Seattle Times columnist Collin Levey gets the disconnect between the feminist silence on Condi and the feminist outrage against Summers:
It’s now painfully clear that feminist groups aren’t mainly concerned about the actual success earned by real women. (Among other things, that would involve noting that women can succeed without feminists’ help.) Instead, the focus remains on the dogma of oppression and the insistence that any woman given real clout by a Republican administration is really just “showcasing.”
The feminists complain that women aren’t equally represented down the ranks in the administration, the same complaint that Summers addressed at Harvard. In fact, females now get about as many jobs in Republican administrations as under Democrats — and GOP women candidates have had a more winning record in some recent years than female Dems.
You only have to look a little bit over the horizon to see the changes coming in the current generation. Women now outnumber men in colleges, medical schools and even law schools.
Women’s progress under Republican administrations doesn’t count, in other words.
UPDATE: Creationist nutbag Hugh Hewitt joins the feminist attack on Summers, while defending fellow creationist nutbag Dobson’s paranoia about secretly gay SpongeBob SquarePants. Is this world so bereft of meaning that we have to lambaste cartoon characters? Falwell’s assault on the Teletubbies was bad enough, but this is ridiculous.
Amen to your comment on the bizarre paranoia about SpongeBob.
“Is this world so bereft of meaning that we have to lambaste cartoon characters?”
You said it, pal.
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Though not well, however…
Kim, it seems that the Dobson criticism may have been a little over-stated. See Instapundit for details.
Yes, maybe a little.
It turns out a) Dobson never saw the video in question, and b) said video doesn’t mention gays or anything like that.
Dobson got caught in a lie and then tried to weasel out of it with another lie.
The video says you should accept people who have a different sexual orientation, doesn’t it?
Actually, it’s a bunch of cartoon characters singing about being different cartoon characters and then going into “We are Family.”
I am pretty sure even the words “sexual orientation” appear.
Face it, Rice is not a real woman nor a real black. It follows that she is a white male.
Don’t you understand nuance?