War OVER Women; About 848,000,000 results
War ON Women; About 1,080,000,000 results....that's billion with a B
I will stake my swagger cane on it, somewhere on K Street Brilliant Minds have been at work re-framing a losing proposition. The first result on both searches is this link to ABC News. To point out the obvious, a war OVER women (a) makes the actual women irrelevant bystanders and (b) falsely equates the positions of the adversaries. A war OVER drugs is what drug lords do whereas a war ON drugs is a contest between good and evil. 848 million results is no coincidence.
It will be interesting to see where this goes. I expect the usual suspects to be regurgitating the re-meme-ing at every opportunity. There is no war ON women, its just a cynical political cat fight over their votes. Lets send out Anne to find out what they think.
Sat Apr 07, 2012 at 4:14 PM PT: In this related diary by elsaf I comment that
War OVER women has moved from 848 Million to 851 Million, while War ON Women had gone from 1.08 Billion to 91.8 Million. We can do what we like here (for now) but who or whatever makes things move in the real world is rapidly building settelements on our west bank.
To my layman's eye that kind of swing seems anomalous.