TN Dem attacks female Republicans: “You have to lift their skirts to find out if they are women.”
When liberals can’t handle GOP women, they infantilize, sexualize, demonize, and dehumanize them. I diagnosed the Four Stages of Conservative Female Abuse a few years ago. Here’s how I described the 4th Stage:
…the final stage of CFA is dehumanization. Conservative women aren’t real women according to the liberal feminist establishment’s definition. Remember when Gloria Steinem called Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison a “female impersonator?” Or when curdled NOW leader Patricia Ireland instructed Democrats to vote only for “authentic” female political candidates? Or when Al Gore’s fashion consultant Naomi Wolf described the foreign-policy analysis of Jeane Kirkpatrick as being “uninflected by the experiences of the female body?”
We can now add Tennessee State Democrat legislator Janis Baird Sontany of Nashville to the roster of abusers. Here’s what she said about her GOP opponents at a Democrat Party breakfast over the weekend:
State Republican Chairman Chris Devaney today denounced as “petty and insulting” a Democratic legislator’s statement about her Republican women colleagues.
“You have to lift their skirts to find out if they are women. You sure can’t find out by how they vote,” said Rep. Janis Baird Sontany, D-Nashville.
The remark at a Saturday Democratic breakfast was initially reported by blogger Dru Smith Fuller. Sontany acknowledged the statement when asked and described it as “a glib, off-the-cuff remark” that “was inappropriate on my part.”
Sontany has issued the standard, non-apology apology “if I offended anyone.”
Skirt checks. Bra checks. Womb checks.
What will conservative women be subjected to next?
So much for “My body, my choice,” eh, libs?
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Heh. Andy Levy tweets: “What’s amazing is that Sontany doesn’t realize that ‘You sure can’t find out by how they vote’ is a compliment.”
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“What will conservative women be subjected to next?”
If you have orgasms during sex?
How dumb must one be to mistake Republican women for Code Pinkos?
Janis Baird Sontany dumb, I’m a-thinking.
A lot of Liberal women (Steinem, Abzug, Streisand, Dworkin, Boxer, Jackson, Friedan, Helen Thomas) I wouldn’t dare lift their skirt. Afraid it would be like lifting a kilt during the Highland games.
Most of them roll their own tampons and have moustaches, anyway.
Hey Janis, Republican women aren’t usually the ones with hairy legs *****.
Rep. Janis Baird Sontany, D-Nashville, the only thing she represents is the familiar behavior of filthy minded democrats.
I’d rather listen to Susan Estrich read “Hamlet” than lift the skirt on a Liberal babe.
But who can forget the msm when they demanded that Sarah Palin provide a paternity test to prove that Twigg was her son and not her daughter’s.
I’ll take a conservative woman anyday of the week over a liberal woman. Not only are our women smart-but they are EXTREMELY good looking.
GSP
Two thoughts cross my mind immediately:
Old School Feminista organizations vociferously denouncing Ms. Baird and her outrageously demeaning remarks in 3…2…1……
and
[in "TV Announcer's" voice] Congradulations, Ms. Baird! That’s right: you’ve won a semester’s worth of free courses in Civil Discourse at the Bob Etheridge School!
Gunslinger: We have Sarah Palin, they have Helen Thomas.
Can’t you see how they are so full of win?
I just now had a look-see at Miz Two Names, and I don’t think she’s even human. It looks a bit like a locust.
Yeah, that’s the ticket. The folks of Tennessee elected a locust.
what-what?
During any news story with a woman braying her words like a donkey, I turn to my beloved husband and say, “Democrat or Republican?” It’s too easy to pick ‘em out…
That implies that women all vote the same way. I guess that means Rep. Janis Baird Sontany and Barney Frank are the same gender. He/she may be on to something here.
To the libs, anyone who strays from the group think is perfectly succeptible to character assination.
Anyone of color that sides with conservatism is a sell out to their race, aka an Uncle Tom.
And I guess any woman who is isn’t cool with aborting babies also must not be a real woman.
