I've heard many of these on Broadsheet. This post is a "man is keeping us down with chemicals" post. I've heard many of these on the blogs that Broadsheet blogrolls and links to on a daily basis.

The man is keeping us down ... through chemicals! ...by not paying us fairly! ...by blaming us for not using CFLs! ...by not mandating GARDASIL! (Interesting variant, that time the Man decided NOT to provide the required chemicals) ... By forcing women to do away with menstruation! (chemicals) ... By not allowing women control over their menstruation! (no chemicals) ... by treating VT as domestic violence, only a "lady murder that could be ignored!" ... by buying our breast milk! ...by suggesting that false accusations are a serious crime!

Those are all sweeping generalizations and cries of sexism from Broadsheet in the past three weeks.

Today's CFL post is a real hoot. It is so egregiously offal that it requires a disclaimer, a correction, and a gas mask.

Ms. Walsh? Paging Ms. Walsh, toxic waste dump in aisle http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/04/30/wife_test/index.html

I've heard that CFL's have some disposal problems.

People are trying to find ways of disposing of them safely because of some chemical or heavy metal or some such thing that leaches out into the ground. That might be cause for concern among some women.

Sexist much?

Emily take a look at:

http://pandagon.net/2007/04/29/bad-father-great-actor/

Bad father, great actor at Pandagon

Baldwin is living up to the hint of abusive f*** that we gleaned from his phone message to his daughter. He’s proceeding to live out the MRA (Men’s Rights Advocate) script—passive-aggressively abandoning his job so he can dedicate himself to full-time whining that he doesn’t have the subservient wife and children he feels entitled to and blaming his victims (”I’m only an ass*** because my ex-wife made me be one,” is the entire theory behind the made-up syndrome “parental alienation syndrome”)…Just more evidence of the theory that oppression hurts the oppressors by dehumanizing them—in this case, Baldwin is victimizing himself by being more attached to his sense of male entitlement than he is to his impressive talents as an actor.

“What are [the fathers’ rights movement’s] legitimate issues? That paying child support is unfair unless the recipient is forced to deliver some pussy once a week? That men who beat their wives should have the courts help them continue the abuse after she escapes by enabling non-stop lawsuits? Good luck finding a non-abuser to be its face. Non-abusive men tend to avoid the father’s rights activists, because there’s nothing the FRAs have for men who aren’t eager to find legal ways to continue abuse.

“FRAs want to give men more leeway to pursue illegit grievances. I oppose allowing men to make up reasons to sue their ex-wives repeatedly so that they can continue to abuse women who are trying to escape their abuse.”

(via Glenn Sacks who Salon should be interviewing http://glennsacks.com/blog/?p=645)

Emily, read what Amanda has to say about men. If Amanda said that about African Americans wrt Whites, or vice-versa, or if a Man had said that about Women wrt Men, how would you characterize that post? Ugly? Uninformed? Sweeping unfounded generalizations?

Hate Speech?

Why should Broadsheet give Amanda any amount of credibility by either blogrolling her, or linking to her?

Emily, read the whole thread. Read the weirdness in the thread. Amanda Marcotte insisting there is no such thing as parental alienation. Men and women giving heartbreaking testimony as to how their exes have alienated their children against them. Amanda Marcotte and others insisting that men should not be able to get political redress from sexism in the courts. And "Feminist" Readers posting comments like this one:

preying mantis Apr 29th, 2007 at 5:50 pm

“You say men have legit grievances, so why shouldn’t they they be allowed to pursue them through the courts?”

Uh, there’s nothing stopping men with legitimate grievances from seeking redress through the courts. They’re already perfectly free to pursue their individual grievances as far as they can go with them. It’s when men, as a group, try to get family court to tilt automatically in favor of every man who comes through the doors because they have individual complaints that we see a problem.

Wow. Switch men for women and vice-versa and reread that letter and tell me some more about feminism and Broadsheet and how Broadsheet's posts and links and cites help women and men.

So yeah, the dubious generalizations, the smears, the hate speech are on Broadsheet, and on many many of Broadsheet's blogrolls.

I fail to see how Broadsheet's CFL post, or Amanda's anti father post helps women in any manner.