Women who hate women

[ebonlock]

So if you haven't heard of this yet, allow me to introduce you to the latest GOP book du jour:

Women Who Make the World Worse : and How Their Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Schools, Families, Military, and Sports (Hardcover)
by Kate O'Beirne

Yes, it's just as openly self-loathing as you'd expect, one wonders that Kate has actually written a book at all as one would expect her to view such a profession as "man's work". I suppose she felt the message was important enough for her to foray into an area opened up to her by the very feminists she mocks. But as we've noted before, dear friends, somehow the wingers have built up such a resistance to hypocrisy that they don't even notice when they're soaking in it.

Fortunately thanks to the blog-o-sphere, Jesus' General has managed to get his review of the book into first place. I copy it here for your enjoyment:

Mrs. O'Beirne avoids the most dangerous feminist myth of all, January 10, 2006
Reviewer: Gen. JC Christian, patriot (Tremonton, UT United States)

I found many truths in Mrs. O'Beirne's book, truths so self-evident that I have to wonder why no one has stated them until now. For instance, how could anyone argue with her assertion that feminists exploit female war casualties to "advance the feminist agenda of androgyny and abortion." Even I have to admit that every time I hear that another woman has been sacrificed in our glorious Iraq adventure, I'm tempted to tell my wife, Ofjoshua, to throw on a pair of jeans, head for the nearest women's health clinic, and help them slaughter a whole passel of blastocyst-Americans.

But I think it's her frequent attacks against the television show, "Sex in the City," that I value most about this book. By promoting the myth that women should enjoy sex, that show has done more to destroy the institution of marriage than even homosexual unions. I think most men will agree with me when I say that there isn't a woman alive who isn't thoroughly repulsed by sex. Telling them that it should be a pleasant experience rather than a vomit-inducing one only serves to cause them to resent their husbands when the impossible isn't delivered. Hopefully, this book will help destroy that myth.

As much as I enjoyed this book, I can't give it more than a single star because it has a fatal flaw. It promotes the most destructive myth of all, the existence of lesbianism. Mrs. O'Beirne discusses it throughout the book as if it is something that is real. She doesn't seem to be able to understand that women can't have sex with each other. They don't have little soldiers.

But take a look at many of the top reviews as they shred the book, it's rather gratifying to note that there is still some sanity left in this world.

Comments

[jsmitty-o.livejournal.com]

Someone had to say the obvious, so it might as well be me...

So, just how little *is* the "general"'s little soldier??

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

The answer to that and many other questions can be found at the General's blog (http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/)

[rexluscus.livejournal.com]

So we're to take it that the general actually enjoys submitting his wife to something he thinks she finds repulsive? That's a little perverse. Who needs Andrea Dworkin and the "all sex is rape" rhetoric when you have men perfectly willing to make that claim as literally true as possible? Geez. I hate people sometimes.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

No, no, the General is a complete fabrication, he's also known as Jesus' General (http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/) and is basically a parody of the extreme rightwing. He's also funny as hell. Trust me, this is done with tongue firmly planted in cheek.

[rexluscus.livejournal.com]

Oh...thank GOD! *breathes massive sigh of relief*

Of course, the funny thing about parodying the right wing is that even the most outlandish parody often isn't too far from the truth! So I'm sure there's SOMEone out there who really thinks this...

[mallen.livejournal.com]

Of course you've read it yourself.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Well I have read excerpts from it, which is about the most I could stomach. I sincerly hope you're not suggesting I'm jumping to false conclusions regarding the content. It'd be rather like saying, "You can't call Bill O'Reilly an asshole without watching his show, beginning to end. Just because you've seen clips of his show where he's acting like an asshole, you're in no position to judge him."

[mallen.livejournal.com]

Is that a fair assessment of a book that approaches a set of issues from a completely different political and ideological perspective from your own?

Glib out of hand dismissal is a lot easier than true confrontation, especially when people who disagree with your positions are not only wrong, but morally evil too.

I've read excerpts from the book and a different review in the Wall Street Journal and I don't see any of the self-loathing hypocrisy that you so glibly ascribe and approvingly link to Ms. O'Bierne. I guess it's possible that any woman who doesn't toe the establishment feminist rhetoric is essentially equivalent to a self-loathing Uncle Tom. But I'm sure that will come as a surprise to my lovely wife.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Ok so let me get this straight, you've read reviews and excerpts and come to the conclusion that this is a well researched book presenting a dissenting perspective on feminism. I've read reviews and excerpts and come to the conclusion that this is a wingnut approved diatribe on the evils of feminism. Same level of information, two seperate opinions.

Will I read the book? Well I'd have a hard time justifying it if for no other reason than the demonization of "feminist icons" on the cover. You're really, honestly proposing that a book with that title is a fair, rational, *reasonable* tract on feminism that should be taken in any way seriously. That's your position? Just want to be clear here.

[mallen.livejournal.com]

The cover is over the top, frankly.

But there's always the cliche.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Tell you what, if you can stomach it and come back and tell me that you honestly think it has some value I may just give it a try myself. I don't generally dismiss things out of hand, but as I recall when I mentioned reading through O'Reilly's books a while back you told me they were a waste of time without having read them yourself ;)

Of course I came to agree with you quickly...

[mallen.livejournal.com]

Bill O'Reilly is a blowhard ass.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Although he has provided Stephen Colbert with the best parody material ever. ;)