They'll Do Anything to Get in the Way of a Feminist

Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas, has been actively blocking Hillary Rodham Clinton's nomination as Secretary of State, citing "concerns" over foreign donations to Bill Clinton's charity foundation, and calling for more transparency. This despite the fact that Bill Clinton had already agreed to limits on foreign donations and full disclosure of all new donors to his private foundation, and regardless of the fact that Hillary already received near-unanimous approval from house Republicans, and has strong support from the majority of Cornyn's fellow Republican senators (including John McCain).

• A die-hard conservative Republican demanding that a private business give unprecedented monthly disclosures to the government?


• A Jack Abramoff co-conspirator and Vegas Casino toadie calling for more accountability?


• A longtime pro-bully pulpit Bush administration crony calling for transparency?

Methinks the douchebag is simply partaking in feminist bashing: the most tried-and-true method [1] for scoring cheap political points in a Patriarchy.


Update: Yup, Cornyn is definitely pandering to the pro-putz demographic by being a-- what's that cutesy term that the media uses to condone white male haters? Right! He's a scrapper!



[1] Of the multitude of minority groups that rulers have scapegoated [2] and oppressed over the millennia, women as a class have endured oppression the longest. Remember the story of Jezebel? The Pandora myth is centuries older, and misogyny goes back even further.
[2] Ironically, confronting actually dangerous minority groups, like Nazis and the KKK, is typically avoided by politicians. Instead, they search for weaker groups that can be easily scapegoated and oppressed in place of the more dangerous ones; such as substituting peace activists for terrorists, or aging communist college professors for Vladimir Putin.




Copyright January 2009 by F*ck M*sculinity