On Sep 20, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
Shane Mage wrote:
Good song, but it needs a refrain.
Here it is, with apologies to Elvis:
I don't give a damn if she broke out of the pound
You've gotta stop kickin' my pit bull bitch around
I know that the GOP use of the term "sexism" to defend Palin has had
the beneficial side-effect (for them) of undermining and discouraging
any future use of the word, but I think we should avoid sexism
nontheless. Calling her a "bitch" fits too closely into that category
for comfort.
But how *does* one refer to a female pit bull?
The word is too often used to trash a woman for being
as assertive and/or aggressive as men often are. The
assertive/aggressive men are usually admired, praised, promoted, etc.
I remember that, at the time of Le Feuilleton Monique, I got quite a
few laughs with the line "That all the media types are talking willy-
nilly about Willie's willy just gives me the willies," but never was I
accused of sexism.
IMHO, it's much better to make _substantive_ criticisms of Palin,
McCain, Obama, and Biden (remember him?)
Obama and Biden are appealing, dishonestly to be sure, to people that
one can hope will be responsive to substantive criticism. McNothing
and his pit bull bitch, not so. They deserve all the ridicule they
can get (Editorial cartoonists and Stewart/Colbert are doing a really
great job of it--from the Dumbocratic campaign, bupkis).
When Rove, or whoever wrote her speech for him, had Palin deliver that
laugh line combining "mom," "pit bull," and "lipstick," all the media
idiots went gaga about how brilliant it was.
And all averred
She had killed the bird
That brought the fog
and mist
I'd just like that pit bull bitch tag to be stapled onto her for the
rest of her political life.
Instead of the cross
the albatross
about her neck was
hung
Shane Mage
"This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 30
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