A Feminist Fisking
Reader Dean Henderson pointed out Danielle Crittenden's evisceration of lefty "novelist" Erica Jong, who compared the status of women in the United States unfavorably with that in the Arab world:
Of course women in the Middle East need the vote, an end to domestic violence and free access to contraception. But so do we. Odd that it is always easier to proselytize for feminism abroad while ignoring deteriorating women’s rights at home.
Crittenden says:
Myself, I've never understood why women’s groups weren't out front cheering the wars against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Were there ever more feminist wars than these? You'd think the National Organization for Women would be egging the administration on to Saudi Arabia and Iran. But no, and for the same reason that organized feminists have refused to applaud George Bush’s historic appointments of women to positions of high office, including most recently his nomination of two women, one of them black, to appellate judgeships. Bush is a Republican. The organized feminists are Democrats. It's as simple as that.
That's true, I think. The real fisking begins, though, with Crittenden's 24-question "yes/no" quiz. As Crittenden concludes: "If you answered “yes” to questions 1, 5, 6, 8, 10, 16, 17, 18, 22,23, and 25, congratulations! You live in the freest society for women in the history of Planet Earth. If you answered “yes” to any of the other questions, Allahu Akbar!"
What's interesting, too, is that Crittenden is blogging at the Huffington Post. So it's not completely without value.
