That's how the NPR front page looks this morning.
That's either embarrassing or downright insulting to women.
March 20, 2019
The existence of women still a fascinating oddity at NPR.
That's how the NPR front page looks this morning.
That's either embarrassing or downright insulting to women.
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Look, look! It's the women vs. the men. That is their story and they are sticking to it.
I also wonder if judges should be gaining notoriety in this manner. Should judges seek headlines?
The idea that you'd deny Roger Stone his First Amendment rights because his Instagram posts might taint a DC jury when you have MSNBC, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, the NYT and WaPo et alia spewing their propaganda 24/7 is either embarrassing or downright insulting to women judges.
I've heard lots of good things from Clarence Thomas; nothing from women judges.
It's not that women can't physically do the job but that they screw it up so often and nobody minds it. NPR is just noticing that absence of minding. Men are not intervening to fix the problem.
Men are not intervening to fix the problem.
They can't. The women are colluding.
I really do wonder when women are going to wake up and realize that
1) The war on women never existed
2) Its fictitious existence was created for and in the minds of women (and men) as yet another 'divide and conquer' strategy by a liberal order that CAN NOT WIN elections without creating friction within the electorate
3) That the 'pandering' Althouse finds distasteful is in fact A) effective and B) absolutely the whole point...it is virtue signaling
4) 'Pandering' is also secretly (as we have seen quite a bit recently...) disrespect for women.
5) 'You go girlism!' and 'breaking the glass ceiling' are not in and of themselves qualifications to do any job or hold any position...but they will try like hell to make you believe that. (p.s. that's how you get more Trump!)
But hey...freedom to kill your babies in the 3rd trimester! Winning!!!
And none of them have covered themselves with valor.
What I still don't get is why haven't the FISA court judges - on their own motion - called the DOJ for a show cause hearing for contempt and sanctions. Don't they run their own court? Do the like being lied to?
Why did the artist make the woman judge's hands 50% bigger than her head? Lack of skill, or a subtle dig at Trump's ostensibly little T-rex hands?
Identity politics is all that matters to them anymore.
My first reaction: women screwed up again.
Gotta blame someone for that mess. If NPR thinks we should blame women, who am I to complain.
Four women judges! Four! I’m taken back 25 years to the Janet Reno Department of Justice, where it was said there were so many women in high positions that their periods had synchronized.
Dale first started out with respect for (M)ankind, but felt there wasn’t enough equality. He coordinated a Sisterhood Of The Travelling Pantsuit movement for female empowerment. Then he favored particular women at the compound, realizing his leadership granted visionary access to History and the Future. Many women agreed.
Then came the Sunshine Brigade Eco Troop to enforce work detail, which split into the Honeybee Tribe (for girls) and The Lion Club for buys. The Lion Club had an unfortunate bus accident.
Come see us at Peace Pavilion West for a leadership seminar and a free ‘curate your community garden’ kit this weekend.
Namaste.
So now’s it’s an imbroglio — defined as “an extremely confused, complicated or embarrassing situation.”
So it is for some who had such high hopes. It will soon be a kerfuffle and then relegated to old news.
Carrie Johnson @npr managed to mention "Trump" eight or nine times; she must really like him.
deny Roger Stone his First Amendment rights
Fun, nasty fun
(The girls can do it to[o,] y'all)
To heck with woman-man war. This caught my eye:
"The Persistent Trauma of Anti-Muslim Rhetoric and Violence"
Leave it to NPR to report the newest entry in the victimhood sweepstakes.
In Trump's second term, I hope he cuts off all money to PBS and NPR.
In Albuquerque 2/3 of the local judges are now women.
I think that in the future, under the HMO system - however it develops - 2/3 or more of the doctors will also be women.
So now’s it’s an imbroglio — defined as “an extremely confused, complicated or embarrassing situation.”
It's better if you pronounce the g.
Turn on NPR at any time, and there is a 75% chance they are wringing their hands about the racial, sexual, gender aspect of something. It is the most boring formula in the world. So much of interest and import in the world, and fill their time with formulaic blather. White Man Bad. OK, got it already.
