Comments on: Otterday! And Open Thread.

By: Otterday! And Open Thread. — Hoyden About Town

Otterday! And Open Thread. — Hoyden About Town — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:00:17 +0000

[...] Last week it was otters telling a crocodile who’s boss; this week, it’s a coyote. The otters take a brief moment out from playing to smack the stalking coyote down; the coyote rapidly decides that it’s just not worth the effort. [...]

By: Beppie

Beppie — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:22:58 +0000

Of course not, Mindy — if rich people can pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, then poor people should be able to too*!

*And if they can’t afford bootstraps, it’s because (a) they’re not working hard enough, OR (b) feminists and greenies stole them.

By: Mindy

Mindy — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:08:55 +0000

I wonder Beppie if Devine would even recognise the degree of priviledge afforded by wealth.

By: Beppie

Beppie — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:03:14 +0000

Absolutely, Lauredhel, and I apologise for not stating that explicitly in my previous response. Of course, I doubt that someone like Devine would be willing to acknowledge the degree of privilege afforded by wealth — that would probably be discrimination against rich people!

By: Lauredhel

Lauredhel — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:26:55 +0000

with the implication that we nasty feminists were bitter because she managed to breastfeed and hold down a high-powered job at the same time.

Uh. Yeah, a "high-powered job" in which she was able to have the baby with her, breastfeeding, while she worked, or hand it off to a family member standing close by when she needed to. That's a sterling example of people assuming, with colossal wrongness, that it's somehow harder for a wealthy woman with lots of resources and support to hold down a "high-powered job" while breastfeeding than it is for a poor women to hold her "low-powered job" and breastfeed.

By: Beppie

Beppie — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:18:15 +0000

Well, I did a Google search (oh noes! Not using my brain again!) to see if I could discover Miranda’s views on breastfeeding, and I couldn’t find much — except that she seemed to admire Sarah Palin for breastfeeding (among other things) — with the implication that we nasty feminists were bitter because she managed to breastfeed and hold down a high-powered job at the same time.

I rather suspect that her opinion would be along the lines of, “it’s only because of the feminists that women feel the need to leave the confines of their home while they’re breastfeeding anyway/what’s wrong with the parents’ room/exceptions will be made for conservative women who make their living undermining the evil feminist agenda. Oh, and teh evil wimminz are also responsible for global warming (not that it exists).”

Of course, that final paragraph is pure speculation, but it does have the benefit of being an opinion that I formed by raiding my own imperfect memory banks and extrapolating upon my familiarity with Devine’s generally conservative, poorly executed arguments — with no Google in sight. Of course, it’s not quite the “creating [an] answer from thin air” that Devine aspires to, but I’m just a feminist who doesn’t know her place, so she can’t expect too much of me. ;)

By: Mindy

Mindy — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:44:11 +0000

So true Beppie. She’d probably agree with the people calling the radio station this morning to complain that breastfeeding in public was indecent exposure. I was so angry it took almost 100m before I could focus on the voice in the back of the car wailing “Mummy, you forgot to take me to school!” Thank goodness he likes school or otherwise he might has sat there quietly while I fumed my way to work.

By: Beppie

Beppie — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:37:50 +0000

Mindy — Miranda doesn’t need to consult actual children — or even any information about children or the video games that they play — in order to form her opinions! That would be lazy! Her opinions are based on pure sparkly insight, not research (because research is a sign of not using your brain)!

By: Mindy

Mindy — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:26:17 +0000

Doesn’t she realise that all children know that video games are generally buggy and the only way to actually get through them is to cheat?

By: Beppie

Beppie — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:14:45 +0000

Miranda Devine today: OH NOEZ -- These days, the internet means that people are actually seeking out information, instead of forming opinions in a vacuum and browbeating their opponents into accepting them. And worst of all, children are cheating on video games. Why won't anyone (besides Miranda) think of the children!?