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WaPo: It ain’t sexist, ’cause a chick said it
By Ned | March 3, 2008
Sheesh. I take off from the blog for a couple of days and I miss the big misogyny party the Washington Post decided to throw on the Internet this weekend. It all started when they published this op-ed about how women are totally dumb and crazy and hormonal and all want to do Barack Obama.
“Women ‘Falling for Obama,’ ” the story’s headline read. Elsewhere around the country, women were falling for the presidential candidate literally. Connecticut radio talk show host Jim Vicevich has counted five separate instances in which women fainted at Obama rallies since last September. And I thought such fainting was supposed to be a relic of the sexist past, when patriarchs forced their wives and daughters to lace themselves into corsets that cut off their oxygen.
Of course, the whole op-ed caused a bit of a stir. But it turns out all of that outrage was misdirected, because, according to one WaPo editor, the whole thing was a joke!
“If it insulted people, that was not the intent,” Outlook editor John Pomfret told me this morning, calling the piece “tongue-in-cheek.
SIKE! LOL! I can’t believe you guys were dumb enough to believe we were serious. Dumb and emotional. And probably PMSing.
Actually, this is right after damage control after saying something unbelievably retarded 101. And just to prove that they’ve memorized the textbook, the editors of WaPo (via Atrios) decided to do a classic question mark maneuver.
Here’s how it works: Take a retarded statement you want to make. Add a question mark to the end problem solved. For example:
Barack Obama: Racist!
Becomes:
Barack Obama: Racist?!
Figure 1? Completely unfounded, obviously ridiculous attack. Figure 2? Journalism!
Similarly:
Women act like dumbasses!
Becomes:
Why do women act like dumbasses?
See? Only someone who was totally PMSing could possibly be outraged about this.