I actually think we are living in a post-Palin age of prominent conservative women. Malkin, Palin, Bachman are a few examples that spring to mind. And now out here in CA we have a chance to elect Whitman and Fiorina, and while they may not be the ultimate conservatives, they are strong women and they will be getting my vote.
How OLD is that meme? They’ve been throwing it at Kay B. Hutchinson for DECADES now…
But the Gender Feminists killed feminism LONG ago… As some one said lately, they killed and field-dressed it recently.
Feminists define women as lesbians. That’s why they have become irrelevant outside their narrow political circles.
Hanfire – you forgot that cutie Maxine Waters.
Actually, this is beginning to look very promising for us in TN. I don’t think any Demonrat will survive the current influx of news featuring TN Demonrats, and we may have Ole Al Gore to thank for starting the process. NC & SC also looking very promising for Republicans and by extension, America.
+1!
OK… so if voting the Dem Line makes you a woman…
Hmmmm… wonder what the Dem guys will have to say about that…
Don’t bring Kagan into this.
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(I know, that is so wrong of me to say that!)
Don’t bring Kagan into this.
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(I know, that is so wrong of me to say that!)
I have no idea why that comment double posted…
At least with conservative women, the librerloonies problem relates to gender. With the Code Pinko’s we could well have a species problem.
Will the poster who alluded to Hellin Thomas lifting her skirt please leave the room. Thank you.
It would be the perfect punishment for Larry Flynt in the Afterlife, now wouldn’t it?
Michelle,
I see that the “Womb checks” link goes to your post “Truthers to the left of me, truthers to the right”…
You might want to reconsider some things you said in that post…
Yes, and you have never entertained any further discussion of this legitimate constitutional issue.
Enforcement is covered by Section 3 of the 20th Amendment. It is the responsibility of the Congress to enforce the requirements of Article II Section 1.
And it’s not just about enforcement. It’s also about what the “natural born citizen” means… how it should be defined. There is a legitimate debate here about whether someone born a British subject (as Obama’s campaign web site admits he was) can be considered a “natural born citizen” of the United States.
You should also look into KERCHNER v OBAMA
There is recent research into the newspaper birth announcements that strongly suggests that the microfilm was altered. You really should look into that.
Hawaii has never said that the COLB that was produced at and by the Obama campaign headquarters in Chicago is authentic.
Hawaii has never released any Obama vital record.
Hawaii did not say “Obama was born in Hawaii” until AFTER the U.S. House of Representatives said so first. See H.Res. 593, which happened BEFORE Dr. Fukino’s second Press Release.
If gender is in doubt, why would you even want to look under the skirt anyway? (Cue “Twilight Zone” theme).
And stick with those pantsuits Hillary. We don’t you enough for your fashion choice.
And another Dem pre-writes this fall’s GOP campaign ad.
Announcer “Representative Sontanay says “You have to lift their skirts to find out if they are women. You sure can’t find out by how they vote,”. If you’re a woman that works hard to take care of your family, if you believe that a life is precious no matter how far along the pregnancy is, if you don’t want government agents lifting your skirt to see if you’re a woman, tell representative Sontany to go home. Tell the Liberal Democrats you’ve had enough, Vote Republican.”
Correction:
And stick with those pantsuits Hillary. We don’t THANK you enough for your fashion choice.
Eluding to it or not, you said it in the open.
Dims like Sontany cannot help but expose their own hypocrisy. It’s their nature as reactionaries to attack any presumed captive gender, race, or ethnicity that dares to stray from the plantation.
Anyone know how to get Pepsi out of a computer keyboard??
I’d rather listen to Susan Estrich read “Hamlet”
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With her smoker voice that might be entertaining.
And Ann Coulter.
I guess Dim-o-crats are all for conservative women staying home, barefoot and pregnant. As long as the Dim-o-crats get to make all your choices, regardless of what you might want, they are okay. But the minute someone thinks for themselves and does not engage in “group-think” and “identity politics” then it gets ugly…
Can you say “sexist?” Isn’t this the very definition of the term?
