Gender-baiting

— Our junior senator is really, really mad about the suicide bombers in Israel. Well, OK, not about all of them, just the women, and she’s got her colleagues in the Senate to go along with a meaningless act of stereotyping suggesting that suicide bombing only be done by men: Boxer rails at ‘tragic development’ … Continue reading “Gender-baiting”

— Our junior senator is really, really mad about the suicide bombers in Israel. Well, OK, not about all of them, just the women, and she’s got her colleagues in the Senate to go along with a meaningless act of stereotyping suggesting that suicide bombing only be done by men:

Boxer rails at ‘tragic development’ of female suicide bombers / But so far Senate resolutions, letters to U.N. get few results — “I am trying to wake people up to what it means when women start blowing themselves up. It’s a tragic development that has not gotten enough outrage around the world,” she said yesterday.


Before leaving for its spring recess, the Senate passed a resolution condemning women’s involvement in suicide attacks. “The involvement of women in carrying out suicide bombings is contrary to the important role women must play in conflict prevention and resolution,” the resolution said.

And here I thought female suicide bombers were the True Feminists of the Islamic world.