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posted at 10:40 pm on September 11, 2008 by Allahpundit
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“Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman. The Republican party’s cynical calculation that because she has a womb and makes lots and lots of babies (and drives them to school! wow!) she speaks for the women of America, and will capture their hearts and their votes, has driven thousands of real women to take to their computers in outrage. She does not speak for women; she has no sympathy for the problems of other women, particularly working class women.”

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It does not become women to speak thus about another one of us.

They just don’t know a real woman.

Intrepid on September 11, 2008 at 11:36 PM

The gentle folk are kind and meek
But if a fight is what you seek
Then after word to sooth and clam
You’re apt to catch an atom bomb
And your religion with no god
Will not assuage your scuttled knob
And in the pages written hence
Your soul will read and fairly wince
For on that other side and place
The glass no longer dims the face
So fully shown your shadow flee
But it is always there with thee
In tragic step your name is called
Run to the darkness with your thrall
For there within the light awaits
The judgment full eternal fates
Yet you will cower with your band
Those judgments writ by thine own hand

Tony Soprano on September 11, 2008 at 11:41 PM

The gentle folk are kind and meek
But if a fight is what you seek
Then after word to ~~sooth~~ soothe and ~~clam~~ calm
You’re apt to catch an atom bomb
And your religion with no god
Will not assuage your scuttled knob
And in the pages written hence
Your soul will read and fairly wince
For on that other side and place
The glass no longer dims the face
So fully shown your shadow flee
But it is always there with thee
In tragic step your name is called
Run to the darkness with your thrall
For there within the light awaits
The judgment full eternal fates
Yet you will cower with your band
Those judgments writ by thine own hand

Tony Soprano on September 11, 2008 at 11:43 PM

I emailed the fair Wendy today, with a copy to the U of C admissions officer assigned to Texas:

Dear Professor Wendy Doniger:

Please, please assure me that all of the University of Chicago professors are not as (hmm, how to say this politely?) profoundly thoughtful and philosophical as you appear to be.

My daughter, a fine student at St. John’s School in Houston, is seriously considering attending University of Chicago after our visit to Chicago this summer.

I believe it would dismay her to arrive only to be told she is merely “pretending to be a woman.”

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/wendy_doniger/2008/09/all_beliefs_welcome_unless_the.html

Thanks much, and eagerly awaiting your reply.

I’ll let you know what I hear back. But don’t hold your breath.

Jude in Houston

JudetheFossil on September 11, 2008 at 11:43 PM

There is no such thing as a “real women.” There are just lots of different women.

This is the key insight liberals (and some here) lack.

VolMagic on September 11, 2008 at 11:45 PM

November will be impossible for her and hers.

Entelechy on September 11, 2008 at 11:14 PM

I know, Ms Doniger and her lovely spouse Ms. O’Flaherty are going to be really disappointed.

aquaviva on September 11, 2008 at 11:47 PM

Well thank goodness this wasn’t just another ugly, angry lesbian that feels threatened by a decent, All-American Lady.

Patrick S on September 11, 2008 at 11:48 PM

Supposedly, Andrea Mitchell said that Team Barry has several, “biting” ads they’re releasing tomorrow.

Should be interesting to see what they’re flopping on now.

Enoxo on September 11, 2008 at 11:51 PM

Should be interesting to see what they’re flopping on now.

Enoxo on September 11, 2008 at 11:51 PM

Probably severely edited clips from the Gibson/Palin interview. Most likely regarding Bush Doctrine and Russia

church on September 11, 2008 at 11:53 PM

Supposedly, Andrea Mitchell said that Team Barry has several, “biting” ads they’re releasing tomorrow.

Maybe Barry is going to bite the “Big One.”

trailboss on September 11, 2008 at 11:54 PM

Hmmmmm. Let’s review the checklist

oversized glasses………check
stringy hair pulled back…..check
crazy leftwing-nut Libtard ranting…….check
shrill, hysterical, intolerant rage……check
illogical, embarrassing ignorance……..check

yep, another Voice of Modern Enlightened Feminism

( if I were crude, I’d say “another Vag on the Rag” )

Janos Hunyadi on September 11, 2008 at 11:54 PM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091103928.html

And here is the first of the coming attacks tomorrow. This will be on the front page of the Washington Post.

