Letters to the Editor
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Of course Meghan's not a genius
She hasn't read Teh Feminist Theory, so how can she be brilliant like us?
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Fess up, Linney
You're really Ann Coulter posting under a pseudonym, aren't you? LOL
The volume and quality of your comments really makes me respect the openmindedness of the comment moderators on Broadsheet!
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@beigelights
Yeah! And openminded editors allow articles like this slag piece , full of ad hominem attacks and fluffy, unqualified insults.
Right on beigelights - keep defending the feminists!
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Will Salon interview Obama's kids?
Just asking. I'm sure America and Salon would to hear what a 10 year old and a 7 year old have to say. Since their father is the Messiah, you can bet Salon readers will be cheering anyway.
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I'm left wondering why a woman acting like an idiot is a savvy genius, while a woman acting like a politician is destroying the democratic process.
Probably for the same reason that idiot sexist bigots parade around as Feminists at Salon and elsewhere.
The world is a shitty place, owned by the Charlatans, and you are part of the Wilder.
You should get out and try different blogs. The evil known as radical feminism is crap that is opposed by actual feminist blogs, like RenegadeEvolution.
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Chelsea Clinton has the brains of a beagle
And the face of a horse.
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Apologies
Libertyson - I'm sorry I insinuated that you were immature.
Mattcable - I'm sorry I aped your comment.
Linney - I'm sorry I called you Ann Coulter.
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NO ACTING INVOLVED!
Megan McCain "ACTING" LIKE AN IDIOT? NO ACTING INVOLVED THERE, AS THE DAUGHTER OF A WHITE ZOMBIE STEPFORD WIFE, IS A WHITE ZOMBIE STEPFORD WIFE-TO-BE WITHOUT A DOUBT!!!!!
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"Beigelights" is the nicest person here.....
Hey Salon,
I just read "Beigelights" replies, and I thought "Oh...she's really much more polite than any of the rest of us here.".
(I was raised, for the most part, by old ladies in Tennessee....so, we do actually say things like "really much more polite"...and mean it)
that done and said?...I hope Broadsheet publishes a whole lot more articles of the blog by the very kewl and tres-sassy Ms. Wilder!
I love the way she so totally stuck it to how stupid Meaghan McCain was! She nailed the stupid blonde bitch by using her very high IQ and big intelligence, along with the good writing in her article (which included quotes from newspapers, that showed off that she had done research to get in Salon.com)
the #2 thing that was so good about her article is how she was so ironic. That is better than just being sracastic, since it shows more of intelligence.
I like the way all the writers at "broadsheet" are so much smarter than all the writers and poeple anywhere else. that's what's cool about them!
(still....I can't help but wonder....why don't any of them ever get their asses published anywhere else?...could there actually be a REASON for that????)
Sincerely,
David "bin in the bidness for a long while" terry
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Again you saying she is stupid does not make it so
The sheer irony of such an idea has led several posters here to respond with sarcasm. That's a good response because the article is so inane and poorly researched as to merit it.
We have given you several examples of her intelligence. The ability to write a coherent blog based on the campaign. The fact that Meghan McCain understands that being a size 0 is absurd. The fact that campaigning for her father is an act almost all political offspring do and she does not make apologies for it.
Those who criticize her have yet to give us one substantial reason why they think she is dumb other than that she is blonde and cares about her appearance. These are not reasons. Sorry but they're not. I would like to think all sane people, regardless of gender, would recognize that being blonde and caring how you look does not make you dumb.
As for the barbecue, watch the tape she behaved better than her father, her mother, and the assembled press reporters of major publications all of whom were at least 10-20 years older than her. Not that it matters but that also does not make her dumb.
I'm a Barack Obama supporter, but I'd be equally impressed if either one let alone both of his daughters grew up to be as mature, self-effacing, erudite, observant and, most importantly, as intelligent as Meghan McCain. Sorry but I would.