I discovered NPR back in about 1985 when I was doing a lot of field servicework, and time behind the wheel.
It was a Godsend in helping to take some of the boredom out of my days. Even then I knew there was a subtle anti conservative bias hiding in many stories. That level of bias has waxed and waned throughout the years, during the Clinton presidency there was a lot of Republican congressional talk about defunding NPR, and there was an observable effort to at least appear that they were more even handed.
During the Obama presidency the march to the left continued unabated, each day bringing a new story of praise for something no matter how insignificant that he either had, or was hoping to do. It was nauseating, Yet I persisted.
After the Trump win it finally became unbearable, every day bringing story after story of victimization.
Blacks, browns, women, low wage workers, gays, anyone who identifies as something they aren’t, the planet, the climate, and all presented with a new level of escalating concern. My radio no longer stops at 90.7 KWMU. I will still occasionally troll them on Facebook, observing how they march in lockstep to anti Trump stories (about every other one), but still there is some entertainment in reading the responses to stories about Israel where there still seems to be some inner conflict as to it’s right to even exist.
I do miss listening to Terry Gross, but we all have to make sacrifices don’t we?
I’m sorry professor, I don’t know why it’s either an embarrasssment or insulting. Maybe your crazy feminism is clouding your view. It’s simply an article about women in the center of the most talked about issue in the news.
If they hadn’t written the article you’d be claiming sexism because they didn’t notice the brave “barrier breaking” women, or because they refused to write about them, and you’d call that insulting and embarrassing.
“Women aren’t in these fields, we need to talk about it and change it.”
“Women are everywhere, but we can’t talk about it or it’s embarrassing.”
“Women are everywhere and we have to talk about it or it’d be sexist... but if you talk about it you damn well better speak well of the women.”
“No negative commentary, that’s sexist, but no positive commentary or ‘you’re just now noticing - you sexist’
Look at me, look at me! But don’t judge me, you bigot!
Get over yourself already.
Not even "women" they are "female" judges. Hmmm. Do female judges in the DC circuit all sync their menstrual cycle? Just asking for a friend.
The U.S. public education system is 85+/-% women, and the system is a disaster - and a very expensive disaster, at that.
Well Friedrich is married to a collaborator with weissman on the Enron task force, Jackson represented William Jefferson re the Nigerian bagman who are the other two.
From the article: "Most of the federal judges in Washington, D.C. — who have been quietly managing the grand jury process and presiding over arraignments and guilty pleas for nearly two years — happen to be women."
If they just "happen to be" women, why is this a story at all? I hate that devious construction just about as much as I hate "her/his/their/xis truth."
"That's either embarrassing or downright insulting to women."
Yea, it should be, but it's not. I bet a very small percentage see it that way, with most seeing just the opposite.
rhhardin said...
Men are not intervening to fix the problem.
The men have learned it's not about the nail
So they leave out the important commonalities why is that?
When you're a feminist, or want to look like one, every issue looks like a "womens' issue".
It would be nice if this whole thing just burned itself out and went away, but it would probably just be replaced by some other kind of hormonally-driven crazy.
That's what happens when the ache that lies behind it remains unresolved.
Us deplorables might like Mueller better if his show trials included a courtroom equivalent of topless ring girls.
Most of the federal judges in Washington, D.C. — who have been quietly managing the grand jury process and presiding over arraignments and guilty pleas for nearly two years — happen to be women.
The above-referenced activities are purely ministerial. They require no exercise of discretion. An astute female-judge once said to me, "A trained monkey could do this job." By the way, she was and is one of the best judges in LA county.
What took them so long:
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/former-dia-officer-who-spied-for-china-hated-trump/
It's insulting to women, and is a good example of how identity politics insults its supposed beneficiaries by denying them agency or identity. And then making a big thing about any of them who perform competently--how embarrassing that should be!
