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One chick that's come home to roost (none / 0) (#73)
by Ellie on Mon Apr 07, 2008 at 07:19:05 PM EST
This wearisome habit from the boyz in the blogz of trotting out pesky female troubles as the go-to  straw (wo)man to smack around to "prove" their cred as neutral defenders of human rights is laughable.

I've had enough of listening to the deflecting tactic of waving any logical criticism of Team Obama's actual words and actions as racist, whether or not the challenges are even remotely connected to a racial issue, but getting huffy about applying the same pristine standard to themselves about indulging in egregious bigotry like misogyny.

The solution is simple for the boyz in the blogz who like to draw b(.)(.)bs on the enemy du jour before they smack their straw(wo)man around.

Make the case based on what's immediately at hand. Own it, explain it (if you like) or deal with whoever's in your face at that moment on mutual terms. Have the fracas but don't get in a bunch if someone tosses back what you tossed using the cunning Rubber / Glue akido.

The Obama Roolz double-standard is like a vertical rock-climbing cliff here.

I'm sympathetic to the case of watchdogging language, including one's own, but tend to be slovenly about the social chore of continually mopping up the slime trails behind other people's messy brains.

Sticking their noses in it does have cumulative value though, since we all have to share the planetary confines. I've had my own nose stuck in my words and actions plenty of times.

Sometimes it's tolerable and others, I really really didn't want to go back there. Everyone smells at some point or other in every material, linguistic and figurative sense. Setting reasonable standards for toxic emissions isn't unreasonable, just the expectation that some people get to do all the spewing "balanced" by a separate caste indentured to perpetual cleanup.

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