The Heretik Hearts the Uppity Woman Mouse That Roars Amanda Marcotte

image from ~Tild

 

Amanda Marcotte at Mousewords is Moving to Pandagon. 

Someone Call Her.  Tell Her Congratulations. 

Tell Her She is Great Enought to Stand Alone. 

Tell Her the Mouse That Roars Blows The Heretik Away. I wasn't originally a believer.  I entered her blog Mousewords in a post where she wass braggin about how great the South was.  The Heretik went to school in the South.  It is warm (good), way humid (bad), it is hot in a good way because it prepared for all the heat he would have when he sits on the hot seat at his desk working at the mouth of Hell.

The Mouse Gets It, Gets It All Right. Last month during Black History Month I said somewhere that every month is Black History Month.  March is Women's History Month.  Follow me here.  Every month is Women's History Month. The battle for women's bodies is the battle for America's soul.

I will repeat it over and over again til they move me from my desk at the mouth and past the fiery gates into hellfire eternal.  We The People of the United States Are All in this together.  More than almost anyone, Amanda Marcotte gets it.  No higher salute could be raised from a hand so close to hell.  Wherever she is, read Amanda every day!

from The importance of feminism to liberalism             

This is one of my pet topics that I don't actually write about much, because I feel like a broken record, but today I think the topic needs to be refreshed a little. Hugo Schwyzer linked to this nauseating jerk-off of an editorial that was supposed to be "satirical" but was pretty much just the writer, Michael Lewis, bragging about how he talked a smart, beautiful woman (Tabitha Soren) into giving up her career in order to be just the Missus. Believe me, those men who don't see a big problem with that kind of ego-stroking, if I wrote an an article bragging about how I found a man to give up fame and fortune in order to stay and home and look after my children, you'd be pissed, too.

Anyway, Hugo left this comment about his views on marriage and staying at home to raise children:

I'll catch some flak for this, but in my opinion one of the greatest gifts a husband can give his wife is the freedom to choose to what degree she wishes to remain in the public sphere after they've had children.

Meaning that men should be gracious if their wives want to keep their jobs but willing to shoulder the financial burden should their wives want to stay at home. I told him he was being classist in the comments, and I was right. Most men don't have an opportunity to be the big champion for "letting" their wives work or the big supporter for "letting" their wives stay at home; most married couples need two incomes to get by, so the whole subject is irrelevant to their personal circumstances.

from: Trish Wilson's Blog.

Head on over to Tild's blog, and check out the pulp magazine covers she has splashed all over her blog. I especially liked the woman blogger cover, which I've reproduced here. It's so fitting.

Shame as a "family value"    

                       

Via Feministing, we find out that Bell is under no illusions about what the "family values" crowd thinks makes something obscene--the female form in and of itself. This ad is clearly meant to be a bit tongue-in-cheek, but even so the joke doesn't make sense unless the intended audience is comfortable with the misogynist notion that the female body is something children must be "protected" from seeing and also with the notion that keeping people ignorant is an acceptable way to keep them "moral".

John Ashcroft became a national joke when he insisted on draping a statue because it had an exposed breast, but apparently Bell thinks that mainstream America is warm to the idea of spreading shame about the female body. Any day now I expect to hear about some Christian organization getting together to close down art museums that display works that have female nudity, arguing that children can be corrupted with lust by seeing a painting of Mary nursing Baby Jesus.

 

Comments

[Amanda]

Thanks, Heretik. Your blog is daily visit for me.

[Pseudo-Adrienne]

That Republican Cool-Aid is evil.

[Lauren]

Jesse gets props from me for inviting Amanda on full-time. It's time a blogger of her caliber gets off of blogger - I hate the damn thing.