Hanna Rosin, Supreme Arbiter of Feminist Role Models
If you’ve been reading this blog for the last year and a half, the participation and leadership of conservative women in the Tea Party movement is not news to you.
I’ve covered the phenomenon from the very inception of the grass-roots taxpayer revolt in the Age of Obama (see here, here, here, and here for refreshers).
Well, a year and a half after incessantly trashing the movement as racist/sexist/fascist/fill-in-the-blank-ist, it’s finally dawned on liberal journalists that politically engaged, Internet savvy conservative gals have fueled Tea Party activism. Slate.com’s Hanna Rosin belatedly parachutes in for an anthropological account of the foreign specimens known as Tea Party moms — and in introducing her profile, she sees fit to take a swipe at yours truly:
In a different political season, Lou Ann Zelenik would be too much an outsider to run for a congressional seat in Tennessee. A single mother, she owned a heavy construction company until she retired in 2007. She likes to remind people that she’s a “licensed blaster,” which refers both to her technical skills and her Rosie the Riveter attitude. “She’s bucked every trend, and if there’s ever an obstacle put in her way she breaks right through it,” says her spokesman, Jay Heine. Zelenik only really broke through in electoral politics, however, when she got involved with the local Tea Party. She put together a rally in Murfreesboro, and 3,000 people showed up. She hooked into a network of activist local moms who agreed to volunteer on her campaign. “A lot of the tea party women are inspired by seeing a strong woman run for office,” adds Heine.
Is the Tea Party a women’s movement? More women than men belong—55 percent, according to the latest Quinnipiac poll. And while no movement that uses Michelle Malkin as a poster girl could fairly be described as feminist, the party has become an insta-network for ambitious women like Zelenik.
Well, which dinosaur feminists died and made Hanna Rosin the Supreme Arbiter of Female Role Models?
Rosin, whose biography boasts that she “won a number of competitions on the debate team” at her high school, doesn’t explain her gratuitous slap.
Do conservative political views disqualify one as an acceptable feminist role model in the 21st century?
Or perhaps Mizz Rosin shares the view of the MSNBC misogynists who believe that right-leaning pundits are nothing more than “mashed up bags of meat with lipstick?”
Or maybe Rosin subscribes to the view, embraced by so many of her cohorts on the Left, that minority female conservatives are incapable of independent thought because they are nothing more than puppets of color for their white overlords?
Rosin is a working mother, journalist, author, and blogger inside the Beltway.
I am a working mother, journalist, author of four best-sellers, and blogger outside the Beltway who started a web enterprise from scratch in 2004, launched another one in 2006, and sold it successfully this year in an era when newspapers and magazines are falling like flies.
Like the Tea Party moms she profiles, I multi-task from home — and have been doing so since I voluntarily left an MSM newsroom in 1999 for an independent, self-directed career tailored for my family.
I point this out not for the purpose of horn-tooting, but to once again expose what I dubbed the “Sisterhood of the Protected Female Liberal Journalists” last fall.
Conservative “poster girls” not welcome, of course.
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That is one attractive poster!
They just hate conservative thought. It pains them that they can’t just paint women with a broad (no pun intended) brush, being the sexist, misogynist simpletons they are.
That’s okay, I don’t want to be considered a feminist. Bleah.
Except for the journalist inside the beltway part, you could be talking about Sarah Palin or even Laura Bush.
This woman is a clueless mashed up bag of meat with lipstick.
But, But, Michelle you don’t subscribe to the victimhood of The Vagina Monologues.
Not to worry Michelle. We here know you give us the truth and love you.
I am proud to say, I am not a feminist either. I like being treated as a lady, and try to act like one. Hubby does get an ear full daily about this bho though, not too lady like I must admit!
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Nonsense! How could a sane person not vent?
Michelle I’ve always found you feminine, especially when you wear that cheerleading out… but I digress.
Hanna Rosen is a psycho beatch harpy!
Oh, yeah?! Well, they can kiss my Heine.
I don’t think Hanna Rosin knows the definition of feminist.
Yeah, women never get ahead in the Republican Party, right Palin, Bachmann?
