Just when you think you've heard it all...
For the past few months the Democratic men who run the country have been busy throwing the Democratic women who elected them under the bus. Now, on the supposedly progressive Daily Kos, we have a front page diary that harshly attacks those the writer holds responsible for the hideous treatment American women have been getting.
Do they blame the Congress that has passed the hideous anti-woman legislation, the Congress that is 83 PERCENT MALE?
No they don't.
Do they blame people like Max baucus, who successfully watered down real helath care reform while cheating on his wife and paying his mistress a government salary?
No they don't.
Do they blame the vested sexist interests who are working their asses off to keep women from achieving equality?
No they don't.
So who the hell do they blame? Oh, of course, this is America, so BLAME THE WOMEN. But even that's not enough to turn reality exactly upside down, so they go further, they blame the people who seem to be the ONLY people trying to stand up to the bigots, the feminists.
Definitely one of the saddest days in the history of this usually great website. Blaming the only people standing up to the powers that be for not having enough power to stop them. Rather than blaming the people responsible, the asshole Democratic men who are glad to have women as voters, glad to hire their mistresses to government jobs, glad to take their money while voting against their interests.
It's the same blame the victim mentality we see from tea-partiers:
Congress fucks over women?
BLAME THE WOMEN.
The president hires sexist fucking jackasses like Larry Summers?
BLAME THE WOMEN.
Women's groups try to raise money to fight back?
BASH THE WOMEN.
Man, if it weren't for those damn feminazis we'd have ended sexism long ago, right? hell yeah, get to the back of the line women, we've got important business to attend to!
They get everything so exactly backward it seems to me to be the Democratic version of the tea-partiers. Blame the victims for their victimization. Blame the fighters for being defeated by entrenched interests, while leaving the real culprits blameless. That is just fucked up.