Enoxo on September 11, 2008 at 11:54 PM

Academia once again gets out of the classroom and into the real world…makes you proud of the tuition we pay, doesn’t it.

d1carter on September 11, 2008 at 11:57 PM

( if I were crude, I’d say “another Vag on the Rag” )

Janos Hunyadi on September 11, 2008 at 11:54 PM

Well you’ve proved you’re not afraid to be crude. If it weren’t for the fact that I agree with you I might gin up some dramatic feminist outrage.

church on September 11, 2008 at 11:57 PM

Supposedly, Andrea Mitchell said that Team Barry has several, “biting” ads they’re releasing tomorrow.

Should be interesting to see what they’re flopping on now.

Enoxo on September 11, 2008 at 11:51 PM

On Nov. 04, Andrea Mitchell will turn into an 80 years old woman.

Entelechy on September 11, 2008 at 11:57 PM

The comments that follow the article are almost unanimously negative, and insulting to the author. Wow.

capitalist piglet on September 11, 2008 at 11:20 PM

Yeah, I wanted to come up with something substantive and mature, but I’m just tired of the crap, hence my Lenscrafters/WalMart Eyecare Center cracks at her absolutely awful photo. Juvenile, yes, but I had fun. Ya just gotta laugh.

hoosiermama on September 11, 2008 at 11:58 PM

Is Cindy McCain running for president, or anything?

Entelechy on September 11, 2008 at 11:58 PM

reshas1 on September 11, 2008 at 11:33 PM

That inspired my contribution over there.

Harry Carey:

HOLY COW!
No, HAHAHA no not you Wendy, I wass wonderin’ where I put tose damn things!

aquaviva on September 11, 2008 at 11:58 PM

And here is the first of the coming attacks tomorrow. This will be on the front page of the Washington Post.

Enoxo on September 11, 2008 at 11:54 PM

I wonder when the media is going to get around to looking into Obama’s admitted drug use to see if he downplayed it. I mean after all he is a candidate Cindy is not.

church on September 11, 2008 at 11:59 PM

There is no such thing as a “real women.” There are just lots of different women.

VolMagic

…oh, but that’s not the case on the Left.

You see, all women think alike. If you stray off the reservation, you’re not genuine.

In the same vein, all blacks think alike, all working people think alike, all rural whites think alike (when they think, and aren’t grunting), and all hispanics think alike.

Not only to these disparate people all think alike, they all have the same needs, same aspirations, and have the same enemy: conservative white males…and, now, females (because, you see, they’re not genuine)….

That’s diversity on the Left. Everyone together, one happy family, all colors of the rainbow, all smiling that Stepford Wives smile, all thinking alike…like, I imagine, ants think in an anthill.

So, get with the program, comrade…er, deary…smile that wide smile and support Barak Obama. He won’t let the nasty man oppress you.

Be diverse. Just don’t be different.

Puritan1648 on September 11, 2008 at 11:59 PM

Well, I’m a woman and she speaks for me. Thank God.

Lady Jane on September 12, 2008 at 12:01 AM

Wendy Doniger (O’Flaherty) is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago’s Divinity School. The “On Faith” panelist also teaches in the University’s Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations

I get irritated when the media get these kind of people to tell us what God means when he says something.

They think they know more by adding letters before and after their names.

maynila on September 12, 2008 at 12:02 AM

has driven thousands of real women to take to their computers in outrage.

And has driven MILLIONS of voters to support McCain.

KMC1 on September 12, 2008 at 12:02 AM

( if I were crude, I’d say “another Vag on the Rag” )

Janos Hunyadi

…it’s official. You are crude.

I’m crude, too. I laughed.

Read the blog linked above…or as much as I could get to without demolishing my monitor. Someone else observed earlier that she doesn’t seem to capitalize God, and yet teaches in a divinity school. I wonder if the alumni of the school are aware?

Puritan1648 on September 12, 2008 at 12:04 AM

The shrieking, whining, Liberal Feminists of the 20th Century are staring into the headlights of the Feminist Role Model of the 21st Century, and they don’t like it.

NOT… ONE…LITTLE… BIT.

franksalterego on September 12, 2008 at 12:05 AM

I am a woman and I resent women from NOW and organizations like that pretending they speak for me. But that does not mean I don’t think they are women.

Well, most of them anyway.

Terrye on September 12, 2008 at 12:06 AM

I’m really worked up about this, that stupid forum and Sarah’s interview…not with Sarah she did GREAT. With everybody on the left.

What was that acronym? The Military one?

Domino on September 12, 2008 at 12:06 AM

Bless my twisted soul, I love you HotAir peeps. The sad thing is my husband actually knows this Doniger “woman” and is fnerrking and blushing as I read him out your commentary, while I crack the whip, and he does the washing up. Dance my puppets, dance!!

