Erica Jong weighs in on the Democratic presidential campaign — at least that seems to be the subject of her latest wallow in the trough of identity politics. A representative sentence:
I am so sick of hearing that another pink man has dropped his children out a window, off a bridge or killed his pregnant wife or killed his unpregnant wife because he was infatuated with another pregnant woman…
It is a piece filled with keen insight, as is the latest analysis of the campaign by Roseanne Barr.
Comment by Percy Dovetonsils on 1/11 @ 3:03 pm #
I got through three sentences of Jong’s piece. She should stick to soft-core porn.
Comment by Scape-goat Trainee on 1/11 @ 3:09 pm #
Seems like the typical insightful comment we’ve come to expect from the Left to me.
I predict she’s looking for a position in Hillary’s cabinet, and just wanted to make sure there’s no doubt in Madame President’s mind she hates the Y Chromosome enough to thrive in it.
Comment by alppuccino on 1/11 @ 3:38 pm #
A man, pink or yellow, throws his young children off of a bridge and this unkempt snatch sees fit to use that as a campaign slogan?
A couple of these young children were male. So he get points for that, doesn’t he?
I’d punch this Jong loss. For equality.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 1/11 @ 3:38 pm #
I got through three sentences of Jong’s piece. She should stick to soft-core porn.
Ditto. Actually, all these old hags trying to be relevant again is getting kinda sad.
Comment by kelly on 1/11 @ 3:45 pm #
Is Carrie Nation posting over there, too? Amelia Earhart?
Comment by Pablo on 1/11 @ 3:46 pm #
CHANGE!!!!
Comment by Jeff aka Alcyoneus on 1/11 @ 3:51 pm #
I am so tired of seeing pink vaginas take the leading role in intellectual affairs and rationalizing it as “fighting patriarchy.” I tired of pink vaginas telling dicks (of all colors) what to do with their heads which connect with their brains if you didn’t notice. I am so tired of pink vaginas telling us we should either run from conflict or “just chat it out.” I am so tired of pink vaginas shirking their duty to protect the country while thwarting competition that would make schools better. I am so tired of pink vaginas with their emasculated husbands, nodding like so many flaccid dicks in time with the rhythmical contractions of gynocentric philosophy.
Vaginas have done enough damage. Lets get a real dick this time around.
Comment by Pablo on 1/11 @ 3:52 pm #
I wonder how she feels about a black woman killing 4 of her kids. Or a brownish Muslim killing his two daughters?
Comment by Techie on 1/11 @ 4:01 pm #
Molly Hatchet?
Comment by Alec Leamas on 1/11 @ 4:02 pm #
Y’all don’t get it. Mizz Jong’s wordvomit made me grin ear to ear.
You see, they’re overconfident. They think that they can’t lose – they think that the country really wants THEM. And so, hither and tither they scurry out from their caves and crevices and show themselves.
Remember, THIS WOMAN, and those like her, is the audience to whom the Democratic candidate must appeal. They will, because they must. And in so doing, it will scuttle their inevitability.
So please, please, amplify Mizz Jong. Say it sistah!
Comment by Alec Leamas on 1/11 @ 4:04 pm #
Also, edit to add: has anyone ever noticed that women who most often complain of men interfering with the affairs of womb are those in whose womb men have the least interest?
Comment by kelly on 1/11 @ 4:05 pm #
Thin Lizzy?
Comment by Tim P on 1/11 @ 4:06 pm #
“I am not stupid. [oh yes you are and you just proved it] I know all generalizations are false. [Here's a true one, you're a vapid irrelevant dried up old douch bag] I know there are bad mothers, bad women, bad sisters, bad aunts, and bad females of every stripe. Oh, and bad wirters too!] But I have seen enough men in high office to last a lifetime. [get used to it sister, it's not going to change much in what's left of your trivial existence] Let’s give women a chance! [Gee, ok!! Just not this woman.]
Great title Karl!
Comment by kelly on 1/11 @ 4:09 pm #
Talk about your zipless fuck.
Comment by Karl on 1/11 @ 4:23 pm #
Clearly not Thin Lizzy:
Molly “Flirtin’ with Disaster” Hatchet? Possibly.
Comment by Pablo on 1/11 @ 4:31 pm #
I’m thinking Blackfoot. Or maybe .38 Special, though I don’t know why.
Comment by Alec Leamas on 1/11 @ 4:56 pm #
Something tells me that we must refresh the PW lexicon:
crone – (krÃ…Ân) n. An ugly, withered old woman; a hag.
[Middle English, from Old North French carogne, carrion, cantankerous woman, from Vulgar Latin *carÃ…Ânia, carrion, from Latin carÃ…Â, carn-, flesh; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.]
Comment by Andy on 1/11 @ 4:57 pm #
I liked the Fox News blurb on Halle Berry. Being a member of the oppressive patriarchy, I don’t think I’d mind helping her out with her goal of always being pregnant.
Comment by JohnAnnArbor on 1/11 @ 5:02 pm #
Gad, how boring. Jong just wrote that to get a few more credits at the lefty “in”-crowd cafe.
Comment by Squid on 1/11 @ 5:12 pm #
Thank you, kelly. You’ve put the perfect punctuation mark on my week.
Comment by kelly on 1/11 @ 5:50 pm #
No prob, squid. Uh…how exactly did I accomplish this feat?
Comment by McGehee on 1/11 @ 5:59 pm #
Drunken strip bar patron: “Put it back on! PUT IT BACK ON!!!”
Comment by Mark V Wilson on 1/11 @ 7:31 pm #
Thin Lizzy – The Boys are Back (in Town).