Again, what rage? People are upset, but they never claim that upset lefties are enraged, even when planting bombs and throwing things.
I’ll give credit for actually printing the money quote, though.
The left can’t handle “real” women. They would rather promote air-head, botox babes like pelosi.
They’re just jealous because you’re happily married, with beautiful children, are active in your Church, have a relationship with your Lord and Savior, and are fulfilled with those things.
They, on the other hand, are not fulfilled with anything. And want to tear-down anyone who is.
Feminists have hairy armpits and smell bad.
Why would anyone want to be one of those?
I don’t know, did you ask Chap?
He’s got a wine that goes with everything.
Were her 8 reader’s impressed?
Considering the stereotypical feminists I’ve seen, I think her remark was a compliment. Not that I think she intended it that way.
As I told a black girlfriend in college, NOW doesn’t speak to or for women of color – unless you are the nanny, housekeeper or want to kill your unborn baby.
And as a not-wealthy-at-the-time married white woman, I saw through the crap in 1982. If one opens the peepers and looks through the fluffy hype, one will see that some things never change.
Women were sold a bill of goods in 1960 for which women of today are STILL paying. That a woman who figures out that PARENTING/CREATING A HOME WITH A HUSBAND (MAN) is the most creative and fulfilling role a woman can have – that that woman is villified and demonized – is total rotten monkey butt nuggets.
What is really disgusting is that there are men that buy into this load o’crap because they think supporting it (A) will get them laid, and (B) will elevate the status of their daughters.
What they don’t realize is that this mind-set/phylosophy turns women into sex object and emotionless/emotionally damanged worker bees, probably unfit for the job of mothering even the lug-o-lump men they live with/marry.
The world is really sucking rotten monkey butt nuggets for my poor granddaughters.
I suspect your pro-life position forever disqualified you for inclusion in the “feminist movement.” They are not really for choice- only their choice. And the hypocrisy is lost on their diminuative intellect.
I think this explains why you cant be held up as a feminist role-model….
Michelle, I had a pleasant surprise when I picked up my mail yesterday. Your smiling face on the cover of my Townhall magazine! I can’t wait to read the article!
Polarization in Politics…
Polarization in Culture…
Polarization in the War Effort…
Polarization in Female Physical Attributes…
Can I get an autographed copy of that poster?
You go, girl!
Sounds like Hanna is suffering from a bad case of envy…
You have to bear in mind to whom the comment was directed — fellow leftists. It’s symptomatic of their need for affirmation from others; modern liberalism has been in a state of hate-filled intellectual rigor mortis for at least the past 50 years.
Club membership in good standing depends heavily on maintaining the right “street cred” — saying the approved things to other club members about the approved targets of their hatred.
It doesn’t matter whether what they’re saying is grounded in reality or makes any logical sense; it’s all a matter of putting the right checks in the proper check-boxes to gain/maintain the approval of fellow-travelers. Hatred of Sarah Palin? Check. Hatred of Nancy Reagan? Check. Hatred of Michelle? Check…
What is a so-called feminist doing calling Michelle a “girl“?
I thought the “rules of feminism” demanded that she be called a “woman”, and that calling her a “girl” is demeaning.
Oh, that’s right, Rosin fully intended to be demeaning.
I think most of us on the right, both male and female, don’t mind the term “girl” being used for a woman, but the hypocrisy of the left is interesting.
Michelle a “poster girl“? No, I’ve never seen a single poster at a Tea Party with Michelle’s image on it.
Michelle a “cover girl“? Yes, she’s on the cover of Townhall.
So Rosin wants to write off Zelenik as “ambitious”?
Zelenik’s run isn’t about ambitition… it’s about “We the People” having had enough of corruptocrats who vote for bills they haven’t read in order to cram their agenda down our throats. Rosin should be cheering Zelenik, not trying to belittle her as just an “ambitious woman” who is somehow cheating the system by using the Tea Parties to gain “an insta-network”.