Um, just looking at the pictures of nearly all the Democrat women serving in Congress, one would come to the conclusion that Rep. Baird simply misspoke…she meant to say her Democrat collegues in the House.
Didn’t she?
Or, perhaps listen to Janet Napolitano recite love poetry?
(I just shuddered, and threw up in my mouth.)
i call it “FEMAPHOBIA”. it falls in the category of what they can’t defeat, they must destroy.
Is Tennessee Rep. Janis Baird Sontany up for re-election in 2010?
Who is running against her?
Rep. Janis Baird Sontany needs to be VOTED OUT OF OFFICE as soon as possible!
I hate to be the one to tell you, Janis, but lifting skirts will not result in 100% accuracy in today’s world. By the way, you and the other members of the Tennessee State Legislature should be doing backflips to improve your collective image. It’s a minor miracle just getting you to show up for work.
There is nothing more feminine and attractive than a woman comfortable and confident in her womanhood, as are conservative women. So called feminists, forever insecure and bitter about the fact that they are women, are ugly inside and out.
I told you it was a myth.
Sontany acknowledged the statement when asked and described it as De rigueur at all Dem fund raisers.
Sontany: “Pudendum checks help separate us men from the boys!”
Sexist the Democrat Party is full of them.
Most often, the biggest difference between liberal and conservative woman is found in how the two camps view men, and more specificaly, how they view white men.
Liberal woman despise white males and although they are bred to hate all males, their overbearing need to support minorities makes them support of this second group’s ethnic status.
Conservative woman don’t hate white males, nor any male for that matter, because they see the value and talent that men bring to life’s equation.
I said above,
Michelle,
Thank you for supporting our military, and specifically today, our Army.
Will you support Army flight surgeon Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin?
He faces court martial because our government won’t prove that Obama is eligible to hold the office of Commander-in-chief.
Coincidentally, one would have to lift the dress of many male Democrats to find out if they are men.
Tennessee State Democrat legislator Janis Baird Sontany of Nashville stepped in it.
When you attempt derision and ridicule, you open yourself to derision and ridicule. Take your opponent to task over substance and facts, and leave the silliness to anonymous bloggers.
I’d be surprised if there were any credible statistics on hand to verify, but it would be interesting to know:
a) who divorce more – liberals or conservatives?
b) who physically abuse women more – liberals or conservatives?
Political feminists (mostly white, liberal, traditional man-dis-likers) showed their hand in the early 1990s when they concocted a bogus study that “proved” that Superbowl Sunday was the deadliest day of the year for American women, as if some sort of alcohol/testosterone-hazed Sharia Law was draped upon American womanhood for a few hours of that man-centric Sunday.
I quickly learned to dismiss modern feminism when, just a few years later, they conveniently issued “get out of jail free” cards to William Jefferson Cliton’s oral escapades, and nary dared to exit the safe confines of their publishing houses to confront the evil excesses of misogynist behavior within the Islamo-Fascist and Rap-centered communities over on the other side of the railroad tracks.
If the only basis for the Liberal branding of conservative women as “unauthentic” is their reluctance to gallop like lemmings into the immoral abyss of “reproductive rights,” then please color me unimpressed.
There are many women who left the Democrat party in 2008 after seeing the sexism within the Democrat party primary.
So, if you want to remove all doubt that you are a woman,
then vote with the Democrats.
*My fantasy bumper sticker:”My Other Ride is Ann Coulter”
*We have some great conservative women here in Tennessee; They are more trustworthy/consistent in their votes, and have never been afraid to take on the male leaders in the state GOP; Diane Black and Mae Beavers come to mind; And don’t forget Marsha Blackburn up in D.C.; She’s a keeper; Sontany couldn’t be her dog washer!
Batta bing, batta boom.
This is perfect. Nothing more need be said.
Then zyzzyg must be your real name.
