Monday, June 13, 2005

boys club - again

in the heat of the election, i read kos every day (hence the link on my blogroll). but after the election, during all the post-mortems, i started noticing an alarming trend: more and more calls from the boys' treehouse over there to take a step back from abortion rights because it's so 'narrow' and 'single-issue' and scares the moderates out there. hm. it mirrored the mewling backpedaling going on in the democratic party at the time and it enraged me so much, i stopped reading so regularly. now, to be honest, i stop over only to check out the big-boy gossip. it really is like a tabloid magazine of what's going on at the DNC. infighting, schisms, breakups, hookups.

well, the 'no girls allowed' sign on the daily kos tree house gets good treatment in the comments section over at Bitch. Ph.D.

and here is a very good (and angry) diary on kos telling him to stuff his 'abortion isn't really important to our strategy' up his ass.

update: here is the original post (with his update) that started the whole thing. um, check out the references to 'sanctimonious,' 'humorless' , 'extremist subset' and 'important shit' (as if to say that feminist concerns aren't important compared to masculinist strategies and shit like that.)

know your fucking feminist history, kos. [deleted because even i recognize what i said made no sense.]

update 2: since the original post humorless, women-studies types and unshaven hags alike have weighed in and found kos, his treehouse and his posse wanting. heh.

4 comments:

bitchphd said...

Thanks for the heads up--you're right, it is a really good post.

Anonymous said...

Where is the original offensive comment by kos?

yogishan on daily kos

Delia Christina said...

and if you search under 'naral' you'll find posts about single issue politics. i'll grant him the point about naral backing the republican. i won't cut him any slack for backing away from abortion rights (let's not prettify it with 'choice' or 'privacy' or such euphamistic feel better about what women have to deal with every day shit) as a crucial plank.

Delia Christina said...

bitch, you are quite welcome. thanks for giving the heads up in the first place.

it burns my britches, these boys!