Comment by cynn on 1/11 @ 8:00 pm #
This is a really vile display. Yes, Jong’s “pink man” conceit is silly and her rhetorical style is as cloying as Camille Paglia’s is smug. But to attack someone as some uppity cackling crone, a dessicated and disembodied vagina that serves as the justification that women should be disenfranchised (’cause of the cooze) is just puky. Says more about the trembling machotariat than any backhanded slapdown of the Hillary weepfest. Pile on the walker-wieldin’ womyn! They don’t get up when you shove ‘em down!
Comment by Karl on 1/11 @ 8:10 pm #
cynn,
I’m not a big fan of that type of comment either. I am not surprised, however, given the degree to which Erica Jong’s rep is based on sex.
Also, Jong’s post displays more than a silly conceit. It is drenched in a virulent reverse-sexism she cannot escape, even after she admits the point about individuals. Which might be another reason for the tone of a few of the responses.
Comment by cynn on 1/11 @ 8:19 pm #
Karl: I had really hoped this election would not devolve into a gender or racial circus, but that the candidates might be judged on their merits. Bitterly disappointed, as usual.
Comment by B Moe on 1/11 @ 8:49 pm #
“I had really hoped this election would not devolve into a gender or racial circus, but that the candidates might be judged on their merits.”
Obama really has no merits yet, only potential. That is a big selling point to the progressive mindset, but doesn’t leave the Clinton Machine much to attack, unfortunately. Hillary trying to portray herself as experienced only points out the deficiencies in that department of both of them. If the Clintons are going to attack, they pretty much have to make it racial. It is going to get a lot uglier, I believe.
Comment by cynn on 1/11 @ 9:09 pm #
It can’t get uglier than this thread. Nowhere in your comment do you refer to positions, only attack strategies. Just like this malignant thread. It’s all about destruction, the hell with enlightenment.
Comment by cynn on 1/11 @ 9:16 pm #
Karl, please rescue and elevate this thread since you guys pump out crap like a firehose and drive things off the main page.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 1/11 @ 9:32 pm #
Really? What about the original article? Is there anything uglier than “I am so sick of hearing that another pink man has dropped his children out a window, off a bridge or killed his pregnant wife or killed his unpregnant wife because he was infatuated with another pregnant woman…”?
Comment by cynn on 1/11 @ 9:41 pm #
you don’t get it; You’re conveniently reacting.
Comment by RTO Trainer on 1/11 @ 10:02 pm #
Sometimes a genuinely enlightened view will ead you to a recognition that there are things which must be destroyed.
You’ll have a hard time understanding that. One key is that “enlightenment” means neither Liberal nor doormat. In addition, very little here means what you have interpreted it to mean. In particular your statements on “disenfranchising” and “dstruction” are examples of overreacting and probably wishful thinking–makes it easier for you to distinguish yourself from us and thus to maintian your disdain.
Comment by cynn on 1/11 @ 10:52 pm #
That’s horrific. I’ll let it go.
Comment by McGehee on 1/11 @ 11:07 pm #
That’s got “classic band name” written all over it.
Comment by tachyonshuggy on 1/11 @ 11:14 pm #
I am not stupid. I know all generalizations are false..
I’ve read this several times and it gets better each time. I now think the whole piece is a windup.
Gotta be.
Comment by RTO Trainer on 1/11 @ 11:34 pm #
Easier than letting your assumptions be challenged, I guess.
Comment by Alec Leamas on 1/11 @ 11:36 pm #
“I am not stupid. I know all generalizations are false..
I’ve read this several times and it gets better each time. I now think the whole piece is a windup.
Gotta be.”
Yeah, that one leaps off the page and says to me: “I took introduction to feminist theory instead of Philosophy 101, and all I got was this lousy career where everyone pretends I have something of moment to say.”
My even more cynical (hehe) view is that the “all generalizations are false” escape hatch is there just in case she has to vote for a pink man named Edwards . . .
Comment by daleyrocks on 1/12 @ 12:03 am #
Hit the bottle harder Cynn, you’re nicer when you’re loaded.
Comment by Jeff aka Alcyoneus on 1/12 @ 1:07 am #
Was Cynn upset about my pink vaginas? Tell me why.
Comment by B Moe on 1/12 @ 1:33 am #
“Nowhere in your comment do you refer to positions, only attack strategies.”
Because that is all I see. Stop being a complete contrarian and magnify some positions, I would much prefer to attack those.
Comment by alppuccino on 1/12 @ 6:00 am #
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/erica_jong.html
You’re right cynn. Attacking Erica Jong after reading her Brainy Quotes is like attacking deep fried Twinkies for making people fat.
Or to put it more Jongy:
Everyone who has gotten ahead by giving head has to, in the dark corners of their tiny mind, know they suck.
Comment by ushie on 1/12 @ 3:23 pm #
God DAMN it, cynn, Jong has proved, throughout YEARS of sputtering idiotic prose, that she had nothing to say after “Fear of Flying.” That stupid useless woman keeps trying to be relevant, but instead keeps proving that her 15 minutes were up 30 years ago. Why NOT bitch about her self-evident hubris???
Comment by Alec Leamas on 1/13 @ 12:06 am #
That “pink man” who threw his kids into the river? Yeah, his name is . . . Lam Long.
But thanks anyway . . .
Pingback by Dems 2008: Scary Larry is an Agent of Rove [Karl] on 1/13 @ 2:31 pm #
[...] Feel free to poke around the place. As Mr. Steyn also mentioned Erica Jong, I’ll note PW has a post on her, too. Posted by Karl @ 7:57 pm | Trackback Share [...]
Trackback by Photo Blog on 2/25 @ 12:15 pm #
Halle Berry
Halle Berry photo Source:Halle Berry
…
Trackback by Hairpussy's Weblog on 2/26 @ 2:16 am #
vagina
vagina photo
…