This is a follow-up to my post on fat jokes in the liberal blogosphere, in which I shamelessly ripped off th [...]

Is that argument out of bounds?

But when she talks about abortion, or religion, or what have you, why is the first weapon in the arsenal a fat joke?

Hmm, I’m not sure the K-Lo “fat joke” is the “first weapon” on S,N!, though I’d have to read more of the archives than even I’m willing to do now to determine whether that’s true or not.

and then to suggest we need skanks of our own?

You can’t possibly think Brad was seriously suggesting the left needs to do this.

Chris was really eloquent. I wish he had picked a different bloggo to mention. Obviously stuff can get out of hand sometimes at S,N! but it is a good crowd, and I wouldn’t want them to get a bad rap.

We should be able to turn a critical eye on ourselves and our friends, and we should be able to know that our friends are also our allies — that they will listen to our objections and try to understand them and try to change their assumptions. The lack of that was what made the Kos pie fight and now the Aravosis “big girl” thing so frustrating — in both cases, it would have blown over had the person being challenged acknowledged the legitimacy of the complaint (even if he didn’t agree) rather than simply get defensive and lash out at the critics while minimizing their issues (i.e., making statements that “I can’t believe there are all these *important* things to talk about and you want to talk about sexism”).

I’m too lazy to dig up the links but I have read comments from K-Lo making an issue of other women’s appearance.

And in that case, she makes herself fair game. But when she talks about abortion, or religion, or what have you, why is the first weapon in the arsenal a fat joke?

Squid2, I find both of those examples objectionable. Why reduce women to whores and skanks? The second one is a bit better than the first, because it does directly deal with the way that the right-wing noise machine gets its odious messages out by putting them in the mouths of Right-Wing Barbies, but is it really necessary to call them skanks — and then to suggest we need skanks of our own?

Jon, I’ve been saying shit like this since the early 1970s. Peddle your talking points at someone who’ll buy them.

. So, pointing out that by her own logic, she, being a Filipina, should be racially profiled because of the existence of Islamic terror groups in the Philippines is fair play…

Actually, Malkin has freely admitted that she has no problem with Filipinos, even herself, being subjected to heightened scrutiny for security purposes. See here for an example.

Oh, and ditto the recent condemnation here of racist slurs made by the left. It’s good to see you guys owning up to the intolerance on your own side for a change.

http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/002036.html

How about this?

http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/002444.html