path to self-success”. And it works not only for women but also for men and women of all ethnic groups.
My beloved late mother suffered two broken hips as a child. She worked hard all her life, especially when her brothers went off to fight WWII. She and my late father raised five children. We grew up to be fighter pilots, teachers and professionals. We all did what we did to honor our parents. There is no such thing as feminism. There is only love of family.
As soon as any candidate even mentions their gender or race as being somehow relevent -as the first woman this, as the fist black that…-I’m outta there but quick. Lopez’s column hit the nail on the head and should be required reading. The problems one experiences start and end with the limitations that individual puts on him or herself. But, as someone once said, if you see yourself as a nail, everything else looks like a hammer…
To comment #6–I’m a hardboiled conservative and the only way I’d ever vote for Hillary Clinton is if she were struck by lightning and magically transformed into Margaret Thatcher. Otherwise, hells to the no.
So…can we start calling chicks “gals” again now?
29victor
Of course not you sexist pig :-p
Defector01
The word “pig” offends me. I prefer the term “swine” or Porcine-American.
Email #1 to Goodman:
Ms. Goodman, I am a blogger and a woman, fancy that!
To be true, (you do know the meaning of that word, don’t you?),
I read mostly male bloggers, and a few excellent women
bloggers. I do not read hateful and/or crazy females, however.
I have been linked by my blogroll to some of these and the
hatred that is spewed, not only at things conservative, but
generally at men, businesses, and in one instance (I believe there
is a restraining order against this female professor) a child. There
is no “discussing” and posts are generally overrun by the same ilk,
deleted or banned. Why waste my time on homo sapiens of the female
persuasion that have only hate in their “hearts’.
Your researcher might try to contact Michelle Malkin and get a list of
the wonderful core of female bloggers we have on the right. If,
that is, she is not one of these females described above, in which
case, it would be a waste of our time.
No. 2
Ms. Goodman,
To see for yourself just exactly what I was talking about in my earlier
email, go the Huffington Post blog and check out the post by Michael
Shaw and read the comments. I think you will see why I NEVER go
there. But that doesn’t mean we on this side of the aisle don’t keep
up with the hatred spewing there.
Someone responded that she would be on vacation and if “urgent” to contact her “assistant”. I wonder….maybe her assistant is the “graduate student”(?) She even gave me a phone nuumber
Loved this from: locomotivebreath1901 “I say Ms. Goodman’s worldview is an adolescent self-delusion which afflicts many on the left: let me do what I want, when I want, as often as I want, with little or no consequence or responsibility, yet when I don’t like something, some all-knowing, unseen guiding authority needs to fix it.” If only this could be pounded into the liberals in the hills and progressives on the plains in the big valley where I live, the area would be even more red than in the past two presidential elections.
I can’t help but wonder about something here folks … we seem to have a number of similarities to look into …
“intrepid graduate student” … unidentified … on vacation right now …
hmmmm ? … sound familiar ? …
“Baghdad Diarist” … unidentified contributor … TNR on vacation …
just thought I would mention it …
and before anyone says anything … I was referring to the initial status of “unidentified” regarding STB … figured I better correct it before everyone let me have it … lol …
All,
The name of my blog is: This isn’t your mother’s blog.
I guess I was just ahead of the curve SMILE
Love it!
“Intrepid” is room-mates with “Tommy”
I saw that Rosie the Riveter graphic on a blog the other day with the caption “Si, se puede.”
I wanted to cry.
Could this be the intrepid grad student? She was a fellow the quarter before what’s her face at the shorenstein center:
Garance Franke-Ruta is a senior editor at The American Prospect, where she covers electoral politics and blogs for the magazine’s group blog, Tapped. She was previously a senior writer and news editor at City Paper, Washington D.C.’s alternative weekly newspaper. In 2004-2005, Garance was a Security and Liberty Post-9/11 fellow with the University of Southern California’s Institute for Justice and Journalism. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Salon and National Journal among other publications. Born in the south of France, Garance was raised in Mexico, New Mexico and New York City. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1997. Her research will examine the representation of women in opinion journalism.
That infuriates me! Unfortunately, yes they actually can, and with the help of our own government.
#8 DaveC said:
How in the world could you confuse these two??!!!?
Rosie the Riveter’s lasting image may get memorial
SFWife asks
You may be on to something there!
PS – You are obviously a woman, how did you get past all those Angry White Men in charge of the Internet? Heads will roll…