"The image below was posted on Post Secret on November 8, 2008. I have no doubt that the dominate narrative of this campaign the forceful suppression of women is responsible for the author's "secret." In the Obama-realm, feminism isn't just bad, it'll ruin your life. One only need to look to Hillary and Sarah Palin as examples."
[feminist-movement] <http://budwhite.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/feminist-movement.jpg> Misogyny was the central narrative of the Obama campaign <http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/11/12/misogyny-was-the-central-na\ rrative-of-the-obama-campaign/> By Bud White [gravatar] closeAuthor: Bud White Name: Joyan and Bud White White Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Site: About: See Authors Posts <http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/author/bud-white/> (79) on November 12, 2008 The image above was posted on Post Secret on November 8, 2008. I have no doubt that the dominate narrative of this campaign the forceful suppression of women is responsible for the author's "secret." In the Obama-realm, feminism isn't just bad, it'll ruin your life. One only need to look to Hillary and Sarah Palin as examples. Dr. Violet Socks <http://www.reclusiveleftist.com/2008/11/10/some-things-are-big/> writes: A few days ago I was asking you all to think about why there is still so much deeply-felt resistance to women's equality. This is the lesson of radical feminism: that the gender revolution requires just that a revolution. Why does there need to be a revolution for equality? Because this year misogyny was used a political tool. As many of us witnessed, this election was so poisoned with hate speech against women that it's not an exaggeration to say that the FBI would have been investigating the perpetrators if it had been against any other oppressed group. Let's be clear: Hillary Clinton was the choice of most Democrats this year. The Democratic establishment, consisting of Donna Brazile, Howard Dean, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, and many others, worked furiously to keep Hillary Clinton from receiving the Democratic nomination. Their left-wing allies and the media worked to sabotage her campaign at every turn. It's not entirely clear why there was such intense animous towards Hillary by such a large and diverse group. We do know, however, that the most vile tactics were used to suppress Hillary's campaign; caucus fraud, race-baiting, and outright misogyny comes to mind. As examples, the Obama campaign initiated a not-so-secret whisper campaign that President Clinton was a racist when Clinton called Obama's Iraq War position a "fairy tale," Hillary was accused of waiting for the unthinkable to happen to Obama when she mentioned the length of the 1968 campaign and Bobby Kennedy and, from January on, there was a constant drumbeat that she must leave the race. Running below the murky currents of this campaign, however, was a sexism so deep and so pervasive that it can be said that sexism defined this campaign. Indeed, I believe the subtext and central narrative of Obama's campaign was sexism. Because two women were the biggest political threat to his campaign, Obama needed to unleash sexism. Dr. Socks <http://www.reclusiveleftist.com/2008/11/10/some-things-are-big/> continues: Narratives: think about narratives. Anthropologists of gender, like Peggy Reeves Sandy, talk about "scripts": the stories that a society tells itself to explain the world. How men are. How women are. How they should be. The Obama campaign, with the help of the media and "progressives" blogs, pushed a narrative against Hillary and later Sarah Palin, that invalidated them as public servants because on their gender. Misogyny, wrapped in the protective shell of race-baiting, was the central narrative of the Obama campaign. I subscribe to the bumper sticker view that "feminism is the radical notion that women are people." My wife and I are expecting a girl in January. I want this girl to live the full and free life our son enjoys, without gender being an obstacle in her path. I don't want my daughter to be called a "bitch," or for someone to wear a t-shirt calling her a "cunt." Put in those terms, the Obama movement unleashed something very ugly into the culture. The Obama campaign, in its subterranean narrative, encouraged the hatred of women. It is little wonder then that the author of the Post Secret card blames feminism for her unhappiness; she's witnessed that women who expect equal treatment will be beat down.