Fortunata on September 12, 2008 at 12:06 AM

All this woman has is her hate, and her kind.

Tony Soprano on September 12, 2008 at 12:07 AM

No matter how much Andrea Mitchel tries to look pretty, she doesn’t. Charles Gibson, too. What is it about libs that mandates a beating with the ugly stick?

bloggless on September 12, 2008 at 12:14 AM

I crack the whip, and he does the washing up. Dance my puppets, dance!!

Fortunata

…see…that’s what Ms. Doniger would call “post-modern genuine”.

But now I’m involuntarily flashing on Doniger in a leather dominatrix bustier and bright red pig lipstick, cracking a whip and reading from the Bhagavad Gita.

I’m going to remove my brain and dip it into a bucket of gin until this image goes away.

Puritan1648 on September 12, 2008 at 12:16 AM

Ain’t this sumpin,the ideal Liberal woman,like Nancy,
“IT JUST MIGHT TAKE A WOMEN TO CLEAN THE HOUSE” Pelosi,
can run the liberal Party,the House,her house,and all
of her grandchildern!

The same party that “Pretends to Champion woman’s Rights,
have a career and family life,(depending on what that defin
ition is of family)are so against Sarah Palins accomplish
ments!!

Governor Sarah Palin, has met, and exceeded,the Liberal
womens expectations of success!

So,pray tell,what is their problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!

canopfor on September 12, 2008 at 12:17 AM

Yikes! You folks seem to be extremely misogynistic! Sarah Palin kicked ass in this interview, in that she held firm to her beliefs, while she was being interviewed by a media tool.

Where and when has Barack Obama faced such fierce questioning, except by Bill O’Reilly, and that after he’s been running for president for two years?

Yet you all are apoplectic over her answers, as if what she said is the first appearance of it.

Little bit of enlightenment: It’s our position that any member of NATO is due our support and defense when it is needed.

Sad, so sad that France and Britain have forgotten that.

YET, WE HAVE NOT!

Intrepid on September 12, 2008 at 12:20 AM

No matter how much Andrea Mitchel tries to look pretty…

bloggless on Sept 12,2008 at 12:14AM.

bloggless:Me thinks,

Beauty is skin deep,but ugly is right to the bone.haha:)

canopfor on September 12, 2008 at 12:22 AM

Well, I’m a woman and she speaks for me. Thank God.

Lady Jane on September 12, 2008 at 12:01 AM

That made me laugh! I too, it seems, am well represented.

petunia on September 12, 2008 at 12:25 AM

I should have gone into the ugly stick business and
franchised in every big university town!

Tony Soprano on September 12, 2008 at 12:26 AM

Where has Governor Palin ever tried to enforce her religous beliefs upon others? Lib????? Anyone????? Anyone at’all?????

bloggless on September 12, 2008 at 12:27 AM

I left this comment over there. I’m repeating it just in case they reject it.

As an Evangelical Christian and a graduate of one of the remaining liberal arts women’s colleges in America’s Northeast region, I must say that this professor does not speak for me.

I have lived around REAL women all of my life – many who show the characteristics shown in Sarah Palin’s life and work. They have shown REAL guts in their life’s decisions – including the birth of children with disabilities and the full support towards daughters who fall on the wayside, one way or the other. Funny though, they are just like Sarah Palin. Or do they pretend to be women, too?

Your gratuitous insult towards Gov. Palin is an insult towards every woman who has overcome (or is overcoming) obstacles on her own, with the full support of husband, children and the rest of their families. Your mask has slipped, “Professor”: you preach “freedom” in “feminism” when you are enslaved by totally corrupt Marxist constructs. (Or do I have to remind you of a certain Saint Peter, who talked harshly against false teachers like you? – 2 Peter 2:19, if you ever want to read the Bible… Maybe you should focus on reading the Bible and let God shape you to His liking, instead of you shaping God to YOUR liking. It may be more liberating than you think.)

It is interesting how it all happens. Sarah has become like sunlight that exposes the intellectual cockroaches that have overrun our culture. Win or lose, she has done a lot of women a huge favor. You? No, thanks. We don’t need intellectual hypocrites who pretend to speak for us!

P.S. Are you reading the Pretend Constitution the Sarah Weddington brought forth? Or the Real One, which says absolutely nothing regarding abortion?

newton on September 12, 2008 at 12:28 AM

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Do they have drug testing at the Post?