The left does live in an alternate universe.
Welcome Home Michelle we all missed you.
Where’s the equal opportunity in that?
A double entendre intended to provoke a derogatory ad hominem response which can then be reverse – applied to validate the original point! Well trolled indeed Zyzzyzyzzyg! We been missing you.
Go look at this video, then decide who’s skirt you have to check for the proper genitalia (and/or moustaches).
That’s right, Janis— just like Janet Reno. Wait a minute, she wasn’t a Republican. Okay, Janet Nap… oops, my bad. Rachel Maddo…oww. Hmmm. Rosie O… man, this not looking good. Hil… uh… I give up.
Lifting skirts?
Isn’t that sexual harassment?
I know if I went around lifting skirts I’d be fired and/or land myself in jail (and I would deserve it).
Sounds like someone should file a sexual harassment complaint.
The real test is this: Republican women don’t kill their unborn babies, but Democrats consider that a sacrament.
I think you forgot a step. Wendy Doniger, Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago’s Divinity School, in a 2008 Newsweek article uttered this total nonsense about Sarah Palin:
Some possible names for this step:
Neutering.
Spaying.
Forced sterilization.
Actually does that help? Do Dem women politicians wear skirts – seems like they tend toward Chairman Mao outfits.
BO health plan will pay for female genital mutilation to show sensitivity to the Arab world and kinda fits in with their prefrontal lobotomies.
Good response to bitzhes like Sontany is to accuse her of “hate speech” and putting the lives of young women at risk for rape and sexual humiliation. Sontany – yet another Dem Congresspervert.
Thank you.
I no longer understand how feminism – which simultaneously says men are the enemy (they aren’t) while trying to turn all women into men – serves any woman.
The thing is, they will never realize it is their own self-loathing and hypocrisy that drove me away…
Whoever said that (looking under the skirt) should be castrated!
Well…if the person is wearing a skirt and is not female, I’ll wager that the person is a Democrat.
Ah, the smell of fear!
Rep. Janis Baird Sontany, D-Nashville seems to be running scared.The “if I offended” is almost mantra of the sissy set from the Arkansas White Trash to this cow and her sister baby in vulgarity Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-NC).
Run sissy run-the Conservative bogywoman is after you
For leftwing democrats here’s how you tell the difference between the conservative and liberal woman …
Conservative women:
Intelligent, well groomed, fashionable, sexy, independent and definitely born female.
Progressive liberal women:
Hairy, hate filled, indoctrinated, screaming wart hogs that may or may not have been born female.
Simple. You just tell them you were born a woman in Hawaii. I hear they’ll agree to verify anything.
So she can’t tell if they are women by the way they Vote??? Does that mean Democrat men who rabidly vote the Black/Minority emphasized baby killing montra of Planned Parenthood, are they potentially women?? Ya know…based on the way they vote…???
Only Rahm Emmanuel naked in a Shower knows for sure…
Another reason to believe that study that claimed you had to be mentally retarded to be a liberal. The sad thing is these nitwits are allowed to vote.
Be careful-you are likely to cause Bwany Fwank…
And it works the other way too. Most liberal men need to drop their pants to prove that they’re men! You’d certainly never know by the way they hold doors for women or offer a seat on the train or bus.
What you are witnessing is authentic panic on the part of the Dems. Since November 4th, 2008; they have watched their glorious “win” erode like an untreatable cancer. What they can’t comprehend, is that they are the cancer destroying their party. If you think they are acting nutty now, wait until this November 2nd, then you’re going to see the full insanity they are capable of. Their self-destruction will only get worse.
Talking to the women now.
IMO: women have been typecast as libs for years.
As for notoriety, Geraldeen Ferraro encouraged lib women to be more expressive – decades ago. So the typecast prevailed.
I have a few ideas why conservative women either didn’t have a message yet or didn’t get their message out there back then. You conservative women know what those are and I believe by experiencing some of that we realized we were conservative.