Social progress requires sacrifice, including setting women against men against women, and blonde white women, probably with blue eyes, against other women, and "burdens".
That drawing looks like the judge is saying "Talk to the hand".
Seriously, the story had to be written no mater the gender profile of the contestants.
I’ll let you write the story if it had turned out that all the judges happened to be men.
But don’t you think judging over a politically motivated witch hunt must be terribly boring?
The outcome is a foregone conclusion. What man would even want that job, in fact now that I think about it I’m surprised there aren’t protests that women are being required to perform the judicial equivalent of doing the dishes.
It seems as though NPR wants to portray women judges as part of some anti-Trump "women's march"-type resistance. That is so disrespectful to the judges!
"That is so disrespectful to the judges!"
No its not. Trump is Hitler.
You don't stay neutral when it's Hitler. You use your powers for good.
"That's either embarrassing or downright insulting to women."
Why? In the era of prog identity politics, the old feminist notion that women are special gets new life. Women deserve special notice in law as in STEM--women who are not "small" and "quiet," cuz God knows, that's the worst. Women who are empowered deserve to show off their power and have feminist commentators wallow in it. You didn't think just achieving parity and influence was enough, did you?
Did Althouse quote Camille Paglia as saying if human development had been left to the women, we would still be living in grass huts?
they all operates as servant to the deep state, call them Mueller's angels, I know there are four not three, they prevent any discovery that the defendants find relevant, and they do follow whatever rabbit trail is layed out for them,
and presumably still in Africa. Don't go wandering around beyond the boundaries of the village!
Althouse writes: That's either embarrassing or downright insulting to women.
Um, once you've been the "beneficiary" of "affirmative action", or other people who look like you have been, you are, of course, judged incompetent to achieve things on the basis of your individual merit (that is, after all, the justification for the "affirmative action", that you can't make it on your own).
Why are you upset or surprised that teh leftists are following through on the logic?
Some, most, maybe all of these convictions are justified and appropriate, although the prosecutions are only happening becuase of the hope that the culprits might turn on Trump.
Imagine the real good that could be done if we had a witch hunt against Democrats, friends of the Clintons, and the treasonous apparatchiks of the FBI and Justice Dept. I'm all for draining the swamp so hard that nobody wants to work in the damned place. Is there anybody in whole country that could be trusted to drain the swamp fairly on all sides? Mueller clearly is not that person, since he seems incapable of even seeing real collusion with Russia, or any malfeasance on the left, even when the evidence is openly visible and unchallenged such as the illegal behavior of Hillary Clinton, which the FBI confirmed in front of the whole nation.
Perhaps it’s the performance of the female judges that is “embarrassing.” In which case feminists can be counted on to raise cries of “sexism” for calling attention to it - even if it is NPR. (In this case is the Professor’s “insulting to women” analogous to “sexist”? Just askin’.)
Dave Begley said...
And none of them have covered themselves with valor.
What I still don't get is why haven't the FISA court judges - on their own motion - called the DOJ for a show cause hearing for contempt and sanctions. Don't they run their own court? Do the like being lied to?
Who do you think appointed these judges?
Why do you think they appointed these judges?
These judges are just as much an enemy of freedom as the people that put them in their seat. They are cogs in the machine just like the uniparty pols that appointed them.
You people need to get a grip on what we are up against. BushObamaBushClinton are all on the same team and so are their judges.
Ann Althouse said...
It seems as though NPR wants to portray women judges as part of some anti-Trump "women's march"-type resistance. That is so disrespectful to the judges!
No, it's an honest description of their actions
That it puts them in a bad light to you, and any other reasonable observer, isn't the fault of those reporting their actions
I read all of the comments to see if Althouse had made her objections any clearer. I could not even tell if Althouse was objecting to some content in the actual story (Althouse doesn't say what), or if she was objecting to the graphic appearance of the NPR front page (which changes hourly, at least).
So I really don't know what Althouse's substantive objection is, apart from generally talking about gender in a professional setting is somehow... What? Patronizing? Matronizing? I honestly don't know what to make of the Althouse view. I found this of course:
Ann Althouse said...