No one needs to apologize to anyone they simply need to offer actual proof that Meghan McCain is stupid before they charge her with being so, especially in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. She's quite smart and she's blonde. She's working both angles. Get over it.
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Argumentum ad snarjum is not a legitimate form of argument. It should not be a legitimate form of journalism
David Terry points to a truth about our blogs and journalists that is present in Broadsheet: snarky writing can be fun, but not in the absence of actual content and argument. Snark on its own is boring and lazy and is closely related to ad hominem attack as well as appeals to authority.
Salon used to be so much better than this. And Suck, which pioneered this style, never wrote an column that had no actual content and argument in it, they never relied on snark and sarcasm alone.
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Feminist hating trolls.....
Charly....I only read broadsheet every once in a while because it's audience is pretty young but occationly I see an article my daughter might like and send it to her. Do you always have to put up with these women hating trolls? Don't you guys have anything else to do? How empy a life must be to spend time reading a section meant for women's and men who respect women's conversation.....just to say some mean thing. Ugly!...keep on truckin' charly.
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My Secret Broadsheet Confession...
I just read "...How empy a life must be to spend time reading a section meant for women's and men who respect women's conversation.....just to say some mean thing. Ugly!..."
In response (and, I suppose, to somewhat explain, if not entirely excuse, my "empty" life and "ugly" behavior)?....:
I need to make a confession.....
My father was raised by his "single" mother (who took a job as the matron in a boys' orphanage after her divorce in the early 1940's...and she quite successfully did the job for 25 years). The same woman, her sister, and my father's wife (my mother) raised me.
During and for at least two decades after my childhood, I was educated and trained by, for the most part, very intelligent, self-reliant (my mother didn't get her ass out of the orphanage she went to at age 7 just by being remarkably pretty), and VERY grown-up women.
So (here's My Secret Confession!)...I think it can safely be said that I probably, somewhere along the line (which would include working my way through three graduate programs under the direction of at-least several quite prominent feminist scholars), became irretrievably and irredeemably spoiled.
For better or worse, I'm apparently hobbled by my expectation that "Womens Conversation" (your phrase) is intelligent and rational and balanced and responsible and QUITE worth heeding......and not catty or bitchy (the words exist and came into being because...gosh?...where's there's smoke there's usually a fire somehwere?..)or self-congratulatory, snide,and sophomorically dismissive and sarcastic??????
In the end (and I should also emphasize that I've read Broadsheet's mini-manifesto)?......I obviously can't speak for other letter-writers....but I can say that, given the somewhat peculiar circumstances of my upbringing and education, I've never thought to wonder whether I should respect "womens' conversation" (your phrase). I'm not aware that it's ever occurred to me. when listening to an intelligent adult woman, to bear in mind that, no matter what might be said, this a WOMAN.
That said?..I doubt that any of the women who raised and educated me would have any particular or general problem with my (at this age,when half of them are dead) distinguishing between responsible, ADULT "conversation" and adolescent, snarky, sarcastic posturing. It isn't a man/woman issue.....
the final fact is that I bet you a shiny red apple that, if my grandmother or great-aunt were alive today and read one of these Broadsheet articles such as this on Miss McCain?
Oh....they'd assume the writer was a 16-20 year-old, obviously "bright", but not-particularly-"personally"-happy girl.
I would probably feel obliged to try explaining that this Broadsheet writer is a WOMAN, not a "girl"(!)...and this was her tres-hip BLOG, rather than paternalistic journalism (which is, like, SOOOOO not-with-it!)...
And my grandmother (who had no problem whatsoever speaking her mind or using direct language) would have said "Oh?...really? Well, that was rude. She sounds like a little bitch to me. Tell her to grow up." (Trust me..I can mimic my grandmother with startling accuracy)
Just my little Tennessean two-cents worth.....
david terry
www.davidterryart.com (just in case anyone wonders, the reason I sometimes cite that is that I'm welcoming personal replies....but they don't get to me until they're screened by the person who's paid to do so....and I do agree that this "anonymous" bidness is rather silly, to say the least)