Let’ be honest, the left especially the msm left, has always vilified conservatives as stupid, racist, sexist, homophobic, mysoginists, and on bad days, they are “REPUBLICANS”. They learned in the 70′s that labelling their adversaries cut off debate because there is no answer to you are a racist. Just like “when did you stop beating your wife”, it’s a GOTCHA WITH NO ANSWER. When you try to answer that charge, you just make yourself open to the charge of stupid. In the only case on record where two candidates for president actually took the same test, the brilliant senator Kerry scored 1 point less than the stupid president Bush. Yet today those ideas still exist.
PRSK,
For nearly a year once, I was unemployed, but my wife was working. So, I was Mr. Mom to our young son.
Being a full-time parent is the hardest job in the world! And, you can’t call in sick, clock out at the end of the day, take a vacation, take weekends off, or take a lunch break. For goodness sake, you even need to take precautions just to go to the freakin’ bathroom!
But, what’s more ful-filling than seeing ones children growing up under ones guidance!
After what they did to Condi Rice, Sara Palin and Michele Bachmann, why even ask.
I’m with Aloha here. Michelle is a lady, not a feminist. I mean that in the best traditional sense of the word, possessing all the best qualities of her gender – beauty, grace, intelligence, loyalty and fierce family love and devotion – while rising to the top of her profession as a journalist, author, entrepeneur and savy business woman.
Hanna Rosin on the other hand is a college dropout with an opinion – i.e. a feminist.
Why, that’s a compliment.
Whew. I’m glad I wasn’t called a feminist! Thems fightin’ words.
LOL Misscheryl—we think alike
tell us yer faves, Hangfire!
spacey Call me anything you want but don’t call me a feminist!
and don’t call me late to dinner!
Maybe we should coin the phrase for conservative women “femicon” — all of the feminine traits of a feminist without any of the stupid liberal ideals (oh, and no hairy armpits either)…
Femicons
Michelle Malkin
Sara Palin
Ann Coulter
Michelle Bachman
Feminists
Joy Behar
Hillary Clinton
Nancy Pelosi
Barbara Boxer
Haha… with which group would you rather spend some time discussing politics (or any other topic for that matter)??
Well said Michelle.
Mizz Rosin probably wishes she could attract half the audience you enjoy on a regular basis. Alas, she is just another liberal loser.
Rosin who?
I used to be a feminist.
Then I had my first child.
All that nonsense was forgotten.
Best decision I ever made.
Dang!
You beat me to it!
Heh, “feminist” ME???? I don’t whine about feminism. I just “do the job” competitively with my male peers. If they can’t keep up, (and don’t want my help), scroom. Same goes for my lady peers. I’ve helped some of each. I’ve ignored the boors. My WORK stands for itself.
Does Hanna Rosin’s work stand for itself? Seems to me she can’t do better than simply whine. What a baby!
{^_^}
Well, Hanna Rosen sneers at the women leading the Tea Party movement by calling them “mama bears.” Sarah Palin returns fire today by calling them “mama grizzlies.” The bears are up and fighting and I’m betting on the grizzlies.
These Huffington Post writers are not puppets – they are zombies. First to insist on others being non-judgemental and decrying, “hate speech,” they are on the front lines of ad hominum attacks against anyone who expresses an opinion contrary to theirs.
Is this merelySaul Alensky tactics or is it childish narcisism or is it some bizarre form of brain damage? While Alensky tactics appears most likely to shape their mindless rantings, these leftists are just so incredibly uninformed, misinformed, and nasty that I think they suffer neurologic damage. In the demented, social graces are the first to go. The only other process that could lead to the left’s witless, dirty mouthed, string of lies arguments is a twisted combination of sociopathy and anarchism – as seen in the ruling classes in the novel, 1984. What does Rosin want? To be able to grind our faces into the dirt with her booted feet while we lie helpless before her? If Rosin wants a better world why does she not spend her time teaching someone to read, or feeding a hungry stranger, or anything that does not involve spewing poison and hatred into the world. For her own mental health she should try to go a whole month without saying or thinking a single nasty, angry, vile thing about anyone or anything. To the leftists, bile is an addictive drug, reason an emetic, spirituality a laxative.
POLITICALGUANO – #44 – Your post was…wow..just wow! Thanks.