WisCon on September 12, 2008 at 12:29 AM

This is a professor whose works I studied in graduate school. I also wrote to Dr. Doniger: “I received my MA in Comparative Religion from the University of WA and always enjoyed your work. But your comments on Sarah Palin are just outrageous and so partisan, filled with more Democrat talking points. Your stature is now quite diminished in my mind. When the intelligentsia makes such fools of themselves with cheap shots, it is a sad day.”

mbabbitt on September 12, 2008 at 12:30 AM

Calm down y’all, we (most of us)actually think she did fine, and will kick a*se when actually facing the Dims in debates. Some people were hyperventilating at the little gotcha questions but:
Allah says–have a drink! And another.

This Doniger dweeeb is a shining example of what happens when you have a “job” without term limits, productivity targets or review apart from your lunatic peers — i.e. academia in the Liberal Arts schools.

Fortunata on September 12, 2008 at 12:31 AM

Well, if the leftards are going after Cindy McCain (again) I guess that puts Michelle I-am-ashamed-of-America Obama back on the front burner again.

Oh goody !!!

Always Right on September 12, 2008 at 12:32 AM

Someone tell Wendy that Charles Nelson Reilly really needs his glasses back.
http://www.foxnews.com/images/286666/0_61_reilly_charles_nelson.jpg

bloggless on September 12, 2008 at 12:35 AM

This Doniger dweeeb is a shining example of what happens when you have a “job” without term limits, productivity targets or review apart from your lunatic peers — i.e. academia in the Liberal Arts schools.

Fortunata on September 12, 2008 at 12:31 AM

At least you know why I decided against going into Academia. I almost fell on the Graduate school trap – reading Chomsky and accepting every Marxist idea in order to earn a Masters degree.

newton on September 12, 2008 at 12:36 AM

bloggless on September 12, 2008 at 12:35 AM

LOL

WisCon on September 12, 2008 at 12:39 AM

What sort of an idiotic statement is that? The only “non-real” (fake?) women are men in drag, or trannies. If you lack a Y chromosome, you’re a woman – THE END.

lobstress on September 12, 2008 at 12:55 AM

I’m sorry but all this hubbub proves Rush’s rule for feminists…I mean did you see the picture.

This woman is mad because Palin is good looking, accomplished, and higher on the rung than the angry professor, part time columnist, and full time bitter feminazi.

jukin on September 12, 2008 at 12:55 AM

VolMagic on September 11, 2008 at 11:45 PM

There is no such thing as a “real women.” There are just lots of different women.

This is the key insight liberals (and some here) lack.

There is no such thing as Society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. — Margaret Thatcher

Thatcher is hot. She’s a babe.

Paul-Cincy on September 12, 2008 at 1:17 AM

Ahh, what the heck, I’ll repeat what I said on the other post.
Me too:

That woman needs to get laid.
tru2tx on September 11, 2008 at 11:31 PM

I think Obama should help her out and take one for the team!

evenkeel on September 12, 2008 at 1:41 AM

Well, if the leftards are going after Cindy McCain

John McCain would lose the lifestyle that $100,000,000 provides if he displeases Cindy in any way.

The question is…what will she want if her kept man stumbles into the Presidency?

alphie on September 12, 2008 at 1:42 AM

The question is…what will she want if her man stumbles
into the Presidency?

alphie on Sept 12,2008 at 1:42AM.

alphie: I’m mulling over the possiblities!

Since this is a profound and extremely
thought provoking,I would hazard a guess
and say this, in Cindys words!

John this is a big house,the White House,
im gonna have all girls over to watch
a game of football,so can you get me the
remote,and a beer!:)

canopfor on September 12, 2008 at 1:54 AM

The question is…what will she want if her kept man stumbles into the Presidency?

alphie on September 12, 2008 at 1:42 AM

A Beer.

BKennedy on September 12, 2008 at 1:56 AM

“She does not speak for women; she has no sympathy for the problems of other women, particularly working class women.”

…and that’s supposed to be done by…Gloria Steinem?!

Lockstein13 on September 12, 2008 at 1:59 AM

he did Berlin (#4) and finally jumped the shark. That grandiloquent proclamation of universalist puffery popped the bubble. The grandiosity had become bizarre.

The problem, however, was that Obama had announced the Invesco Field setting for the speech during the pre-Berlin flush of hubris. They were stuck with the Greek columns, the circus atmosphere, the rock star fireworks farewell — as opposed to the warmer, traditional, balloon-filled convention-hall hug-a-thon.