We have the internet/blogs = access to the thoughts of conservative women now. The new media has given us access to conservative trail blazers in politics. The Tea Parties have also helped shake the trees for some great gals too. That’s encouragement. There will be more conservative babes as time goes by.
I fully agree with those statements. Well stated.
I probably don’t need to say this but if you were to hold the door or give me the seat, I will smile and say thank you. Real women eat up that kind of stuff.
seriously?! Is he implying that the likes of Hillary Clinton, Pelosi, Rosie O’Donnell, Janet Reno, Susan Estrich, Madeline Albright and Helen Thomas are hotties? I cannot think of one single attractive liberal mouthpiece – not – a -one. Most are raging bull dikes, or should be
Rogue–stop spreading misinformation! We conservative women need all the help we can get. The Left would love to think their *gag* women are the only ones to truly enjoy orgasms during sex. I can vouch for our side; multiple times.
Talk about sexual frustration. He is obviously not getting enough from his liberal feminist base. What does that say about him – wimp at best.
You have to wonder if he was a peeping Tom or maybe one of those guys in school who would hang around the women’s locker rooms in hopes of getting a peak. Sounds like one too many wedges got to his brain.
Did anyone check Sontany head for a brain?
It’s a CARRY-ALL… “No it’s not, it’s a purse”!!!
Do you need a moment there space?
I think I’m more likely to get liberal men and women mixed up than conservative women vs. liberal women.
Metrosexuals, anyone?
I’m reminded of the bumper sticker aimed at Palin during the 2008 campaign:
“She’s not a woman, she’s a Republican!”
Just like you can’t be “authentically” black unless you mindlessly vote donk, so it appears as well with those whom liberals would describe as “Gyno-Americans.”
I knew I was a hard core conservative when I told an acquaintance that I loved men because they always “do the heavy lifting” and all the liberal women I knew didn’t appreciate it. I wasn’t invited to any parties after that, for which I am eternally grateful. Spending time with liberals, especially liberal women, is painful.
jsmid–nope; I’m all covered.
If liberal men would quit wearing them stupid ecco flip flop things and instead start wearing mirror like shiny toed wingtip oxfords like we conservatives do them liberals would realize you don’t need to lift up nothing to see anything.
Lift up dresses….. so yesterday.
“I’m all covered.”
Is that one of those double ent… things? Whatever that word is.
Double entendre? Yes.
And sometimes, the noblesse really does oblige.
I found pretending I’m all powerful like has the opposite effect in regards to the desired outcome…..
Unless I’m wearing my Thor outfit….
You can’t tell they’re women by how they vote? This is a BAD thing? Wouldn’t it be good if you couldn’t tell gender, race, or religion by a voting record? The only thing I’d like to be able to tell from voting record is whether they’re American or not.
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The propaganda has been that female = socialist for a long time.
They don’t like it when the ladies wander off the reservation. And they are fully prepared to be damned nasty about it.
On the left, the mask is coming loose and the fangs are starting to show.
On the right, conservative women are about to bring on a sea change in American political life.
I thought that the standard method for that was a crowbar.
Checked “her” photos? I doubt anybody has lifted that skirt lately.
It’s just a fact that liberals consistently minimize/ridicule/insult everything that is ‘female’ about women to the point that they are not happy unless every woman exchanges their skirt for a business suit. They basically want gender difference to go away and live in a world where it really would be difficult to determine the difference between a ‘metro-sexual’ male and one of their so-called ‘liberated’ females without removing clothes.
So, as is so typical with them, their faux accusations of something ‘wrong’ with republicans is actually about something very wrong about them in reality.
The most glaring aspect of their hypocrisy is that while they attempt to apply their brainwashed concept of ‘equality’ in attacking natural gender based differences in human instinct, they talk about celebrating ‘diversity’ from the other side of their mouth.
They do NOT want either diversity or equality. They only expect everyone to ‘think’ like them so there has got to be ~something~ ‘wrong’ with someone who does not think like them – especially if that someone is a female or non-white.