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Mainstream Misogyny

By Ann Bartow

Echidne of the Snakes posted this recent example:

This is from a recent O’Reilly Factor:

Summary: On The O’Reilly Factor, Dennis Miller stated of Gov. Sarah Palin: “[M]ostly women on the left hate her, because to me, from outside in, it appears that she has a great sex life.” He continued, “I think she has non-neurotic sex with that Todd Palin guy. I think most of the women on the Upper East Side, their husbands haven’t been aroused since Mailer signed copy of The Executioner’s Song at Rizzoli’s back in the early ’70s.”

I’m floating on this sea made out of pink styrofoam balls and looking at the cardboard sky above. Which is shorthand for being in another reality, a reality where Dennis Miller can state three unsupported assertions in a row (it is mostly women on the left who hate Sarah Palin, the Palins have non-neurotic sex and women of the Upper East Side don’t have any sex) and that’s perfectly good in a public debate.

Me, I think that Dennis Miller might be a podperson from the planet of Cockheads, that his idea of sex consists of picking a female chicken leg for his dinner and that the last time he ejaculated was when Bush invaded Iraq. Let’s discuss those assertions, too, eh?

Read the whole thing here.

–Ann Bartow

Full post as published by Feminist Law Professors on November 14, 2008 (boomark / email).