Schadenfreude on September 12, 2008 at 2:06 AM

Wow… the ugly really shines through in Professor Doniger’s writing, doesn’t it?

Andrew D on September 12, 2008 at 2:22 AM

Unbelievable… I just read through maybe 100 comments, and everyone was bashing her.

Represent!

Andrew D on September 12, 2008 at 2:31 AM

That is the right answer. It’s in the Constitution. It’s not in the Bible, or the Qu’ran, or the Bhagavad Gita. It’s in the mother-lovin’ Constitution.

See? She’s not all bad. She loves the Constitution. She supports the Constitution over a whole list of Holy Books. She’s even read it by the looks of it. So, she must be a big supporter of the 2nd Amendment. She may even be an NRA Lifemember.

I’m sure if I read through all her posts, she will have one that proves this to be true.

Right?

TheCulturalist on September 12, 2008 at 3:31 AM

VolMagic on September 11, 2008 at 11:45 PM

There is no such thing as a “real women.” There are just lots of different women.

This is the key insight liberals (and some here)
lack.

I have got a real woman.
{My wife made me say that.}

Johan Klaus on September 12, 2008 at 3:32 AM

she has no sympathy for the problems of other women, particularly working class women.

Unlike someone like, oh, Michelle Obama, a Princeton-Harvard elite and currently a happy housewife.

m064404 on September 12, 2008 at 3:49 AM

Did anyone see the picture of the writer on that site, Jesus Christ…

Cr4sh Dummy on September 12, 2008 at 3:56 AM

“It takes one to know one”

clearly that dried up hag has no idea that a real woman takes a bath, washes her hair, chooses not to be a victim, is heterosexual, and is not afraid to stand up for her beliefs in the face of hags like this lib who like all libs thinks she is smarter than the grown ups

stu.b.con on September 12, 2008 at 6:37 AM

My heart breaks to think this is what has become of the University of Chicago Divinity School. This election season feels like I’ve been reading Atlas Shrugged.

JiangxiDad on September 12, 2008 at 7:01 AM

I can’t recall anyone from the McCain camp making the claim that she speaks for all women.

MarkTheGreat on September 12, 2008 at 7:02 AM

Liberals are afraid of strong women. They fear Sarah Palin because she is not a victim and does not need them or their approval.

Conservatives do not see themselves as victims. ~~Liberals~~/~~Progressives~~/democrats…oh…. whatever never never understand that.

The leftists womens groups are being exposed for just what they are….leftists groups. They are not women’s groups.

DVPTexFla on September 12, 2008 at 7:04 AM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091103928.html

And here is the first of the coming attacks tomorrow. This will be on the front page of the Washington Post.

Enoxo on September 11, 2008 at 11:54 PM

Wow, Cindy McCain takes a couple vicadin and the F-ing DEA gets involved… I witness a crack deal, call the police and they tell me they tell me they are too busy to repond…go figure.

Alden Pyle on September 12, 2008 at 7:54 AM

I’m waiting for the DEA to start it’s investigation of Yobama’s Chumba crew…he had a prescription for all that pot and blow, right?

Alden Pyle on September 12, 2008 at 8:08 AM

The question is…what will she want if her kept man stumbles into the Presidency?

alphie on September 12, 2008 at 1:42 AM

C’mon alphie, we all know Geroge Soros wants to rule the world, and if her kept man Obama stumbles into the Presidency, we’ll all be paying for it for a long time to come.

AZCoyote on September 12, 2008 at 8:17 AM

At least Cindy McCain had an excuse for her drug use — she was addicted to painkillers. Obama, on the other hand, was smoking pot and sniffing blow “when he could afford it” just for funsies.

AZCoyote on September 12, 2008 at 8:19 AM

I contend that the picture alongside the “article” makes the author appear androgynous.

The first paragraph or two (which were difficult to get through) also would indicate a history of “better living through chemistry.”

Corky on September 12, 2008 at 8:32 AM

No true Scotsman.

BohicaTwentyTwo on September 12, 2008 at 8:51 AM

It is difficult to comprehend such hate. All from someone who is supposedly educated. I believe Gov. Palin represents me far more than this hate filled person. My husband always described me as a lady and it was a high compliment. Gov. Palin is a lady. I do not know how to describe this Wendy person.

Pat in NC on September 12, 2008 at 9:15 AM

It’s truly amazing how all these totally unknown “intellectual morons” come out of the woodworks.

badome-a-dome on September 12, 2008 at 9:47 AM