Comments on: Speak for Yourself, Charlotte http://www.mahablog.com/2008/03/02/speak-for-yourself-charlotte/ Exposing the ugly truths about the Bush Administration. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:10:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: Peter VE http://www.mahablog.com/2008/03/02/speak-for-yourself-charlotte/#comment-527543 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:14:00 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/03/02/speak-for-yourself-charlotte/#comment-527543 Ms. Allen makes the mistake of arguing from the particular (her acknowledged stupidity) to the general. Perhaps she should be more familiar with the saying " Data is not the plural of anecdote." Ms. Allen makes the mistake of arguing from the particular (her acknowledged stupidity) to the general. Perhaps she should be more familiar with the saying ” Data is not the plural of anecdote.”

]]> by: joanr16 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/03/02/speak-for-yourself-charlotte/#comment-527542 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:12:51 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/03/02/speak-for-yourself-charlotte/#comment-527542 Not even going to read it, as I'm currently out of my blood-pressure meds. I did greatly enjoy goatherd's comment, though. Blood pressure... down. Ahh. Not even going to read it, as I’m currently out of my blood-pressure meds.

I did greatly enjoy goatherd’s comment, though. Blood pressure… down. Ahh.

]]> by: goatherd http://www.mahablog.com/2008/03/02/speak-for-yourself-charlotte/#comment-527528 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:04:42 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/03/02/speak-for-yourself-charlotte/#comment-527528 Wow, What a bunch of piffle. Someone would have to point a gun at my head to make me read that again. It has a lot of the memes that are being pushed, some old chestnuts among them. I suppose the message is that today's intelligent women can best express their insightful, rational liberated selves by voting for another old white guy. It is the rational thing to do after all. It even has the classic reference to our hunter gatherer past as support for this sexist nonsense. Hasn't that strict division of labor in our prehistory come into serious question? I guess as a sentimental, occasionally hysterical, middle aged man with only average navigation and spear throwing skills, I feel a bit out of the loop. Wow, What a bunch of piffle. Someone would have to point a gun at my head to make me read that again.

It has a lot of the memes that are being pushed, some old chestnuts among them. I suppose the message is that today’s intelligent women can best express their insightful, rational liberated selves by voting for another old white guy. It is the rational thing to do after all.

It even has the classic reference to our hunter gatherer past as support for this sexist nonsense. Hasn’t that strict division of labor in our prehistory come into serious question?

I guess as a sentimental, occasionally hysterical, middle aged man with only average navigation and spear throwing skills, I feel a bit out of the loop.

]]> by: ironranger http://www.mahablog.com/2008/03/02/speak-for-yourself-charlotte/#comment-527525 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:22:58 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/03/02/speak-for-yourself-charlotte/#comment-527525 Astonishing. I can't think of any of my female friends or relatives in every age group that would read that article & not erupt with laughing disbelief. The poor woman seems to be very unhappy she is female. Astonishing. I can’t think of any of my female friends or relatives in every age group that would read that article & not erupt with laughing disbelief. The poor woman seems to be very unhappy she is female.

]]> by: Swami http://www.mahablog.com/2008/03/02/speak-for-yourself-charlotte/#comment-527516 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:28:33 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/03/02/speak-for-yourself-charlotte/#comment-527516 I think she's just being facetious to convey a security in who she is as a women, and how no amount of derogatory criticisms or established differences are going to affect her understanding of women's equal or superior intelligence and abilities. I could be wrong by trying to think above my waist line, but her last two paragraphs leads me to think that she knows women aren't dumb... and she's playing with heads. I think she’s just being facetious to convey a security in who she is as a women, and how no amount of derogatory criticisms or established differences are going to affect her understanding of women’s equal or superior intelligence and abilities. I could be wrong by trying to think above my waist line, but her last two paragraphs leads me to think that she knows women aren’t dumb… and she’s playing with heads.

]]> by: MNPundit http://www.mahablog.com/2008/03/02/speak-for-yourself-charlotte/#comment-527509 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:58:08 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/03/02/speak-for-yourself-charlotte/#comment-527509 "First, if it weren’t for our lapses in judgment, the species would have died out a long time ago." Philogyny! Seriously though, I'm not even touching that article. Perhaps someone should send her a book of Wollstonecraft's writings. “First, if it weren’t for our lapses in judgment, the species would have died out a long time ago.”

Philogyny!

Seriously though, I’m not even touching that article. Perhaps someone should send her a book of Wollstonecraft’s writings.

]]> by: Doug Hughes http://www.mahablog.com/2008/03/02/speak-for-yourself-charlotte/#comment-527501 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:54:44 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/03/02/speak-for-yourself-charlotte/#comment-527501 I read the article, and when I was through I tried to figure out where the author was really trying to go. Because what the article says, isn't what it's about. She slams the female fans of Obama, and Clinton as a debater and her female staff. Let's see who is NOT mentioned in the article? Stupid Republican women seem to have been omitted, and the entire McCain campaign. Now look at the article again, considering what is NOT in the article and the message is clear. Turnout, even in the early primaries before things thinned out, was dismal for Republicans. The enthusiasm among Democrats can not have anything to do with principles or issues or candidates. So it has to be that all the dumb blondes in American are voting and voting Democratic. That's the message in the message, and the intent is to add a page to the narrative, explaining away the demise of the Republican party. I read the article, and when I was through I tried to figure out where the author was really trying to go. Because what the article says, isn’t what it’s about. She slams the female fans of Obama, and Clinton as a debater and her female staff. Let’s see who is NOT mentioned in the article?

Stupid Republican women seem to have been omitted, and the entire McCain campaign. Now look at the article again, considering what is NOT in the article and the message is clear. Turnout, even in the early primaries before things thinned out, was dismal for Republicans. The enthusiasm among Democrats can not have anything to do with principles or issues or candidates. So it has to be that all the dumb blondes in American are voting and voting Democratic. That’s the message in the message, and the intent is to add a page to the narrative, explaining away the demise of the Republican party.

]]> by: A Canadian Reader http://www.mahablog.com/2008/03/02/speak-for-yourself-charlotte/#comment-527500 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:45:15 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/03/02/speak-for-yourself-charlotte/#comment-527500 I'm speechless. I’m speechless.

]]> by: Bonnie http://www.mahablog.com/2008/03/02/speak-for-yourself-charlotte/#comment-527497 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:17:58 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/03/02/speak-for-yourself-charlotte/#comment-527497 I wonder if such an article would have been published while Katherine Graham was the publisher. Probably not. In fact, Charlotte Allen would never have gotten a job there. I wonder if such an article would have been published while Katherine Graham was the publisher. Probably not. In fact, Charlotte Allen would never have gotten a job there.

]]> by: beckya57 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/03/02/speak-for-yourself-charlotte/#comment-527495 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:52:22 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2008/03/02/speak-for-yourself-charlotte/#comment-527495 Personally, I DON'T usually "fall for the superficial/hysterical/sentimental" etc. (unless you want to count my fondness for Basset Hounds). In any case, I have 5 college degrees, including a PhD, and deeply resent being branded dumb because I happen to have ovaries. Personally, I DON’T usually “fall for the superficial/hysterical/sentimental” etc. (unless you want to count my fondness for Basset Hounds). In any case, I have 5 college degrees, including a PhD, and deeply resent being branded dumb because I happen to have ovaries.

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