It seems as though NPR wants to portray women judges as part of some anti-Trump "women's march"-type resistance. That is so disrespectful to the judges!
I think that that WOULD be insulting to the judges. Like calling a federal judge from Indiana a "Mexican judge." Or calling another federal judge a "so-called judge." Well, actually those latter two references are unquestionably more insulting, right? NPR didn't even intend any insult? It's a pure inadvertence, even in the view of Althouse, right? And yet Trump's judicial insults were not only meant to insult, they were intended to invite public ridicule and to use the bully pulpit of the Presidency (or Presidential candidacy) to undermine the authority of those judges. It isn't even a close call!
NPR does lots of pro-women stories. Women who play football. Women in tech. Women who are writers, or historical activists. The LEAST surprising news of today is that NPR loves stories that promote the vocational successes of women.
The mystery news story of the day is how NPR's story about women on the DC District bench constituted any "disrespect."
Embrace the power of AND!
My favorite part of the fight against the Patriarchy are the demands that half the Google jobs or half the Fortune 500 CEO jobs need to go to women. You go Girl!™
Every Monday the blue bin truck, the brown bin truck, the green bin truck and the glass truck come by for by garbage. The bin trucks involve no heavy labor yet they're all men all the time. When are the sisters going to tackle the Sanitation Patriarchy?
If they made ruling based on the dossier, especially after it started being exposed as a fraud, why it that insulting?
They fell for it. Did their emotions overrule their logic?
bagoh20 said, 'That drawing looks like the judge is saying "Talk to the hand".'
Gee, I took it like the judge was gonna slap hell out of that Older White Male!
I thought all judges were black women. At least that's what I gather from watching TV and movies.
How can it be said that women dont have "institutional power" when talking about female judges?
Let me try that one again:
https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2019/03/manaforts-ukrainians-were-actually-pro-west-habakkuk.html#disqus_thread
Man up
It does give the impression that the judges will forgo their objectivity and professionalism simply because they are women. Because the judges are women, that means that they have some built in need to get Trump instead of just get to the truth.
That is so disrespectful to the judges!
@Alhouse, perhaps so, but is it false?
Some of the best colleagues I had were women. Some became judges. They are good judges.
Cher was good in Suspect (1987).
Some matters dont get proper attention:
https://saraacarter.com/the-hill-ukrainian-prosecutor-opens-investigation-into-alleged-plot-to-aide-hillary-clinton-in-2016/
Turn on NPR at any time, and there is a 75% chance they are wringing their hands about the racial, sexual, gender aspect of something. It is the most boring formula in the world.
Really? I thought the worst aspect of NPR was their 'retrospectives' where some useless nobody teenaged sounding woman followed around some musician that no one outside the Bubble has heard of, and she says inane complimentary things while horrible spurts of music punctuate the piece at random times.
It is far more repulsive than Althouse's fetish for Bob Dylan and since we don't actually have to listen to the music if we don't want to, Althouse, while using the same formula, is the far superior medium to NPR. (And you thought I never said nice things about you, Ms. Althouse)
Shrug.
It seems that women care far less for laws than men do, despite the fact that laws protect women more and better. They like exceptions, avoidances, do overs and memory holing wrong doing (see Clinton, Hillary)
That female judges are acting this way is not a scandal of 'women as Other' that Althouse wants to hyperventilate about, it is the fact that their actions are so egregious that NPR, NPR For God's Sakes!, can't overlook these judges corruption when their normal wont is to bend over backwards avoiding insulting women, their primarily audience.
When you lose NPR, you really better examine the actions of those involved and if you are offended, maybe a bit of time in front of a mirror.
Just saying.
NPR doesn’t recognize the difference between correlation and causation. Most polls show that women in the age group I expect these women to be in lean left. Big whoop! AND NPR doesn’t seem to understand that judges pretty much ALWAYS rule on their politics not on the law. Just look at TSCOTUS for the truth of that.
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